Cybils Award

The Cybils Awards, or Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards, are a set of annual book awards given by people who blog about children's and young adult books.^[1] Co-founded by Kelly Herold and Anne Boles Levy in 2006,^[2] the awards were created to address an apparent gap between children's book awards perceived as too elitist and other awards that did not seem selective enough.^[3]

Cybils Awards
Awarded for	Literary merit and kid appeal in children's and young adult literature
Presented by	Bloggers with expertise in children's literature
First award	2006
Website	cybils.com

Books are nominated by the public in ten genres of children's and young adult literature: Book Apps, Easy Readers & Short Chapter Books, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade Novels, Non-Fiction Middle Grade/Young Adult Books, Non-Fiction Picture Books, Poetry, and Young Adult Novels. Nominees go through two rounds of panel-based judging before a winner is announced in each category. Finalists and winners are selected on the basis of literary merit and kid appeal.^[4]

Panelists are volunteers and must be active bloggers with extensive experience in children's or young adult literature, either as readers and enthusiasts or as authors, librarians, booksellers, teachers, or others with verifiable investment in the world of children's literature.

Criteria

• Anybody may nominate a children's or young adult book published October 16 of the preceding year – October 15 of the contest year.
• Books must be written in English or they may be bilingual.
• Only one book may be nominated per person, per category.
• Nominations open October 1 and close October 15 of the contest year.
• Books should exemplify award criteria of literary merit and "kid appeal".

Recipients

Audiobooks (2016)

Year	Author(s)	Narrator(s)	Title	Result	Ref.
2016	Adam Gidwitz	Vikas Adam, Mark Bramhall, Jonathan Cowley, Kimberly Farr, Adam Gidwitz, Ann Marie Lee, Bruce Mann, John H. Mayer, and Arthur Morey	The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog	Winner	[5]
	John Claude Bemis	Ralph Lister	The Wooden Prince	Finalist	[6]
	Kate DiCamillo	Jenna Lamia	Raymie Nightingale
	Grace Lin	Kim Mai Guest	When the Sea Turned to Silver
	Richard Peck	Michael Crouch	The Best Man

Board books (2016–)

Year	Author(s)	Title	Result	Ref.
2016	Christopher Franceschelli, illus. by Peskimo	Cityblock	Winner	[5]
	Patty Rodriguez and Ariana Stein, illus. by Citlali Reyes	Cuauhtemoc: Shapes/Formas	Finalist	[6]
	Sandra Boynton	Dinosaur Dance!
	Emily Sper	Follow the Yarn: A Book of Colors
	Agnese Baruzzi	Look, Look Again
2017	Nathan Thoms, illus. by Carles Ballesteros	Changing Faces: Meet Happy Bear	Winner	[7]
	Douglas Florian, illus. by Barbara Bakos	Bears Are Big	Finalist	[8]
	Kenji Oikawa and Mayuko Takeuc	Circle, Triangle, Elephant: A Book of Shapes and Surprises
	Leslie Patricelli	Hair
	Catherine Rayner	One Happy Tiger
	Nina Laden	Peek-a-Moo!
	Susanna Leonard Hill, illus. by Daniel Wiseman	When Your Lion Needs a Bath
2018	Janik Coat	Llamaphones	Winner	[9]
	Steve Light	Black Bird Yellow Sun	Finalist	[10]
	David W. Miles	But First, We Nap: A Little Book About Nap Time
	Elsa Mroziewicz	Peek-a-Who
	Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin	These Colors Are Bananas
	Jean Jullien	Why the Face?
	Jacques Duquennoy	Zoe and Zack: Shapes
2019	Tatsuhide Matsuoka, trans. by Cathy Hirano	Jump!	Winner	[11]
	Joyce Wan	Dream Big	Finalist	[12]
	Aleksandra Szmidt	Good Night, World
	Della Ross Ferreri, illus. by Mette Engel	Huggle Wuggle, Bedtime Snuggle
	Ryan T. Higgins	Peek-a-Bruce
	Elsa Mroziewicz	Peek-a-Who Too?
	Aaron Becker	You Are Light
2020	No award was presented in 2020			[citation needed]
2021	Marine Schneider	Big Bear, Little Bear	Winner	[13][14]
	Cushman Abi	Animals Go Vroom!	Finalist	[15]
	Toni Buzzeo, illus. by Chi Birmingham	Caution! Road Signs Ahead
	Carter Higgins	Circle Under Berry
	Janik Coat	Comparrotives
	Jean Jullien	This Is Still Not a Book
	Ben Newman	Turn Seek Find: Habitats
2022	Giuliano Ferri	Look Twice	Winner	[16]
	Annie Bailey	10 Little Tractors (10 Little Vehicles)	Finalist	[17]
	Jane Whittingham	Animals Move (Big, Little Concepts, 3)
	Suzy Ultman	Be My Neighbor?
	LaTonya Yvette	The Hair Book
	Jill McDonald	Hello, World! Garden Time
	Laura Gehl	Odd Birds: Meet Nature's Weirdest Flock

Book apps (2011–2015)

Year	App	Developer	Result	Ref.
2011	The Monster at the End of This Book	Callaway Digital Arts, Inc	Winner	[18]
	Be Confident in Who You Are: A Middle School Confidential Graphic Novel by Annie Fox	Electric Eggplant	Finalist	[19]
	Bobo Explores Light	GameCollage
	Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson	Trilogy Studios
	Hildegard Sings by Thomas Wharton
	Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt
	The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore	Moonbot Studios
2012	Dragon Brush	Small Planet Digital	Winner	[20]
	Bats! Furry Fliers of the Night	Bookerella	Finalist	[21]
	Rounds: Franklin Frog	Nosy Crow
	The Voyage of Ulysses
	Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery by Jamie Lee Curtis, illustrated by Laura Cornell
2013	Disney Animated	Disney	Winner	[22][23]
	Endless Alphabet	Originator Inc.	Finalist	[24]
	MirrorWorld by Cornelia Funke	Mirada
	To This Day by Shane Koyczan
	Wee You-Things	Wee Society LLC
2014	Kalley's Machine Plus Cats	RocketWagon	Winner	[25]
	Angus the Irritable Bull	Watermark Ltd	Finalist	[26]
	Fiona & the Fog	William Poor
	Hat Monkey	Fox and Sheep GmbH
	How I Became a Pirate	Melinda Long
	Incredible Numbers by Professor Ian Stewart	Touchpress
	Rules of Summer	Shaun Tan
2015	Professor Astro Cat's Solar System	Minilab Ltd	Winner	[27]
	David Wiesner's Spot	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Finalist	[28]
	Earth Primer	Chaim Gingold
	Hilda Bewildered	Slap Happy Larry
	Metamorphabet	Vectorpark.com
	Wuwu & Co.	Step In Books

Early chapter books (2009–)

Year	Author	Illustrator	Title	Result	Ref.
2009	Lucy Nolan	Mike Reed	Winnener	[29]
	Tim Kennemore	Mike Spoor	Alice's Shooting Star	Finalist	[30]
	Claudia Mills	Heather Maione	How Oliver Olson Changed the World
	Kate DiCamillo	Chris Van Dusen	Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes
	Katherine Applegate	Brian Biggs	Roscoe Riley Rules #7: Never Race a Runaway Pumpkin
2010	Jacqueline Jules	Miguel Benitez	Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off	Winner	[31]
	Atinuke		Anna Hibiscus	Finalist	[32]
	Eric Wight		Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000
	Lucy Nolan	Mike Ree	Home on the Range
	Stephanie Greene	Stephanie Sisson	Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade
2011	Atinuke		Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus!	Winner	[18]
	Sara Pennypacker	Marla Frazee	Clementine and the Family Meeting	Finalist	[19]
	Charise Mericle Harper		Just Grace and the Double Surprise
	Julie Sternberg	Matthew Cordell	Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie
	Doreen Cronin	Kevin Cornell	The Trouble with Chickens
2012	Sonya Hartnett	Ann James	Sadie and Ratz	Winner	[20]
	Annie Barrows	Sophie Blackall	Ivy and Bean Make the Rules	Finalist	[21]
	Kate Messner	Brian Floca	Marty McGuire Digs Worms!
	Cece Bell		Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover
	Anna Branford, illus. by	Elanna Allen	Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot
2013	James Preller, illus. by	Iacopo Bruno	Home Sweet Horror	Winner	[22][23]
	Ursula Vernon		The Case of the Toxic Mutants	Finalist	[24]
	Claudia Mills	Rob Shepperson	Kelsey Green, Reading Queen
	Lauren Myracle	Jed Henry	The Life of Ty: Penguin Problems
	Hilary McKay		Lulu and the Dog from the Sea
	Anna Branford	Elanna Allen	Violet Mackerel's Natural Habitat
2014	Judith Viorst	Kevin Cornell	Lulu's Mysterious Mission	Winner	[25]
	Doreen Cronin	Kevin Cornell	The Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure	Finalist	[26]
	Abby Hanlon		Dory Fantasmagory
	Julie Sternberg	Matthew Cordell	Like Carrot Juice on a Cupcake
	Nicola Davies	Annabel Wright	The Lion Who Stole My Arm
	Hilary McKay		Lulu and the Rabbit Next Door
	Anna Branford	Elanna Allen	Violet Mackerel's Possible Friend
2015	Abby Hanlon		Dory and the Real True Friend	Winner	[27]
	Bruce Hale		Big Bad Detective Agency	Finalist	[28]
	Kate Messner	Kelley McMorris	Rescue on the Oregon Trail
	Hilary McKay		Lulu and the Hamster in the Night
	Yasmine Surovec		My Pet Human
	Kallie George	Alexandra Boiger	Clover's Luck
	Liam O'Donnell	Aurélie Grand	West Meadows Detectives: The Case of the Snack Snatcher
2016	Polly Faber	Clara Vulliamy	Mango & Bambang: The Not-a-Pig	Winner	[5]
	Abby Hanlon		Dory Dory Black Sheep	Finalist	[6]
	Juana Medina		Juana and Lucas
	Shannon Hale and Dean Hale	LeUyen Pham	The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde
	Linda Urban	Katie Kath	Weekends with Max and His Dad
	Kate DiCamillo	Chris Van Dusen	Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?
2017	Suzanne Selfors	Barbara Fisinger	Wedgie & Gizmo	Winner	[7]
	Patricia MacLachlan	Marc Boutavant	Barkus	Finalist	[8]
	Asia Citro	Marion Lindsay	Dragons and Marshmallows
	Kallie George	Stephanie Graegin	The Greatest Gift
	Jacqueline Jules	Kim Smith	My Fantástica Family
	Terry Lynn Johnson	Jani Orban	Overboard!
	Laura Amy Schlitz	Brian Floca	Princess Cora and the Crocodile
	Shannon Hale and Dean Hale	LeUyen Pham	The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation
2018	Debbi Michiko Florence	Elizabet Vukovic	Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl	Winner	[9]
	Ellen Potter	Felicita Sala	Big Foot and Little Foot	Finalist	[10]
	Asia Citro	Marion Lindsay	Caterflies and Ice
	Anna Humphrey	Kass Reich	Megabat
	H. M. Bouwman	Charlie Alder	Owen and Eleanor Move In
	Alice Kuipers	Diana Toledano	Polly Diamond and the Magic Book
2019	Megan Frazer Blakemore	Nadja Sarell	Frankie Sparks and the Class Pet	Winner	[11]
	Rachel Vail		A Is for Elizabeth	Finalist	[12]
	Chitra Soundar	Uma Krishnaswamy	Mangoes, Mischief, and Tales of Friendship: Stories from India
	Alex T. Smith		Mr. Penguin and the Lost Treasure
	Julian Gough		Rabbit & Bear: Rabbit's Bad Habits
2020	Lauren Castillo		Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us	Winner	[33]
	Lyla Lee	Dung Ho	Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business	Finalist	[34]
	Hannah Barnaby	Anoosha Syed	Monster and Boy
	Andrea Beaty	David Roberts	Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote
	Kate DiCamillo	Chris Van Dusen	Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem
2021	Jacqueline Davies	Deborah Hocking	Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World	Winner	[13][14]
	Gary D. Schmidt and Elizabeth Stickney	Eugene Yelchin	A Long Road on a Short Day	Finalist	[15]
	Carter Higgins	Jennifer K. Mann	Audrey L and Audrey W: Best Friends-ish
	Atinuke	Onyinye Iwu	Too Small Tola
	Saadia Faruqi		Yasmin the Scientist
2022	Kallie George	Birgitta Sif	Crimson Twill: Witch in the City	Winner	[16]
	Cynthia Lord	Stephanie Graegin	Marco Polo Brave Explorer	Finalist	[17]
	Martha Brockenbrough	Jon Lau	Frank and the Bad Surprise
	Dawn Quigley	Tara Audibert	Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants
	Matt Phelan	Matt Phelan	Leave It to Plum!
	A. I. Newton	Anjan Sarkar	Artemis, the Archer Goddess
	Mark David Smith	Kari Rust	The Weird Sisters: A Note, a Goat, and a Casserole

