Youth Literature Award Winners

Caribou Song
by Tomson Highway; John Rombough (Illustrator)

How I Became a Ghost
by Tim Tingle

Killer of Enemies
by Joseph Bruchac

Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner
by Tim Tingle

If I Ever Get Out of Here
by Eric L. Gansworth

Parrots over Puerto Rico by Susan L. Roth (Illustrator); Cindy Trumbore

Diego Rivera by Susan Goldman Rubin

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh

Jet Black and the Ninja Wind
by Leza Lowitz; Shogo Oketani

The Thing About Luck
by Cynthia Kadohata; Julia Kuo (Illustrator)

Red Kite, Blue Kite
by Ji-Li Jiang; Greg Ruth (Illustrator)

Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible
by Suzanne Kamata

The Vine Basket
by Josanne La Valley

Barbed Wire Baseball
by Marissa Moss; Yuko Shimizu (Illustrator)

Mister Orange
by Truus Matti

The Bathing Costume or the Worst Vacation of my Life
by Charlotte Moundlic; Olivier Tallec (Illustrator)

My Father's Arms Are a Boat
by Stein Erik Lunde; Øyvind Torseter (Illustrator)

The War Within These Walls
by Aline Sax; Caryl Strzelecki (Illustrator)

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown

Rose under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

Saints by Gene Luen Yang; BookSource Staff (Compiled by)

Boxers by Gene Luen Yang (Illustrator); Lark Pien (Inked or colored by)

The Animal Book by Steve Jenkins (Illustrator)

Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)

Knock Knock by Daniel Beaty; Bryan Collier (Artist)

Rules of Summer by Shaun Tan (Illustrator)

Locomotive
by Brian Floca

Journey
by Aaron Becker

Flora and the Flamingo
by Molly Idle

Mr. Wuffles!
by David Wiesner

P.S. Be Eleven
by Rita Williams-Garcia

Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me
by Daniel Beaty; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)

When the Beat Was Born
by Laban Carrick Hill; Theodore Taylor (Illustrator)

March: Book One
by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Illustrator)

Darius and Twig
by Walter Dean Myers

Words with Wings
by Nikki Grimes

Nelson Mandela
by Kadir Nelson

The Nazi Hunters
by Neal Bascomb

Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design
by Chip Kidd

Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II
by Martin W. Sandler

Courage Has No Color - The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
by Tanya Lee Stone

The President Has Been Shot! The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
by James L. Swanson

Tea Party Rules
by Ame Dyckman; K.G. Campbell (Illustrator)

Rain!
by Linda Ashman; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)

Sophie's Squash
by Pat Zietlow Miller; Anne Wilsdorf (Illustrator)

I Love You, Nose! I Love You, Toes!
by Linda Davick

Take Me Out to the Yakyu
by Aaron Meshon

My Grandpa
by Marta Altés

The Watermelon Seed
by Greg Pizzoli

Ball
by Mary Sullivan

A Big Guy Took My Ball!
by Mo Willems

Penny and Her Marble
by Kevin Henkes

Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle
by Brian Dennis

Because of Mr. Terupt
by Rob Buyea

Legend
by Marie Lu

Divergent
by Veronica Roth

If You Could Be Mine
by Sara Farizan

Two Boys Kissing
by David Levithan

Better Nate Than Ever
by Tim Federle

Boy in Box
by Christopher Michael

Girls I've Run Away With
by Rhiannon Argo

Openly Straight
by Bill Konigsberg

Rapture Practice
by Aaron Hartzler

Secret City
by Julia Watts

The Secret Ingredient
by Stewart Lewis

The Summer Prince
by Alaya Dawn Johnson

What Makes a Baby
by Cory Silverberg; Fiona Smyth (Illustrator)

