| Year |
Author |
Title |
Result |
Ref. |
|---|
| 1998 |
Joan Bauer |
Rules of the Road |
Winner |
[2] |
| Joan Abelove |
Go and Come Back |
Finalist |
[3] |
| Louis Sachar |
Holes |
| Michael Cadnum |
In a Dark Wood |
| Gary Paulsen |
Soldier’s Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard |
| 1999 |
Robert Cormier |
Frenchtown Summer |
Winner |
[2] |
| Walter Dean Myers |
Monster |
Finalist |
[4] |
| David Almond |
Skellig |
| Laurie Halse Anderson |
Speak |
| Sonya Sones |
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy |
| 2000 |
Jacqueline Woodson |
Miracle's Boys |
Winner |
[2] |
| Pam Muñoz Ryan |
Esperanza Rising |
Finalist |
[5] |
| Adam Bagdasarian |
Forgotten Fire |
| Carolyn Coman |
Many Stones |
| Lori Aurelia Williams |
When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune |
| 2001 |
Mildred D. Taylor |
The Land |
Winner |
[2] |
| A. M. Jenkins |
Damage |
Finalist |
[6] |
| Norma Fox Mazer |
Girlhearts |
| Beverley Naidoo |
The Other Side of Truth |
| Kevin Crossley-Holland |
The Seeing Stone |
| 2002 |
M. T. Anderson |
Feed |
Winner |
[2] |
| E. R. Frank |
America |
Finalist |
[7] |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl |
| Kate Banks |
Dillon Dillon |
| Sarah Dessen |
This Lullaby |
| 2003 |
Jennifer Donnelly |
A Northern Light |
Winner |
[8] |
| Francine Prose |
After |
Finalist |
[8] |
| Kevin Henkes |
Olive’s Ocean |
| Richard Peck |
The River Between Us |
| Martha Brooks |
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl |
| 2004 |
Melvin Burgess |
Doing It |
Winner |
[9] |
| Meg Rosoff |
How I Live Now |
Finalist |
[9] |
| Michael Morpurgo |
Private Peaceful |
| Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood |
| Adam Rapp |
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog |
| 2005 |
Per Nilsson with Tara Chace (trans.) |
You & You & You |
Winner |
[10] |
| Margo Lanagan |
Black Juice |
Finalist |
[10] |
| Markus Zusak |
I Am the Messenger |
| John Green |
Looking for Alaska |
| Andreas Steinhöfel |
The Center of the World |
| 2006 |
Coe Booth |
Tyrell |
Winner |
[2][11] |
| John Green |
An Abundance of Katherines |
Finalist |
[12] |
| Meg Rosoff |
Just in Case |
| M. T. Anderson |
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party |
| Nancy Werlin |
The Rules of Survival |
| 2007 |
Philip Reeve |
A Darkling Plain |
Winner |
[13] |
| Kenneth Oppel |
Darkwing |
Finalist |
[13] |
| Sherman Alexie with art by Ellen Forney |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
| Geraldine McCaughrean |
The White Darkness |
| Walter Dean Myers |
What They Found: Love on 145th Street |
| 2008 |
Terry Pratchett |
Nation |
Winner |
[14][15] |
| Oscar Hijuelos |
Dark Dude |
Finalist |
[16] |
| Nate Powell |
Swallow Me Whole |
| Neil Gaiman with Dave McKean and Chris Riddell (illus.) |
The Graveyard Book |
| Candace Fleming |
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary |
| 2009 |
Elizabeth Partridge |
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary |
Winner |
[17] |
| Deborah Heiligman |
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith |
Finalist |
[17] |
| Shaun Tan |
Tales from Outer Suburbia |
| Frances Hardinge |
The Lost Conspiracy |
| James Cross Giblin |
The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy |
| 2010 |
Megan Whalen Turner |
A Conspiracy of Kings |
Winner |
[18] |
| Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos |
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science |
Finalist |
[18] |
| Rick Yancey |
The Curse of the Wendigo |
| Jonathan Stroud |
The Ring of Solomon |
| Stephanie Hemphill |
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials |
| 2011 |
Pete Hautman |
The Big Crunch |
Winner |
[19] |
| Patrick Ness with Jim Kay (illus.) |
A Monster Calls |
Finalist |
[20] |
| Libba Bray |
Beauty Queens |
| Mal Peet |
Life: An Exploded Diagram |
| Maggie Stiefvater |
The Scorpio Races |
| 2012 |
A. S. King |
