A collection of Award-winning Young Adult fiction and chapter books listed alphabetically by Award title

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Americas Book Award

2006: Josias, Hold the Book, by Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren (P Elv)

2006: The Poet Slave of Cuba, by Margarita Engle (811.54 Eng)

2006: What the Moon Saw, by Laura Resau (F Res)

2005: Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box, by Juan Felipe Herrera (F Her)

2004: My Name is Celia/ Me Ilamo Celia, by Monica Brown (782.42164092 Bro)

2004: Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, by Benjamin Alire Saenz (F Sae)

2003: The Meaning of Consuelo, by Judith Ortiz Cofer (Main Library PS3565 R7737 M43 2003)

2003: Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, by Yuyi Morales (398.2097201 Mor)

2002: Before We Were Free, by Julia Alvarez (F Alv)

2001: A Movie in My Pillow, by Jorge Argueta (861.64 Arg)

2001: Breaking Through, by Francisco Jimenez (F Jim)

2000: The Color of My Words, by Lynn Joseph (F Jos)

2000: The Composition, by Antonio Skarmeta (P Ska)

1999: CrashBoomLove, by Juan Felipe Herrera (F Her)

1998: Barrio: Jose's Neighborhood, by George Ancona (979.4 Anc)

1998: Mama and Papa Have a Store, by Amelia Lau Carling (P Car)

1997: The Face at the Window, by Regina Hanson (P Han)

1997: The Circuit, by Francisco Jimenez (B Jimenez)

1996: Parrot in the Oven, by Victor Martinez (F Mar)

1996: In My Family/En mi Familia, by Carmen Lomas Garza (372.6561 Gar)

1995: Tonight, by Sea, by Frances Temple (F Tem)

1994: The Mermaid's Twin Sister, by Lynn Joseph (398.2 Jos)

1993: Vejigantes Masquerade, by Lulu Delacre (P Del)

Bram Stoker-Young Readers

2004: Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, by Clive Barker (F Bar)

2004: Oddest Yet, by Steve Burt (F Bur)

2003: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling (F Row)

2002: Coraline, by Neil Gaiman (F Gai)

2001: The Willow Files 2, by Yvonne Navarro (F Nav)

2000: The Power of Un, by Nancy Etchemendy (F Etc)

1999: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling (F Row)

1998: Bigger Than Death, by Nancy Etchemendy (On Order)

Edgar Awards-Young Adult

2008: Rat Life, by Tedd Arnold (On order)

2007: Buried , by Robin Marrow MacCready (F Mac)

2006: Last Shot, by John Feinstein (F Fei)

2005: In Darkness, Death, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (F Hoo)

2004: Acceleration, by Graham McNamee (F McN)

2003: The Wessex Papers, Vols. 1-3, by Daniel Parker (F Par)

2002: The Boy in the Burning House, by Tim Wynne-Jones (F Wyn)

2001: Counterfeit Son, by Elaine Marie Alphin (F Alp)

2000: Never Trust a Dead Man, by Vivian Vande Velde (F Van)

1999: The Killer's Cousin, by Nancy Werlin (F Wer)

1998: Ghost Canoe, by Will Hobbs (F Hob)

1997: Twisted Summer, by Willo Davis Roberts (F Rob)

1996: Prophecy Rock, by Rob MacGregor (F Mac)

1995: Toughing It, by Nancy Springer (F Spr)

1994: The Name of the Game was Murder, by Joan Lowery Nixon (F Low)

1993: A Little Bit Dead, by Chap Reaver (F Rea)

1992: The Weirdo, by Theodore Taylor (F Tay)

1991: Mote, by Chap Reaver (F Rea)

1990: Show Me the Evidence, by Alane Ferguson (F Fer)

1989: Incident at Loring Groves, by Sonia Levitin (F Lev)

Golden Duck-Hal Clement

2007: Rash, by Pete Hautman (On Order)

2006: Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld (On Order)

2005: Balance of Trade, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (F Lee)

2004: Gunpowder Empire, by Harry Turtledove (F Tur)

2003: Feed, by M.T. Anderson (F And)

2002: Jumping off the Planet, by David Gerrold (F Ger)

2001: This Side of Paradise, by Steven Layne (F Lay)

2000: The Game of Worlds, by Allen Roger MacBride (F All)

1999: Alien Dreams, by Larry Segriff (F Seg)

