NATIONAL YOUNG ADULT BOOK AWARDS
Michael L. Printz Award – Excellence in Young Adult Literature
2011 Bacigalupi, Paolo
Ship Breaker
2010 Bray, Libba
Going Bovine
2009 Marchetta, Melina
Jellicoe Road
2008 McCaughrean, Geraldine
The White Darkness
2007 Yang, Gene Luen
American Born Chinese
2006 Green, John
Looking for Alaska
2005 Rosoff, Meg
How I Live Now
2004 Johnson, Angela
The First Part Last
2003 Chambers, Aidan
Postcards from No Man’s Land
2002 Na, An
Step from Heaven
2001 Almond, David
Kit’s Wilderness
2000 Myers, Walter Dean
Monster
William C. Morris Award – Distinguished Writing for Young Adults by a First-Time Published Author
2011 Woolston, Blythe
The Freak Observer
2010 Madigan, L.K.
Flash Burnout
2009 Bunce, Elizabeth
A Curse Dark as Gold
NORTHWEST YOUTH BOOK AWARDS – CHOSEN BY READERS (YA)
Evergreen Young Adult Award 7-12 – Selected by teens of Washington State
2011 Collins, Suzanne
The Hunger Games
2010 Shusterman, Neal
Unwind
2009 Pfeffer, Susan Beth
Life as We Knew It
2008 Meyer, Stephenie
Twilight
2007 Colfer, Eoin
The Supernaturalist
2006 Paolini, Christopher
Eragon
2005 Cabot, Meg
All-American Girl
2004 Brasheres, Ann
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2003 Cabot, Meg
The Princess Diaries
2002 Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak
2001 Sachar, Louis
Holes
2000 Canfield, Jack
Chicken Soup for the Teen-Age Soul
Young Reader’s Choice – Senior Division 10-12 - Selected by Northwest Teens (AK, WA, ID, MT, BC, AB)
2011
2010 Clare, Cassandra
City of Bones
2009 Meyer, Stephenie
New Moon
2008 Anderson, Jodi Lynn
Peaches
2007 Pratchett, Terry
Hat Full of Sky
2006 Going, K.L.
Fat Kid Rules the World
2005 Farmer, Nancy
The House of the Scorpion
2004 Brashares, Ann
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2003 Bauer, Joan
Hope Was Here
2002 Sleator, William
Rewind
2001 Sleator, William
The Boxes
2000 Glenn, Mel
The Taking of Room 114
MORE NATIONAL AWARDS
Alex Award – Adult Literature with YA Appeal
2011 The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To; Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness; Girl in
Translation; The House of Tomorrow; The Lock Artist; The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake; The
Radleys; The Reapers Are the Angels; Room; The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
2010 The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind; The Bride’s Farewell; Everything Matters!; The Good Soldiers; The
Kids Are All Right; The Magicians; My Abandonment; Soulless; Stitches; Tunneling to the Center of the
Earth
2009 City of Thieves; The Dragons of Babel; Finding Nou;, The Good Thief; Just After Sunset;
Mudbound Brother; Over and Under; The Oxford Project; Sharp Teeth; Three Girls and their Brother
2008 American Shaolin; Bad Monkeys; Conn Iggulden; The God of Animals; A Long Way Gone; Mister Pip;
The Name of the Wind; The Night Birds; The Spellman Files; Tales from the Farm: Essex County; v. 1
2007 The Book of Lost Things; The Whistling Season; Eagle Blue; Water for Elephants; Color of the Sea;
The Floor of the Sky; The Blind Side; Black Swan Green; The World Made Straight; The Thirteenth Tale
2006
2005
2004
Midnight at the Dragon Café; Upstate; Anansi Boys; As Simple As Snow; Never Let Me Go;
Gils’s All Fright Diner; The Necessary Beggar; My Jim; Jesus Land; The Glass Castle
Candyfreak; Swimming to Antarctica; Donorboy; Shadow Divers; Work of Wolves; Truth and Beauty;
My Sister’s Keeper; Thinner Than Thou; Project X; Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat
Wonder When You’ll Miss Me; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; The Kite Runner;
The Time Traveler’s Wife; Drinking Coffee Elsewhere; Stiff; True Notebooks; Persepolis;
Maisie Dobbs; Leave Myself Behind
2003
One Hundred Demons; My Losing Season; Seeing in the Dark; The Eyre Affair; Crow Lake; The Year of Ice;
When the Emperor Was Divine; The Dive from Clausen’s Pier; The Fall of Rome; 10th Grade
2002
Year of Wonders; An American Insurrection; Gabriel’s Story; Nickel and Dimed; Peace Like a River;
The Wilderness Family; Kit’s Law; Rover; Motherland; Black, White, and Jewish
Flags of Our Fathers; The Sand-Reckoner; The Girl with a Pearl Earring; Counting Coup;
Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood; Daughter of the Forest; In the Heart of the Sea; The Man Who Ate the
747;Chang and Eng; Diamond Dogs
High Exposure; Ender’s Shadow; River; Cross My Heart; Educating Esme; The Reappearance of
Sam Webber; Stardust; The Hungry Ocean; Barefoot Heart; Plainsong; Imani All Mine
2001
2000
Margaret A. Edwards Award – Authors with a Lifetime Contribution to Young Adult Literature
