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2021 Winner & Honors
- Winner: Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
- Honors:
- We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
- Apple: Skin to Core by Eric Gansworth
- Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
- Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
Previous Winners
2020: Dig by A.S. King
2019: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
2018: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
2017: March: Book Three by John Lewis
2016 : Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
2015: I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
2014: Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
2013: In Darkness by Nick Lake
2012: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
2011: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
2010: Going Bovine by Libba Bray
2009: Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
2008: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
2007: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
2006: Looking for Alaska by John Green
2005: how i live now by Meg Rosoff
2004: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
2003: Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
2002: A Step from Heaven by An Na