1998: Dark Side of Nowhere, by Neal Shusterman (F Shu)

1997: Wildside, by Steven Gould (F Gou)

1996: The Winds of Mars, by H.M. Hoover (F Hoo)

1996: Night Room, by E.M. Goldman (F Gol)

1995: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, by Nancy Farmer (F Far)

1994: The Giver, by Lois Lowry (F Low)

1993: River Rats, by Caroline Stevermer (F Ste)

1992: Invitation to the Game, by Monica Hughes (F Hug)

Michael L. Printz Award

2009(Gold): Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta (F Mar)

2009(Silver): The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II,
The Kingdom on the Waves , by M. T Anderson (On order)

2009(Silver): The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks , by E Lockhart (On order)

2009(Silver): Nation , by Terry Pratchett(On order)

2009(Silver): Tender Morsels , by Margo Lanagan (On order)

2008(Gold): The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean (F McC)

2008(Silver): Dreamquake:Book 2 of the Dreamhunter Duet , by Elizabeth Knox (On order)

2008(Silver): One Whole and Perfect Day, by Judith Clarke (On order)

2008(Silver): Repossessed, by A.M. Jenkins (F Jen)

2008(Silver): Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, by Stpehanie Hemphill (On order)

2007(Gold): American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang (F Yan)

2007(Silver): The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson (F And)

2007(Silver): An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green (F Gre)

2007(Silver): Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett (F Har)

2007(Silver): The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak (F Zus)

2006(Gold): Looking for Alaska, by John Green (F Gre)

2006(Silver): Black Juice, by Margo Lanagan (F Lan)

2006(Silver): A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson (811.54 Nel)

2006(Silver): John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge (782.42166092 Par)

2006(Silver): I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak (F Zus)

2005(Gold): How I Live Now, by Meg Rosoff (F Ros)

2005(Silver): Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel (F Opp)

2005(Silver): Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt (F Sch)

2005(Silver): Chanda's Secrets, by Allan Stratton (F Str)

2004(Gold): The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson (F Joh)

2004(Silver): A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly (F Don)

2004(Silver): Keesha's House, by Helen Frost (813 Fro)

2004(Silver): Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going (F Goi)

2004(Silver): The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler (F Mac)

2003(Gold): Postcards from No Man's Land, by Aidan Chambers (F Cha)

2003(Silver): The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer (F Far)

2003(Silver): My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr (F Wey)

2003(Silver): Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos (B Gantos)

2002(Gold): A Step from Heaven, by An Na (F Na)

2002(Silver): The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson (F Dic)

2002(Silver): Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, by Jan Greenberg (811.6080357 Hea)

2002(Silver): Freewill, by Chris Lynch (F Lyn)

2002(Silver): True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff (F Wol)

2001(Gold): Kit's Wilderness, by David Almond (F Alm)

2001(Silver): Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman (F Com)

2001(Silver): The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci (F Plu)

2001(Silver): Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison (F Ren)

2001(Silver): Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman (F Tru)

2000(Gold): Monster, by Walter Dean Myers (F Mye)

2000(Silver): Skellig, by David Almond (F Alm)

2000(Silver): Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson (F And)

2000(Silver): Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger (F Wit)

Sunshine State Young Reader's Award

2007: Cryptid Hunters, by Roland Smith (F Smi)

2007: Peter and the Starcatchers, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (F Bar)

2006: Escaping the Giant Wave, by Peg Kehret (F Keh)

2006: Heir Apparent, by Vivian Vande Velde (F Van)

2005: The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau (F DuP)

2004: Me Tarzan, by Betsy Byars (F Bya)

2004: Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelson (F Mik)

2003: Holes, by Louis Sachar (F Sac)

2002: Among the Hidden, by Margaret Peterson Haddix (F Had)

2002: Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo (F DiC)

2001: The Ghost of Fossil Glen, by Cynthia DeFelice (F DeF)

2001: The Ghost in Room 11, by Betty Ren Wright (F Wri)

2000: Jaguar, by Roland Smith (F Smi)

2000: The Volcano Disaster, by Peg Kehret (F Keh)

1999: 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents, by Lee Wardlaw (F War)

1998: Ghosts Don't Get Goosebumps, by Elvira Woodruff (F Woo)

1998: Tornado!, by Betsy Byars (F Bya)

1997: Nasty, Stinky Sneakers, by Eve Bunting (F Bun)

