Year | Author(s) | Book Title | Publisher |
1997[5] | Nancy Farmer | A Girl Named Disaster | Orchard Books |
Will Hobbs | Far North | HarperCollins |
Binjamin Wilkomirski | Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood | Schocken |
Philip Pullman | The Golden Compass / Northern Lights | Scholastic Point |
John Gilstrap | Nathan's Run | Pinnacle Books |
Walter Dean Myers | One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album | Harcourt Brace |
Rob Thomas | Rats Saw God | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
Josual Blum, Bob Holman and Mark Pellington | The United States of Poetry | Harry N. Abrams |
Mel Glenn | Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems | Lodestar Books |
Rich Wallace | Wrestling Sturbridge | Random House Children's Books |
1998[6] | Annette Curtis Klause | Blood and Chocolate | Random House |
Edward Bloor | Tangerine | Harcourt |
Jon Krakauer | Into Thin Air | Villard Books |
Joyce McDonald | Swallowing Stones | Ember |
Karen Hesse | Out of the Dust | Scholastic Incorporated |
Marjorie Reynolds | Starlite Drive-In | Penguin Group |
Robert Cormier | Tenderness | Random House Children's Books |
Sara Tuvel Bernstein | Seamstress | Berkley Books |
Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Growing Up in Coal Country | Houghton Mifflin Company |
Walter Dean Myers | Harlem | Scholastic Press |
1999[7] | Margaret Peterson Haddix | Among the Hidden | Simon and Schuster |
Penny Colman | Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts | Holt |
J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, Book One) | Scholastic Press |
Louis Sachar | Holes | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
Jacqueline Woodson | If You Come Softly | Putnam |
Jean Ferris | Love Among the Walnuts | Harcourt Brace |
Kimberly Willis Holt | My Louisiana Sky | Holt Publishing |
Anita Lobel | No Pretty Pictures: a Child of War | Greenwillow |
Ben Mikaelsen | Petey | Hyperion |
Joan Bauer | Rules of the Road | Putnam |
2000[8] | Laurie Halse Anderson | Speak | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
Orson Scott Card | Ender's Shadow | Tor |
Kimberly Willis Holt | When Zachary Beaver came to Town | Henry Holt & Co |
Sherryl Jordan | The Raging Quiet | Simon and Schuster |
Laura and Tom McNeal | Crooked | Alfred A. Knopf |
Carolyn Meyer | Mary, Bloody Mary | Harcourt Brace |
Walter Dean Myers | Monster | HarperCollins |
Lensey Namioka | Ties that Bind, Ties that Break | Delacorte Press |
Connie Porter | Imani All Mine | Houghton Mifflin |
Irene Gut Opdyke | In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer | Alfred A. Knopf |
2001[9] | Adam Bagdasarian | Forgotten Fire | DK |
Joan Bauer | Hope was Here | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
Tracy Chevalier | Girl with a Pearl Earring | E. P. Dutton |
Jon Katz | Geeks: How Two Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho | Villard |
E. L. Konigsburg | Silent to the Bone | Jean Karl Book/Atheneum Books |
Gary Paulsen | The Beet Fields | Delacorte Press |
Pam Munoz Ryan | Esperanza Rising | Scholastic Press |
Jerry Spinelli | Stargirl | Alfred A. Knopf |
Gloria Whelan | Homeless Bird | HarperCollins |
Ruth White | Memories of Summer | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
2002[10] | Ann Brashares | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Delacorte |
Robert Cormier | The Rag and Bone Shop | Delacorte |
Chris Crutcher | Whale Talk | HarperCollins |
Alex Flinn | Breathing Underwater | HarperCollins |
A. M. Jenkins | Damage | HarperCollins |
Richard Mosher | Zazoo | Houghton Mifflin |
Garth Nix | Lirael | HarperCollins |
Mildred D. Taylor | The Land | Penguin Putnam |
Rita Williams-Garcia | Every Time a Rainbow Dies | William Morrow |
Virginia Euwer Wolff | True Believer | Atheneum |
2003[11] | Lain Lawrence | The Lightkeeper's Daughter | Random House/Delacorte Press |
E. R. Frank | America | Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/A Richard Jackson Book |
Laurie Halse Anderson | Catalyst | Penguin Putnam/Viking Press |
Nancy Farmer | The House of the Scorpion | Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/A Richard Jackson Book |
Naomi Shihab Nye | 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East | HarperCollins/Greenwillow |
Elizabeth Partridge | This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie | Penguin Putnam/Viking |
Gordon Korman | Son of the Mob | Hyperion Books for Children |
Peter Nelson | Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis | Random House/Delacorte Press |
M. T. Anderson | Feed | Candlewick Press |
Christopher Moore | Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal | HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co. |
2004[12] | Martha Brooks | True Confessions of a Heartless Girl | Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books |
