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2021
winner: everything sad is a lie (a true story) by daniel nayeri
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honor books: apple (skin to the core) by eric gansworth, dragon hoops gene luen yang, color by lark pien, every body looking by candice iloh, we are not free by traci chee
2020
winner: dig for as king
honor books: the beast player by nahoko uehashi, translated by cathy hirano; Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki, Illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell;
ordinary dangers: a memoir of nikki grimes; where the world ends geraldine mccaughrean
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2019
winner: the poet x by elizabeth acevedo
honor books: damisela de elana k. Arnold; a heart in a body in the world by deb caletti; me, claudiaby mary mccoy
2018
winner: we’re fine by nina lacour
honor books: long way down by jason reynolds; the hate you give for angie thomas; i miss the dreamer by laini taylor; vincent and theo: the van gogh brothers by deborah heiligman
2017
Winner: March: Book Three, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
honor books: asking for it by louise o’neill; the passion of dolssa de julie berry; scythe by neal shusterman; the sun is also a star by nicola yoon
2016
winner: laura ruby bone gap
Honor Books: Sky Ghosts by Marcus Sedgwick and Out of the Dark by Ashley Esperanza Perez
2015
Winner: I’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson
honor books: and we stayed by jenny hubbard; Jessie Ann Foley’s Mardi Gras at Bray; Andrew Smith’s Grasshopper Jungle; this summer by mariko tamaki, illustrated by jillian tamaki
2014
winner: midwinterblood by marcus sedgwick
honor books: eleanor & park by rainbow rowell; kingdom of small wounds by susann cokal; sally gardner’s maggot moon, illustrated by julian crouch; sailing early by clare vanderpool
2013
winner: in the dark by nick lake
honor books: aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz; codename verity by elizabeth wein; dodger by terry pratchett; beverley brenna’s white bike
2012
Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
honor books: why we broke up, written by daniel handler, art by maira kalman; the return, written by christine hinwood; Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey; scorpio racing, written by maggie stiefvater
2011
winner: break paolo bacigalupi’s ships
honor books: stolen by lucy christopher, ignore vera dietz by a.s. king, revolver written by marcus sedgwick, nothing written by janne teller
2010winner: go bovine by libba bray
honor books: charles and emma: darwin’s leap of faith by deborah heiligmanthe monstrumologist by rick yanceypunkzilla by adam rapptales from the mad underground: a historical romance, 1973 by john barnes
2009winner:jellicoe road by melina marchetta
honor books:the amazing life of octaviano nada, traitor to the nation, vol. 2: kingdom above the waves by m. t. andersonthe bad reputation of frankie landau-banks by e. lockhartnation by terry pratchetttender bites by margo lanagan
2008winner: the white darkness by geraldine mccaughrean
honor books: dreamquake: book two of the dreamcatcher duo by elizabeth knoxa whole and perfect day by judith clarkerepossessed from am jenkins yours, sylvia: a portrait in verse of sylvia plath by stephanie hemphill
winner 2007:chinese born in the united states, for gene luen yang
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honor books:the amazing life of octaviano nada, traitor to the country; v. 1: the smallpox festival, by m.t. andersonan abundance of katherines, by john greensurrender, by sonya hartnettthe book thief, by markus zusak
2006
winner:
Looking for Alaska, by John Green
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honor books:
black juice, by margo lanagani am the messenger, by markus zusakjohn lennon: all i want is the truth, a photographic biography, by elizabeth partridgea crown for emmett till, by marilyn nelson
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2005
winner:
how i live now, by meg rosoff
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honor books:
airborn, by kenneth oppel
the secrets of chanda, by allan stratton
lizzie bright and the buckminster boy, by gary d. schmidt
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2004:
winner:
the first part is the last, by angela johnson
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honor books:
a northern light, by jennifer donnelly
keesha’s house, by helen frost
fat boy rules the world, by k.l. going
the earth, my butt and other big round things, by carolyn mackler
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2003
winner:
postcards from no man’s land, by aidan chambers
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honor books:
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the house of the scorpion, by nancy granjera
the beat of my heart, by garret freymann-weyr
hole in my life, by jack gantos
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2002
winner:
one step away from heaven, for a na
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honor books:
the ropemaker, by peter dickinson
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg Abrams
free will, by chris lynch
true believer, by virginia euwer wolff
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2001
winner:
kit’s wilderness, by david almond
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honor books:
many stones, by carolyn coman
the body of christopher creed, by carol plum-ucci
angus, thongs and frontal kisses: confessions of georgia nicolson, by louise rennison
stuck in neutral, by terry trueman
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2000
winner:
monster, by walter dean myers
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honor books:
skellig, by david almond
speak, by laurie halse anderson
tough love, by ellen wittlinger
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