1996: Seventh-Grade Weirdo!, by Lee Wardlaw (F War)

1996: Blackwater Swamp!, by Bill Wallace (F Wal)

1995: Knights of the Kitchen Table!, by Jon Scieszka (F Sci)

1995: Devil's Bridge, by Cynthia DeFelice (F DeF)

1994: The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother!, by Elvira Woodruff (F Woo)

1994: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi (F Avi)

1993: Nightmare!, by Willo Davis Roberts (F Rob)

1993: Fudge-a-Mania!, by Judy Blume (F Blu)

1992: Fudge!, by Charlotte Towner Graeber (F Gra)

1992: Something Upstairs, by Avi (F Avi)

1991: There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom!, by Louis Sachar (F Sac)

1990: Teacher's Pet!, by Johanna Hurwitz (F Hur)

1989: Sixth Grade Sleepover!, by Eve Bunting (F Bun)

1988: Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You, by Barthe DeClements (F DeC)

1987: Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub!, by Jamie Gilson (F Gil)

1986: Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!, by Stephen Manes (F Man)

1985: Superfudge, by Judy Blume (F Blu)

1984: Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery, by Deborah and James Howe (F How)

Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults

2007: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson (F And)

2007: Samurai Shortstop, by Alan Gratz (F Gra)

2007: Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett (F Har)

2007: Sold, by Patricia McCormick (F McC)

2007: Anahita's Woven Riddle, by Meghan Nuttall Sayres (F Say)

2007: The Trap, by John Smelcer (F Sme)

2007: The King of Attolia, by Megan Whalen Turner (F Tur)

2007: The Rules of Survival, by Nancy Werlin (F Wer)

2007: American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang (F Yan)

2007: The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak (F Zus)

2006: Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (943.086 Bar)

2006: Upstate, by Kalisha Buckhanon (F Buc)

2006: Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story, by Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton (958.1047 Akb)

2006: Looking for Alaska, by John Green (F Gre)

2006: Inexcusable, by Chris Lynch (F Lyn)

2006: Twilight: A Novel, by Stephenie Meyer (F Mey)

2006: Runaways: Volume 1, by Brian K. Vaughan (F Vau)

2006: Peeps, by Scott Westerfield (F Wes)

2006: Poison, by Chris Wooding (F Woo)

2006: I Am the Messenger, by Marcus Zusak (F Zus)

2005: The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, by Joshua Braff (F Bra)

2005: Bucking the Sarge, by Christopher Paul Curtis (F Cur)

2005: The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, by Phillip M. Hoose (598.72 Hoo)

2005: The Realm of Possibility, by David Levithan (F Lev)

2005: Saving Francesca, by Melina Marchetta (F Mar)

2005: Private Peaceful, by Michael Morpurgo (F Mor)

2005: Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel (F Opp)

2005: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, by Adam Rapp (F Rap)

2005: Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, by Benjamin Alire Saenz (F Sae)

2005: So B. It: A Novel, by Sarah Weeks (F Wee)

2004: True Confessions of a Heartless Girl, by Martha Brooks (F Bro)

2004: A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly (F Don)

2004: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel, by Mark Haddon (F Had)

2004: The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson (F Joh)

2004: Boy Meets Boy, by David Levithan (F Lev)

2004: The Usual Rules, by Joyce Maynard (Main Library PS3563 A9638 U7 2003))

2004: East, by Edith Pattou (F Pat)

2004: A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly (F Don)

2004: 33 Snowfish, by Adam Rapp (F Rap)

2004: The Amulet of Samarkand: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One, by Jonathan Stroud (F Str)

2004: Blankets: An Illustrated Novel, by Craig Thompson (F Tho)

2003: Catalyst, by Laurie Halse Anderson (On Order)

2003: Feed, by M.T. Anderson (F And)

2003: The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer (F Far)

2003: America, by E.R Frank (F Fra)

2003: Son of the Mob, by Gordon Korman (F Kor)

2003: The Lightkeeper's Daughter, by Iain Lawrence (F Law)

2003: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore (813.64 Moo)

2003: Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis, by Peter Nelson (940.545973 Nel)

2003: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, by Laurie Halse Anderson (811.54 Nye)

2003: This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, by Laurie Halse Anderson (B Guthrie)

2002: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares (F Bra)

2002: The Rag and Bone Shop, by Robert Cormier (F Cor)

