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Established
  
1996

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National Book Award

First awarded
  
1996

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National Book Award for Fiction

Winners & Nominees
  
March: Book ThreeJohn Lewis - Nate Powell - Andrew Aydin, March: Book Three, Winner, The Sun Is Also a StarNicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star, Nominee, GhostJason Reynolds, Ghost, Nominee, Raymie NightingaleKate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale, Nominee, When the Sea Turned to SilverGrace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver, Nominee, Challenger DeepNeal Shusterman, Challenger Deep, Winner, Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam WarSteve Sheinkin, Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War, Nominee, The Thing About JellyfishAli Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish, Nominee, NimonaNoelle Stevenson, Nimona, Nominee, Bone GapLaura Ruby, Bone Gap, Nominee, Brown Girl DreamingJacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming, Winner, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster - Mutiny - and the Fight for Civil RightsSteve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster - Mutiny - and the Fight for Civil Rights, Nominee, NogginJohn Corey Whaley, Noggin, Nominee, RevolutionDeborah Wiles, Revolution, Nominee, ThreatenedEliot Schrefer, Threatened, Nominee, The Thing About LuckCynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck, Winner, Picture Me GoneMeg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone, Nominee, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man SwampKathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, Nominee, Far Far AwayTom McNeal, Far Far Away, Nominee, Boxers & SaintsGene Luen Yang, Boxers & Saints, Nominee, Goblin SecretsWilliam Alexander, Goblin Secrets, Winner, EndangeredEliot Schrefer, Endangered, Nominee, Never Fall DownPatricia McCormick, Never Fall Down, Nominee, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous WeaponSteve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, Nominee, Out of ReachCarrie Arcos, Out of Reach, Nominee

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is one of four annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation (NBF) to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers". The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field".

Contents

The category Young People's Literature was established in 1996. From 1969 to 1983, prior to the Foundation, there were some "Children's" categories.

The award recognizes one book written by a US citizen and published in the US from December 1 to November 30. 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.

There were 230 books nominated for the 2010 award.

Children's Books, 1969 to 1979

Books for "children" were first recognized by the National Book Awards in 1969 (publication year 1968). Through 1979 there was a single award category called either "Children's Literature" or "Children's Books".

1979: Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins

  • Lloyd Alexander
  • Vera Cleaver, Queen of Hearts
  • Sid Fleischman, Humbug Mountain
  • Paula Fox, The Little Swineherd and Other Tales

    • 1978: Judith and Herbert Kohl, The View From the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures (ethology)

  • Betty Sue Cummings, Hew Against the Grain
  • Ilse Koehn, Michling, Second Degree
  • David McCord, One at a Time (poetry)
  • William Steig, Caleb + Kate

    • 1977: Katherine Paterson, The Master Puppeteer

  • Milton Meltzer, Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust
  • John Ney, Ox Under Pressure
  • Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • Barbara Wersba, Tunes for a Small Harmonica

    • 1976: Walter D. Edmonds, Bert Breen's Barn

  • Eleanor Cameron, To the Green Mountains
  • Norma Faber, As I Was Crossing Boston Common
  • Isabelle Holland, Of Love and Death and Other Journeys
  • David McCord, The Star in the Pail (poetry)
  • Nicolasa Mohr, El Bronx Remembered
  • Brenda Wilkinson, Ludell

    • 1975: Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins the Great

  • Natalie Babbitt, The Devil's Storybook
  • Bruce Buchenholz, Doctor in the Zoo
  • Bruce Clements, I Tell a Lie Every So Often
  • James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, My Brother Sam is Dead
  • Ettagale Laure and Jason Laure, Joi Bangla! The Children of Bangladesh
  • Milton Meltzer, World of Our Fathers
  • Milton Meltzer, Remember the Days
  • Adrienne Richard, Wings
  • Mary Stolz, The Edge of Next Year

    • 1974: Eleanor Cameron, The Court of the Stone Children

  • Alice Childress, A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
  • Vera and Bill Cleaver, The Whys and Wherefores of Littabelle Lee
  • Julia Cunningham, The Treasure is the Rose
  • Bette Greene, Summer of My German Soldier
  • Kristin Hunter, Guests in the Promised Land (stories)
  • E. L. Konigsburg, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (see Eleanor of Acquitaine)
  • Norma Fox Mazer, A Figure of Speech
  • F. N. Monjo, Poor Richard in France
  • Harve and Margot Zemach, Duffy and the Devil

    • 1973: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

  • Betsy Byars, The House of Wings
  • Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, d'Aulaires' Trolls
  • Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves
  • Betty Jean Lifton and Thomas C. Fox, Children of Vietnam
  • Georgess McHargue, The Impossible People
  • Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Witches of Worm
  • William Steig, Dominic

    • 1972: Donald Barthelme, The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn

  • The National Book Foundation lists no other finalists.