Easy readers (2008–)

Year	Author	Illustrator	Title	Result	Ref.
2008	Mo Willems		I Love My New Toy	Winner	[35]
	James Howe	Marie-Louise Gay	Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet Time	Finalists	[36]
	Mo Willems		I Will Surprise My Friend!
	Katie Speck	Paul Rátz de Tagyos	Maybelle Goes to Tea
	Kate Dicamillo	Chris Van Dusen	Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig
2009	Mo Willems		Watch Me Throw the Ball!	Winner	[29]
	David Catrow		Max Spaniel: Dinosaur Hunt	Finalists	[30]
	Lori Ries	Frank W. Dormer	Good Dog, Aggie
	Cynthia Rylant	Arthur Howard	Mr. Putter & Tabby Spill the Beans
	Joan Holub	Tim Bowers	Shampoodle
2010	Mo Willems		We Are in a Book!	Winner	[31]
	Erica Silverman	Betsy Lewin	Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Spring Babies	Finalists	[32]
	Tedd Arnold		Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl
	Melissa Stewart		National Geographic Readers: Ants
	Dori Chaconas	Lisa McCue	Cork and Fuzz: The Babysitters
2011	Mo Willems		I Broke My Trunk!	Winner	[18]
	Lori Ries	Frank W. Dormer	Aggie Gets Lost	Finalist	[19]
	Tim Egan		Dodsworth in Rome
	Eve Bunting	Josée Masse	Frog and Friends
2012	Frank Viva		A Trip to the Bottom of the World with Mouse	Winner	[20]
	Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee	Tony Fucile	Bink and Gollie: Two for One	Finalist	[21]
	Kevin Henkes		Penny and Her Doll
	Kevin Henkes		Penny and Her Song
	Michael J. Daley	Thomas F. Yezerski	Pinch and Dash Make Soup
2013	Dosh Archer		Urgency Emergency! Big Bad Wolf	Winner	[22][23]
	Mo Willems		A Big Guy Took My Ball!	Finalist	[24]
	Jamie Michalak	Frank Remkiewicz	Joe and Sparky Go to School
	Jonathan Fenske		Love Is in the Air
	Kevin Henkes		Penny and Her Marble
	Josh Schneider		The Meanest Birthday Girl
2014	Maxwell Eaton III		Okay, Andy!	Winner	[25]
	Ethan Long		Clara and Clem Under the Sea	Finalist	[26]
	Sarah Dillard		Extraordinary Warren: A Super Chicken
	Melissa Wiley	Ag Jatkowska	Inch and Roly and the Sunny Day Scare
	Mo Willems		My New Friend Is So Fun!
	Alex Milway		Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey
	Jennifer E. Morris		The Ice Cream Shop
2015	Grace Lin		Ling & Ting: Twice as Silly	Winner	[27]
	Jonathan Fenske		A Pig, a Fox, and a Box	Finalist	[28]
	David A. Adler	Sam Ricks	Don't Throw It to Mo!
	Ethan Long		In, Over and On the Farm
	Kitson Jazynka		Rosa Parks
	Shelby Alinsky		Slither, Snake!
	Jacqueline Jules	Kim Smith	Picture Perfect
2016	Tina Kugler		Snail and Worm: Three Stories About Two Friends	Winner	[5]
	Mo Willems		The Cookie Fiasco	Finalist	[6]
	Elise Gravel		The Great Antonio
	Kara LaReau	Matt Myers	The Infamous Ratsos
	Cece Bell		Rabbit and Robot and Ribbit
	Laurie Keller		We Are Growing!
2017	Dori Hillestad Butler	Nancy Meyers	King & Kayla and the Case of the Secret Code	Winner	[7]
	Laurel Snyder	Emily Hughes	Charlie & Mouse & Grumpy	Finalist	[8]
	Shelley Rotner		I Like the Farm
	Salina Yoon		My Kite is Stuck! and Other Stories
	Jan Thomas		There's a Pest in the Garden!
	Candice Ransom	Monique Dong	Tooth Fairy's Night
	Jonathan Fenske		We Need More Nuts!
	Jan Thomas		What Is Chasing Duck?
2018	Corey R. Tabor		Fox the Tiger	Winner	[9]
	Laura Driscoll	Catalina Echeverri	I Want to Be a Doctor	Finalist	[10]
	J. E. Morris		Much Too Much Birthday
	Jan Thomas		My Toothbrush Is Missing
	Paula Yoo	Shirley Ng-Benitez	The Perfect Gift
2019	Saadia Faruqi	Hatem Aly	Yasmin the Superhero	Winner	[11]
	Sergio Ruzzier		Fox & Chick: The Quiet Boat Ride and Other Stories	Finalist	[12]
	Jamie Michalak	Bob Kolar	Frank and Bean
	Jonathan Fenske		Hello, Crabby!: An Acorn Book
2020	David LaRochelle	Mike Wohnoutka	See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog	Winner	[33]
	Laura Gehl	Fred Blunt	Cat Has a Plan	Finalist	[34]
	Dori Hillestad Butler	Nancy Meyers	King & Kayla and the Case of the Unhappy Neighbor
	Katharine Kenah	Abby Carter	The Best Seat in First Grade
	Kelly Starling Lyons	Nina Mata	Ty's Travels: All Aboard!
	Ryan T. Higgins	Mo Willems	What About Worms!?
	Saadia Faruqi	Hatem Aly	Yasmin the Gardener
2021	David LaRochelle	Mike Wohnoutka	See the Dog: Three Stories About a Cat	Winner	[13][14]
	Sam Wedelich		Chicken Little and the Big Bad Wolf	Finalist	[15]
	Corey R. Tabor		Fox at Night
	Maggie P. Chang		Geraldine Pu and Her Lunch Box, Too!
	Meika Hashimoto	Gillian Reid	Kitty and Dragon
	Saadia Faruqi	Hatem Aly	Yasmin the Librarian
2022	Emma Otheguy	Andrés Landazábal	Reina Ramos Works It Out	Winner	[16]
	Matthew Cordell		Cornbread & Poppy	Finalist	[17]
	Melissa Iwai	Melissa Iwai	Gigi and Ojiji
	Steph Waldo	Steph Waldo	Tiny Tales: A Feast for Friends
	Kelly Starling Lyons	Niña Mata	Ty's Travels: Lab Magic
	Ryan T. Higgins	Ryan T. Higgins	World of Reading: Mother Bruce Ballet Bruce

Speculative fiction (2006–)

General science fiction and fantasy (2006)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2006	Jonathan Stroud	Ptolemy's Gate	Winner	[37]
	Cliff McNish, illus. by Geoff Taylor	Silver City	Finalists	[38]
	Tamora Pierce	Beka Cooper: Terrier
	Silvana De Mari, trans. by Shaun Whiteside	The Last Dragon
	Melanie Gideon	Pucker

