Young Hoosier Book Award - Middle Grades

Awards List

2016

Jinx
(Nominee)
Sage Blackwood

The Fellowship for Alien Detection
(Nominee)
Kevin Emerson

Odette's Secrets
(Nominee)
Maryann Macdonald

Infestation
(Nominee)
Timothy J. Bradley

The Girl from Felony Bay
(Nominee)
J.E. Thompson

The School for Good and Evil
(Nominee)
Soman Chainani

Far Far Away
(Nominee)
Tom Mcneal

The Hidden Summer
(Nominee)
Gin Phillips

Twerp
(Nominee)
Mark Goldblatt

The Heartbreak Messenger
(Nominee)
Alexander Vance

A Summer of Sundays
(Nominee)
Lindsay Eland

Sure Signs of Crazy
(Nominee)
Karen Harrington

The Great Trouble
(Nominee)
Deborah Hopkinson

The Lost Kingdom
(Nominee)
Matthew J. Kirby

Sasquatch in the Paint
(Nominee)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Raymond Obstfeld

The Time Fetch
(Nominee)
Amy Herrick

Unbreakable
(Nominee)
Kami Garcia

The Living
(Nominee)
Matt De La Pena

The Impossible Knife of Memory
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

The Right Fight
(Nominee)
Chris Lynch

2015

Cardboard
(Winner)
Doug TenNapel

The False Princess
(Nominee)
Eilis O'Neal

Here Lies Linc
(Nominee)
Delia Ray

Cinder
(Nominee)
Marissa Meyer

The Lions of Little Rock
(Nominee)
Kristin Levine

Under the Never Sky
(Nominee)
Veronica Rossi

Hades: Lord of the Dead
(Nominee)
George O'Connor

The False Prince
(Nominee)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

One for the Murphys
(Nominee)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

After Eli
(Nominee)
Rebecca Rupp

Cardboard
(Nominee)
Doug TenNapel

Jump into the Sky
(Nominee)
Shelley Pearsall

Fourmile
(Nominee)
Watt Key

Shadow on the Mountain
(Nominee)
Margi Preus

Splendors and Glooms
(Nominee)
Laura Amy Schlitz

In a Glass Grimmly
(Nominee)
Adam Gidwitz

Summer of the Mariposas
(Nominee)
Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Navigating Early
(Nominee)
Clare Vanderpool

2014

The Prisoner of Cell 25
(Winner)
Richard Paul Evans

Prisoners in the Palace
(Nominee)
Michaela MacColl

Close to Famous
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

Trapped
(Nominee)
Michael Northrop

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

Okay for Now
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

The Berlin Boxing Club
(Nominee)
Robert Sharenow

Hidden
(Nominee)
Helen Frost

Anya's Ghost
(Nominee)
Vera Brosgol

Dragon Castle
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

City of Orphans
(Nominee)
Avi

Legend
(Nominee)
Marie Lu

Outlaw
(Nominee)
Stephen Davies

2013

Out of My Mind
(Winner)
Sharon M. Draper

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
(Nominee)
Rodman Philbrick

Slob
(Nominee)
Ellen Potter

Happenstance Found
(Nominee)
P.W. Catanese

After Ever After
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Bamboo People
(Nominee)
Mitali Perkins

Crunch
(Nominee)
Leslie Connor

The Dreamer
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Ghostopolis
(Nominee)
Doug TenNapel

Forge
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

A Long Walk to Water
(Nominee)
Linda Sue Park

Virals
(Nominee)
Kathy Reichs; Brendan Reichs

2012

The Compound
(Winner)
S.A. Bodeen

The Mysterious Benedict Society
(Nominee)
Trenton Lee Stewart

Schooled
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Found
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Scat
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

Bull Rider
(Nominee)
Suzanne Morgan Williams

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
(Nominee)
Mick Cochrane

All the Broken Pieces
(Nominee)
Ann E. Burg

The Year of the Bomb
(Nominee)
Ronald Kidd

Crossing Stones
(Nominee)
Helen Frost

Runaway Twin
(Nominee)
Peg Kehret

2011

The Hunger Games
(Winner)
Suzanne Collins

A Friendship for Today
(Nominee)
Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

Reaching for Sun
(Nominee)
Tracie Vaughn Zimmer

Summer Ball
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Who Was First?
(Nominee)
Russell Freedman

The Boy Who Dared
(Nominee)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Football Hero
(Nominee)
Tim Green

Savvy
(Nominee)
Ingrid Law

The Girl Who Could Fly
(Nominee)
Victoria Forester

2010

Confessions from the Principal's Chair
(Nominee)
Anna Myers

Double Identity
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Giving Up the Ghost
(Nominee)
Sheri Cooper Sinykin

All of the Above
(Nominee)
Shelley Pearsall

Home of the Brave
(Nominee)
Katherine Applegate

2009

The Lightning Thief
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

Down the Rabbit Hole
(Nominee)
Peter Abrahams

Heat
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Black Duck
(Nominee)
Janet Taylor Lisle

Jumping the Scratch
(Nominee)
Sarah Weeks

The Legend of Bass Reeves
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen

Penny from Heaven
(Nominee)
Jennifer L. Holm

Fairest
(Nominee)
Gail Carson Levine

Hattie Big Sky
(Nominee)
Kirby Larson

Listening for Lions
(Nominee)
Gloria Whelan

Day of Tears
(Nominee)
Julius Lester

Weedflower
(Nominee)
Cynthia Kadohata

Alabama Moon
(Nominee)
Watt Key

2008

So B. It
(Winner)
Sarah Weeks

101 Ways To Bug Your Parents
(Nominee)
Lee Wardlaw

The Warriors
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

Messenger
(Nominee)
Lois Lowry

The Old Willis Place
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

The Schwa Was Here
(Nominee)
Neal Shusterman

Travel Team
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

For Freedom
(Nominee)
Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

The Black Canary
(Nominee)
Jane Louise Curry

Captured!: A Boy Trapped in the Civil War
(Nominee)
Mary Blair Immel

Flush
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

2007

The Boy Who Saved Baseball
(Nominee)
John H. Ritter

The Big Nothing
(Nominee)
Adrian Fogelin

The Sea of Trolls
(Nominee)
Nancy Farmer

2006

House of the Scorpion
(Winner)
Nancy Farmer

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

The City of Ember
(Nominee)
Jeanne Duprau

2005

Hope Was Here
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

The Tiger Rising
(Nominee)
Kate DiCamillo
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Lord of the Deep
(Nominee)
Graham Salisbury

2004

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
(Winner)
Ann Brashares

Burning Up
(Nominee)
Caroline B. Cooney

Hidden Talents
(Nominee)
David Lubar

Haunting at Home Plate
(Nominee)
David Patneaude

Fever 1793
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

The Art of Keeping Cool
(Nominee)
Janet Taylor Lisle

Zach's Lie
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

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