Our Past Winners

2017
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (medal)
Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson (honor)
Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Katie Ormsbee (honor)
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez (honor)
Soldier Boy by Keely Hutton (honor) 
Dear Martin by Nic Stone (honor)

2016
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (medal)
Fig by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz (honor)
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brokenbrough (honor)
Mosquitoland by David Arnold (honor)
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (honor)

2015
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton (medal)
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith (honor)
The Scar Boys by Len Vlahos (honor)
The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, Telt by Hisself by David Almond (honor)

2014
The Paradox of Vertical Flight by Emil Ostrovski (medal)
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (honor)
Boxers/Saints by Gene Yang (honor)
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (honor)

2013
Railsea by China Mieville (medal)
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (honor)
The Children and the Wolves by Adam Rapp (honor)

2012
Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard (medal)
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (honor)
Every You, Every Me by David Levithan (honor)
Chime by Frannie Billingsley (honor)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente (honor)

2011
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry (medal)
The Cardturner by Louis Sachar (honor)
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (honor)
Nothing by Janne Teller (honor)
Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde (honor)

2010
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (medal)
Genesis by Bernard Beckett (honor)
If I Stay by Gayle Forman (honor)

2009
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (medal)
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott (honor)
Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe (honor)
Runemarks by Joanne Harris (honor)

2008
Unwind by Neal Shusterman (medal)
Right Behind You by Gail Giles (honor)
Zane’s Trace by Allan Wolf (honor)
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (honor)

2007
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (medal)
Surrender by Sonya Hartnett (honor)
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin (honor)
Sold by Patricia McCormick (honor)

2006
Looking for Alaska by John Green (medal)
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (honor)
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray (honor)
Poison by Chris Wooding (honor)
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick (honor)

2005
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta (medal)
Godless by Pete Hautman (honor)
B for Buster by Iain Lawrence (honor)
Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle by Gordon Korman (honor)
The Garden by Elsie Adinoff (honor)

2004
At the End of Words: A Daughter’s Memoirs by Miriam R. Stone (medal)
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (honor)
Claws: A Novel by Will Weaver (honor)
Keeping You a Secret: A Novel by Julie Anne Peters (honor)
What the Birds See by Sonya Hartnett (honor)

2003
America: A Novel by E.R. Frank (medal)
The Long Night of Leo and Bree by Ellen Wittlinger (honor)
St. Michael’s Scales by Neil O. Connelly (honor)
What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci (honor)
Feed by M.T. Anderson (honor)

2002
You Don’t Know Me: A Novel by David Klass (medal)
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher (honor)
A Step From Heaven by An Na (honor)
The Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian (honor)
Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn (honor)

2001
Kit’s Wilderness by David Almond (medal)