Elementary and middle grade (2007–)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2007	Adam Rex	The True Meaning of Smekday	Winner	[39]
	Laura Ruby	The Chaos King	Finalists	[40]
	Sarah Beth Durst	Into the Wild
	Nancy Farmer	The Land of the Silver Apples
	Derek Landy, illus. by Tom Percival	Skulduggery Pleasant
2008	Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean	The Graveyard Book	Winner	[35]
	Marie Rutkoski	Cabinet of Wonders	Finalist	[36]
	D. M. Cornish	Lamplighter
	Sarah Prineas, illus. by Antonio Javier Caparo	The Magic Thief
	Ingrid Law	Savvy
2009	Laini Taylor	Silksinger	Winner	[29]
	Wendy Mass	11 Birthdays	Finalist	[30]
	Joni Sensel	The Farwalker's Quest
	Neil Gaiman	Odd and the Frost Giants
	Julianna Baggott	The Prince of Fenway Park
	Joan Aiken	The Serial Garden
	Grace Lin	Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
2010	Jacqueline West	The Shadows (Books of Elsewhere, Vol. 1),	Winner	[31]
	Michael Grant	The Call	Finalists	[32]
	Buckingham	The Dead Boys
	Ursula Vernon	Dragonbreath: Attack of the Ninja Frogs
	Philip Reeve	Fever Crumb
	Jewell Parker Rhodes	Ninth Ward
	Cornelia Funke	Reckless
2011	Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright, illustrated by Barry Moser	The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale	Winner	[18]
	Patrick Ness	A Monster Calls	Finalist	[19]
	Anne Ursu	Breadcrumbs
	Joseph Bruchac	Dragon Castle
	Matthew J. Kirby	Icefall
	Chris Moriarty	The Inquisitor's Apprentice
	Jessica Day George	Tuesdays at the Castle
2012	Jennifer A. Nielsen	The False Prince	Winner	[20]
	Kate Saunders	Beswitched	Finalist	[21]
	Mike Jung	Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities
	Anne Nesbet	The Cabinet of Earths
	Jasper Fforde	The Last Dragonslayer
	Katherine Applegate	The One and Only Ivan
	Stefan Bachmann	The Peculiar
2013	Jonathan Stroud	The Screaming Staircase	Winner	[22][23]
	Sage Blackwood	Jinx	Finalist	[24]
	Holly Webb	Rose
	John David Anderson	Sidekicked
	Brandon Sanderson	The Rithmatist
	Kathi Appelt	The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
	Megan Frazer Blakemore	The Water Castle
2014	Paul Durham	The Luck Uglies	Winner	[25]
	N. D. Wilson	Boys of Blur	Finalist	[26]
	Kate Milford	Greenglass House
	Lynne Rae Perkins	Nuts to You
	Merrie Haskell	The Castle Behind Thorns
	Jason Fry	The Jupiter Pirates: Hunt for the Hydra
	Charis Cotter	The Swallow
2015	Joel Ross	The Fog Diver	Winner	[27]
	Jewell Parker Rhodes	Bayou Magic	Finalist	[28]
	Ursula Vernon	Castle Hangnail
	Frances Hardinge	Cuckoo Song
	Sophia McDougall	Mars Evacuees
	John David Anderson	The Dungeoneers
	Tui T. Sutherland	Moon Rising
2016	Joshua Khan	Shadow Magic	Winner	[5]
	Delia Sherman	The Evil Wizard Smallbone	Finalist	[6]
	Megan Frazer Blakemore	The Firefly Code
	Andrew Chilton	The Goblin's Puzzle: Being the Adventures of a Boy with No Name and Two Girls Called Alice
	Bryce Moore	The Memory Thief
	Claire Fayers	The Voyage to Magical North
	Grace Lin	When the Sea Turned to Silver
2017	Stephanie Burgis	The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart	Winner	[7]
	Frances Hardinge	A Face Like Glass	Finalist	[8]
	William Alexander	A Properly Unhaunted Place
	Kevin Emerson	Last Day on Mars
	Sage Blackwood	Miss Ellicott's School for the Magically Minded
	Ellen Oh	Spirit Hunters
	Katie Slivensky	The Countdown Conspiracy
2018	Jessica Townsend	Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow	Winner	[9]
	Kenneth Oppel	Inkling	Finalist	[10][41]
	Anna Meriano	Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble
	Adam Jay Epstein	Snared: Escape to the Above
	Jonathan Auxier	Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
	Sarah Beth Durst	The Stone Girl's Story
	Zac Gorman	Thisby Thestoop and the Black Mountain
2019	Kwame Mbalia	Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky	Winner	[11][42]
	Greg van Eekhout	Cog	Finalist	[12][43]
	Tom O'Donnell	Homerooms and Hall Passes
	Anna Meriano	Love Sugar Magic: A Sprinkle of Spirits
	Carlos Hernandez	Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
	Sarah Jean Horwitz	The Dark Lord Clementine
	Geoff Rodkey	We're Not from Here
2020	Deva Fagan	Rival Magic	Winner	[33]
	Christina Soontornvat	A Wish in the Dark	Finalist	[34][44]
	Alex Aster	Curse of the Night Witch
	Julie Abe	Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch
	Swiedler	In the Red
	Grace Lin, illus. by Grace Lin	Mulan: Before the Sword
	Kate Alice Marshall	Thirteens
2021	Kaela Rivera	Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls	Winner	[13][45]
	Justina Ireland	Ophie's Ghosts	Finalist	[15][45]
	B. B. Alston	Amari and the Night Brothers
	Sangu Mandanna	Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom
	Donna Barba Higuera	The Last Cuentista
	Anne Ursu	The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy
	Kyle Lukoff	Too Bright to See
2022	Deva Fagan	The Mirrorwood	Winner	[16][46]
	Tracy Badua	Freddie vs. the Family Curse	Finalist	[47]
	Dhonielle Clayton, illus. by Khadijah Khatib	The Marvellers
	Lora Senf	The Clackity
	Karen Strong	Eden's Everdark
	Efua Traoré	Children of the Quicksands
	Greg van Eekhout	Fenris & Mott

Young adult (2007–)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2007	Shannon Hale	Book of a Thousand Days	Winner	[39]
	Catherine Fisher	Incarceron	Finalists	[40]
	Meg Burden	Northlander
	A. M. Jenkins	Repossessed
	Kathleen Duey	Skin Hunger
2008	Suzanne Collins	The Hunger Games	Winner	[35]
	Eoin Colfer	Airman	Finalists	[36]
	Elizabeth C. Bunce	Curse Dark as Gold
	Jenny Davidson	Explosionist
	Kristin Cashore	Graceling
	Lisa McMann	Wake
2009	Kristin Cashore	Fire	Winner	[29]
	Pam Bachorz	Candor	Finalist	[30]
	Sarah Rees Brennan	The Demon's Lexicon
	A. S. King	The Dust of 100 Dogs
	Laini Taylor	Lips Touch
	Kathleen Duey	Sacred Scars
	Antonia Michaelis	Tiger Moon
2010	Jonathan Maberry	Rot & Ruin	Winner	[31]
	Brian Falkner	Brain Jack	Finalists	[32]
	Karen Healey	Guardian of the Dead
	Erin Bow	Plain Kate
	Stephen Wallenfels	Pod
	Paolo Bacigalupi	Ship Breaker
	Donna Jo Napoli	The Wager
2011	Moira Young	Blood Red Road	Winner	[18]
	Susan Ee	Angelfall	Finalist	[19]
	Kendare Blake	Anna Dressed in Blood
	Jon Skovron	Misfit
	Holly Black	Red Glove
	Rae Carson	The Girl of Fire and Thorns
	Karen Healey	The Shattering
2012	Rachel Hartman	Seraphina	Winner	[20]
	Andrea K Höst	And All the Stars	Finalist	[21]
	David Levithan	Every Day
	Ian McDonald	Planesrunner
	Brenna Yovanoff, Tessa Gratton, and Maggie Stiefvater	The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories
	Paolo Bacigalupi	The Drowned Cities
	Sarah Beth Durst	Vessel
2013	Alaya Dawn Johnson	The Summer Prince	Winner	[22][23]
	Sarah Beth Durst	Conjured	Finalist	[26]
	Robin LaFevers	Dark Triumph
	Laura Lam	Pantomime
	Robin McKinley	Shadows
	Robin Wasserman	The Waking Dark
	Ian Doescher	William Shakespeare's Star Wars
2014	Matt de la Peña	The Living	Winner	[25]
	Leah Cypess	Death Sworn	Finalist	[26]
	A. S. King	Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
	John Corey Whaley	Noggin
	Alexandra Duncan	Salvage
	Marie Rutkoski	The Winner's Curse
	Karen Healey	While We Run
2015	Nova Ren Suma	The Walls Around Us	Winner	[27]
	Leah Bobet	An Inheritance of Ashes	Finalist	[28]
	Laura Ruby	Bone Gap
	Robin LaFevers	Mortal Heart
	Daniel José Older	Shadowshaper
	April Genevieve Tucholke	Slasher Girls & Monster Boys
	Mark Alpert	The Six
2016	Amie Kaufman	Illuminae	Winner	[5]
	Zoraida Cordova	Labyrinth Lost	Finalist	[6]
	A. S. King	Still Life with Tornado
	Zetta Elliott	The Door at the Crossroads
	Rachel Neumeier	The Keeper of the Mist
	Victoria Schwab	This Savage Song
	Anna-Marie McLemore	When the Moon was Ours
2017	Neal Shusterman	Scythe	Winner	[7]
	Sarah Tolcser	Song of the Current	Finalist	[8]
	Emily Lloyd-Jones	The Hearts We Sold
	F. T. Lukens	The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic
	Adam Silvera	They Both Die at the End
	Leigh Bardugo	Wonder Woman: Warbringer
2018	Rachel Hartman	Tess of the Road	Winner	[9]
	Justina Ireland	Dread Nation	Finalist	[10][41]
	Somaiya Daud	Mirage
	Rebecca Schaeffer	Not Even Bones
	Courtney Alameda	Pitch Dark
	Katrina Leno	Summer of Salt
	Emily Suvada	This Mortal Coil
2019	Rosaria Munda	Fireborne	Winner	[11][42]
	Amie Kaufman	Aurora Rising	Finalist	[12][43]
	Joanna Ruth Meyer	Echo North
	Samira Ahmed	Internment
	Margaret Rogers	Sorcery of Thorns
	Holly Black	The Wicked King
	Tochi Onyebuchi	War Girls
2020	Aiden Thomas	Cemetery Boys	Winner	[33]
	Patrick Ness	Burn	Finalist	[34][44]
	Darcie Little Badger, illus. by Rovina Cai	Elatsoe
	Deonn	Legendborn
	Elana K. Arnold	Red Hood
	Raquel Vasquez Gilliland	Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
	Kiersten White	The Guinevere Deception
2021	Margaret Rogerson	Vespertine	Winner	[13][45][14]
	Jessica Lewis	Bad Witch Burning	Finalist	[15][45]
	Xiran Jay Zhao	Iron Widow
	Aden Polydoros	The City Beautiful
	Margaret Forna	The Gilded Ones
	Anna-Marie McLemore	The Mirror Season
	Joan He	The Ones We're Meant to Find
2022	Rebecca Podos	From Dust, a Flame	Winner	[16][46]
	Aislinn Brophy	How to Succeed in Witchcraft	Finalist	[47]
	Tiffany D. Jackson	The Weight of Blood
	Darcie Little Badger	A Snake Falls to Earth
	Axie Oh	The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
	Margaret Owen	Little Thieves
	Rachel Lynn Solomon	See You Yesterday

Fiction

Picture book (2006–)

