National Book Awards - Young People’s Literature
The National Book Awards have been awarded every November by the National Book Foundation in the United States since 1950. The Awards were established to enhance the public’s awareness of exceptional books written by Americans, and to increase the popularity of reading in general. The Winners, selected by five-member, independent judging panels for each genre, receive a US$10,000 cash award and a crystal sculpture.
2009
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Phillip Hoose ((Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Winner
- Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith Deborah Heiligman (Henry Holt)
- Stitches David Small (W. W. Norton & Co.)
- Lips Touch: Three Times Laini Taylor (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
- Jumped Rita Williams-Garcia (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)
2008
- What I Saw and How I Lied Judy Blundell (Scholastic) Winner
- Chains Laurie Halse Anderson (Simon & Schuster)
- The Underneath Kathi Appelt (Atheneum)
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks E. Lockhart (Hyperion)
- The Spectacular Now Tim Tharp (Alfred A. Knopf)
2007
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown) Winner
- Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One Kathleen Duey (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
- Touching Snow M. Sindy Felin (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)
- Story of a Girl Sara Zarr (Little, Brown)
- 2006
- The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party M.T. Anderson
- 2005
- The Penderwicks Jeanne Birdsall
- 2004
- Godless Pete Hautman
- 2003
- The Canning Season Polly Horvath
- 2002
- The House of the scorpion Nancy Farmer
- 2001
- True believer: A novel in the Make Lemonade Trilogy Virginia Euwer Wolff
- 2000
- Homeless bird Gloria Whelan
- 1999
- When Zachary Beaver came to town Kimberly Willis Holt
- 1998
- Holes Louis Sachar
- 1997
- Dancing at the edge Han Nolan
- 1996
- Parrot in the oven Victor Martinez