Annual literary award in the United States
National Book Award for Young People's Literature Awarded for Outstanding work of Young People's Literature by U.S. citizens. Location New York City Rewards $10,000 USD (winner) First award 1967–1983, 1996 Website National Book Foundation
TheNational Book Award for Young People's Literature is one of five annualNational Book Awards , which are given by theNational Book Foundation (NBF) to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers".[ 1] [ 2]
The category Young People's Literature was established in 1996. From 1969 to 1983, prior to the Foundation, there were some "Children's" categories.[ 3]
The award recognizes one book written by a US citizen and published in the US from December 1 of the previous year to November 30 in the award year. The National Book Foundation accepts nominations from publishers until June 15, requires mailing nominated books to the panelists by August 1, and announces five finalists in October. The winner is announced on the day of the final ceremony in November. The award is $10,000 and a bronze sculpture; other finalists get $1000, a medal, and a citation written by the panel.[ 4] [ a]
There were 230 books nominated for the 2010 award.[ 5] [ 6]
[ edit ] Books for "children" were first recognized by theNational Book Awards in 1969 (publication year 1968). Through 1979, a single award category existed, called either "Children's Literature" or "Children's Books."[ 7]
[ edit ] In 1980 under the new name The American Book Awards (TABA), the number ofliterary award categories jumped to 28, including two for Children's Books: hardcover and paperback. In the following three years there were three, five, and five Children's Book award categories—thus fifteen in four years—before the program was revamped with only three annual awards and none for children's books.[ 20]
Children's Books winners and finalists, 1980 to 1983 Year Category Author Title Result Ref. 1980 Hardcover Joan Blos A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830–82 Winner [ 21] David Kherdian The Road from Home Finalist [ 21] E. L. Konigsburg Throwing Shadows Ouida Sebestyen Words by Heart Paperback Madeleine L'Engle A Swiftly Tilting Planet Winner [ 21] Myron Levoy Alan and Naomi Finalist [ 21] Arnold Lobel Frog and Toad Are Friends Maurice Sendak Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life Katherine Paterson The Great Gilly Hopkins 1981 Fiction, hardcover Betsy Byars The Night Swimmers Winner [ 22] Paula Fox A Place Apart Finalist [ 22] Ouida Sebestyen Far From Home Katherine Paterson Jacob Have I Loved Jan Slepian The Alfred Summer Fiction, paperback Beverly Cleary Ramona and Her Mother Winner [ 22] Sue Ellen Bridgers All Together Now Finalist [ 22] S. E. Hinton Tex Lloyd Alexander The High King Ellen Raskin The Westing Game Nonfiction Alison Cragin Herzig Oh, Boy! Babies Winner [ 22] Milton Meltzer All Time, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery Finalist [ 22] Peter Spier People William Jaspersohn The Ballpark Jean Fritz Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? 1982 Fiction, hardcover Lloyd Alexander Westmark Winner [ 23] Cynthia Voigt Homecoming Finalist [ 23] Mildred D. Taylor Let the Circle Be Unbroken Beverly Cleary Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Deborah Hautzig Second Star to the Right Fiction, paperback Ouida Sebestyen Words by Heart Winner [ 23] Katherine Paterson Jacob Have I Loved Finalist [ 23] Katherine Paterson The Master Puppeteer Lloyd Alexander The Wizard in the Tree Nonfiction Susan Bonners A Penguin Year Winner [ 23] Melvin B. Zisfein Flight: A Panorama of Aviation Finalist [ 23] Patricia Lauber Seeds: Pop, Stick and Glide James Howe The Hospital Book Jean Fritz Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold 1983 Fiction, hardcover[ b] Jean Fritz Homesick: My Own Story Winner [ 24] Zibby Oneal A Formal Feeling Finalist [ 24] Virginia Hamilton Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Lloyd Alexander The Kestrel Edward Fenton The Refugee Summer Fiction, paperback Paula Fox A Place Apart Winner (tie) [ 24] Joyce Carol Thomas Marked by Fire original )[ c] Lois Lowry Anastasia Again! Finalist [ 24] Sue Ellen Bridgers Notes for Another Life Judy Blume Tiger Eyes Nonfiction James Cross Giblin Chimney Sweeps Winner [ 