| Year |
Contributor(s) |
Title |
Publisher |
Result |
Ref. |
|---|
| 1990 |
MaryKate Jordan |
Losing Uncle Tim |
Albert Whitman & Co. |
Winner |
[9] |
| Lesléa Newman with Diane Souza (ill.) |
Heather Has Two Mommies |
In Other Words Press |
Finalist |
[9] |
| A. M. Homes |
Jack |
Macmillan |
| George Shannon |
Unlived Affections |
Harper & Row Juvenile |
| Susan and Daniel Cohen |
When Someone You Know Is Gay |
Evans |
| 1992 |
Johnny Valentine with Lynette Schmidt (ill.) |
The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans: and Other Stories |
Alyson Wonderland |
Winner |
[10] |
| Lesléa Newman with Russel Crocker (ill.) |
Gloria Goes to Gay Pride |
Alyson Wonderland |
Finalist |
[10] |
| Ann Heron and Meredith Maran with Kris Kovick (ill.) |
How Would You Feel if Your Dad was Gay? |
Alyson Wonderland |
| Nancy Garden |
Lark in the Morning |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
| Aaron and Walter Frickle |
Sudden Strangers |
St. Martin's Press |
| 1993 |
Penny Raife Durant |
When Heroes Die |
Atheneum |
Winner |
[11] |
| Joan Alden with Catherine Hopkins (ill.) |
A Boy's Best Friend |
Alyson Wonderland |
Finalist |
[11] |
| Joan Alden with Catherine Hopkins (ill.) |
Day They Put a Tax on Rainbows |
Alyson Wonderland |
| Bette Greene |
Drowning of Stephan Jones |
Bantam Books |
| Johnny Valentine with Lynette Schmidt (ill.) |
The Daddy Machine |
Alyson Wonderland |
| 1994 |
Hilary Mullins |
The Cat Came Back |
Naiad Press |
Winner |
[12] |
| Christina Salat |
Living In Secret |
Bantam Books |
Finalist |
[12] |
| Lesléa Newman with Annete Hegel (ill.) |
Saturday is Pattyday |
New Victoria |
| Michael Willhoite |
Uncle What-Is-It Is Coming To Visit |
Alyson Wonderland |
| Rik Isensee |
We're Not Alone |
Lavender Press |
| 1995 |
Marion Dane Bauer (ed.) |
Am I Blue? |
Harper Children's |
Winner |
[13] |
| Ann Heron (ed.) |
2 Teenagers In 20 |
Alyson Books |
Finalist |
[13] |
| Stacey Donovan |
Dive |
Dutton Children's Books |
| Scott Nunokawa |
Oscar Wilde |
Chelsea House / Infobase Publishing |
| Patricia Quinlan |
Tiger Flowers |
Dial Press |
| 1996 |
Jacqueline Woodson |
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun |
Blue Sky Press |
Winner |
[14] |
| Francesca Lia Block |
Baby Be-Bop |
HarperCollins |
Finalist |
[14] |
| Judith Vinga |
My Two Uncles |
Albert Whitman & Co. |
| Kust Chandler |
Passage of Pride |
Times Books |
| Daniel Vilmure |
Toby's Lie |
Simon & Schuster |
| 1997 |
Nancy Garden |
Good Moon Rising |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
Winner |
[15] |
| Michael Willhoite |
Daddy's Wedding |
Alyson Books |
Finalist |
[15] |
| Elle Bass and Kate Kaufman |
Free Your Mind |
Harper Perennial |
| Earl Alexander |
My Dad Has HIV |
Fairview Press |
| Michael Thomas Ford |
The World Out There |
The New Press |
| 1998 |
Jacqueline Woodson |
The House You Pass On the Way |
Delacorte Press / Dell Publishing |
Winner |
[16] |
| Jeanne Arnold |
Amy Asks a Question: Grandma, What's a Lesbian? |
Mother Courage |
Finalist |
[16] |
| Liza Ketchum |
Blue Coyote |
Simon & Schuster |
| Paul Monette |
Sanctuary: a Tale of Life in the Woods |
Scribner |
| Adam Mastoon |
The Shared Heart |
William Morrow and Company |
| 1999 |
Kevin Jennings |
Telling Tales Out of School |
Alyson Books |
Winner |
[17] |
| Francesca Lia Block |
I Was a Teenage Fairy |
HarperCollins |
Finalist |
[17] |
| Joseph Kennedy with John Canemaker (ill.) |
Lucy Goes to the Country |
Alyson Books |
| Michael Thomas Ford |
Outspoken |
Morrow Junior Books |
| Clifford Chase |
Queer 13 |
Weisbach |
| 2000 |
Ellen Wittlinger |
Hard Love |
Simon & Schuster |
Winner |
[18] |
| Paula Boock |
Dare Truth or Promise |
|
Finalist |
[19] |
| Lois-Ann Yamanaka |