Year	Author(s)	Title	Result	Ref.
2006	Mélanie Watt	Scaredy Squirrel	Winner	[37]
	Emily Gravett	Wolves	Finalists	[38]
	Kimberly Willis Holt, illus. by Gabi Swiatkowska	Waiting for Gregory
	Sebastian Meschenmoser	Learning to Fly
	Komako Sakai	Emily's Balloon
2007	Janice N. Harrington, illus. by Shelley Jackson	The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County	Winner	[39]
	Adam Rex	Pssst!	Finalists	[40]
	Natasha Wing, illus. by Sylvie Kantorovitz	Go to Bed, Monster!
	David Ezra Stein	Leaves
	Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammad, illus. by Doug Chayka	Four Feet, Two Sandals
	Mo Willems	Knuffle Bunny Too
	Oliver Jeffers	The Incredible Book-Eating Boy
2008	Bob Graham	How to Heal a Broken Wing	Winner	[35]
	Deborah Hopkinson, illus. by John Hendrix	Abe Lincoln Crosses Creek	Finalists	[36]
	Franny Billingsley, illus. by G. Brian Karas	The Big Bad Bunny
	Mélanie Watt	Chester's Back
	John Himmelman	Katie Loves the Kittens
	Dashka Slater, illus. by Catia Chien	The Sea Serpent and Me
	Bonny Becker, illus. by Kady Denton	A Visitor for Bear
	Mark Reibstein, illus. by Ed Young	Wabi Sabi
2009	Liz Garton Scanlon, illus. by Marla Frazee	All the World	Winner	[29]
	John Perry, illus. by Mark Fearing	The Book That Eats People	Finalist	[30]
	Peter Brown	The Curious Garden
	Peter McCarty	Jeremy Draws a Monster
	Jerry Pinkney	The Lion & the Mouse
	Gloria Whelan, illus. by Mike Benny	The Listeners
	Eileen Spinelli, illus. by David Slonim	Silly Tilly
2010	David Ezra Stein	Interrupting Chicken	Winner	[31]
	Karen Lynn Williams, illus. by Floyd Cooper	A Beach Tail	Finalist	[32]
	Bill Thomson	Chalk
	Karma Wilson, illus. by Marcellus Hall	The Cow Loves Cookies
	Jeanne Birdsall, illus. by Matt Phelan	Flora's Very Windy Day
	Chris Barton, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld	Shark vs. Train
	Philip C. Stead, illus. by Erin E. Stead	A Sick Day for Amos McGee
2011	Patrick McDonnell	Me ... Jane	Winner	[18]
	John Rocco	Blackout	Finalist	[19]
	Susan A. Shea, illus. by Tom Slaughter	Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?
	Boni Ashburn, illus. by Julia Denos	I Had a Favorite Dress
	Jon Klassen	I Want My Hat Back
	Hervé Tullet	Press Here
	Jonathan Emmett, illus. by Poly Bernatene	The Princess and the Pig
2012	Philip C. Stead	A Home for Bird	Winner	[20]
	Levi Pinfold	Black Dog	Finalist	[21]
	Mac Barnett, illus. by Adam Rex	Chloe and the Lion
	Aaron Reynolds, illus. by Peter Brown	Creepy Carrots!
	Mac Barnett, illus. by Jon Klassen	Extra Yarn
	Kate Hosford, illus. by Gabi Swiatkowska	Infinity and Me
	Lola M. Schaefer, illus. by Jessica Meserve	One Special Day
2013	Peter Brown	Mr. Tiger Goes Wild	Winner	[22][23]
	Mac Barnett	Count the Monkeys	Finalist	[24]
	Julie Fogliano, illus. by Erin E. Stead	If You Want to See a Whale
	Aaron Becker	Journey
	Jesse Klausmeier, illus. by Suzy Lee	Open This Little Book
	Pat Zietlow Miller, illus. by Anne Wilsdorf	Sophie's Squash
	Benjamin Chaud	The Bear's Song
2014	Chris Haughton	Shh! We Have a Plan	Winner	[25]
	Andrew Prahin	Brimsby's Hats	Finalist	[26]
	Deborah Underwood, illus. by Claudia Rueda	Here Comes the Easter Cat
	Daniel Beaty, illus. by Bryan Collier	Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
	Lori Nichols	Maple
	Mark Pett	The Girl and the Bicycle
	Richard T. Morris, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld	This Is a Moose
2015	JonArno Lawson, illus. by Sydney Smith	Sidewalk Flowers	Winner	[27]
	John Rocco	Blizzard	Finalist	[28]
	Mélanie Watt	Bug in a Vacuum
	Sean Taylor, illus. by Jean Jullien	Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise
	Mượn Thị Văn, illus. by April Chu	In a Village by the Sea
	Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson	Last Stop on Market Street
	Meg Medina, illus. by Angela Domingue	Mango, Abuela, and Me
2016	Lucy Ruth Cummins	A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals	Winner	[5]
	Caron Levis, illus. by Charles Santoso	Ida, Always	Finalist	[6]
	Daniel Bernstrom, illus. by Brendan Wenzel	One Day in the Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus Tree
	Lisa Mantchev, illus. by Taeeun Yoo	Strictly No Elephants
	Terry Fan	The Night Gardener
	Ross Collins	There's a Bear on My Chair
	Brendan Wenzel	They All Saw a Cat
2017	Elisha Cooper	Big Cat, Little Cat	Winner	[7]
	Dan Santat	After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again	Finalist	[8]
	David Elliott, illus. by Melissa Sweet	Baabwaa and Wooliam
	Aaron Reynolds, illus. by Peter Brown	Creepy Pair of Underwear!
	Dashka Slater, illus. by Sydney Hanson	Escargot
	John McCutcheon, illus. by Kristy Caldwell	Flowers for Sarajevo
	Corinna Luyken	The Book of Mistakes
2018	Ryan T. Higgins	We Don't Eat Our Classmates	Winner	[9]
	Juana Martinez-Neal	Alma and How She Got Her Name	Finalist	[10]
	Jessica Love	Julián Is a Mermaid
	Nicola Davies, illus. by Rebecca Cobb	The Day War Came
	Jacqueline Woodson, illus. by Rafael López	The Day You Begin
	Cori Doerrfeld	The Rabbit Listened
	Brian Lies	The Rough Patch
2019	Kate Read	One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller	Winner	[11]
	Brendan Wenzel	A Stone Sat Still	Finalist	[12]
	Matthew A. Cherry, illus. by Vashti Harrison	Hair Love
	Susanna Leonard Hill, illus. by Elisa Paganelli	Moon's First Friends: One Giant Leap for Friendship
	Dan Richards, illus. by Eric Barclay	Once Upon a Goat
	Monica Kulling, illus. by Sarah Dvojack	Ruby's Hope: A Story of How the Famous "Migrant Mother" Photograph Became the Face of the Great Depression
	Kwame Alexander, illus. by Kadir Nelson	The Undefeated
2020	Derrick Barnes, illus. by Gordon C. James	I Am Every Good Thing	Winner	[33]
	Carrie Finison, illus. by Brianne Farley	Dozens of Doughnuts	Finalist	[34]
	Jordan Scott, illus. by Sydney Smith	I Talk Like a River
	Marcero	In a Jar
	Jennifer K. Mann	The Camping Trip
	Helena Ku Rhee, illus. by Pascal Campion	The Paper Kingdom
	Carole Lindstrom, illus. by Michaela Goade	We Are Water Protectors
2021	Andrea Wang, illus. by Jason Chin	Watercress	Winner	[13][14]
	Lori Mortensen, illus. by Rob Sayegh Jr.	Arlo Draws an Octopus	Finalist	[15]
	Tyler Feder	Bodies Are Cool
	Amanda Gorman, illus. by Loren Long	Change Sings: A Children's Anthem
	Shannon Hale	Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn
	Lisa Wheeler, illus. by Loren Long	Someone Builds the Dream
	Gideon Sterer, illus. by Di Giorgio	The Midnight Fair
2022	Christopher Denise	Knight Owl	Winner	[16]
	Laura Gehl, illus. by Patricia Metola	Apple and Magnolia	Finalist	[17]
	Sophie Blackall	Farmhouse
	Logan S. Kline	Finding Fire
	Naseem Hrab, illus. by Kelly Collier	How to Party Like a Snail
	Antwan Eady, illus. by Gracey Zhang	Nigel and the Moon
	Deborah Marcero	Out of a Jar

Middle grade (2006–)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2006	Laura Amy Schlitz	A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama	Winner	[37]
	Frank Cottrell-Boyce	Framed	Finalists	[38]
	Mike Lupica	Heat
	Kirsten Miller	Kiki Strike
	Cynthia Kadohata	Weedflower
2007	Linda Urban	A Crooked Kind of Perfect	Winner	[39]
	Kimberly Brubaker Bradley	Leap of Faith	Finalists	[40]
	Cynthia Kadohata	Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam
	Kerry Madden	Louisiana's Song
	Sarah Miller	Miss Spitfire
	Pat Murphy	Wild Girls
	Lauren Tarshis	Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
	Nathan D. Wilson	Leepike Ridge
2008	Siobhan Dowd	The London Eye Mystery	Winner	[35]
	Lenore Look	Alvin Ho	Finalists	[36]
	Helen Frost	Diamond Willow
	Wendy Mass	Every Soul a Star
	Frances O'Roark Dowell	Shooting the Moon
2009	Laurie Halse Anderson	Chains	Winner	[29]
	Ann Burg	All the Broken Pieces	Finalist	[30]
	Nora Raleigh Baskin	Anything But Typical
	Dean Pitchford	Captain Nobody
	Rosanne Parry	Heart of a Shepherd
	Sara Lewis Holmes	Operation Yes
	Barbara O'Connor	The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis
2010	Tom Angleberger	The Strange Case of Origami Yoda	Winner	[31]
	Rob Buyea	Because of Mr. Terupt	Finalist	[32]
	Stuart Gibbs	Belly Up
	Lisa Railsback	Betti on the High Wire
	Leslie Connor	Crunch
	Alan Silberberg	Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
	Ellen Potter	The Kneebone Boy
2011	Elissa Brent Weissman	Nerd Camp	Winner	[18]
	Tom Angleberger	Darth Paper Strikes Back	Finalist	[19]
	G. Neri	Ghetto Cowboy
	Kirby Larson	The Friendship Doll
	Wendy Wan-Long Shang	The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
	Lisa Yee	Warp Speed
	Trent Reedy	Words in the Dust
2012	R. J. Palacio	Wonder	Winner	[20]
	Joan Bauer	Almost Home	Finalist	[21]
	Carl Hiaasen	Chomp
	Watt Key	Fourmile
	Rebecca Stead	Liar & Spy
	Lisa Harkrader	The Adventures of Beanboy
	Kristin Levine	The Lions of Little Rock
2013	David Carroll	Ultra	Winner	[22][23]
	Chris Grabenstein	Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library	Finalist	[24]
	Alan Gratz	Prisoner B-3087
	Ann E. Burg	Serafina's Promise
	Greg Pincus	The 14 Fibs of Gregory K.
2014	Dean Pitchford	Nickel Bay Nick	Winner	[25]
	Varsha Bajaj	Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood	Finalist	[26]
	Dairman	All Four Stars
	Donna Gephart	Death by Toilet Paper
	Terry Lynn Johnson	Ice Dogs
	Kwame Alexander	The Crossover
	Megan Jean Sovern	The Meaning of Maggie
2015	Kevin Sands	The Blackthorn Key	Winner	[27]
	Erin Entrada Kelly	Blackbird Fly	Finalist	[28]
	Jennifer Chambliss Bertman	Book Scavenger
	Susan Vaught	Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy
	Thanhha Lai	Listen, Slowly
2016	Jason Reynolds	Ghost	Winner	[5]
	Jennifer L. Holm	Full of Beans	Finalist	[6]
	Joseph Marshall	In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse
	John David Anderson	Ms. Bixby's Last Day
	Sarah Weeks	Save Me a Seat
	Gordon Korman	Slacker
	Claire Legrand	Some Kind of Happiness
2017	Alan Gratz	Refugee	Winner	[7]
	Hena Khan	Amina's Voice	Finalist	[8]
	Steven B. Frank	Armstrong and Charlie
	Beth Vrabel	Caleb and Kit
	Dusti Bowling	Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
	Gordon Korman	Restart
	Pablo Cartaya	The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
2018	Varian Johnson	The Parker Inheritance	Winner	[9]
	Kelly Yang	Front Desk	Finalist	[10]
	Jacqueline Woodson	Harbor Me
	Anne O'Brien Carelli	Skylark and Wallcreeper
	Jessie Janowitz	The Doughnut Fix
	Stacy McAnulty	The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
	Anne Nesbet	The Orphan Band of Springdale
2019	Dan Gemeinhart	The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise	Winner	[11]
	Barbara Dee	Maybe He Just Likes You	Finalist	[12]
	Sarah Scheerger	Operation Frog Effect
	Lindsey Stoddard	Right as Rain
	Jamie Sumner	Roll with It
	Lynne Kelly	Song for a Whale
	Padma Venkatraman	The Bridge Home
2020	Janae Marks	From the Desk of Zoe Washington	Winner	[33]
	Lauren Wolk	Echo Mountain	Finalist	[34]
	Ernesto Cisneros	Efren Divided
	Kimberly Brubaker Bradley	Fighting Words
	Kacen Callender	King and the Dragonflies
	Ann Clare LeZotte	Show Me a Sign
	Aida Salazar	The Land of the Cranes
2021	Gordon Korman	Linked	Winner	[13][14]
	Kate Albus	A Place to Hang the Moon	Finalist	[15]
	Ellen Oh	Finding Junie Kim
	Ann Braden	Flight of the Puffin
	Caroline Gertler	Many Points of Me
	Chad Lucas	Thanks a Lot, Universe
	Barbara Dee	Violets Are Blue
2022	Amina Luqman-Dawson	Freewater	Winner	[16]
	Tae Keller	Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone	Finalist	[47]
	A. S. King	Attack of the Black Rectangles