24] Patricia Lauber Journey to the Planets Finalist [ 24] John Nance Lobo of the Tasaday Linda Grant DePauw Seafaring Women Judith St. George The Brooklyn Bridge Picture books, hardcover William Steig Doctor De Soto Winner (tie) [ 24] Barbara Cooney Miss Rumphius Marcia Brown Shadow Blaise Cendrars )Finalist [ 24] Karla Kuskin Marc Simont (illus.)The Philharmonic Gets Dressed Cynthia Rylant Diane Goode (illus.)When I Was Young in the Mountains Picture books, paper Mary Ann Hoberman A House is a House for Me Winner [ 24] Peter Koeppen A Swinger of Birches Robert Frost )Finalist [ 24] Steven Kellogg Pinkerton, Behave! Edward Marshall Space Case Ellen Shire The Bungling Ballerinas
[ edit ] From 1984 to 1995, the National Book Foundation did not present awards for young people's literature.[ 25]
Young People's Literature, 1996 to date Year Author Title Result Ref. 1996 Victor Martinez Parrot in the Oven, Mi Vida Winner [ 26] Nancy Farmer A Girl Named Disaster Finalist [ 26] Han Nolan Send Me Down a Miracle Helen Kim The Long Season of Rain Carolyn Coman What Jamie Saw 1997 Han Nolan Dancing on the Edge Winner [ 27] Tor Seidler Mean Margaret Finalist [ 27] Adele Griffin Sons of Liberty Brock Cole The Facts Speak for Themselves Mary Ann McGuigan Where You Belong 1998 Louis Sachar Holes Winner [ 28] Richard Peck A Long Way from Chicago Finalist [ 28] Jack Gantos Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Anita Lobel No Pretty Pictures Ann Cameron The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods 1999 Kimberly Willis Holt When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Winner [ 29] Walter Dean Myers Monster Finalist [ 29] Laurie Halse Anderson Speak Louise Erdrich The Birchbark House Polly Horvath The Trolls 2000 Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird Winner [ 30] Adam Bagdasarian Forgotten Fire Finalist [ 30] Jerry Stanley Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California Carolyn Coman Many Stones Michael Cadnum The Book of the Lion 2001 Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer Winner [ 31] Marilyn Nelson Carver: A Life in Poems Finalist [ 31] An Na A Step From Heaven Kate DiCamillo The Tiger Rising Phillip Hoose We Were There Too! Young People in U.S. History 2002 Nancy Farmer The House of the Scorpion Winner [ 32] Naomi Shihab Nye 19 Varieties of Gazelle : Poems of the Middle EastFinalist [ 32] M. T. Anderson Feed Jacqueline Woodson Hush Elizabeth Partridge This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie 2003 Polly Horvath The Canning Season Winner [ 33] Jim Murphy An American Plague : The Time and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 )Finalist [ 33] Paul Fleischman Breakout Jacqueline Woodson Locomotion Richard Peck The River Between Us 2004 Pete Hautman Godless Winner [ 34] Laban Carrick Hill Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance (about theHarlem Renaissance )Finalist [ 34] Deb Caletti Honey, Baby, Sweetheart Julie Anne Peters Luna: A Novel Shelia P. Moses The Legend of Buddy Bush 2005 Jeanne Birdsall The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy Winner [ 35] Walter Dean Myers Autobiography of My Dead Brother Finalist [ 35] Deborah Wiles Each Little Bird That Sings Chris Lynch Inexcusable Adele Griffin Where I Want to Be 2006 M. T. Anderson The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party Winner [ 36] Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese Finalist [ 36] Martine Leavitt Keturah and Lord Death Patricia McCormick Sold Nancy Werlin The Rules of Survival 2007 Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Winner [ 37] Kathleen Duey Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic Finalist [ 37] Sara Zarr Story of a Girl Brian Selznick The Invention of Hugo Cabret M. Sindy Felin Touching Snow 2008 Judy Blundell What I Saw and How I Lied Winner [ 38] Laurie Halse Anderson Chains Finalist [ 38] E. Lockhart The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks Tim Tharp The Spectacular Now Kathi Appelt The Underneath 2009 Phillip Hoose Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Winner [ 39] Deborah Heiligman Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith Finalist [ 39] Rita Williams-Garcia Jumped Laini Taylor Lips Touch, Three Times David Small Stitches 2010 Kathryn Erskine Mockingbird Winner [ 40] Laura McNeal Dark Water Finalist [ 40] Walter Dean Myers Lockdown Rita Williams-Garcia One Crazy Summer Paolo Bacigalupi Ship Breaker 2011 Thanhha Lai Inside Out & Back Again Winner [ 41] Franny Billingsley Chime Finalist [ 41] Albert Marrin Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (about theTriangle Shirtwaist Factory fire )Debby Dahl Edwardson My Name Is Not Easy Gary Schmidt Okay for Now 2012 William Alexander Goblin Secrets Winner [ 42] [ 43] [ 44] Steve Sheinkin Bomb: The Race to Build―and Steal―the World's Most Dangerous Weapon Finalist [ 44] Eliot Schrefer Endangered Patricia McCormick Never Fall Down Carrie Arcos Out of Reach 2013 Cynthia Kadohata The Thing About Luck Winner [ 45] [ 44] Gene Luen Yang Boxers and Saints Finalist [ 46] [ 44] Tom McNeal Far Far Away Meg Rosoff Picture Me Gone Kathi Appelt The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp 2014 Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming Winner [ 47] [ 48] John Corey Whaley Noggin Finalist [ 49] [ 47] Deborah Wiles Revolution Steve Sheinkin The Port Chicago 50 Eliot Schrefer Threatened 2015 Neal Shusterman Challenger Deep Winner [ 50] Laura Ruby Bone Gap Finalist [ 50] Steve Sheinkin Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War ND Stevenson Nimona Ali Benjamin The Thing About Jellyfish 2016 John Lewis Nate Powell , andAndrew Aydin March: Book Three Winner [ 51] Jason Reynolds Ghost Finalist [ 51] Kate DiCamillo Raymie Nightingale Nicola Yoon The Sun Is Also a Star Grace Lin When the Sea Turned to Silver 2017 Robin Benway Far from the Tree Winner [ 52] Ibi Zoboi American Street Finalist [ 52] Rita Williams-Garcia Clayton Byrd Goes Underground Erika L. Sánchez I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Elana K. Arnold What Girls Are Made Of 2018 Elizabeth Acevedo The Poet X Winner [ 53] Jarrett J. Krosoczka Hey, Kiddo Finalist [ 54] [ 53] M. T. Anderson Eugene Yelchin The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge Christopher Paul Curtis The Journey of Little Charlie Leslie Connor The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2019 Martin W. Sandler 1919: The Year That Changed America Winner [ 55] [ 56] Jason Reynolds Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks Finalist [ 55] [ 56] Randy Ribay Patron Saints of Nothing Akwaeke Emezi Pet Laura Ruby Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All 2020 Kacen Callender King and the Dragonflies Winner [ 57] Candice Iloh Every Body Looking Finalist [ 58] [ 57] Gavriel Savit The Way Back Traci Chee We Are Not Free Victoria Jamieson When Stars Are Scattered 2021 Malinda Lo Last Night at the Telegraph Club Winner [ 59] Amber McBride Me (Moth) Finalist [ 59] Kekla Magoon Revolution in Our Time : The Black Panther Party's Promise to the PeopleShing Yin Khor The Legend of Auntie Po Kyle Lukoff Too Bright to See 2022 Sabaa Tahir All My Rage Winner [ 60] Kelly Barnhill The Ogress and the Orphans Finalist [ 61] Sonora Reyes The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Tommie Smith Derrick Barnes andDawud Anyabwile Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice Lisa Yee Maizy Chen's Last Chance 2023 Dan Santat A First Time for Everything Winner [ 62] Kenneth Cadow Gather Finalist [ 63] Huda Fahmy Huda F Cares? Vashti Harrison Big Katherine Marsh The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine 2024 Shifa Saltagi Safadi Kareem Between Winner [ 64] Violet Duncan Buffalo Dreamer Finalist [ 65] Josh Galarza The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky Erin Entrada Kelly The First State of Being Angela Shanté The Unboxing of a Black Girl
Authors with two awards [ edit ] SeeWinners of multiple U.S. National Book Awards Two authors have won two Children's or Young People's awards twice.
Lloyd Alexander won forThe Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (1971) andWestmark (1982), among six titles that were finalists.Katherine Paterson won forThe Master Puppeteer (1977) andThe Great Gilly Hopkins (1979), among three titles that were finalists.Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Children's Literature award in 1970 forA Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw and shared the Fiction award in 1974 forA Crown of Feathers and Other Stories .
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