Name Me Nobody |
|
| William Taylor |
The Blue Lawn |
|
| Nancy Garden |
The Year They Burned the Books |
|
| 2001 |
Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels (eds.) |
Out of the Ordinary |
St. Martin's Press |
Winner |
[20] |
| Jean Ferris |
Eight Seconds |
Harcourt |
Finalist |
[20] |
| Nancy Garden |
Holly's Secret |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
| Amy Sonnie (ed.) |
Revolutionary Voices |
Alyson Books |
| Benjie Nycum |
The XY Survival Guide |
XY |
| 2002 |
Julia Watts |
Finding H.F. |
Alyson Books |
Winner |
[21] |
| Sara Ryan |
Empress of the World |
Viking Press |
Finalist |
[21] |
| Marilyn Reynolds |
Love Rules |
Morning Glory |
| Alex Sánchez |
Rainbow Boys |
Simon & Schuster |
| Todd Turtle |
Spot |
Window |
| 2003 |
Bonnie Shimko |
Letters in the Attic |
Academy Chicago Press |
Winner |
[22] |
| Lesléa Newman |
Felicia's Favorite Story |
Two Lives Publishing |
Finalist |
[22] |
| Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland |
King & King |
Ten Speed Press |
| Andrew Calimach |
Lover's Legends: The Gay Greek Myths |
Simon & Schuster |
| Harvey Fierstein |
The Sissy Duckling |
Simon & Schuster |
| 2004 |
David Levithan |
Boy Meets Boy |
Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Winner |
[23] |
| Brent Hartinger |
Geography Club |
HarperTempest |
Finalist |
[23] |
| Tea Benduhn |
Gravel Queen |
Simon & Schuster |
| Julie Anne Peters |
Keeping You a Secret |
Little, Brown and Company |
| Alex Sánchez |
Rainbow High |
Simon & Schuster |
| 2005 |
Alex Sánchez |
So Hard to Say |
Simon & Schuster |
Winner |
[24] |
| Julie Anne Peters |
Luna |
Little, Brown and Company |
Finalist |
[24] |
| Sharon Dennis Wyeth |
Orphea Proud |
Delacorte Press / Dell Publishing |
| Judy MacLean |
Rosemary and Juliet |
Alice Street Editions |
| David Levithan |
The Realm of Possibility |
Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| 2006 |
Shyam Selvadurai |
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea |
Tundra Publishing |
Winner |
[25] |
| Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson |
And Tango Makes Three |
Simon & Schuster |
Finalist |
[25] |
| Rigoberto González |
Antonio’s Card/La Tarjeta de Antonio |
Lee & Low Books |
| Alex Sánchez |
Rainbow Road |
Simon & Schuster |
| James Howe |
Totally Joe |
Simon & Schuster |
| 2007 |
David Levithan and Billy Merrell (eds.) |
The Full Spectrum |
Random House Children's Books |
Winner |
[26] |
| Julie Anne Peters |
Between Mom & Jo |
Little, Brown and Company |
Finalist |
[26] |
| Kim Wallace |
Erik & Isabelle’s Junior Year at Foresthill High |
Foglight Press |
| Brian Sloan |
Tale of Two Summers |
Simon & Schuster |
| Christian Burch |
The Manny Files |
Simon & Schuster |
| 2008 |
Perry Moore |
Hero |
Hyperion Books |
Winner |
[27][28] |
| James St. James |
Freak Show |
Dutton Children's Books |
Finalist |
[27] |
| Ellen Wittlinger |
Parrotfish |
Simon & Schuster |
| Patrick Ryan |
Saints of Augustine |
HarperTeen |
| Peter Cameron |
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
| 2009 |
Bill Konigsberg |
Out of the Pocket |
Dutton Children's Books |
Winner |
[29] |
| Christian Burch |
Hit the Road, Manny: A Manny Files Novel |
Simon & Schuster |
Finalist |
[29] |
| David Levithan |
How They Met & Other Stories |
Knopf Children's Books |
| Ellen Wittlinger |
Love & Lies: Marisol's Story |
Simon & Schuster |
| Pat Schmatz |
Mousetraps |
Carolrhoda Books / Lerner Publishing Group |
| Martin Wilson |
What They Always Tell Us |
Random House Children's Books |
| 2010 |
Dale Peck |
Sprout |
Bloomsbury Publishing |
Winner |
[30] |
| Malinda Lo |
Ash |
Little, Brown and Company |
Finalist |
[30] |
| Michael Cart (ed.) |
How Beautiful the Ordinary |
