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

Awards List

2015

In the Shadow of Blackbirds
(Nominee)
Cat Winters

Revenge of a Not-So-Pretty Girl
(Nominee)
Carolita Blythe

This Is What Happy Looks Like
(Nominee)
Jennifer E. Smith

The 5th Wave
(Nominee)
Rick Yancey

The Book of Broken Hearts
(Nominee)
Sarah Ockler

The Caged Graves
(Nominee)
Dianne K. Salerni

Invisibility
(Nominee)
Andrea Cremer; David Levithan

Kindness for Weakness
(Nominee)
Shawn Goodman

Life After Theft
(Nominee)
Aprilynne Pike

Spirit and Dust
(Nominee)
Rosemary Clement-Moore

Boy Nobody // I Am the Weapon
(Nominee)
Allen Zadoff

When You Were Here
(Nominee)
Daisy Whitney

The Beginning of Everything
(Nominee)
Robyn Schneider

Find Me
(Nominee)
Romily Bernard

Living with Jackie Chan
(Nominee)
Jo Knowles

Steelheart
(Nominee)
Brandon Sanderson

Palace of Spies
(Nominee)
Sarah Zettel

The Impossible Knife of Memory
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

The Tyrant's Daughter
(Nominee)
J.C. Carleson

Noggin
(Nominee)
John Corey Whaley

2014

Alice in Zombieland
(Winner)
Gena Showalter

Fracture
(Nominee)
Megan Miranda

The Girls of No Return
(Nominee)
Erin Saldin

Boy21
(Nominee)
Matthew Quick

Croak
(Nominee)
Gina Damico

Breaking Beautiful
(Nominee)
Jennifer Shaw Wolf

Grave Mercy
(Nominee)
Robin LaFevers

I Hunt Killers
(Nominee)
Barry Lyga

Alice in Zombieland
(Nominee)
Gena Showalter

Butter
(Nominee)
Erin Jade Lange

Don't Turn Around
(Nominee)
Michelle Gagnon

I Swear
(Nominee)
Lane Davis

The Paladin Prophecy
(Nominee)
Mark Frost

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
(Nominee)
Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Crewel
(Nominee)
Gennifer Albin

No Man's Land
(Nominee)
S.T. Underdahl

Out of The Easy
(Nominee)
Ruta Sepetys

If You Find Me
(Nominee)
Emily Murdoch (1)