Ask the Passengers |
Winner |
[21][22] |
| Matthew Quick |
Boy21 |
Finalist |
[23] |
| Elizabeth Wein |
Code Name Verity |
| Martine Leavitt |
My Book of Life by Angel |
| Paolo Bacigalupi |
The Drowned Cities |
| 2013 |
Gene Yang |
Boxers and Saints |
Winner |
[24] |
| Rainbow Rowell |
Fangirl |
Finalist |
[25] |
| Jonathan Stroud |
Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase |
| Elizabeth Knox |
Mortal Fire |
| Joyce Sidman |
What the Heart Knows: Chants |
| 2014 |
Candace Fleming |
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia |
Winner |
[26] |
| Jacqueline Woodson |
Brown Girl Dreaming |
Finalist |
[27] |
| Paul Fleischman |
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines |
| Andrew Smith |
Grasshopper Jungle |
| E.K. Johnston |
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim |
| 2015 |
Marilyn Nelson |
My Seneca Village |
Winner |
[28] |
| Don Brown |
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans |
Finalist |
[28] |
| Steve Sheinkin |
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War |
| Jason Reynolds |
The Boy in the Black Suit |
| Laura Amy Schlitz |
The Hired Girl |
| 2016 |
Frances Hardinge |
The Lie Tree |
Winner |
[29] |
| Meg Medina |
Burn, Baby, Burn |
Finalist |
[30] |
| John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell |
March: Book Three |
| Socorro Acioli with Daniel Hahn (trans.) |
The Head of the Saint |
| Julie Berry |
The Passion of Dolssa |
| 2017 |
Jason Reynolds |
Long Way Down |
Winner |
[31] |
| E. Lockhart |
Genuine Fraud |
Finalist |
[31] |
| Renée Watson |
Piecing Me Together |
| Dashka Slater |
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives |
| Angie Thomas |
The Hate U Give |
| 2018 |
Elizabeth Acevedo |
The Poet X |
Winner |
[32] |
| M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin |
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge |
Finalist |
[33] |
| Leslie Connor |
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle |
| Christopher Paul Curtis |
The Journey of Little Charlie |
| Jarrett J. Krosoczka |
Hey, Kiddo |
| 2019 |
Malla Nunn |
When the Ground is Hard |
Winner |
[34] |
| Laurie Halse Anderson |
Shout |
Finalist |
[35] |
| A. S. King |
Dig |
| Thanhha Lai |
Butterfly Yellow |
| Randy Ribay |
Patron Saints of Nothing |
| 2020 |
Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi |
Punching the Air |
Winner |
[36] |
| Allan Wolf |
The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party |
Finalist |
[37] |
| Dean Atta |
The Black Flamingo |
| Karen Schneemann and Lily Williams |
Go With the Flow |
| Tracy Deonn |
Legendborn |
| 2021 |
Rita Williams-Garcia |
A Sitting in St. James |
Winner |
[38] |
| Malinda Lo |
Last Night at the Telegraph Club |
Finalist |
[39] |
| Darcie Little Badger |
A Snake Falls to Earth |
| Kekla Magoon |
Revolution in Our Time |
| Paula Yoo |
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry |
| 2022 |
Lyn Miller-Lachmann |
Torch |
Winner |
[40] |
| Samira Ahmed |
Hollow Fires |
Finalist |
[40] |
| Sabaa Tahir |
All My Rage |
| Andrew Joseph White |
Hell Followed With Us |
| Kip Wilson |
The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin |
| 2023 |
Amber McBride |
Gone Wolf |
Winner |
[41] |
| Jennifer Baker |
Forgive Me Not |
Finalist |
[42] |
| Olivia A. Cole |
Dear Medusa |
| Kim Johnson |
Invisible Son |
| Sarah Myer |
Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story |
| 2024 |
Kim Johnson |
The Color of a Lie |
Winner |
[43] |
| Traci Chee |
Kindling |
Finalist |
[43] |
| K.A. Cobell |
Looking for Smoke |
| Safia Elhillo |
Bright Red Fruit |
| Carolina Ixta |
Shut Up, This Is Serious |
| 2025 |
Trung Le Nguyen |
Angelica and the Bear Prince |
Winner |
[44] |
| K. Ancrum |
The Corruption of Hollis Brown |
Finalist |
[45] |
| Idris Goodwin |
King of the Neuro Verse |
| Jaime Jo Hoang |
My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser |
| Hannah V. Sawyerr |
Truth Is |