    • 1971: Lloyd Alexander, The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian

  • Vera and Bill Cleaver, Grover
  • Paula Fox, Blowfish Live in the Sea
  • Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad are Friends
  • E. B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

    • 1970: Isaac Bashevis Singer, A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw (autobiographical)

  • Vera and Bill Cleaver, Where the Lilies Bloom
  • Edna Mitchell Preston, Popcorn and Ma Goodness
  • William Steig, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
  • Edwin Tunis, The Young United States, 1783–1830

    • 1969: Meindert DeJong, Journey from Peppermint Street

  • Lloyd Alexander, The High King
  • Patricia Clapp, Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth (novel featuring Constance Hopkins)
  • Esther Hautzig, The Endless Steppe (memoir)
  • Milton Meltzer, Langston Hughes: A Biography (about Langston Hughes)

    • Children's Books, 1980 to 1983

    In 1980 under the new name "The American Book Awards" (TABA), the number of literary award categories jumped to 28 including two for Children's Books, hardcover and paperback. (Some graphics awards were inaugurated, too.) In the next three years there were three, five, and five "Children's" award categories —thus fifteen in four years— before the program was revamped with only three annual awards and none for children's books.

    1983

    Nonfiction
    James Cross Giblin, Chimney Sweeps

  • Linda Grant De Pauw, Seafaring Women
  • Patricia Lauber, Journey to the Planets
  • John Nance, Lobo of the Tasaday
  • Judith St. George, The Brooklyn Bridge

    • Fiction, hardcover
    Jean Fritz, Homesick: My Own Story (autobiographical)

  • Lloyd Alexander, The Kestrel
  • Edward Fenton, The Refugee Summer
  • Virginia Hamilton, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush 
  • Zibby Oneal, A Formal Feeling
    • Fiction, paperback (split award)Paula Fox, A Place Apart (1980)Joyce Carol Thomas, Marked by Fire (original)
  • Judy Blume, Tiger Eyes (1981)
  • Sue Ellen Bridgers, Notes for another Life (1981)
  • Lois Lowry, Anastasia Again! (1981)

    • Picture Books, hard (split award)
    Barbara Cooney, Miss Rumphius
    William Steig, Doctor De Soto

  • Illustrated by Marcia Brown, Shadow (translation of a poem by Blaise Cendrars)
  • Karla Kuskin and illustrator Marc Simont, The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
  • Cynthia Rylant and illustrator Diane Goode, When I Was Young in the Mountains
    • Picture Books, paperMary Ann Hoberman and illustrator Betty Fraser, A House is a House for Me (1978) (verse nonfiction)
  • Steven Kellogg, Pinkerton, Behave! (1979)
  • Illustrated by Peter Koeppen, A Swinger of Birches (poems by Robert Frost) (original)
  • Edward Marshall, Space Case (1980)
  • Ellen Shire, The Bungling Ballerinas (original)
    • 1982

    Nonfiction
    Susan Bonners, A Penguin Year

  • Jean Fritz, Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold (about Benedict Arnold)
  • James Howe, The Hospital Book (Mal Warshaw, photos)
  • Patricia Lauber, Seeds: Pop, Stick and Glide (James Wexler, photos)
  • Melvin B. Zisfein, Flight: A Panorama of Aviation (Robert Parker, illus.)

    • Fiction, hardcover
    Lloyd Alexander, Westmark

  • Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8
  • Deborah Hautzig, Second Star to the Right
  • Mildred D. Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken
  • Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming
    • Fiction, paperbackOuida Sebestyen, Words by Heart (1979)
  • Lloyd Alexander, The Wizard in the Tree (1974)
  • Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved (1980)
  • Katherine Paterson, The Master Puppeteer (1975)

    • Picture Books, hard
    Maurice Sendak, Outside Over There

  • Olaf Baker, illus. Stephen Gammell, Where the Buffaloes Begin
  • Arnold Lobel and illustrator Anita Lobel, On Market Street
  • Chris Van Allsburg, Jumanji
  • Nancy Willard and illustrators Alice and Martin Provensen, A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
    • Picture Books, paperPeter Spier, Noah's Ark (1977)
  • Muriel Feelings and illustrator Tom Feelings, Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book (1974)
  • Jane Langton, The Fledgling (1980)
  • Traditional, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, A Peaceable Kingdom: The Shaker Abecedarius (original)
  • William Sleator and illustrator Blair Lent, The Angry Moon (1970)
  • Rosemary Wells, Stanley and Rhoda (original)
    • 1981

    Nonfiction
    Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali, Oh, Boy! Babies

  • Jean Fritz, Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?
  • William Jaspersohn, The Ballpark
  • Milton Meltzer, All Time, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery
  • Peter Spier, People

    • Fiction, hardcover
    Betsy Byars, The Night Swimmers

  • Paula Fox, A Place Apart
  • Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
  • Ouida Sebestyen, Far From Home
  • Jan Slepian, The Alfred Summer
    • Fiction, paperbackBeverly Cleary, Ramona and Her Mother (1979)
  • Lloyd Alexander, The High King (1968)
  • Sue Ellen Bridgers, All Together Now (1979)
  • S. E. Hinton, Tex (1979)
  • Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game (1978)
    • 1980

    Hardcover
    Joan Blos, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830–82 (fiction)

  • David Kherdian, The Road from Home
  • E. L. Konigsburg, Throwing Shadows
  • Ouida Sebestyen, Words by Heart
    • PaperbackMadeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978)
  • Myron Levoy, Alan and Naomi (1977)
  • Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Are Friends (1970)
  • Katherine Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978)
  • Maurice Sendak, Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life (1967)

    • Young People's Literature, 1996 to date

    The winner is listed first followed by the four other finalists.