HarperCollins |
| Patrick Ryan |
In Mike We Trust |
HarperCollins |
| Nick Burd |
The Vast Fields of Ordinary |
Penguin Books |
| 2011 |
Jane Eagland |
Wildthorn |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Winner |
[31][32] |
| Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell with Amy June Bates (ill.) |
Christian, the Hugging Lion |
Simon & Schuster |
Finalist |
[33] |
| Vivek Shraya with Juliana Neufeld (ill.) |
God Loves Hair |
Vivek Shraya |
| Catherine Ryan Hyde |
Jumpstart the World |
Random House Books for Children |
| James Klise |
Love Drugged |
Flux Books / Llewellyn Worldwide |
| 2012 |
Bil Wright |
Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy |
Simon & Schuster |
Winner |
[34] |
| Patrick Ryan |
Gemini Bites |
Scholastic |
Finalist |
|
| Malinda Lo |
Huntress |
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
[35] |
| Cris Beam |
I am J |
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
|
| Lili Wilkinson |
PINK |
HarperCollins |
|
| 2013 |
Benjamin Alire Saenz |
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe |
Simon & Schuster |
Winner |
[36] |
| Malinda Lo |
Adaptation |
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Finalist |
[36] |
| A. S. King |
Ask the Passengers |
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Kirstin Cronn-Mills |
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children |
Flux Books / Llewellyn Worldwide |
| David Levithan |
Every Day |
Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Elissa Janine Hoole |
Kiss the Morning Star |
Amazon Children's Publishing |
| E. M. Kokie |
Personal Effects |
Candlewick Press |
| Molly Beth Griffin |
Silhouette of a Sparrow |
Milkweed Editions |
| S. Bear Bergman and Suzy Malik |
The Adventure of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy |
Flamingo Rampant |
| Emily M. Danforth |
The Miseducation of Cameron Post |
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins |
| 2014 |
Sara Farizan |
If You Could Be Mine |
Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing Company |
Winner |
[37][38] |
| David Levithan |
Two Boys Kissing |
Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Tim Federle |
Better Nate Than Ever |
Simon & Schuster |
Finalist |
[37] |
| Christopher R. Michael |
Boy In Box |
Hubbub Publishing |
| Rhiannon Argo |
Girls I've Run Away With |
Moonshine Press |
| Bill Konigsberg |
Openly Straight |
Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Corporation |
| Stewart Lewis with Rebecca Short (ed.) |
The Secret Ingredient |
Delacorte Press / Dell Publishing |
| Alaya Dawn Johnson |
The Summer Prince |
Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic |
| Cory Silverberg with Fiona Smyth (ill.) |
What Makes a Baby |
Triangle Square / Seven Stories Press |
| 2015 |
Tim Federle |
Five, Six, Seven, Nate! |
Simon & Schuster |
Winner |
[39][40][41] |
| Susan Kuklin |
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out |
Candlewick Press |
Finalist |
[39] |
| Bridget Birdsall |
Double Exposure |
Skyhorse Publishing |
| Karelia Stetz-Waters |
Forgive Me If I've Told You This Before |
Ooligan Press |
| Robin Talley |
Lies We Tell Ourselves |
Harlequin Teen |
| Jay Jordan Hawke |
Pukawiss the Outcast |
Harmony Ink Press /Dreamspinner Press |
| Suki Fleet |
This is Not a Love Story |
Harmony Ink Press /Dreamspinner Press |
| Raziel Reid |
When Everything Feels Like the Movies |
Arsenal Pulp Press |
| 2016 |
Alex Gino |
George |
Scholastic |
Winner |
[42][43] |
| Sarah McCarry |
About a Girl: A Novel |
St. Martin's Griffin |
Finalist |
[44] |
| Will Walton |
Anything Could Happen |
Push |
| Jerome Pohlen |
Gay and Lesbian History for Kids: The Century-Long Struggle for LGBT Rights |