Jennifer Donnelly | A Northern Light | Harcourt |
Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel | Random House/Doubleday |
Angela Johnson | The First Part Last | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
David Levithan | Boy Meets Boy | Random House/Alfred A. Knopf |
Joyce Maynard | The Usual Rules | St. Martin's Press |
Edith Pattou | East | Harcourt Children's Books |
Adam Rapp | 33 Snowfish | Candlewick Press |
Jonathan Stroud | The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One) | Hyperion Books for Children/Miramax |
Craig Thompson | Blankets: An Illustrated Novel | Top Shelf Productions |
2005[13] | Joshua Braff | The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green | Workman Publishing Co. / Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |
Christopher Paul Curtis | Bucking the Sarge | Random House/Wendy Lamb |
Phillip Hoose | The Race to Save the Lord God Bird | Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books |
David Levithan | The Realm of Possibility | Random House Children's Books/Alfred A. Knopf |
Melina Marchetta | Saving Francesca | Random House Children's Books/Alfred A. Knopf |
Michael Morpurgo | Private Peaceful | Scholastic |
Kenneth Oppel | Airborn | HarperCollins Children's Book Group/Eos Press |
Adam Rapp | Under the Wolf, Under the Dog | Candlewick Press |
Benjamin Alire Saenz | Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood | Cinco Puntos Press |
Sarah Weeks | So B. It: a novel | HarperCollins Children's Books/ Laura Geringer Books |
2006[14] | Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton | Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow | Scholastic |
Kalisha Buckhanon | Upstate | St. Martin's Press |
John Green | Looking for Alaska | E. P. Dutton |
Chris Lynch | Inexcusable | Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books |
Stephenie Meyer | Twilight: A Novel (Twilight, Book One) | Little, Brown & Co./Megan Tingley |
Brian K. Vaughan with Adrian Alphona (Illus.) | Runaways: Volume 1 HC | Marvel Press |
Scott Westerfeld | Peeps | Penguin Books/Razorbill |
Chris Wooding | Poison | Scholastic/Orchard |
Markus Zusak | I am the Messenger | Alfred A. Knopf |
2007[15] | M. T. Anderson | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party | Candlewick Press |
Alan Gratz | Samurai Shortstop | Penguin Group/Dial Press |
Sonya Hartnett | Surrender | Candlewick Press |
Patricia McCormick | Sold | Hyperion |
Meghan Nuttall Sayres | Anahita's Woven Riddle | Abrams Books/Amulet Books |
John Smelcer | The Trap | Henry Holt & Co |
Megan Whalen Turner | The King of Attolia | HarperCollins/Greenwillow |
Nancy Werlin | The Rules of Survival | Penguin Group/Dial Press |
Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien | American Born Chinese | Roaring Brook Press/First Second Books |
Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | Random House/Alfred A. Knopf |
2008[16] | Sherman Alexie with Ellen Forney (Illus.) | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian | Little, Brown & Co. |
Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Sarah Crichton |
Jenny Downham | Before I Die | Random House/David Fickling |
Stephanie Hemphill | Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath | Random House/Alfred A. Knopf |
Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip | Dell Publishing/Dial Press |
Derek Landy | Skulduggery Pleasant: The Sceptor of the Ancients (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book One) | HarperCollins |
Mal Peet | Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal | Candlewick Press |
Matthew Polly | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China | Penguin Group USA/Gotham Books |
Brian Selznick | The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel | Scholastic |
Shaun Tan | The Arrival | Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine |
2009[17] | Robin Bowman | It's Complicated: The American Teenager | Umbrage Editions |
Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games | Scholastic |
Leslie Conner | Waiting for Normal | HarperCollins/HarperTeen |
Matt de la Pena | Mexican WhiteBoy | Delacorte Press |
Siobhan Dowd | Bog Child | Random House/David Fickling Books |
Christine Fletcher | Ten Cents a Dance | Bloomsbury |
Joseph Monninger | Baby | Boyd Mills Press/Front Street |
Terry Pratchett | Nation | HarperCollins |
Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki | Skim | House of Anansi Press / Groundwood Books |
Coert Voorhees | The Brothers Torres | Disney/Hyperion |
2010[18] | Sarah Rees Brennan | Demon's Lexicon (The Demon's Lexicon, Book One) | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/Margaret K. McElderry |
Paul Griffin | The Orange Houses | Penguin/Dial Books |
M. H. Herlong | The Great Wide Sea | Penguin/Viking |