Young adult (2006–)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2006	Rachel Cohn and David Levithan	Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist	Winner	[37]
	Markus Zusak	The Book Thief	Finalists	[38]
	Dana Reinhardt	Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
	Kirby Larson	Hattie Big Sky
	Nancy Werlin	Rules of Survival
2007	Barry Lyga	Boy Toy	Winner	[39]
	Sherman Alexie	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	Finalists	[40]
	Nancy Crocker	Billie Standish Was Here
	Catherine Gilbert Murdock	The Off Season
	Laura Resau	Red Glass
	Carrie Jones	Tips on Having a Gay (ex)Boyfriend
	Gary D. Schmidt	The Wednesday Wars
2008	E. Lockhart	The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks	Winner	[35]
	Robin Benway	Audrey, Wait!	Finalists	[36]
	C. K. Kelly Martin	I Know It's Over
	Melina Marchetta	On the Jellicoe Road
	Sara Zarr	Sweethearts
	Christine Fletcher	Ten Cents a Dance
2009	Courtney Summers	Cracked Up To Be	Winner	[29]
	Michelle D. Kwasney	Blue Plate Special	Finalist	[30]
	Brent Crawford	Carter Finally Gets It
	Natalie Standiford	How To Say Goodbye In Robot
	Julie Halpern	Into the Wild Nerd Yonder
	Justina Chen Headley	North of Beautiful
	Laurie Halse Anderson	Wintergirls
2010	Swati Avasthi	Split	Winner	[31]
	Watt Key	Dirt Road Home	Finalist	[32]
	Tara Kelly	Harmonic Feedback
	Erin McCahan	I Now Pronounce You Someone Else
	Mark Shulman	Scrawl
	Courtney Summers	Some Girls Are
	Lucy Christopher	Stolen
2011	Geoff Herbach	Stupid Fast	Winner	[18]
	Stephanie Perkins	Anna and the French Kiss	Finalist	[19]
	Ruta Sepetys	Between Shades of Gray
	Sophie Flack	Bunheads
	A. S. King	Everybody Sees the Ants
	Marianna Baer	Frost
	Joshua C. Cohen	Leverage
2012	Jesse Andrews	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	Winner	[20]
	Matthew Quick	Boy21	Finalist	[21]
	Elizabeth Wein	Code Name Verity
	Eliot Schrefer	Endangered
	Barry Lyga	I Hunt Killers
	Antonia Michaelis	The Storyteller
	J.J. Johnson	The Theory of Everything
2013	Meg Medina	Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass	Winner	[22][23]
	Evan Roskos	Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets	Finalist	[24]
	Rainbow Rowell	Eleanor & Park
	Ruta Sepetys	Out of The Easy
	Elizabeth Wein	Rose Under Fire
	Carrie Mesrobian	Sex & Violence
2014	Brandy Colbert	Pointe	Winner	[25]
	Isabel Quintero	Gabi, a Girl in Pieces	Finalist	[26]
	Gail Giles	Girls Like Us
	Jandy Nelson	I'll Give You the Sun
	Jason Reynolds	When I Was the Greatest
2015	Tamara Ireland Stone	Every Last Word	Winner	[27]
	Courtney Summers	All the Rage	Finalist	[28]
	Julie Murphy	Dumplin'
	Nicola Yoon	Everything, Everything
	Kekla Magoon	How It Went Down
	Elana K. Arnold	Infandous
	Susan Juby	The Truth Commission
2016	Ruta Sepetys	Salt to the Sea	Winner	[5]
	Brittany Cavallaro	A Study in Charlotte	Finalist	[6]
	Brie Spangler	Beast
	Kody Keplinger	Run
	Jeff Zentner	The Serpent King
	Karen Fortunati	The Weight of Zero
	Marieke Nijkamp	This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
2017	Renée Watson	Piecing Me Together	Winner	[7]
	Jared Reck	A Short History of the Girl Next Door	Finalist	[8]
	Jennifer Mathieu	Moxie
	S. K. Ali	Saints and Misfits
	Angie Thomas	The Hate U Give
	Benjamin Alire Saenz	The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
	Erin McCahan	The Lake Effect
2018	Courtney Summers	Sadie	Winner	[9]
	Adib Khorram	Darius the Great Is Not Okay	Finalist	[10]
	Ashley Herring Blake	Girl Made of Stars
	Tiffany D. Jackson	Monday's Not Coming
	Ibi Zoboi	Pride
	Kody Keplinger	That's Not What Happened
	Bryan Bliss	We'll Fly Away
2019	Mindy McGinnis	Heroine	Winner	[11]
	Nina Moreno	Don't Date Rosa Santos	Finalist	[12]
	Gilly Segal	I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
	Angie Thomas	On the Come Up
	Randy Ribay	Patron Saints of Nothing
	Stacey Lee	The Downstairs Girl
	Elizabeth Acevedo	With the Fire on High
2020	Yamile Saied Méndez	Furia	Winner	[33]
	Elizabeth Acevedo	Clap When You Land	Finalist	[34]
	Nic Stone	Dear Justyce
	Marieke Nijkamp	Even If We Break
	Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam	Punching the Air
	Nora Shalaway Carpenter	The Edge of Anything
	Leah Johnson	You Should See Me in a Crown
2021	Tess Sharpe	The Girls I've Been	Winner	[13][14]
	Laura Taylor Namey	A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow	Finalist	[15]
	Angie Thomas	Concrete Rose
	Angeline Boulley	Firekeeper's Daughter
	Jeff Zentner	In the Wild Light
	Malinda Lo	Last Night at the Telegraph Club
	Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal	Why We Fly
2022	Jen Ferguson	The Summer of Bitter and Sweet	Winner	[16]

Graphic novel

Elementary and middle grade (2006–)

Year	Contributors	Title	Result	Ref.
2006	Jimmy Gownley	Amelia Rules! Vol. 3: Superheroes	Winner	[37]
	Alex De Campi, illus. by Federica Manfredi	Kat and Mouse	Finalists	[38]
	Jennifer Holm and Matt Holm	Babymouse: Beach Babe
	Ann Martin and Raina Telgemeier, ilus. by Jimmy Gownley	The Baby-Sitters Club: Kristy’s Great Idea
	Siena Siegel, illus. by Mark Siegl	To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
2007	Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin, illus. by Giovanni Rigano and Paolo Lamanna	Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel	Winner	[39]
	Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm	Camp Babymouse	Finalists	[40]
	Rod Espinosa	The Courageous Princess
	Sara Varon	Robot Dreams
	Kiyohiko Azuma, trans. by Amy Forsyth	Yotsuba&! Vol. 4
2008	Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illus. by Nathan Hale	Rapunzel's Revenge	Winner	[35]
	Hope Larson	Chiggers	Finalists	[36]
	Don Wood	Into the Volcano
	Kean Soo	Jellaby, Vol. 1
	David Almond, illus. by Dave McKean	The Savage
	Zoe Alley, illus. by R. W. Alley	There's a Wolf at the Door
2009	Eleanor Davis	The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook	Winner	[29]
	James Sturm, Andrew Arnold, and Alexis Frederick-Frost	Adventures in Cartooning	Finalist	[30]
	Aaron Reynolds, illus. by Neil Numberman	Creepy Crawly Crime
	Eric Wight	Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom
	Kazu Kibuishi	The Stonekeeper's Curse
2010	Jason Shiga	Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3856 Story Possibilities	Winner	[31]
	George O'Connor	Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess	Finalist	[32]
	Colleen A. F. Venable, illus. by Stephanie Yue	Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye 1: Hamster and Cheese
	Raina Telgemeier	Smile
	Aaron Renier	The Unsinkable Walker Bean
2011	Ben Hatke	Zita the Spacegirl	Winner	[18]
	Barry Deutsch	Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword	Finalist	[19]
	Chris Duffy (ed.)	Nursery Rhyme Comics
	Dan Santat	Sidekicks
	Brian Selznick	Wonderstruck
2012	Jorge Aguirre, illus. by Rafael Rosado with John Novak and Matthew Schenk	Giants Beware!	Winner	[20]
	Joseph Lambert	Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller	Finalist	[21]
	Colleen A. F. Venable	Hilda and the Midnight Giant
	Na Liu, illus. by Andrés Vera Martínez	Little White Duck: A Childhood in China
	Nathan Hale	Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Big Bad Ironclad!
2013	Barry Deutsch	Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite	Winner	[22][23]
	Matt Phelan	Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton	Finalist	[24]
	John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, illus. by Nate Powell	March Book 1
	Rob Harrell	Monster on the Hill
	Nathan Hale	Donner Dinner Party
	Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm	Squish: Game On!
	Greg Ruth	The Lost Boy
2014	Cece Bell, colored by David Lasky	El Deafo	Winner	[25]
	John Allison	Bad Machinery: The Case of the Good Boy	Finalist	[26]
	Blexbolex, trans. by Claudia Zoe Bedrick	Ballad
	James Burks	Bird & Squirrel on Ice
	Matt Faulkner	Gaijin: American Prisoner of War
	Loic Dauvillier, illus. by Marc Lizano, inked by Greg Salsedo, and trans. by Alexis Siegel	Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust
	Jimmy Gownley	The Dumbest Idea Ever!
2015	Victoria Jamieson	Roller Girl	Winner	[27][48]
	Marika McCoola, illus. by Emily Carroll	Baba Yaga's Assistant	Finalist	[28]
	Ted Naifeh	Tales of a Warlock
	Jorge Aguirre, illus. by Rafael Rosado, colored by John Novak	Dragons Beware!
	Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes	Secret Coders
	Jennifer L. Holm, illus. by Matthew Holm, colored by Lark Pien	Sunny Side Up
	Brian Selznick	The Marvels
2016	Cathy Camper, illus. by Raúl the Third	Lowriders to the Center of the Earth	Winner	[5]
	Eric Orchard	Bera the One-Headed Troll	Finalist	[6]
	Hope Larson, illus. by Rebecca Mock	Compass South
	Ben Hatke	Mighty Jack
	Katie O'Neill	Princess Princess Ever After
	Faith Erin Hicks, color by Jordie Bellaire	The Nameless City
	William Grill	The Wolves of Currumpaw
2017	Julie Kim	Where's Halmoni?	Winner	[7]
	Nidhi Chanani	Pashmina	Finalist	[8]
	Shannon Hale, illus. by LeUyen Pham, and colored by Jane Poole	Real Friends
	Ginger Ly, illus. by Molly Park	Suee and the Shadow
	Benjamin Renner	The Big Bad Fox
	Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi	The Dam Keeper
2018	Molly Knox Ostertag	The Witch Boy	Winner	[9]
	Mariah Marsden, illus. by Brenna Thummler	Anne of Green Gables	Finalist	[10]
	Vera Brosgol	Be Prepared
	Samya Kullab, illus. by Jackie Roche	Escape from Syria
	Aron Nels Steinke	Mr. Wolf's Class
	Chad Sell	The Cardboard Kingdom
	Katie O'Neill	The Tea Dragon Society
2019	Jerry Craft	New Kid	Winner	[11]
	Svetlana Chmakova	Crush	Finalist	[12]
	Rey Terciero	Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
	Kyo Maclear	Operatic
	Molly Knox Ostertag	The Hidden Witch
	Katie O'Neill	The Tea Dragon Festival
	Emily Tetri	Tiger vs. Nightmare
2020	Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed, illus. by Victoria Jamieson and	When Stars Are Scattered	Winner	[33]
	James Otis Smith	Black Heroes of the Wild West	Finalists	[34]
	Jerry Craft, illus. by Jerry Craft	Class Act
	Mika Song	Donut Feed the Squirrels
	Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann	Go with the Flow
	Kat Leyh	Snapdragon
	Johan Troïanowski	The Runaway Princess
2021	Lily LaMotte, illus. by Ann Xu	Measuring Up	Winner	[13][14]
	Thomas King, illus. by Natasha Donovan	Borders	Finalist	[15]
	Yehudi Mercado	Chunky
	Katherine Battersby	Cranky Chicken
	Nidhi Chanani	Jukebox
	Hope Larson, illus. by Rebecca Mock	Salt Magic
	Shing Yin Khor	The Legend of Auntie Po
2022	Christina Diaz Gonzalez, illus. by Gabriela Epstein	Invisible: A Graphic Novel	Winner	[16]
	Kate Ashwin, Kel McDonald, and Alina Pete (eds.)	The Woman in the Woods	Finalist	[47]
	Jonathan Case	Little Monarchs
	Guojing	The Flamingo
	Marjorie Liu, illus. by Teny Assakhanian	Wingbearer
	Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh	Squire

