Year
Author(s)
Book Title
Publisher
1997[ 5]
Nancy Farmer
A Girl Named Disaster
Orchard Books
Will Hobbs
Far North
HarperCollins
Binjamin Wilkomirski
Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood
Schocken
Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass / Northern Lights
Scholastic Point
John Gilstrap
Nathan's Run
Pinnacle Books
Walter Dean Myers
One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album
Harcourt Brace
Rob Thomas
Rats Saw God
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Joshua Blum , Bob Holman and Mark Pellington
The United States of Poetry
Harry N. Abrams
Mel Glenn
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems
Lodestar Books
Rich Wallace
Wrestling Sturbridge
Random House Children's Books
1998[ 6]
Annette Curtis Klause
Blood and Chocolate
Random House
Edward Bloor
Tangerine
Harcourt
Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air
Villard Books
Joyce McDonald
Swallowing Stones
Ember
Karen Hesse
Out of the Dust
Scholastic Incorporated
Marjorie Reynolds
Starlite Drive-In
Penguin Group
Robert Cormier
Tenderness
Random House Children's Books
Sara Tuvel Bernstein
Seamstress
Berkley Books
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Growing Up in Coal Country
Houghton Mifflin Company
Walter Dean Myers
Harlem
Scholastic Press
1999[ 7]
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Hidden
Simon and Schuster
Penny Colman
Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts
Holt
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
(Harry Potter , Book One)
Scholastic Press
Louis Sachar
Holes
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Jacqueline Woodson
If You Come Softly
Putnam
Jean Ferris
Love Among the Walnuts
Harcourt Brace
Kimberly Willis Holt
My Louisiana Sky
Holt Publishing
Anita Lobel
No Pretty Pictures: a Child of War
Greenwillow
Ben Mikaelsen
Petey
Hyperion
Joan Bauer
Rules of the Road
Putnam
2000[ 8]
Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Shadow
Tor
Kimberly Willis Holt
When Zachary Beaver came to Town
Henry Holt & Co
Sherryl Jordan
The Raging Quiet
Simon and Schuster
Laura and Tom McNeal
Crooked
Alfred A. Knopf
Carolyn Meyer
Mary, Bloody Mary
Harcourt Brace
Walter Dean Myers
Monster
HarperCollins
Lensey Namioka
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break
Delacorte Press
Connie Porter
Imani All Mine
Houghton Mifflin
Irene Gut Opdyke
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Alfred A. Knopf
2001[ 9]
Adam Bagdasarian
Forgotten Fire
DK
Joan Bauer
Hope was Here
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Tracy Chevalier
Girl with a Pearl Earring
E. P. Dutton
Jon Katz
Geeks: How Two Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
Villard
E. L. Konigsburg
Silent to the Bone
Jean Karl Book /Atheneum Books
Gary Paulsen
The Beet Fields
Delacorte Press
Pam Munoz Ryan
Esperanza Rising
Scholastic Press
Jerry Spinelli
Stargirl
Alfred A. Knopf
Gloria Whelan
Homeless Bird
HarperCollins
Ruth White
Memories of Summer
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
2002[ 10]
Ann Brashares
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Delacorte
Robert Cormier
The Rag and Bone Shop
Delacorte
Chris Crutcher
Whale Talk
HarperCollins
Alex Flinn
Breathing Underwater
HarperCollins
A. M. Jenkins
Damage
HarperCollins
Richard Mosher
Zazoo
Houghton Mifflin
Garth Nix
Lirael
HarperCollins
Mildred D. Taylor
The Land
Penguin Putnam
Rita Williams-Garcia
Every Time a Rainbow Dies
William Morrow
Virginia Euwer Wolff
True Believer
Atheneum
2003[ 11]
Iain Lawrence
The Lightkeeper's Daughter
Random House /Delacorte Press
E. R. Frank
America
Simon & Schuster /Atheneum /A Richard Jackson Book
Laurie Halse Anderson
Catalyst
Penguin Putnam /Viking Press
Nancy Farmer
The House of the Scorpion
Simon & Schuster /Atheneum /A Richard Jackson Book
Naomi Shihab Nye
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
HarperCollins /Greenwillow
Elizabeth Partridge
This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie
Penguin Putnam /Viking
Gordon Korman
Son of the Mob
Hyperion Books for Children
Peter Nelson
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
Random House /Delacorte Press
M. T. Anderson
Feed
Candlewick Press
Christopher Moore
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
HarperCollins /William Morrow & Co.
2004[ 12]
Martha Brooks
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Farrar, Straus and Giroux /Melanie Kroupa Books
Jennifer Donnelly
A Northern Light
Harcourt
Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
Random House /Doubleday
Angela Johnson
The First Part Last
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
David Levithan
Boy Meets Boy
Random House /Alfred A. Knopf
Joyce Maynard
The Usual Rules
St. Martin's Press
Edith Pattou
East
Harcourt Children's Books
Adam Rapp
33 Snowfish
Candlewick Press
Jonathan Stroud
The Amulet of Samarkand
(Bartimaeus Trilogy , Book One)
Hyperion Books for Children /Miramax
Craig Thompson
Blankets: An Illustrated Novel
Top Shelf Productions
2005[ 13]
Joshua Braff
The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
Workman Publishing Co. / Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Christopher Paul Curtis
Bucking the Sarge
Random House /Wendy Lamb
Phillip Hoose
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
Farrar, Straus and Giroux /Melanie Kroupa Books
David Levithan
The Realm of Possibility
Random House Children's Books /Alfred A. Knopf
Melina Marchetta
Saving Francesca
Random House Children's Books /Alfred A. Knopf
Michael Morpurgo
Private Peaceful
Scholastic
Kenneth Oppel
Airborn
HarperCollins Children's Book Group /Eos Press
Adam Rapp
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
Candlewick Press
Benjamin Alire Saenz
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
Cinco Puntos Press
Sarah Weeks
So B. It: a novel
HarperCollins Children's Books / Laura Geringer Books
2006[ 14]
Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton
Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story
Bloomsbury Publishing
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
Scholastic
Kalisha Buckhanon
Upstate
St. Martin's Press
John Green
Looking for Alaska
E. P. Dutton
Chris Lynch
Inexcusable
Simon & Schuster /Atheneum Books
Stephenie Meyer
Twilight: A Novel
(Twilight , Book One)
Little, Brown & Co. /Megan Tingley
Brian K. Vaughan with Adrian Alphona (Illus.)
Runaways: Volume 1 HC
Marvel Press
Scott Westerfeld
Peeps
Penguin Books /Razorbill
Chris Wooding
Poison
Scholastic /Orchard
Markus Zusak
I am the Messenger
Alfred A. Knopf
2007[ 15]
M. T. Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
Candlewick Press
Alan Gratz
Samurai Shortstop
Penguin Group /Dial Press
Sonya Hartnett
Surrender
Candlewick Press
Patricia McCormick
Sold
Hyperion
Meghan Nuttall Sayres
Anahita's Woven Riddle
Abrams Books /Amulet Books
John Smelcer
The Trap
Henry Holt & Co
Megan Whalen Turner
The King of Attolia
HarperCollins /Greenwillow
Nancy Werlin
The Rules of Survival
Penguin Group /Dial Press
Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien
American Born Chinese
Roaring Brook Press /First Second Books
Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Random House /Alfred A. Knopf
2008[ 16]
Sherman Alexie with Ellen Forney (Illus.)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
Little, Brown & Co.
Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Farrar, Straus and Giroux /Sarah Crichton
Jenny Downham
Before I Die
Random House /David Fickling
Stephanie Hemphill
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
Random House /Alfred A. Knopf
Lloyd Jones
Mister Pip
Dell Publishing /Dial Press
Derek Landy
Skulduggery Pleasant : The Sceptor of the Ancients
(Skulduggery Pleasant , Book One)
HarperCollins
Mal Peet
Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
Candlewick Press
Matthew Polly
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
Penguin Group USA /Gotham Books
Brian Selznick
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel
Scholastic
Shaun Tan
The Arrival
Scholastic /Arthur A. Levine
2009[ 17]
Robin Bowman
It's Complicated: The American Teenager
Umbrage Editions
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Scholastic
Leslie Conner
Waiting for Normal
HarperCollins /HarperTeen
Matt de la Pena
Mexican WhiteBoy
Delacorte Press
Siobhan Dowd
Bog Child
Random House /David Fickling Books
Christine Fletcher
Ten Cents a Dance
Bloomsbury
Joseph Monninger
Baby
Boyd Mills Press /Front Street
Terry Pratchett
Nation
HarperCollins
Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
Skim
House of Anansi Press / Groundwood Books
Coert Voorhees
The Brothers Torres
Disney /Hyperion
2010[ 18]
Sarah Rees Brennan
Demon's Lexicon
(The Demon's Lexicon, Book One)
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing /Margaret K. McElderry
Paul Griffin
The Orange Houses
Penguin /Dial Books
M. H. Herlong
The Great Wide Sea
Penguin /Viking
Catherine Jinks
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Harcourt / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Donna Jo Napoli
Alligator Bayou
Random House / Alfred A. Knopf
David Small
Stitches: A Memoir
W. W. Norton & Co
Rebecca Stead
When You Reach Me
Random House /Wendy Lamb
Francisco X. Stork
Marcelo in the Real World
Scholastic /Arthur A. Levine Books
Laini Taylor
Lips Touch: Three Times
Scholastic /Arthur A. Levine Books
Sally M. Walker
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Lerner /Carolrhoda Books
2011[ 19]
Paolo Bacigalupi
Ship Breaker
Little, Brown & Co
Jennifer Donnelly
Revolution
Random House /Delacorte Press
Melina Marchetta
Finnikin of the Rock
Candlewick Press
Morgan Matson
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
Simon & Schuster
Lish McBride
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
Macmillan Children's Book Group /Henry Holt & Co.
Andy Mulligan
Trash
Random House /David Fickling Books
Mitali Perkins
Bamboo People
Charlesbridge
Dana Reinhardt
The Things a Brother Knows
Random House /Wendy Lamb
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Cinco Puntos Press
Marcus Sedgwick
Revolver
MacMillian Publishers /Roaring Brook Press
2012[ 20]
Rae Carson
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
HarperTeen
Joshua C. Cohen
Leverage
Penguin Group /E. P. Dutton
A. S. King
Everybody Sees the Ants
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Under the Mesquite
Lee & Low Books
Lauren Myracle
Shine
Abrams Books /Amulet Books
Patrick Ness with Jim Kay (Illus)
A Monster Calls
Candlewick Press
Ruta Sepetys
Between Shades of Gray
Penguin Group /Philomel Books
Maggie Stiefvater
The Scorpio Races
Scholastic
Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
(Daughter of Smoke and Bone , Book One)
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Sara Zarr
How to Save a Life
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
2013[ 21]
Jesse Andrews
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Abrams Books /Amulet Books
Libba Bray
The Diviners
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Rachel Hartman
Seraphina
Random House Books for Young Readers
Alethea Kontis
Enchanted
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt /Harcourt Children's Books
David Levithan
Every Day
Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers
Patricia McCormick
Never Fall Down
HarperCollins /Balzer + Bray
Matthew Quick
Boy 21
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys
Scholastic
Elizabeth Wein
Code Name Verity
Disney /Hyperion
2014[ 22]
Julie Berry
All the Truth That's in Me
Penguin Putnam /Viking
Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Freakboy
Macmillan Publishers /Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Tim Federle
Better Nate Than Ever
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Tom McNeal
Far Far Away
Random House /Knopf Books for Young Readers
Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor & Park
Macmillan Publishers /St. Martin's Press
Marcus Sedgwick
Midwinterblood
Macmillan Publishers /Roaring Brook Press
Ruta Sepetys
Out of the Easy
Penguin Books /Philomel Books
Andrew A. Smith with Sam Bosma (Illus.)
Winger
Simon & Schuster
Tara Sullivan
Golden Boy
Penguin Books / G. P. Putnam's sons Juvenile
Elizabeth Wein
Rose Under Fire
Disney /Hyperion
2015[ 23]
Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
Dial Press
William Ritter
Jackaby
Algonquin
John Corey Whaley
Noggin
Atheneum Books
Jessie Ann Foley
The Carnival at Bray
Elephant Rock Books
Kwame Alexander
The Crossover
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Brendan Kiely
The Gospel of Winter
Simon & Schuster /Margaret K. McElderry
E. K. Johnston
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
Carolrhoda /Lab
Marie Lu
The Young Elites
G. P. Putnam's sons
Timothee de Fombelle
Vango
Candlewick Press
E. Lockhart
We Were Liars
Delacorte Publishing
2016[ 24]
Becky Albertalli
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
HarperCollins /Balzer + Bray
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows
Holt
Kevin Brooks
The Bunker Diary
Lerner Publishing Group /Carolrhoda Lab
Melanie Crowder
Audacity
Philomel Books
Daniel José Older
Shadowshaper
Scholastic /Arthur A. Levine Books
Jason Reynolds
The Boy in the Black Suit
Atheneum Books
Laura Ruby
Bone Gap
HarperCollins /Balzer + Bray
Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
X: A Novel
Candlewick Press
Neal Shusterman
Challenger Deep
HarperTeen
Adam Silvera
More Happy than Not
Soho Teen
2017[ 25]
Julie Berry
The Passion of Dolssa
Viking Books for Young Readers
Traci Chee
The Reader
G. P. Putnam's Sons / Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Frances Hardinge
The Lie Tree
Abrams Books
Mindy McGinnis
The Female of the Species
HarperCollins /Katherine Tegen Books
Meg Medina
Burn Baby Burn
Candlewick Press
Jason Reynolds
Ghost
Atheneum Books /Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea
Philomel Books
Neal Shusterman
Scythe
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Nicola Yoon
The Sun is Also a Star
Delacorte Press
Jeff Zentner
The Serpent King
Crown Books for Young Readers
2018[ 26]
Elana Arnold
What Girls Are Made Of
Lerner Publishing Group /Carolrhoda Lab
Leigh Bardugo with Sara Kipin (Illus.)
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
Macmillan Publishers
Mackenzi Lee
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen
Sarah Moon
Sparrow
Scholastic /Arthur A. Levine
Jason Reynolds
Long Way Down
Simon & Schuster /Atheneum Books
Laini Taylor
Strange the Dreamer
Little, Brown & Co
Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give
HarperCollins /Balzer + Bray
Renee Watson
Piecing Me Together
Bloomsbury USA
Francesca Zappia
Eliza and Her Monsters
HarperCollins /Greenwillow
Jeff Zentner
Goodbye Days
Crown Books for Young Readers
2019[ 27]
Elizabeth Acevedo
The Poet X
HarperTeen
Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
What if It's Us
HarperTeen
Holly Black
The Cruel Prince
(The Folk of the Air , Book One)
Little, Brown & Co.
Deb Caletti
A Heart in a Body in the World
Simon Pulse
Justina Ireland
Dread Nation
HarperCollins /Balzer + Bray
Tiffany D. Jackson
Monday's Not Coming
HarperCollins /Katherine Tegen Books
Adib Khorram
Darius the Great is Not Okay
Dial Press
Emma Mills
Foolish Hearts
Henry Holt & Co
Preston Norton
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe
Disney Hyperion
Shivaun Plozza
Frankie
Flatiron Books
2020[ 28]
Ben Philippe
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
HarperCollins /Balzer+Bray
Sharon Biggs Waller
Girls on the Verge
Holt
Mindy McGinnis
Heroine
HarperCollins /Katherine Tegen Books
Abdi Nazemian
Like a Love Story
HarperCollins /Balzer+Bray
Julie Berry
Lovely War
Viking Press
Angie Thomas
On the Come Up
HarperCollins /Balzer+Bray
Randy Ribay
Patron Saints of Nothing
Penguin /Kokila
Akwaeke Emezi
Pet
Random House /Make Me a World
Junauda Petrus
The Stars and the Blackness between Them
E. P. Dutton
Elizabeth Acevedo
With the Fire on High
HarperTeen
2021[ 29]
Mindy McGinnis
Be Not Far from Me
HarperCollins /Katherine Tegen Books
Aiden Thomas
Cemetery Boys
Macmillan /Swoon Reads
Elizabeth Acevedo
Clap When You Land
HarperCollins /HarperTeen
Frances Hardinge
Deeplight
Abrams Books /Amulet Books
Tiffany D. Jackson
Grown
HarperCollins /Katherine Tegen Books
Syed M. Masood
More Than Just a Pretty Face
Hachette /Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Jordan Ifueko
Raybearer
Abrams Books /Amulet Books
Kim Johnson
This Is My America
Random House Books for Young Readers
Jenny Torres Sanchez
We Are Not from Here
Penguin Random House /Philomel Books
Jennifer Longo
What I Carry
Random House Books for Young Readers
2022[ 30]
Dhonielle Clayton , Tiffany D. Jackson , Nic Stone , Angie Thomas , Ashley Woodfolk , and Nicola Yoon
Blackout
HarperCollins /Quill Tree Books
Aden Polydoros
The City Beautiful
Harlequin /Inkyard Press
Angie Thomas
Concrete Rose
HarperCollins /Balzer + Bray
David Arnold
The Electric Kingdom
Penguin Random House /Viking Books for Young Readers
Angeline Boulley
Firekeeper's Daughter
Macmillan /Henry Holt & Co. Books for Young Readers
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Jeff Zentner
In the Wild Light
Penguin Random House /Crown Books for Young Readers
Malinda Lo
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Penguin Random House /Dutton Books
Margaret Owen
Little Thieves
Macmillan /Henry Holt & Co. Books for Young Readers
Amber McBride
Me (Moth)
Macmillan /Feiwel & Friends
Joan He
The Ones We're Meant to Find
Macmillan /Roaring Brook Press