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 11 months ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17117 Journey From Peppermint Street Meindert DeJong 1967 American English
17117 A Day Of Pleasure Isaac Bashevis Singer 1963 Polish English
17117 The Marvelous Misadventures Of Sebastian Lloyd Alexander 1970 American English
17117 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
17117 The Court Of The Stone Children Eleanor Cameron 1973 American English
14982 M.C. Higgins, The Great Virginia Hamilton 1974 American English
17117 Bert Breen's Barn Walter D. Edmonds 1975 American English
17117 The Master Puppeteer Katherine Paterson 1975 American English
17117 The View From The Oak Judith Kohl, Herbert Kohl 1977 Unknown English
17117 The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Paterson 1978 American English
17117 A Gathering Of Days Joan W. Blos 1979 American English
2827 A Swiftly Tilting Planet Madeleine L'Engle 1978 American English
17117 The Night Swimmers Betsy Cromer Byars 1980 American English
17117 Ramona And Her Mother Beverly Cleary 1979 American English
17117 Oh, Boy! Babies Alison Cragin Herzig, Jane Lawrence Mali 1980 Unknown English
17117 Westmark Lloyd Alexander 1981 American English
17117 Words By Heart Ouida Sebestyen 1979 American English
17117 A Penguin Year Susan Bonners 1981 Unknown English
17117 Homesick Jean Fritz 1982 American English
17117 A Place Apart Paula Fox 1981 American English
17117 Marked By Fire Joyce Carol Thomas 1982 American English
17117 Chimney Sweeps James Cross Giblin 1982 Unknown English
17117 Doctor De Soto William Steig 1982 American English
17117 Miss Rumphius Barbara Cooney 1985 American English
17117 A House Is A House For Me Mary Ann Hoberman 1978 American English
17117 Parrot In The Oven, Mi Vida Victor Martinez 1996 American English
17117 Dancing On The Edge Han Nolan 1997 American English
5229 Holes Louis Sachar 1998 American English
17117 When Zachary Beaver Came To Town Kimberly Willis Holt 1999 American English
17117 Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan 2002 American English
17117 True Believer Virginia Euwer Wolff 2001 American English
17117 The House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002 American English
17117 The Canning Season Polly Horvath 2003 Canadian English
17117 Godless Pete Hautman 2004 American English
17117 The Penderwicks Jeanne Birdsall 2005 American English
4732 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation M. T. Anderson 2006 American English
2650 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie 2007 American English
17117 What I Saw And How I Lied Judy Blundell 2008 American English
17117 Claudette Colvin Phillip Hoose 2009 American English
17117 Mockingbird Kathryn Erskine 2010 American English
17117 Inside Out & Back Again Thanhhà Lại 2011 American English
17117 Goblin Secrets William Alexander 2012 American English
17117 The Thing About Luck Cynthia Kadohata 2013 American English
3216 Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 2014 American English
14983 Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman 2015 American English
8453 March John Lewis 2013 American English
17117 Far From The Tree Robin Benway 2017 American English
9306 The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo 2018 American English
17117 1919 Martin W. Sandler 2019 American English
17117 King And The Dragonflies Kacen Callender 2020 American English
14232 Last Night At The Telegraph Club Malinda Lo 2021 American English
14983 All My Rage Sabaa Tahir 2022 American English
17117 A First Time For Everything Dan Santat 2023 American English
14983 Kareem Between Shifa Saltagi Safadi 2024 Unknown English
11217 The Teacher Of Nomad Land Daniel Nayeri American English