Young adult (2006–)

Year	Contributor(s)	Title	Result	Ref.
2006	Gene Luen Yang	American Born Chinese	Winner	[37]
	Linda Medley	Castle Waiting	Finalists	[38]
	Svetlana Chmakova	Dramacon, Vol. 2
	Kazu Kibuishi	Flight, Vol. 3
	Jessica Abel	La Perdida
2007	Joann Sfar, illus. by Emmanuel Guibert	The Professor's Daughter	Winner	[39]
	Shaun Tan	The Arrival	Finalists	[40]
	Kazu Kibuishi (ed.)	Flight Vol. 4
	Nick Abadzis	Laika
	Cecil Castellucci, illus. by Jim Rugg	The Plain Janes
2008	Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Steve Rolston	Emiko Superstar	Winner	[35]
	Holly Black, illus. by Ted Naifeh	Kin	Finalists	[36]
	Jessica Abel and Gabe Soria, illus. by Warren Pleece	Life Sucks
	Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Jillian Tamaki	Skim
	Cyril Pedrosa, trans. by Edward Gauvin	Three Shadows
2009	Tom Siddell	Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation	Winner	[29]
	Chris Schweizer	Crogan's Vengeance	Finalist	[30]
	Edgar Allan Poe, illus. by Gris Grimly	Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia
	Tony Lee, illus. by Sam Hart and Artur Fujita	Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood
	Lora Innes	The Dreamer: The Consequence of Nathan Hale, Part 1
2010	G. Neri, illus. by Randy DuBurke	Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty	Winner	[31]
	Doug TenNapel	Ghostopolis	Finalist	[32]
	Hope Larson	Mercury
	Peter and Bobby Timony	Night Owls Vol. 1
	Kou Yaginuma, trans. by Maya Rosewood	Twin Spica, Vol. 1
2011	Vera Brosgol	Anya's Ghost	Winner	[18]
	Doug TenNapel	Bad Island	Finalist	[19]
	Jim Ottaviani, illus. by Leland Myrick	Feynman
	Gene Luen Yang, art by Thien Pham	Level Up
	Laura Lee Gulledge	Page by Paige
2012	Faith Erin Hicks	Friends With Boys	Winner	[20]
	Lila Quintero Weaver	Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White	Finalist	[21]
	Raina Telgemeier	Drama
	Ryan Inzana	Ichiro
	Boaz Yakin, illus. by Joe Infurnari	Marathon
2013	Jordan Mechner, illus. by LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland	Templar	Winner	[22][23]
	John Allison	Bad Machinery	Finalist	[24]
	Gene Luen Yang	Boxers & Saints
	Kelly Sue Deconnick with Dexter Soy, illus. by Emma Ríos	Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: In Pursuit of Flight
	Tony Cliff	Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant
	Junji Ito	Uzumaki
	Sharon McKay, illus. by Daniel LaFrance	War Brothers
2014	Cory Doctorow, illus. by Jen Wang	In Real Life	Winner	[25]
	Joel Christian Gill	Strange Fruit, Vol. I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History	Finalist	[26]
	Max Brooks, illus. by Caanan White	The Harlem Hellfighters
	Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew	The Shadow Hero
	Emily Carroll	Through the Woods
	Shane Koyczan	To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful
2015	ND Stevenson	Nimona	Winner	[27][48]
	Maggie Thrash	Honor Girl	Finalist	[28]
	Christos Gage, Ruth Gage, and Jackie Lewis	Lion of Rora
	John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, illus. by Nate Powell	March: Book Two
	G. Willow Wilson. art by Adrian Alphona	Ms. Marvel
	Ben Towle	Oyster War
	Henrik Rehr	Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I
2016	John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, illus. by Nate Powell	March: Book Three	Winner	[5]
	Özge Samancı	Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey	Finalist	[6]
	Jody Houser, art by Francis Portela and Marguerite Sauvage	Faith Vol. 1: Hollywood and Vine
	Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota	Lucky Penny
	Marjorie Liu, illus. by Sana Takeda	Monstress Vol. 1: Awakening
	G. Willow Wilson. art by Adrian Alphona	Ms. Marvel Vol. 5: Super Famous
	Derf Backderf	Trashed
2017	Scott Westerfeld, illus. by Alex Puvilland	Spill Zone	Winner	[7]
	Kieron Moore, illus. by Rajesh Nagulakonda	Buddha: An Enlightened Life	Finalist	[8]
	Gene Luen Yang	New Super-Man Vol. 1: Made In China (Rebirth)
	Cecil Castellucci, illus. by José Pimienta	Soupy Leaves Home
	Tillie Walden	Spinning
	Tyson Hesse	Diesel: Ignition
2018	Jarrett J. Krosoczka	Hey, Kiddo	Winner	[9]
	Anne Frank, adapted by Ari Folman	Anne Frank's Diary	Finalist	[10]
	Melanie Gillman	As the Crow Flies
	G. Neri, illus. by Corban Wilkin	Grand Theft Horse
	Tillie Walden	On a Sunbeam
	Sebastian Kadlecik (creator), Kit Steinkellner (writer), Emma Steinkellner (illus.), and Valeria Tranier (trans.)	Quince
	Jen Wang	The Prince and the Dressmaker
2019	David A. Robertson, Jen Storm, Katherena Vermette, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Richard Van Camp, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, and Sonny Assu	This Place: 150 Years Retold	Winner	[11]
	Vera Greentea and Yana Bogatch	Grimoire Noir	Finalist	[12]
	Colleen A. F. Venable, illus. by Ellen T. Crenshaw	Kiss Number 8
	Suzanne Walker, art by Wendy Xuwqqs	Mooncakes
	Tasha Spillett	Surviving the City
	George Takei	They Called Us Enemy
2020	Gene Luen Yang, illus. by Gurihiru	Superman Smashes the Klan	Winner	[33]
	Robin Ha, illus. by Robin Ha	Almost American Girl	Finalist	[34]
	Tyler Feder	Dancing at the Pity Party
	Kiku Hughes	Displacement
	Mike Curato, illus. by Mike Curato	Flamer
	Huda Fahmy	That Can Be Arranged
	Alex Sanchez, illus. by Jul Maroh	You Brought Me the Ocean
2021	Crystal Frasier, illus. by Val Wise and Oscar O. Jupiter (letterer)	Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms	Winner	[13][14]
	Alverne Ball, illus. by Stacey Robinson, Reynaldo Anderson, and Colette Yellow Robe	Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre	Finalist	[15]
	Don Brown	In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks
	Marie-Noëlle Hébert, trans. by Shelley Tanaka	My Body in Pieces
	Mark Crilley	My Last Summer with Cass
	L. L. McKinney, illus. by Robyn Smith	Nubia: Real One
	Molly Knox Ostertag	The Girl from the Sea
2022	Laura Gao	Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American	Winner	[16]

Nonfiction

Picture books (2006–2012)

Year	Author(s)	Title	Result	Ref.
2006	Dianna Aston, illus. by Sylvia Long	An Egg is Quiet	Winner	[37]
	Bob Raczka	3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet	Finalists	[38]
	Meghan McCarthy	Aliens Are Coming! The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
	Lola M. Schaefer, illus. by Cathie Felstead	An Island Grows
	Sandra Markle, illus. by Alan Marks	Little Lost Bat
2007	Brian Floca	Lightship	Winner	[39]
	Lizann Flatt, illus. by Scot Ritchie	Let's Go!	Finalists	[40]
	Steve Jenkins	Living Color
	Lita Judge	One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II
	April Pulley Sayre, illus. by Scot Ritchie	Vulture View
	David Schwartz and Yael Schy, photos by Dwight Kuhn	Where in the Wild?
2008	Nic Bishop	Frogs	Winner	[35]
	Jen Bryant, illus. by Melissa Sweet	A River of Words	Finalists	[36]
	Meghan McCarthy	Astronaut Handbook
	Dennis Brindell Fradin, illus. by Larry Day	Duel! Burr and Hamilton's Deadly War of Words
	Susan Stockdale	Fabulous Fishes
	Deborah Kogan Ray	Wanda Gág: The Girl Who Lived to Draw
	Jeanette Winter	Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
2009	Chris Barton, illus. by Tony Persiani	The Day-Glo Brothers	Winner	[29]
	Carmen Agra Deedy with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah, illus. by Thomas Gonzalez	14 Cows for America	Finalist	[30]
	Steve Jenkins	Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea:
	Maya Ajmera, Cynthia Pon, and Magda Nakassis	Faith
	Kristin Earhart (ed.), photos by Teruyuki Komiya	Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual Size Animal Encyclopedia
	Shana Corey, illus. by Edwin Fotheringham	Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story of Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way to Fame, Fortune & Swimsuit History!
	Brian Floca	Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
2010	Barbara Kerley, illus. by Edwin Fotheringham	The Extraordinary Life of Mark Twain (According to Susy)	Winner	[31]
	Steve Jenkins	Bones: Skeletons and How They Work	Finalist	[32]
	Deborah Kogan Ray	Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age
	Matt Tavares	Henry Aaron's Dream
	Meghan McCarthy	Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum
	Andrea Pinkney, illus. by Brian Pinkney	Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
	Roxane Orgill, illus. by Sean Qualls	Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald
2011	Carlyn Beccia	I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat: History's Strangest Cures	Winner	[18]
	George Ella Lyon, illus. by Katherine Tillotson	All the Water in the World	Finalist	[19]
	Susan Stockdale	Bring On the Birds
	Martin Jenkins, illus. by Vicky White	Can We Save the Tiger?
	Kathryn O. Galbraith, illus. by Wendy Anderson Halperin	Planting the Wild Garden
	Sandra Markle	The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs
	Jim Arnosky	Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators
2012	Alicia Potter, illus. by Melissa Sweet	Mrs Harkness and the Panda	Winner	[20]
	Melissa Sweet	Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade	Finalist	[21]
	Nicola Davies, illus. by Brita Granström	Dolphin Baby!
	Janet Halfmann illus. by Betsy Thompson	Eggs 1, 2, 3: Who Will the Babies Be?
	Jason Chin	Island: A Story of the Galápagos
	Maira Kalman	Looking at Lincoln
	Nic Bishop	Snakes