Charm & Strange
by Stephanie Kuehn

Sex and Violence
by Carrie Mesrobian

Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets
by Evan Roskos

Belle Epoque
by Elizabeth Ross

In the Shadow of Blackbirds
by Cat Winters

Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson

Threatened
by Eliot Schrefer

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
by Steve Sheinkin

Noggin
by John Corey Whaley

Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book 2
by Deborah Wiles

Draw!
by Raúl Colón

Shackleton's Journey
by William Grill

Haiti My Country: Poems by Haitian Schoolchildren
by Rogé

Harlem Hellfighters
by J. Patrick Lewis; Gary Kelley (Illustrator)

Time for Bed, Fred!
by Yasmeen Ismail

Here Is the Baby
by Polly Kanevsky; Taeeun Yoo (Illustrator)

Where's Mommy?
by Beverly Donofrio; Barbara Mcclintock (Illustrator)

The Promise
by Nicola Davies; Laura Carlin (Illustrator)

The Baby Tree
by Sophie Blackall

The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
by Peter Sís

Flora and Ulysses
by Kate DiCamillo; K. G. Campbell (Illustrator)

Doll Bones
by Holly Black; Eliza Wheeler (Illustrator)

The Year of Billy Miller
by Kevin Henkes

One Came Home
by Amy Timberlake

Paperboy
by Vince Vawter

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
by Jennifer Bryant; Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)

Locomotive
by Brian Floca

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős
by Deborah Heiligman; LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)

Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
by Michelle Markel; Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)

Parrots over Puerto Rico
by Susan L. Roth; Cindy Trumbore

Courage Has No Color - The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
by Tanya Lee Stone

Midwinterblood
by Marcus Sedgwick

Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell

The Kingdom of Little Wounds
by Susann Cokal

Maggot Moon
by Sally Gardner; Julian Crouch (Illustrator)

Navigating Early
by Clare Vanderpool

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
by Meg Medina

Niño Wrestles the World
by Yuyi Morales

The Lightning Dreamer
by Margarita Engle

The Living
by Matt De la Peña

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
by Duncan Tonatiuh

María Tenía una Llamita
by Angela Dominguez

Tito Puente, Mambo King
by Monica Brown; Rafael López (Illustrator)

Rose under Fire
by Elizabeth Wein

Handbook for Dragon Slayers
by Merrie Haskell

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
by Jennifer Bryant; Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)

Parrots over Puerto Rico
by Susan L. Roth; Cindy Trumbore

A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
by Jennifer Bryant; Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)

Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
by Annette LeBlanc Cate

Locomotive
by Brian Floca

The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
by Jan Greenberg; Sandra Jordan

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
by Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Fat Angie
by E. E. Charlton-Trujillo

Better Nate Than Ever
by Tim Federle

Branded by the Pink Triangle
by Ken Setterington

Two Boys Kissing
by David Levithan

The Longest Night by Laurel Snyder & Cátia Chien (Illustrator)

The Blessing Cup by Patricia Polacco

The Nazi Hunters How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb

Rifka Takes a Bow by Rebecca Rosenberg Perlov & Cosei Kawa (Illustrator)

Stones for Grandpa by Renee Londner & Martha Avilés Junco (Illustrator)

The Boy on the Wooden Box How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's list by Leon Leyson; Marilyn J. Harran; Elisabeth B. Leyson

Dear Canada: Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz, Winnipeg,Manitoba, 1948 by Carol Matas

Dancing in the Dark by Robyn Bavati

The War Within These Walls by Aline Sax; Caryl Strzelecki (Illustrator); Laura Watkinson (translator)

The Dark
by Lemony Snicket; Jon Klassen (Illustrator)

Building Our House
by Jonathan Bean

My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood
by Tameka Fryer Brown; Shane Evans (Illustrator)

Year of the Jungle
by Suzanne Collins; James Proimos (Illustrator)

Sophie's Squash
by Pat Zietlow Miller; Anne Wilsdorf (Illustrator)

This Is the Rope
by Jacqueline Woodson; James Ransome (Illustrator)