National Book Award for Young People's Literature

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National Book Award, 56 Books

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is one of five annual National Book Awards. It was established in 1996, following earlier “Children’s” categories that were awarded from 1969 to 1983.

Who voted: The award is judged by five litterateurs, whose names can be seen on the National Book Awards' website.

This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site about 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17163 Journey From Peppermint Street Meindert DeJong 1967 American English
17163 A Day Of Pleasure Isaac Bashevis Singer 1963 Polish English
17163 The Marvelous Misadventures Of Sebastian Lloyd Alexander 1970 American English
17163 The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine Or The Hithering Thithering Djinn Donald Barthelme 1971 American English
3617 The Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 American English
17163 The Court Of The Stone Children Eleanor Cameron 1973 American English
14983 M.C. Higgins, The Great Virginia Hamilton 1974 American English
17163 Bert Breen's Barn Walter D. Edmonds 1975 American English
17163 The Master Puppeteer Katherine Paterson 1975 American English
17163 The View From The Oak Judith Kohl, Herbert Kohl 1977 Unknown English
17163 The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Paterson 1978 American English
17163 A Gathering Of Days Joan W. Blos 1979 American English
2829 A Swiftly Tilting Planet Madeleine L'Engle 1978 American English
17163 The Night Swimmers Betsy Cromer Byars 1980 American English
17163 Ramona And Her Mother Beverly Cleary 1979 American English
17163 Oh, Boy! Babies Alison Cragin Herzig, Jane Lawrence Mali 1980 Unknown English
17163 Westmark Lloyd Alexander 1981 American English
17163 Words By Heart Ouida Sebestyen 1979 American English
17163 A Penguin Year Susan Bonners 1981 Unknown English
17163 Homesick Jean Fritz 1982 American English
17163 A Place Apart Paula Fox 1981 American English
17163 Marked By Fire Joyce Carol Thomas 1982 American English
17163 Chimney Sweeps James Cross Giblin 1982 Unknown English
17163 Doctor De Soto William Steig 1982 American English
17163 Miss Rumphius Barbara Cooney 1985 American English
17163 A House Is A House For Me Mary Ann Hoberman 1978 American English
17163 Parrot In The Oven, Mi Vida Victor Martinez 1996 American English
17163 Dancing On The Edge Han Nolan 1997 American English
5232 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
17163 When Zachary Beaver Came To Town Kimberly Willis Holt 1999 American English
17163 Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan 2002 American English
17163 True Believer Virginia Euwer Wolff 2001 American English
17163 The House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002 American English
17163 The Canning Season Polly Horvath 2003 Canadian English
17163 Godless Pete Hautman 2004 American English
17163 The Penderwicks Jeanne Birdsall 2005 American English
4734 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation M. T. Anderson 2006 American English
2651 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie 2007 American English
17163 What I Saw And How I Lied Judy Blundell 2008 American English
17163 Claudette Colvin Phillip Hoose 2009 American English
17163 Mockingbird Kathryn Erskine 2010 American English
17163 Inside Out & Back Again Thanhhà Lại 2011 American English
17163 Goblin Secrets William Alexander 2012 American English
17163 The Thing About Luck Cynthia Kadohata 2013 American English
3217 Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 2014 American English
14985 Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman 2015 American English
8458 March John Lewis 2013 American English
17163 Far From The Tree Robin Benway 2017 American English
9311 The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo 2018 American English
17163 1919 Martin W. Sandler 2019 American English
17163 King And The Dragonflies Kacen Callender 2020 American English
14232 Last Night At The Telegraph Club Malinda Lo 2021 American English
14985 All My Rage Sabaa Tahir 2022 American English
17163 A First Time For Everything Dan Santat 2023 American English
14985 Kareem Between Shifa Saltagi Safadi 2024 Unknown English
11224 The Teacher Of Nomad Land Daniel Nayeri American English