Juvenile (2016)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2016	Melissa Sweet	Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White	Winner	[37]
	Charles Ghigna and Animal Planet	Animal Planet Strange, Unusual, Gross & Cool Animals	Finalists	[38]
	Lois Miner Huey	Floodwaters and Flames: The 1913 Disaster in Dayton, Ohio
	Rebecca L. Johnson	Masters of Disguise: Amazing Animal Tricksters
	Erin Hagar	The Inventors of LEGO Toys
	April Pulley Sayre	The Slowest Book Ever
	Jane Sutcliffe	Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk

Middle grade and young adult (2006–2012)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2006	Russell Freedman	Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott	Winner	[37]
	Sid Fleischman	Escape!	Finalists	[38]
	Alan Wolf	Immersed in Verse
	Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Boris Kulikov	Isaac Newton
	Catherine Thimmesh	Team Moon
2007	Ibtisam Barakat	Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood	Winner	[39]
	Kathleen Krull	Marie Curie	Finalists	[40]
	Adrian Dingle, illustrated by Simon Basher	The Periodic Table: Elements with Style!
	Eve Drobot	Smart-Opedia
	Loree Griffin Burns	Tracking Trash
	Peter Sis	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
	Russell Freedman	Who Was First?
2008	Cylin Busby and John Busby	The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir	Winner	[35]
	David Aguilar	11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System	Finalists	[36]
	Scott Reynolds Nelson	Ain’t Nothing but a Man
	Nancy Amanda Redd	Body Drama
	Steve Sheinkin	King George: What Was His Problem?
	Martin Sandler	Lincoln Through the Lens
	Ben Boos	Swords: An Artist's Devotion
	Kadir Nelson	We Are the Ship
2009	Pamela S. Turner, illustrated by Andy Comins	The Frog Scientist	Winner	[29]
	Phillip Hoose	Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice	Finalist	[30]
	Larry Smith	I Can't Keep My Own Secrets
	Elizabeth Partridge	Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary
	Sally M. Walker	Written in Bone
2010	Suzanne Jurmain	The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing	Winner	[31]
	Paul B. Janeczko	The Dark Game: True Spy Stories	Finalist	[32]
	Loree Griffin Burns	The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe
	Sy Montgomery	Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
	Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter	Spilling Ink: A Young Writer's Handbook
	Haya Leah Molnar	Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania
	Elaine Marie Alphin	An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
2011	Candace Fleming	Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart	Winner	[18]
	Georgia Bragg	How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous	Finalist	[19]
	Stewart Ross, illus. by Stephen Biesty	Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air
	Carla Killough McClafferty	The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon
	Steve Sheinkin	The Notorious Benedict Arnold
	Ann Bausum	Unraveling Freedom: The Battle for Democracy on the Home Front During World War I
2012	Steve Sheinkin	Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon	Winner	[20]
	Marsha Skrypuch	Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War	Finalist	[21]
	Phillip Hoose	Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
	Sy Montgomery	Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
	Deborah Hopkinson	Titanic: Voices from the Disaster

Elementary and middle grade (2013–2015)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2013	Annette LeBlanc Cate	Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard	Winner	[22][23]
	Vicky Alvear Shecter	Anubis Speaks!	Finalist	[24]
	Marissa Moss	Barbed Wire Baseball
	Lita Judge	How Big Were Dinosaurs?
	Brian Floca	Locomotive
	Deborah Heiligman	The Boy Who Loved Math
	Elizabeth Rusch, illustrated by Susan Swan	Volcano Rising
2014	Melissa Stewart	Feathers: Not Just for Flying	Winner	[25]
	Russell Freedman	Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain	Finalist	[26]
	Sy Montgomery	Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat
	Loree Griffin Burns	Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
	Duncan Tonatiuh	Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
	Sandra Markle	The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats
	Rebecca L. Johnson	When Lunch Fights Back
2015	Bridget Heos, illustrated by Jennifer Plecas	I, Fly: The Buzz About Flies and How Awesome They Are	Winner	[27]
	Laurie Ann Thompson	Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah	Finalist	[28]
	Gail Jarrow	Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary
	Ben Thompson	Guts & Glory: The Vikings
	David Stabler	Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents
	Miranda Paul	One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
	Anita Silvey	Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall

Elementary (2016–)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2016	Candace Fleming	Giant Squid	Winner	[5]
	Lindsay Mattick, illus. by Sophie Blackall	Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear	Finalist	[6]
	Jess Keating	Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals
	Rebecca E. Hirsch, illus. by Mia Posada	Plants Can't Sit Still
	Donna Janell Bowman, illus. by Daniel Minter	Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness
	Susan E. Goodman, illus. by E. B. Lewis	The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
	Cathleen Burnham	Tortuga Squad: Kids Saving Sea Turtles in Costa Rica
2017	Caroline Arnold	Hatching Chicks in Room 6	Winner	[7]
	Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch with Tuan Ho, illustrated by Brian Deines	Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy's Story of Survival	Finalist	[8]
	Duncan Tonatiuh	Danza!: Amalia Hernández and Mexico's Folkloric Ballet
	Chris Barton, illus. by Victo Ngai	Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
	Laura Knowles	Once Upon a Jungle
	Jess Keating, illus. by Marta Álvarez Miguéns	Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
	Jess Keating	What Makes a Monster?: Discovering the World's Scariest Creatures
2018	Patricia Valdez, illus. by Felicita Sala	Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor	Winner	[9]
	Irene Kelly	A Frog's Life	Finalist	[10]
	Joseph Bruchac, illus. by Liz Amini-Holmes	Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story
	Michelle Cusolito, illus. by Nicole Wong	Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-Sea Submersible Alvin
	Thane Maynard	Saving Fiona: The Story of the World's Most Famous Baby Hippo
	Anne Renaud, illus. by Marie Lafrance	The True Tale of a Giantess: The Story of Anna Swan
	Chris Barton, illus. by Ekua Holmes	What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
2019	Miranda Paul, illus. by Jason Chin	Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Born	Winner	[11]
	Linda Booth Sweeney, illus. by Shawn Fields	Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial	Finalist	[12]
	Isabel Thomas, illus. by Daniel Egnéus	Moth
	Lindsay Moore	Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival
	Melissa Stewart, illus. by Sarah S. Brannen	Seashells: More Than a Home
	Barry Wittenstein, illus. by Keith Mallett	Sonny's Bridge: Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins Finds His Groove
	Susan Hood and Patthana Sornhiran, illus. by Dow Phumiruk	Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team
2020	Kate Messner and Adam Rex	The Next President: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of America’s Presidents	Winner	[33]
	Linda Skeers, illus. by Marta Álvarez Miguéns	Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist	Finalist	[34]
	Candace Fleming, illus. by Eric Rohmann	Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera
	Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley (eds.), illus. by Jeanette Bradley	No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History
	Rob Sanders, illus. by Nabi H. Ali	The Fighting Infantryman
	Janet Halfmann, illus. by Duane Smith	The Story of Civil War Hero Robert Smalls
	Meeg Pincus, illus. by Yas Imamura	Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery
2021	Megan Hoyt, illus. by Iacopo Bruno	Bartali's Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy's Secret Hero	Winner	[13][14]
	Laurie Wallmark, illus. by Brooke Smart	Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars	Finalist	[15]
	Kristen Nordstrom, illus. by Paul Boston	Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature
	Julie Abery, illus. by Chris Sasaki	Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory
	Kim Tomsic, illus. by Hadley Hooper	The Elephants Come Home: A True Story of Seven Elephants, Two People, and One Extraordinary Friendship
	Heather Lang, illus. by Jana Christy	The Leaf Detective: How Margaret Lowman Uncovered Secrets in the Rainforest
	Traci Sorell, illus. by Frané Lessac	We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
2022	Matt Lilley, illus. by Dan Tavis	Good Eating: The Short Life of Krill	Winner	[16]

Middle grade (2016–)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2016	Caren Stelson	Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story	Winner	[5]
	Michael J. Tougias	A Storm Too Soon: A Remarkable True Survival Story in 80 Foot Seas	Finalist	[6]
	Gail Jarrow	Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America
	Carlyn Cerniglia Beccia	Fashion Rebels: Style Icons Who Changed the World through Fashion
	Deborah Noyes	Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "Girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly
	Linda Barret Osborne	This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration
	Russell Freedman	We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler
2017	Ammi-Joan Paquette	Two Truths and a Lie: It's Alive!	Winner	[7]
	Deborah Lee Rose	Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle	Finalist	[8]
	Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi, illus. by Yutaka Houlette	Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
	Tod Olson	The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13
	Tonya Bolden	Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls
	S. D. Nelson	Red Cloud
	Patricia Newman	Zoo Scientists to the Rescue
2018	Kelly Milner Halls	Death Eaters: Meet Nature's Scavengers	Winner	[9]
	Sarah Albee	Dog Days of History: The Incredible Story of Our Best Friends	Finalist	[10]
	Kathleen Krull	Frenemies in the Family: Famous Brothers and Sisters Who Butted Heads and Had Each Other's Backs
	Susan Goldman Rubin	Maya Lin: Thinking with Her Hands
	Sy Montgomery	The Hyena Scientist
	Brian Skerry	The Ultimate Book of Sharks
	Ammi-Joan Paquette	Two Truths and a Lie: Histories and Mysterie
2019	Trevor Noah	Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted)	Winner	[11]
	Peter Wohlleben	Can You Hear the Trees Talking?: Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest	Finalist	[12]
	Rex Ogle	Free Lunch
	Alison Matthews David	Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History
	Rachel Poliquin	Moles
	Katherine Johnson	Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
	Jo Ann Allen Boyce	This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
2020	Christina Soontornvat	All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team	Winner	[33]
	John Rocco	How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure	Finalist	[34]
	Magdalena Newman and Nathaniel Newman, illus. by Neil Swaab	Normal: One Kid's Extraordinary Journey
	Ana Pego and Minhós Martins, illus. by Bernado P. Carvalho	Plasticus Maritimus: An Invasive Species
	Meg Marquardt	STEM in the Final Four
	Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson (eds.)	The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth
	Tanya Lloyd Kyi, illus. by Drew Shannon	This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science Is Tackling Unconscious Bias
2021	Rochelle Melander, illus. by Melina Ontiveros	Mightier Than the Sword: Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries Who Changed the World Through Writing	Winner	[13][14]
	Traci Sorell, illus. by Natasha Donovan	Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer	Finalist	[15]
	Candace Fleming	The Curse of the Mummy: Uncovering Tutankhamun's Tomb
	Eugene Yelchin	The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
	Philip Bunting	The World's Most Pointless Animals: Or are they?
	Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Floyd Cooper	Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
	Yumi Stynes and Dr. Melissa Kang, illus. by Jenny Latham	Welcome to Your Period!
2022	Angela Joy, illus. by Janelle Washington	Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement	Winner	[16]