2002: Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher (F Cru)

2002: Breathing Underwater, by Alexandra  Flinn (F Fli)

2002: Every Time a Rainbow Dies, by Rita Williams-Garcia (F Wil)

2002: Damage, by A.M. Jenkins (F Jen)

2002: Zazoo, by Richard Moser (F Mos)

2002: Lirael, by Garth Nix (F Nix)

2002: The Land, by Mildred Taylor (F Tay)

2002: True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff (F Wol)

2001: Forgotten Fire, by Adam Bagdasarian (F Bag)

2001: Hope was Here, by Joan Bauer (F Bau)

2001: Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier (Main Library PS3553 H4367 G57 1999)

2001: Geeks: How Two Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho, by Jon Katz (Main Library TK7885.54 K38 2001)

2001: Silent to the Bone, by E.L. Konigsburg (F Con)

2001: The Beet Fields, by Gary Paulsen (F Pau)

2001: Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan (F Rya)

2001: Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli (F Spi)

2001: Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan (F Whe)

2001: Memories of Summer, by Ruth White (F Whi)

2000: Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson (F And)

2000: Ender's Shadow, by Orson Scott Card (Main Library PS 3553 A655 E58 1999)

2000: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, by Kimberly Willis Holt (F Holt)

2000: The Raging Quiet, by Sherryl Jordan (F Jor)

2000: Crooked, by Laura and Tom McNeal (F McN)

2000: Mary, Bloody Mary, by Carolyn Meyer (F Mey)

2000: Monster, by Walter Dean Myers (F Mye)

2000: Ties that Bind, Ties that Break, by Lensey Namoika (F Nam)

2000: In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, by Irene Gut Opdyke (940.53 Opd)

2000: Imani All Mine, by Connie Porter (F Por)

1999: Rules of the Road, by Joan Bauer (F Bau)

1999: Corpses, Coffins and Crypts, by Penny Colman (393.09 Col)

1999: Love Among the Walnuts, by Jean Ferris (F Fer)

1999: Among the Hidden, by Margaret Haddix (F Had)

1999: My Lousiana Sky, by Kimberly Willis Holt (F Hol)

1999: No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War, by Anita Lobel (B Lobel)

1999: Petey, by Ben Mikaelson (F Mik)

1999: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling (F Row)

1999: Holes, by Louis Sachar (F Sac)

1999: If You Come Softly, by Jacqueline Woodson (F Woo)

1998: Growing Up In Coal Country, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (331.3 Bar)

1998: The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival, by Sara Tuvel Bernstein (Main Library DS135 R73 B47)

1998: Tangerine, by Edward Bloor (F Kla)

1998: Tenderness, by Robert Cormier (F Cor)

1998: Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse (F Hes)

1998: Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause (F Kla)

1998: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer (796.522092 Kra)

1998: Swallowing Stones, by Joyce McDonald (F McD)

1998: Harlem: A Poem, by Walter Dean Myers (811.54 Mye)

1998: Starlite Drive-In, by Marjorie Reynolds (F Rey)

1997: The United States of Poetry, by Josual Blum et al. (811.008 Uni)

1997: A Girl Named Disaster, by Nancy Farmer (F Far)

1997: Nathan's Run, by John Gilstrap (F Gil)

1997: Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems, by Mel Glenn (F Gle)

1997: Far North, by Will Hobbs (F Hob)

1997: One More River to Cross: An African-American Photograph Album, by Walter Dean Myers (973.0496073 Mye)

1997: Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman (F Pul)

1997: Rats Saw God, by Rob Thomas (F Tho)

1997: Wrestling Sturbridge, by Rich Wallace (F Wal)

1997: Fragments, by Binjamin Wilkomirski (F Wil)

Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens

2007: True Believers: Runaways (V. 4-6), by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona (F Vau)

2007: Demo: The Collection, by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan (F Woo)

2007: Sloth, by Gilbert Hernandez and Jared K. Fletcher (F Her)

2007: Pride of Baghdad, by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon (F Vau)

2007: Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. (V. 1), by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen (F Ell)

2007: Castle Waiting, by Linda Medley (F Med)

2007: Identity Crisis, by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales (F Mel)

2007: Death, Jr., by Gary Whitta and Ted Naifeh (On Order)

2007: Death Note (V. 1-3), by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata (F Ohb)

2007: American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien (F Yan)