Chicago Review Press |
| Adam Silvera |
More Happy Than Not |
Soho Press |
| I. W. Gregorio |
None of the Above |
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins |
| Becky Albertalli |
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda |
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins |
| Brian Selznick |
The Marvels |
Scholastic |
| 2017 |
M-E Girard |
Girl Mans Up |
HarperTeen |
Winner |
[45][46] |
| Brie Spangler |
Beast |
Alfred A. Knopf |
Finalist |
[47] |
| Juliann Rich |
Gravity |
Bold Stroke Books |
| John Corey Whaley |
Highly Illogical Behavior |
Dial Press |
| C. B. Lee |
Not Your Sidekick |
Novelstream |
| Krystal Sutherland |
Our Chemical Hearts |
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers |
| Jeff Garvin |
Symptoms of Being Human |
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins |
| Marie Lu |
The Midnight Star |
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers |
| 2018 |
Rebecca Podos |
Like Water |
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins |
Winner |
[48][49] |
| Sarah Dooley |
Ashes to Asheville |
Putnam |
Finalist |
[50] |
| Christina Lauren |
Autoboyography |
Simon & Schuster |
| April Daniels |
Dreadnought: Nemesis |
Diversion Books |
| Nina Packebush |
Girls Like Me |
Bedazzled Ink |
| Kay Haring with Robert Neubecker (ill.) |
Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing |
Dial Press |
| Will Kostakis |
The Sidekicks |
Harlequin Teen |
| Martin Wilson |
We Now Return to Regular Life |
Dial Press |
| 2019 |
Kacen Callender |
Hurricane Child |
Scholastic |
Winner |
[51] |
| Mark Oshiro |
Anger Is a Gift: A Novel |
Tor Teen / Tor Books |
Finalist |
[52] |
| Adib Khorram |
Darius the Great Is Not Okay |
Dial Press |
| Ashley Herring Blake |
Girl Made of Stars |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Claire Legrand |
Sawkill Girls |
Katherine Tegen Books |
| Angelo Surmelis |
The Dangerous Art of Blending In |
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins |
| Elizabeth Acevedo |
The Poet X |
HarperTeen |
| Kacen Callender |
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story |
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins |
| 2020 |
Lisa Jenn Bigelow |
Hazel's Theory of Evolution |
HarperCollins |
Winner (C) |
[53][54][55] |
| Alexandra Villasante |
The Grief Keeper |
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers |
Winner (Y) |
| Saundra Mitchell |
All the Things We Do in the Dark |
HarperTeen |
Finalist |
[56][57] |
| Nicole Melleby |
Hurricane Season |
Algonquin Young Readers |
| Akwaeke Emezi |
Pet |
Make Me a World / Random House |
| Robin Stevenson |
Pride Colors |
Orca Book Publishers |
| Jaye Robin Brown |
The Meaning of Birds |
HarperTeen |
| Rory Power |
Wilder Girls |
Delacorte Press |
| 2021 |
Kacen Callender |
King and the Dragonflies |
Scholastic |
Winner (C) |
[58][59][60] |
| Mike Curato |
Flamer |
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers |
Winner (Y) |
| Phil Bildner |
A High Five for Glenn Burke |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers |
Finalist |
[61] |
| Lev A. C. Rosen |
Camp |
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Vincent Kirsch |
From Archie to Zack |
Abrams Books for Young Readers |
| Peter Mercurio and Leo Espinosa |
Our Subway Baby |
Dial Press |
| Agnes Borinsky |
Sasha Masha |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers |
| Niki Smith |
The Deep & Dark Blue |
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Trung Le Nguyen |
The Magic Fish |
Random House Graphic |
| Leah Johnson |
You Should See Me in a Crown |
Scholastic |
| 2022 |
JR Ford and Vanessa Ford |
Calvin |
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers |
Winner (C) |
[62][63] |
| Ashley Herring Blake |
Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea |
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Finalist (C) |
[64] |
| Charlotte Sullivan Wild with Charlene Chua (illus.) |
Love, Violet |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Rob Sanders |
Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt |
APA Magination Press |
| Basil Sylvester and Kevin Sylvester |
The Fabulous Zed Watson! |
HarperCollins Publishers |
| A. R. Capetta |
The Heartbreak Bakery |
Candlewick Press |
Winner (Y) |
[62][63] |
| Adiba Jaigirdar |
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating |
Page Street Kids |
Finalist (Y) |
[64] |
| Aden Polydoros |
The City Beautiful |
Harlequin Trade Publishing/Inkyard |
| Isaac Fitzsimons |
The Passing Playbook |
Dial Books for Young Readers |
| Linsey Miller |
What We Devour |
Sourcebooks Fire |
| 2023 |
Wallace West |
Mighty Red Riding Hood |
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Winner (C) |
[65] |
| Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders, illus. by Byron McCray |
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin |
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers |
Finalist (C) |
[66] |
| Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, illus. by Daniel Sousa |
Kapaemahu |
Kokila |
| Nina LaCour |
Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle |
Candlewick Press |
| Robb Pearlman, illus. by Dani Jones |
The Sublime Ms. Stacks |
Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Maulik Pancholy |
Nikhil Out Loud |
HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray |
Winner (M) |
[65] |
| David Levithan |
Answers In the Pages |
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Finalist (M) |
[66] |
| Kyle Lukoff |
Different Kinds of Fruit |
Dial Books for Young Readers |
| Maggie Horne |
Hazel Hill Is Gonna Win This One |
HarperCollins/Clarion Books |
| Michael Leali |
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy |
HarperCollins |
| Sonora Reyes |
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School |
Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins |
Winner (Y) |
[65] |
| Vincent Tirado |
Burn Down, Rise Up |
Sourcebooks |
Finalist (Y) |
[67] |
| Angeline Jackson with Susan McClelland |
Funny Gyal: My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica |
Dundurn Press |
| Anna-Marie McLemore |
Lakelore |
Feiwel & Friends |
| Jen Ferguson |
The Summer of Bitter and Sweet |
Heartdrum/HarperCollins |
| 2024 |
Nina LaCour, with Sonia Albert (ill.) |
The Apartment House on Poppy Hill |
Chronicle Books |
Winner (C) |
[68] |
| Meeg Pincus and Meridth Mckean Gimbel |
Door by Door |
Crown Books for Young Readers |
Finalist (C) |
[69] |
| Andy Passchier |
Gender Identity for Kids |
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Harry Woodgate |
Grandad's Pride |
Little Bee Books |
| A. J. Irving and Kip Alizadeh |
The Wishing Flower |
Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Robin Gow |
Dear Mothman |
Amulet Books |
Winner (M) |
[68] |
| Leah Johnson |
Ellie Engle Saves Herself |
Disney Hyperion |
Finalist (M) |
[69] |
| Karen Wilfrid |
Just Lizzie |
HarperCollins / Clarion Books |
| Michael Leali |
Matteo |
HarperCollins |
| Alden Van Otterloo |
The Beautiful Something Else |
Scholastic Press |
| Abdi Nazemian |
Only This Beautiful Moment |
HarperCollins / Balzer + Bray |
Winner (Y) |
[68] |
| Maxine Rae |
Cold Girls |
Flux Books |
Finalist (Y) |
[69] |
| Keith F. Miller, Jr. |
Pritty |
HarperCollins / HarperTeen |
| Brittany N. Williams |
That Self-Same Metal |
Amulet Books |
| Gabe Cole Novoa |
The Wicked Bargain |
Random House Books for Young Readers |