2013

Divergent
(Winner)
Veronica Roth

Delirium
(Nominee)
Lauren Oliver

The Queen of Water
(Nominee)
Laura Resau

What Can(t) Wait
(Nominee)
Ashley Hope Perez

Between Shades of Gray // Ashes in the Snow
(Nominee)
Ruta Sepetys

Stay
(Nominee)
Deb Caletti

Die for Me
(Nominee)
Amy Plum

Shine
(Nominee)
Lauren Myracle

The Prisoner of Cell 25
(Nominee)
Richard Paul Evans

The Name of the Star
(Nominee)
Maureen Johnson

Variant
(Nominee)
Robison Wells

Legend
(Nominee)
Marie Lu

Cinder
(Nominee)
Marissa Meyer

The Fault in Our Stars
(Nominee)
John Green

Trafficked
(Nominee)
Kim Purcell

The Final Four
(Nominee)
Paul Volponi

2012

Matched
(Winner)
Ally Condie

Blue Plate Special
(Nominee)
Michelle D. Kwasney

Eli the Good
(Nominee)
Silas House

Lockdown
(Nominee)
Walter Dean Myers

The Sky is Everywhere
(Nominee)
Jandy Nelson

Claire de Lune
(Nominee)
Christine Johnson

Sorta Like a Rock Star
(Nominee)
Matthew Quick

Blindsided
(Nominee)
Priscilla Cummings

The Ghost and the Goth
(Nominee)
Stacey Kade

Firelight
(Nominee)
Sophie Jordan

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
(Nominee)
Lish McBride

Hunger
(Nominee)
Jackie Morse Kessler

Prisoners in the Palace
(Nominee)
Michaela MacColl

Starcrossed
(Nominee)
Elizabeth C. Bunce

Five Flavors of Dumb
(Nominee)
Antony John

Virals
(Nominee)
Kathy Reichs; Brendan Reichs

Pathfinder
(Nominee)
Orson Scott Card

Something Like Hope
(Nominee)
Shawn Goodman

2011

Brutal
(Nominee)
Michael Harmon

The Chosen One
(Nominee)
Carol Lynch Williams

Shiver
(Nominee)
Maggie Stiefvater

Purple Heart
(Nominee)
Patricia McCormick

Rock 'n' Roll Soldier
(Nominee)
Dean Ellis Kohler

The Girl in the Arena
(Nominee)
Lise Haines

Leviathan
(Nominee)
Scott Westerfeld

Dirty Little Secrets
(Nominee)
C.J. Omololu

Before I Fall
(Nominee)
Lauren Oliver

2010

The Hunger Games
(Winner)
Suzanne Collins

Defying the Diva
(Nominee)
D. Anne Love

My Most Excellent Year
(Nominee)
Steve Kluger

Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty
(Nominee)
Jody Gehrman

Sunrise Over Fallujah
(Nominee)
Walter Dean Myers

All We Know of Heaven
(Nominee)
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Something Wicked
(Nominee)
Alan M. Gratz

Two Girls of Gettysburg
(Nominee)
Lisa Klein

Marcelo in the Real World
(Nominee)
Francisco X. Stork

If I Stay
(Nominee)
Gayle Forman

2009

Thirteen Reasons Why
(Winner)
Jay Asher

Twisted
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

City of Bones
(Nominee)
Cassandra Clare

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
(Nominee)
Sherman Alexie

Mad Kestrel
(Nominee)
Misty Massey

Wake
(Nominee)
Lisa McMann

The Adoration of Jenna Fox
(Nominee)
Mary E. Pearson

2008

New Moon
(Winner)
Stephenie Meyer

Dairy Queen
(Nominee)
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Life As We Knew It
(Nominee)
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Copper Sun
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

Trigger
(Nominee)
Susan Vaught

2007

Twilight
(Winner)
Stephenie Meyer

Prom
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

13 Little Blue Envelopes
(Nominee)
Maureen Johnson

2006

The Truth about Forever
(Winner)
Sarah Dessen

The Battle of Jericho
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Can't Get There from Here
(Nominee)
Todd Strasser

2005

Eragon
(Winner)
Christopher Paolini

House of the Scorpion
(Nominee)
Nancy Farmer

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
(Nominee)
Carolyn Mackler

Zigzag
(Nominee)
Ellen Wittlinger

The First Part Last
(Nominee)
Angela Johnson

2004

The Lovely Bones
(Winner)
Alice Sebold

2003

Touching Spirit Bear
(Nominee)
Ben Mikaelsen

Breathing Underwater
(Nominee)
Alex Flinn

Born Blue
(Nominee)
Han Nolan

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
(Nominee)
Ann Brashares

2002

Meely LaBauve
(Nominee)
Ken Wells

Stargirl
(Nominee)
Jerry Spinelli

Dreamland
(Nominee)
Sarah Dessen

Hope Was Here
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

True Believer
(Nominee)
Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001

Speak
(Winner)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Stonewall's Gold
(Nominee)
Robert J. Mrazek

Downsiders
(Nominee)
Neal Shusterman

Hidden Talents
(Nominee)
David Lubar

Keeping the Moon // Last Chance
(Nominee)
Sarah Dessen

Romiette and Julio
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

Two Suns in the Sky
(Nominee)
Miriam Bat-Ami

Letters from Vinnie
(Nominee)
Maureen Stack Sappey

2000

Someone Like You
(Winner)
Sarah Dessen

1995

Detour for Emmy
(Winner)
Marilyn Reynolds

1990

The Fallen Angels
(Winner)
Walter Dean Myers

1989

The Year Without Michael
(Winner)
Susan Beth Pfeffer

1988

Face at the Edge of the World
(Winner)
Eve Bunting

1987

Locked in Time
(Winner)
Lois Duncan

1984

The Divorce Express
(Winner)
Paula Danziger

1981

The Boy Who Drank Too Much
(Winner)
Shep Greene

1979

The Amityville Horror
(Winner)
Jay Anson

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