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2024

Winner: The Collectors: Stories, edited by A.S. King. Written by King, M.T. Anderson, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, David Levithan, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, G. Neri, Jason Reynolds, Randy Ribay and Jenny Torres Sanchez.

Honor Books: Fire from the Sky, by Moa Backe Åstot, translated by Eva Apelqvist, Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption, by Shannon Gibney, Salt the Water by Candice Iloh

2023

Winner: All My Rage By Sabaa Tahir

Honor Books: Icebreaker By A.L. Graziadei, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality By Eliot Schrefer, Scout's Honor By Lily Anderson, When the Angels Left the Old Country By Sacha Lamb

2022

Winner: Firekeeper's Daughter By Angeline Boulley

Honor Books: Concrete Rose By Angie Thomas, Last Night at the Telegraph Club By Malinda Lo, Revolution In Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People By Kekla Magoon, Starfish By Lisa Fipps

2021

Winner: Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) By Daniel Nayeri

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 by 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 Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes; Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean

2019

Winner: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Honor Books: Damsel by Elana K. Arnold; A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti; I, Claudia by Mary McCoy

2018

Winner: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Honor Books: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds; The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; Strange 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 by Julie Berry; Scythe by Neal Shusterman; The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

2016

Winner: Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

Honor Books: The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick and Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez

2015

Winner: I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Honor Books: And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard; The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley; Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith; This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki

2014

Winner: Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

Honor Books: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell; Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal; MAGGOT MOON by Sally Gardner, illustrated by Julian Crouch; Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

2013

Winner: In Darkness by Nick Lake

Honor Books: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz; Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein; Dodger by Terry Pratchett; The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna

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 Returning, written by Christine Hinwood; Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey; The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater

2011

Winner: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Honor Books: Stolen by Lucy Christopher, Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King, Revolver written by Marcus Sedgwick, Nothing written by Janne Teller

2010
Winner:
Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Honor Books:
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes

2009
Winner:
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Honor Books:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

2008
Winner:
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

Honor Books:
Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill

2007
Winner:
American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

Honor Books:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

2006

Winner:

Looking for Alaska, by John Green

Honor Books:

Black Juice , by Margo Lanagan
I Am the Messenger , by Markus Zusak
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge
A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson

2005

Winner:

how i live now, by Meg Rosoff

Honor Books:

Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel

Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt

2004:

Winner:

The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson

Honor Books:

A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly

Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost

Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

2003

Winner:

Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers

Honor Books:

The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer

My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr

Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos

2002

Winner:

A Step From Heaven, by An Na

Honor Books:

The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson

Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg Abrams

Freewill, by Chris Lynch

True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff

2001

Winner:

Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond

Honor Books:

Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman

The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci

Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison

Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman

2000

Winner:

Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

Honor Books:

Skellig, by David Almond

Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger