South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Junior Book

Awards List

2015

Prisoner B-3087
(Nominee)
Alan M. Gratz

Lawless
(Nominee)
Jeffrey Salane

Zebra Forest
(Nominee)
Adina Rishe Gewirtz

Far Far Away
(Nominee)
Tom Mcneal

Falcon in the Glass
(Nominee)
Susan Fletcher

Sylo
(Nominee)
D.J. MacHale

Gated
(Nominee)
Amy Christine Parker

The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe
(Nominee)
Dan Poblocki

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

The Great Trouble
(Nominee)
Deborah Hopkinson

QB 1
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Zombie Baseball Beatdown
(Nominee)
Paolo Bacigalupi

Better Off Friends
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Eulberg

Jungle of Bones
(Nominee)
Ben Mikaelsen

Tesla's Attic
(Nominee)
Neal Shusterman

Under the Egg
(Nominee)
Laura Marx Fitzgerald

The Winner's Curse
(Nominee)
Marie Rutkoski

2014

The Raft
(Winner)
S.A. Bodeen

Crow
(Nominee)
Barbara Wright

May B.
(Nominee)
Caroline Starr Rose

Unchained
(Nominee)
L.B. Tillit

Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Eye of the Storm
(Nominee)
Kate Messner

Spy School
(Nominee)
Stuart Gibbs

What the Dog Said
(Nominee)
Randi Reisfeld

The False Prince
(Nominee)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

One for the Murphys
(Nominee)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

See You at Harry's
(Nominee)
Jo Knowles

Deadweather and Sunrise
(Nominee)
Geoff Rodkey

Laugh with the Moon
(Nominee)
Shana Burg

Shadow and Bone
(Nominee)
Leigh Bardugo

Guitar Notes
(Nominee)
Mary Amato

The Ghost of Graylock
(Nominee)
Dan Poblocki

The Raft
(Nominee)
S.A. Bodeen

Fourmile
(Nominee)
Watt Key

Losing It
(Nominee)
Erin Fry

2013

The Running Dream
(Winner)
Wendelin Van Draanen

Small as an Elephant
(Nominee)
Jennifer Richard Jacobson

The Fourth Stall
(Nominee)
Chris Rylander

A World Without Heroes
(Nominee)
Brandon Mull

Okay for Now
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

Hidden
(Nominee)
Helen Frost

Wild Life
(Nominee)
Cynthia DeFelice

Ghetto Cowboy
(Nominee)
G. Neri

City of Orphans
(Nominee)
Avi

Notes from an Accidental Band Geek
(Nominee)
Erin Dionne

Saint Louis Armstrong Beach
(Nominee)
Brenda Woods

Underdogs
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Waiting to Forget
(Nominee)
Sheila Kelly Welch

The Apothecary
(Nominee)
Maile Meloy

Icefall
(Nominee)
Matthew J. Kirby

The Lions of Little Rock
(Nominee)
Kristin Levine

Chomp
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Extra Credit
(Nominee)
Tommy Greenwald

2012

Hero
(Winner)
Mike Lupica

Boys Without Names
(Nominee)
Kashmira Sheth

The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
(Nominee)
Erin Dionne

Woods Runner
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen

Is It Night or Day?
(Nominee)
Fern Schumer Chapman

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
(Nominee)
Tom Angleberger

Crunch
(Nominee)
Leslie Connor

Mockingbird
(Nominee)
Kathryn Erskine

Dark Life
(Nominee)
Kat Falls

The Grimm Legacy
(Nominee)
Polly Shulman

Shooting Kabul
(Nominee)
N.H. Senzai

Ninth Ward
(Nominee)
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Saving Sky
(Nominee)
Diane Stanley

A Long Walk to Water
(Nominee)
Linda Sue Park

Camo Girl
(Nominee)
Kekla Magoon

Roots and Blues: A Celebration
(Nominee)
Arnold Adoff

2011

Heart of a Shepherd
(Winner)
Rosanne Parry

Skeleton Creek
(Nominee)
Patrick Carman

All the Broken Pieces
(Nominee)
Ann E. Burg

Anything But Typical
(Nominee)
Nora Raleigh Baskin

The Potato Chip Puzzles
(Nominee)
Eric Berlin

Operation Redwood
(Nominee)
S. Terrell French

Slob
(Nominee)
Ellen Potter

The Demon King
(Nominee)
Cinda Williams Chima

The Indigo Notebook
(Nominee)
Laura Resau

Leviathan
(Nominee)
Scott Westerfeld

2010

The Hunger Games
(Winner)
Suzanne Collins

Savvy
(Nominee)
Ingrid Law

Shift
(Nominee)
Jennifer Bradbury

Smiles to Go
(Nominee)
Jerry Spinelli

Beneath My Mother's Feet
(Nominee)
Amjed Qamar

Chains
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Stolen
(Nominee)
Vivian Vande Velde

The White Gates
(Nominee)
Bonnie Ramthun

Scat
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

Amaranth
(Nominee)
Julie Berry

Twelfth Grade Kills
(Nominee)
Heather Brewer

2009

Leepike Ridge
(Nominee)
N.D. Wilson

Miss Spitfire
(Nominee)
Sarah Miller

Fire From the Rock
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf
(Nominee)
Jennifer L. Holm

Book of a Thousand Days
(Nominee)
Shannon Hale

The Boy Who Dared
(Nominee)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The Big Field
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Go Big or Go Home
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

2008

Cracker!
(Winner)
Cynthia Kadohata

Blue
(Nominee)
Joyce Moyer Hostetter

Hard Hit
(Nominee)
Ann Turner

Crossing the Wire
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Heat
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Blood on the River: James Town, 1607
(Nominee)
Elisa Carbone

The Green Glass Sea
(Nominee)
Ellen Klages

Victory
(Nominee)
Susan Cooper

2007

The Lightning Thief
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

Chicken Boy
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

The Sea of Trolls
(Nominee)
Nancy Farmer

Cryptid Hunters
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

Double Identity
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Princess Academy
(Nominee)
Shannon Hale

2006

So B. It
(Winner)
Sarah Weeks

Double Dutch
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

The City of Ember
(Nominee)
Jeanne Duprau

Race for the Sky: The Kitty Hawk Diaries of Johnny Moore
(Nominee)
Dan Gutman

Al Capone Does My Shirts
(Nominee)
Gennifer Choldenko

Chasing Vermeer
(Nominee)
Blue Balliett

2005

House of the Scorpion
(Winner)
Nancy Farmer

Hear the Wind Blow
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

Escape from Memory
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Inkheart
(Nominee)
Cornelia Funke

Tulsa Burning
(Nominee)
Anna Myers

Pool Boy
(Nominee)
Michael Simmons

Pirates!
(Nominee)
Celia Rees

2004

Stormbreaker
(Winner)
Anthony Horowitz

2003

Flipped
(Winner)
Wendelin Van Draanen

The Graduation of Jake Moon
(Nominee)
Barbara Park

Being Dead
(Nominee)
Vivian Vande Velde

Torn Thread
(Nominee)
Anne Isaacs

2002

Jade Green
(Winner)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Monster
(Nominee)
Walter Dean Myers

Miracle's Boys
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Fever 1793
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Esperanza Rising
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Hope Was Here
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

The Princess Diaries
(Nominee)
Meg Cabot

2001

Carolina Crow Girl
(Nominee)
Valerie Hobbs

Williwaw!
(Nominee)
Tom Bodett

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
(Nominee)
Lensey Namioka

2000

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
(Winner)
J.K. Rowling

1999

Tangerine
(Winner)
Edward Bloor
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1997

Mick Harte Was Here
(Winner)
Barbara Park

1995

Baby
(Winner)
Patricia MacLachlan

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