Catherine Jinks | The Reformed Vampire Support Group | Harcourt/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Donna Jo Napoli | Alligator Bayou | Random House / Alfred A. Knopf |
David Small | Stitches: A Memoir | W. W. Norton & Co |
Rebecca Stead | When You Reach Me | Random House/Wendy Lamb |
Francisco X. Stork | Marcelo in the Real World | Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books |
Laini Taylor | Lips Touch: Three Times | Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books |
Sally M. Walker | Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland | Lerner/Carolrhoda Books |
2011[19] | Paolo Bacigalupi | Ship Breaker | Little, Brown & Co |
Jennifer Donnelly | Revolution | Random House/Delacorte Press |
Melina Marchetta | Finnikin of the Rock | Candlewick Press |
Morgan Matson | Amy & Roger's Epic Detour | Simon & Schuster |
Lish McBride | Hold Me Closer, Necromancer | Macmillan Children's Book Group/Henry Holt & Co. |
Andy Mulligan | Trash | Random House/David Fickling Books |
Mitali Perkins | Bamboo People | Charlesbridge |
Dana Reinhardt | The Things a Brother Knows | Random House/Wendy Lamb |
Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Last Night I Sang to the Monster | Cinco Puntos Press |
Marcus Sedgwick | Revolver | MacMillian Publishers/Roaring Brook Press |
2012[20] | Rae Carson | The Girl of Fire and Thorns | HarperTeen |
Joshua C. Cohen | Leverage | Penguin Group/E. P. Dutton |
A. S. King | Everybody Sees the Ants | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Under the Mesquite | Lee & Low Books |
Lauren Myracle | Shine | Abrams Books/Amulet Books |
Patrick Ness with Jim Kay (Illus) | A Monster Calls | Candlewick Press |
Ruta Sepetys | Between Shades of Gray | Penguin Group/Philomel Books |
Maggie Stiefvater | The Scorpio Races | Scholastic |
Laini Taylor | Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Book One) | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Sara Zarr | How to Save a Life | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
2013[21] | Jesse Andrews | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Abrams Books/Amulet Books |
Libba Bray | The Diviners | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Rachel Hartman | Seraphina | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Alethea Kontis | Enchanted | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Harcourt Children's Books |
David Levithan | Every Day | Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Patricia McCormick | Never Fall Down | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray |
Matthew Quick | Boy 21 | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
Maggie Stiefvater | The Raven Boys | Scholastic |
Elizabeth Wein | Code Name Verity | Disney/Hyperion |
2014[22] | Julie Berry | All the Truth That's in Me | Penguin Putnam/Viking |
Kristin Elizabeth Clark | Freakboy | Macmillan Publishers/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
Tim Federle | Better Nate Than Ever | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
Tom McNeal | Far Far Away | Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Rainbow Rowell | Eleanor & Park | Macmillan Publishers/St. Martin's Press |
Marcus Sedgwick | Midwinterblood | Macmillan Publishers/Roaring Brook Press |
Ruta Sepetys | Out of the Easy | Penguin Books/Philomel Books |
Andrew A. Smith with Sam Bosma (Illus.) | Winger | Simon & Schuster |
Tara Sullivan | Golden Boy | Penguin Books/ G. P. Putnam's sons Juvenile |
Elizabeth Wein | Rose Under Fire | Disney/Hyperion |
2015[23] | Jandy Nelson | I'll Give You the Sun | Dial Press |
William Ritter | Jackaby | Algonquin |
John Corey Whaley | Noggin | Atheneum Books |
Jessie Ann Foley | The Carnival at Bray | Elephant Rock Books |
Kwame Alexander | The Crossover | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Brendan Kiely | The Gospel of Winter | Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry |
E. K. Johnston | The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim | Carolrhoda/Lab |
Marie Lu | The Young Elites | G. P. Putnam's sons |
Timothee de Fombelle | Vango | Candlewick Press |
E. Lockhart | We Were Liars | Delacorte Publishing |
2016[24] | Becky Albertalli | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray |
Leigh Bardugo | Six of Crows | Holt |
Kevin Brooks | The Bunker Diary | Lerner Publishing Group/Carolrhoda Lab |
Melanie Crowder | Audacity | Philomel Books |
Daniel José Older | Shadowshaper | Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books |
Jason Reynolds | The Boy in the Black Suit | Atheneum Books |
Laura Ruby | Bone Gap | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray |
Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon | X: A Novel | Candlewick Press |
Neal Shusterman | Challenger Deep | HarperTeen |
Adam Silvera | More Happy than Not | Soho Teen |