    2016: John Lewis, Nate Powell, and Andrew Aydin, March: Book Three

  • Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale
  • Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver
  • Jason Reynolds, Ghost
  • Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also A Star

    • 2015: Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

  • Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish
  • Laura Ruby, Bone Gap
  • Steve Sheinkin, Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
  • Noelle Stevenson, Nimona

    • 2014: Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

  • Eliot Schrefer, Threatened
  • Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50
  • John Corey Whaley, Noggin
  • Deborah Wiles, Revolution

    • 2013: Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck

  • Kathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
  • Tom McNeal, Far Far Away
  • Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone
  • Gene Luen Yang, Boxers & Saints

    • 2012: William Alexander, Goblin Secrets

  • Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach
  • Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down
  • Eliot Schrefer, Endangered
  • Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build―and Steal―the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon

    • 2011: Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

  • Franny Billingsley, Chime
  • Debby Dahl Edwardson, My Name is Not Easy
  • Albert Marrin, Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (about Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire)
  • Gary Schmidt, Okay for Now

    • 2010: Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird

  • Laura McNeal, Dark Water
  • Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker
  • Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
  • Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown

    • 2009: Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (about Claudette Colvin)

  • Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith (about Emma Darwin)
  • David Small, Stitches (memoir)
  • Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
  • Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped

    • 2008: Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied

  • Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
  • Kathi Appelt, The Underneath
  • E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
  • Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

    • 2007: Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (fiction)

  • Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One
  • M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow
  • Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
  • Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl

    • 2006: M. T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party

  • Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death
  • Patricia McCormick, Sold
  • Nancy Werlin, The Rules of Survival
  • Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese

    • 2005: Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

  • Adele Griffin, Where I Want to Be
  • Chris Lynch, Inexcusable
  • Walter Dean Myers, Autobiography of My Dead Brother
  • Deborah Wiles, Each Little Bird That Sings

    • 2004: Pete Hautman, Godless

  • Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
  • Laban Carrick Hill, Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance (about Harlem Renaissance)
  • Shelia P. Moses, The Legend of Buddy Bush
  • Julie Anne Peters, Luna: A Novel

    • 2003: Polly Horvath, The Canning Season

  • Paul Fleischman, Breakout
  • Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The Time and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (about Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793)
  • Richard Peck, The River Between Us
  • Jacqueline Woodson, Locomotion

    • 2002: Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion

  • M. T. Anderson, Feed
  • Naomi Shihab Nye, 19 varieties of gazelle: poems of the Middle East
  • Elizabeth Partridge, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (about Woody Guthrie)
  • Jacqueline Woodson, Hush

    • 2001: Virginia Euwer Wolff, True Believer

  • Kate DiCamillo, The Tiger Rising
  • Phillip Hoose, We Were There Too! Young People in U.S. History
  • An Na, A Step from Heaven
  • Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems (about George Washington Carver)

    • 2000: Gloria Whelan, Homeless Bird

  • Adam Bagdasarian, Forgotten Fire
  • Michael Cadnum, The Book of the Lion
  • Carolyn Coman, Many Stones
  • Jerry Stanley, Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California

    • 1999: Kimberly Willis Holt, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

  • Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
  • Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House
  • Polly Horvath, The Trolls
  • Walter Dean Myers, Monster

    • 1998: Louis Sachar, Holes

  • Ann Cameron, The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods
  • Jack Gantos, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
  • Anita Lobel, No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
  • Richard Peck, A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories

    • 1997: Han Nolan, Dancing on the Edge

  • Brock Cole, The Facts Speak for Themselves
  • Adele Griffin, Sons of Liberty
  • Mary Ann McGuigan, Where You Belong
  • Tor Seidler, Mean Margaret

    • 1996: Victor Martinez, Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida ("my life", fiction)

  • Carolyn Coman, What Jamie Saw
  • Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster
  • Helen Kim, The Long Season of Rain
  • Han Nolan, Send Me Down a Miracle

    • 1984 to 1995: no awards

    Authors with two awards

    See Winners of multiple U.S. National Book Awards

    Two authors have won two Children's or Young People's awards twice.

  • Lloyd Alexander won for The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (1971) and Westmark (1982), among six titles that were finalists.
  • Katherine Paterson won for The Master Puppeteer (1977) and The Great Gilly Hopkins (1979), among three titles that were finalists.

    • Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Children's Literature award in 1970 for A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw and shared the Fiction award in 1974 for A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.

    References

    National Book Award for Young People's Literature Wikipedia
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