Junior high (2017–)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2017	Martin W. Sandler	The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found	Winner	[7]
	Sandra Neil Wallace	Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story	Finalist	[8]
	Mary Losure	Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal'd
	Heather E. Schwartz	Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
	Sue Macy	Motor Girls: How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century
	Sarah Albee	Poison: Deadly Deeds, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines
	Steve Sheinkin	Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
2018	Elizabeth Partridge	Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam	Winner	[9]
	Martin W. Sandler	Apollo 8: The Mission That Changed Everything	Finalist	[10]
	Patricia Sutton	Capsized!: The Forgotten Story of the SS Eastland Disaster
	James L. Swanson	Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin
	Tonya Bolden	Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
	Gail Jarrow	Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
	Sam Kean	The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
2019	Ian Lendler	The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth	Winner	[11]
	Martin W. Sandler	1919 The Year That Changed America	Finalist	[12]
	Jeffrey Kluger	Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time
	Kerrie Logan Hollihan	Mummies Exposed!: Creepy and True #1
	Gayle E. Pitman	Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets
	Gail Jarrow	The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in our Food and Drugs

Young adult (2013–2016)

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2013	Martin W. Sandler	Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II	Winner	[22][23]
	Vicky Alvear Shecter	Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays	Finalist	[24]
	Leon Leyson	The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List
	Catherine Reef	The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne
	James L. Swanson	"The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
2014	Candace Fleming	The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia	Winner	[25]
	Alexis Coe	Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis	Finalist	[26]
	Laurie Ann Thompson	Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters
	Kuklin	Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out
	Maya Van Wagenen	Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
	Don Mitchell	The Freedom Summer Murders
	Steve Sheinkin	The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
2015	Steve Sheinkin	Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War	Winner	[27]
	Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long	Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist	Finalist	[28]
	Hopkinson	Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark
	Kathy Lowinger	Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Former Slaves Took on the World
	Martin Ganda	I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
	M. T. Anderson	Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
	Karen Blumenthal	Tommy: The Gun That Changed America
2016	Sungju Lee	Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea	Winner	[5]
	Rich Wallace	Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights	Finalist	[6]
	Bridget Heos	Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA
	Kenneth C. Davis	In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
	Winifred Conkling	Radioactive!: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
	Sarah Miller	The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century
	Patricia McCormick	The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero

Senior high (2017–)

Year	Author(s)	Title	Result	Ref.
2017	Deborah Heiligman	Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers	Winner	[7]
	Deborah Kops	Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment	Finalists	[8]
	Sandra Uwiringiyimana	How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
	Sarah Prager	Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
	Ann Bausum	The March Against Fear: The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power
	Albert Marrin	Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II
	Kay Frydenborg	A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human
2018	John Hendrix	The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler	Winner	[9]
	Karen Blumenthal	Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend	Finalist	[10]
	Bryan Stevenson	Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults)
	Neal Bascomb	The Grand Escape: The Greatest Prison Breakout of the 20th Century
	Winifred Conkling	Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
	Carol Anderson	We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
	Parkland Student Journalists	We Say #NeverAgain: Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists
2019	James Rhodes, illus. by Martin O’Neill	Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound	Winner	[11]
	Elizabeth Wein	A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II	Finalist	[12]
	Sam Quinones	Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (YA edition)
	Carol Anderson	One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally (YA edition)
	Deborah Heiligman	Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"
2020	Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi	Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You	Winner	[33]
	George M. Johnson	All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto	Finalist	[34]
	Karen Blumenthal	Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
	Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, illus. by Laura L. Sullivan	The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival
	Kate Moore	The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition
	Robyn Ryle	Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy: The Evolution of Gender, Identity, and Race in Sports
	Ger Duany and Garen Thomas	Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child Soldier to Ambassador of Peace
2021	Rex Ogle	Punching Bag	Winner	[13][14]
	Anton Treuer	Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition	Finalist	[15]
	Amy Cherrix	In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race
	Christian Allaire	The Power of Style
	Jeanne Theoharis, adapted by Brandy Colbert and Jeanne Theoharis	The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Adapted for Young People
2022	Amy Butler Greenfield	The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life	Winner	[16]

Novels in verse (2022–)

Year	Author(s)	Title	Result	Ref.
2022	Diana Farid, illus. by Kris Goto	Wave	Winner	[16]

Poetry (2006–)

Year	Author(s)	Title	Result	Ref.
2006	Joyce Sidman, illus. by Beth Krommes	Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow	Winner	[37]
	Adam Rex	Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich	Finalists	[38]
	Douglas Florian	Handsprings
	Walter Dean Myers, illus. by Christopher Myers	Jazz
	Diane Siebert, illus. by Stephen T. Johnson	Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art
2007	Joyce Sidman, illus. by Pamela Zagarenski	This is Just to Say	Winner	[39]
	Valerie Worth, illus. by Steve Jenkins	Animal Poems	Finalists	[40]
	Laura Amy Schlitz, illus. by Robert Byrd	Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
	Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters (eds.), illus. by Polly Dunbar	Here's a Little Poem
	Kate Miller	Poems in Black and White
	Janet S. Wong, illus. by Julie Paschkis	Twist: Yoga Poems
	Stephanie Hemphill	Your Own, Sylvia
2008	Naomi Shihab Nye	Honeybee: poems	Winner	[35]
	Lee Bennett Hopkins (ed.), illus. by Stephen Alcorn	America at War	Finalists	[36]
	Julie Larios, illus. by Julie Paschkis	Imaginary Menagerie
	Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf	More than Friends
	David Elliott and Holly Meade	On the Farm
2009	Joyce Sidman, illus. by Pamela Zagarenski	Red Sings from Treetops	Winner	[29]
	Avis Harley	African Acrostics	Finalist	[30]
	Bill Martin Jr.	The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry
	Bobbi Katz	The Monsterologist
	Mary Ann Hoberman and Linda Winston	The Tree That Time Built
2010	Marilyn Singer, illus. by Maggi Idzikowski	Mirror Mirror	Winner	[31]
	Jeannine Atkins	Borrowed Names	Finalist	[32]
	Joyce Sidman	Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
	Jessica Swaim	Scarum Fair
	Lee Bennett Hopkins (ed.)	Sharing the Seasons: A Book of Poems
	Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters	Switching on the Moon
	Joyce Sidman	Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
2011	Paul B. Janeczko	Requiem	Winner	[18]
	Tracie Vaughn Zimmer	Cousins of Clouds: Elephant Poems	Finalist	[19]
	Mordicai Gerstein	Dear Hot Dog
	Kristine O'Connell George	Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems
	J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen	Self-Portrait With Seven Fingers
	Walter Dean Myers	We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart
2012	Laura Purdie Salas, illus. by Josée Bisaillon	BookSpeak! Poems About Books	Winner	[20]
	David Elliott	In the Sea	Finalist	[21]
	J. Patrick Lewis	Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs
	Ron Koertge	Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses
	National Geographic	National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry
	Douglas Florian	UnBEElievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings
	Kate Coombs	Water Sings Blue
2013	Amy Ludwig VanDerwater	Forest Has a Song	Winner	[22][23]
	Singer	Follow Follow	Finalist	[24]
	Caroline Kennedy	Poems to Learn by Heart
	Valerie Worth	Pug: And Other Animal Poems
	Lisa Wheeler	The Pet Project
	Joyce Sidman	What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings
	J. Patrick Lewis	When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders
2014	J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon	Voices from the March on Washington	Winner	[25]
	Jacqueline Woodson	Brown Girl Dreaming	Finalist	[26]
	Irene Latham	Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
	Janeczko	Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems
	Jon J Muth	Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons
	Bob Raczka	Santa Clauses: Short Poems from the North Pole
	Pat Mora	Water Rolls, Water Rises: El agua rueda, el agua sube
2015	Paschkis	Flutter and Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales	Winner	[27]
	Marilyn Hilton	Full Cicada Moon	Finalist	[28]
	K. A. Holt	House Arrest
	J. Patrick Lewis	National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems With Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom!
	Meg Wiviott	Paper Hearts
	Deborah Ruddell	The Popcorn Astronauts: And Other Biteable Rhymes
	Joyce Sidman	Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
2016	Laura Shovan	The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary	Winner	[5]
	Alexander	Booked	Finalist	[6]
	Irene Latham	Fresh Delicious
	Grimes	Garvey's Choice
	Deanna Caswell	Guess Who, Haiku
	Skila Brown	To Stay Alive: Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party
	Julie Fogliano	When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons
2017	Chris Harris	I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups	Winner	[7]
	David Elliott	Bull	Finalist	[8]
	Schaub	Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers' Market
	J. Patrick Lewis	Keep a Pocket in Your Poem: Classic Poems and Playful Parodies
	Margarita Engle	Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
	Nikki Grimes	One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
	Kwame Alexander	Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
2018	Jason Reynolds	Long Way Down	Winner	[9]
	Irene Latham and Charles Waters, illus. by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko	Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship	Finalist	[10]
	Sydell Rosenberg	H Is For Haiku: A Treasury of Haiku from A to Z
	David Elliott	In the Past: From Trilobites to Dinosaurs to Mammoths in More Than 500 Million Years
	Lita Judge	Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
	Elizabeth Acevedo	The Poet X
		Traveling the Blue Road: Poems of the Sea
2019	Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond (eds.)	Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience	Winner	[11]
	Margarita Engle	Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems	Finalist	[12]
	Nikki Grimes	Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
	Jasmine Warga	Other Words for Home
	Laurie Halse Anderson	SHOUT
	Elizabeth Steinglass	Soccerverse: Poems about Soccer
	Paul B. Janeczko	The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems
2020	No award was presented in 2020
2021	Joanne Rossmassler Fritz	Everywhere Blue	Winner	[13][14]
	Colby Cedar Smith	Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit	Finalist	[15]
	Amber McBride	Me (Moth)
	Rajani LaRocca	Red, White, and Whole
	Kirsten Hall, illus. by Jenni Desmond	Snow Birds
	Lisa Fipps	Starfish
	Diana Whitney (ed.)	You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves
2022	Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson, illus. by Nikkolas Smith	The 1619 Project: Born on the Water	Winner	[16]