2017[25] | Julie Berry | The Passion of Dolssa | Viking Books for Young Readers |
Traci Chee | The Reader | G. P. Putnam's Sons / Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers |
Frances Hardinge | The Lie Tree | Abrams Books |
Mindy McGinnis | The Female of the Species | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books |
Meg Medina | Burn Baby Burn | Candlewick Press |
Jason Reynolds | Ghost | Atheneum Books/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
Ruta Sepetys | Salt to the Sea | Philomel Books |
Neal Shusterman | Scythe | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
Nicola Yoon | The Sun is Also a Star | Delacorte Press |
Jeff Zentner | The Serpent King | Crown Books for Young Readers |
2018[26] | Elana Arnold | What Girls Are Made Of | Lerner Publishing Group/Carolrhoda Lab |
Leigh Bardugo with Sara Kipin (Illus.) | The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic | Macmillan Publishers |
Mackenzi Lee | The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen |
Sarah Moon | Sparrow | Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine |
Jason Reynolds | Long Way Down | Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books |
Laini Taylor | Strange the Dreamer | Little, Brown & Co |
Angie Thomas | The Hate U Give | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray |
Renee Watson | Piecing Me Together | Bloomsbury USA |
Francesca Zappia | Eliza and Her Monsters | HarperCollins/Greenwillow |
Jeff Zentner | Goodbye Days | Crown Books for Young Readers |
2019[27] | Elizabeth Acevedo | The Poet X | HarperTeen |
Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera | What if It's Us | HarperTeen |
Holly Black | The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, Book One) | Little, Brown & Co. |
Deb Caletti | A Heart in a Body in the World | Simon Pulse |
Justina Ireland | Dread Nation | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray |
Tiffany D. Jackson | Monday's Not Coming | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books |
Adib Khorram | Darius the Great is Not Okay | Dial Press |
Emma Mills | Foolish Hearts | Henry Holt & Co |
Preston Norton | Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe | Disney Hyperion |
Shivaun Plozza | Frankie | Flatiron Books |
2020[28] | Ben Philippe | The Field Guide to the North American Teenager | HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray |
Sharon Biggs Waller | Girls on the Verge | Holt |
Mindy McGinnis | Heroine | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books |
Abdi Nazemian | Like a Love Story | HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray |
Julie Berry | Lovely War | Viking Press |
Angie Thomas | On the Come Up | HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray |
Randy Ribay | Patron Saints of Nothing | Penguin/Kokila |
Akwaeke Emezi | Pet | Random House/Make Me a World |
Junauda Petrus | The Stars and the Blackness between Them | E. P. Dutton |
Elizabeth Acevedo | With the Fire on High | HarperTeen |
2021[29] | Mindy McGinnis | Be Not Far from Me | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books |
Aiden Thomas | Cemetery Boys | Macmillan/Swoon Reads |
Elizabeth Acevedo | Clap When You Land | HarperCollins/HarperTeen |
Frances Hardinge | Deeplight | Abrams Books/Amulet Books |
Tiffany D. Jackson | Grown | HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books |
Syed M. Masood | More Than Just a Pretty Face | Hachette/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Jordan Ifueko | Raybearer | Abrams Books/Amulet Books |
Kim Johnson | This Is My America | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Jenny Torres Sanchez | We Are Not from Here | Penguin Random House/Philomel Books |
Jennifer Longo | What I Carry | Random House Books for Young Readers |
2022[30] | Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | Blackout | HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books |
Aden Polydoros | The City Beautiful | Harlequin/Inkyard Press |
Angie Thomas | Concrete Rose | HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray |
David Arnold | Electric Kingdom | Penguin Random House/Viking Books for Young Readers |
Angeline Boulley | Firekeeper's Daughter | Macmillan/Henry Holt & Co. Books for Young Readers |
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland | How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
Jeff Zentner | In the Wild Light | Penguin Random House/Crown Books for Young Readers |
Malinda Lo | Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Penguin Random House/Dutton Books |
Margaret Owen | Little Thieves | Macmillan/Henry Holt & Co. Books for Young Readers |
Amber McBride | Me (Moth) | Macmillan/Feiwel & Friends |
Joan He | The Ones We're Meant to Find | Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press |