2011 Prachett, Terry
2009 Anderson, Laurie Halse
1999 McCaffrey, Anne
2010 Murphy, Jim
2008 Card, Orson Scott
1998 L’Engle, Madeleine
2007 Lowry, Lois
1997 Paulsen, Gary
2006 Woodson, Jacqueline
1996 Blume, Judy
2005 Block, Francesca Lia
1995 Voight, Cynthia
2004 LeGuin, Ursula
1994 Myers, Walter Dean
2003 Garden, Nancy
1993 Kerr, M.E.
2002 Zindel, Paul
1992 Duncan, Lois
2001 Lipsyte, Robert
1991 Cormier, Robert
2000 Crutcher, Chris
1990 Peck, Richard
1988 Hinton, S.E.
NATIONAL YOUTH BOOK AWARDS
Coretta Scott King – Distinguished African American Writing for Youth
2011 Williams-Garcia, Rita
One Crazy Summer
2010 Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves
2009 Nelson, Kadir
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
2008 Curtis, Christopher Paul
Elijah of Buxton
2007 Draper, Sharon
Copper Sun
2006 Lester, Julius
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
2005 Morrison, Toni
Remember: The Journey to School Integration
2004 Johnson, Angela
The First Part Last
2003 Grimes, Nikki
Bronx Masquerade
2002 Taylor, Mildred
The Land
2001 Woodson, Jacqueline
Miracle’s Boys
2000 Curtis, Christopher Paul
Bud, Not Buddy
Belpre –Outstanding Latino/Latina Writing for Children and Youth
2011 Ryan, Pam Munoz
The Dreamer
2010 Alvarez, Julia
Return to Sender
2009 Engle, Margarita
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom
2008 Engle, Margarita
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
2006 Canales, Viola
The Tequila Worm
2004 Alvarez, Julia
Before We Were Free
2002 Ryan, Pam Munoz
Esperanza Rising
2000 Ada, Alma Flor
Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba
1998 Martinez, Victor
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
1996 Coffer, Judith Oritz
An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio
Newbery Medal – Most Distinguished American Children’s Books
2011 Vanderpool, Clare
Moon Over Manifest
2010 Stead, Rebecca
When You Reach Me
2009 Gaiman, Neil
The Graveyard Book
2008 Schlitz, Laura Amy
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
2007 Patron, Susan
The Higher Power of Lucky
2006 Perkins, Lynne Rae
Criss Cross
2005 Kadohata, Cynthia
Kira-Kira
2004 DiCamillo, Kate
The Tale of Despereaux
2003 Avi
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
2002 Park, Linda Sue
A Single Shard
2001 Peck, Richard
A Year Down Yonder
2000 Curtis, Christopher Paul
Bud, Not Buddy
Caldecott Medal – Most Distinguished Picture Books
2011 Stead, Erin E. and Phlip C. Stead
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
2010 Pinkney, Jerry
The Lion & the Mouse
2009 Swanson, Susan and Beth Krommes
The House in the Night
2008 Selznick, Brian
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
2007 Weisner, David
Flotsam
2006 Juster, Norton and Chris Raschka
The Hello, Goodbye Window
2005 Henkes, Kevin
Kitten’s First Full Moon
2004 Gerstein, Mordicai
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
2003 Rohmann, Eric
My Friend Rabbit
2002
2001
2000
Weisner, David
St. George, Judith and David Small
Taback, Simms
The Three Pigs
So You Want to Be President?
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
NORTHWEST YOUTH BOOK AWARDS – CHOSEN BY READERS (YOUNGER)
Young Reader’s Choice – Intermediate Division 7-9 - Selected by Northwest Young Readers (CA and USA)
2011
2010 Korman, Gordon
Schooled
2009 Boyne, John
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
2008 Riordan, Rick
Lightning Thief
2007 Colfer, Eoin
Supernaturalist
2006 Paolini, Christopher
Eragon
2005 Korman, Gordon
Son of the Mob
2004 Colfer, Eoin
Artemis Fowl
2003 Korman, Gordon
No More Dead Dogs
2002 Meyer, Carolyn
Mary, Bloody Mary
2001 Sachar, Louis
Holes
2000 King-Smith, Dick
A Mouse Called Wolf
Young Reader’s Choice – Junior Division 4-6 – Selected by Northwest Young Readers (CA and USA)
2011
2010 Kinney, Jeff
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Gred Heffley’s Journal
2009 Dicamillo, Kate
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
2008 Martin, Ann
A Dog’s Life: Autobiography of a Stray
2007 Funke, Cornelia
Dragon Rider
2006 DiCamillo, Kate
The Tale of Despereaux
2005 Funke, Cornelia
The Thief Lord
2004 Bruchac, Joseph
Skeleton Man
2003 DiCamillo, Kate
Because of Winn-Dixie
2002 Curtis, Christopher Paul
Bud, Not Buddy
Sasquatch Award 4-8 – Selected by children of Washington State
2011
2010 Hahn, Mary Downing
Deep and Dark and Dangerous
2009 Gutman, Dan
The Homework Machine
2008 Kehret, Peg
The Ghost’s Grave
2007 Birney, Betty G.
The World According to Humphrey
2006 DuPrau, Jeanne
City of Ember
2005 Spinelli, Jerry
Loser
2004 Coville, Bruce
Monsters of Marley Manor
2003 DiCamillo, Kate
Because of Winn Dixie
2002 Gorman, Carol
Dork in Disquise
2001 Gantos, Jack
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
2000 Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone