National Book Award

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature recognizes outstanding writing for children and teens. Added to the National Book Awards in 1996.

US citizens, work intended primarily for young readers.

2024

• Kareem Between — winner
• Buffalo Dreamer — shortlist
• The First State of Being — shortlist

2023

• A First Time for Everything — winner
• The Lost Year — shortlist
• Huda F Cares? — shortlist

2022

• All My Rage — winner
• Maizy Chen's Last Chance — shortlist
• Victory. Stand! — shortlist

2021

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club — winner
• The Legend of Auntie Po — shortlist
• Too Bright to See — shortlist
• Revolution in Our Time — shortlist
• Me (Moth) — shortlist

2020

• King and the Dragonflies — winner
• Every Body Looking — shortlist
• The Way Back — shortlist
• We Are Not Free — shortlist
• When Stars Are Scattered — shortlist

2019

• 1919 The Year That Changed America — winner
• Pet — shortlist
• Patron Saints of Nothing — shortlist
• Look Both Ways — shortlist
• Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All — shortlist

2018

• The Poet X — winner
• The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge — shortlist
• The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle — shortlist
• The Journey of Little Charlie — shortlist

2017

• Far from the Tree — winner
• Clayton Byrd Goes Underground — shortlist

2016

• The Sun Is Also a Star — shortlist
• Ghost — shortlist
• Raymie Nightingale — shortlist
• When the Sea Turned to Silver — shortlist

2015

• The Thing About Jellyfish — shortlist
• Bone Gap — shortlist
• Most Dangerous — shortlist

2014

• Brown Girl Dreaming — winner
• The Port Chicago 50 — shortlist
• Noggin — shortlist
• Threatened — shortlist

2013

• Far Far Away — shortlist

2012

• Goblin Secrets — winner
• Endangered — shortlist
• Never Fall Down — shortlist
• Bomb — shortlist
• Out of Reach — shortlist

2011

• Chime — shortlist
• My Name Is Not Easy — shortlist

2010

• Mockingbird — winner
• Dark Water — shortlist
• Lockdown — shortlist
• One Crazy Summer — shortlist
• Ship Breaker — shortlist

2009

• Jumped — shortlist
• Charles and Emma — shortlist
• Stitches — shortlist

2008

• What I Saw and How I Lied — winner
• The Underneath — shortlist
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks — shortlist
• The Spectacular Now — shortlist
• Chains — shortlist

2007

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret — shortlist
• Touching Snow — shortlist
• Skin Hunger — shortlist
• Story of a Girl — shortlist

2006

• Sold — shortlist
• Keturah and Lord Death — shortlist
• The Rules of Survival — shortlist
• American Born Chinese — shortlist

2005

• The Penderwicks — winner
• Where I Want to Be — shortlist
• Inexcusable — shortlist
• Autobiography of My Dead Brother — shortlist
• Each Little Bird that Sings — shortlist

2004

• Godless — winner
• Harlem Stomp! — shortlist
• Luna — shortlist
• The Legend of Buddy Bush — shortlist

2003

• An American Plague — shortlist
• Locomotion — shortlist
• Breakout — shortlist
• The River Between Us — shortlist

2002

• The House of the Scorpion — winner
• Feed — shortlist
• Hush — shortlist
• 19 Varieties of Gazelle — shortlist
• This Land Was Made for You and Me — shortlist