Year Author Title Result Ref. 1998 Joan Bauer Rules of the Road Winner [ 2] Joan Abelove Go and Come Back Finalist [ 3] Louis Sachar Holes Michael Cadnum In a Dark Wood Gary Paulsen Soldier’s Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard 1999 Robert Cormier Frenchtown Summer Winner [ 2] Walter Dean Myers Monster Finalist [ 4] David Almond Skellig Laurie Halse Anderson Speak Sonya Sones Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy 2000 Jacqueline Woodson Miracle's Boys Winner [ 2] Pam Muñoz Ryan Esperanza Rising Finalist [ 5] Adam Bagdasarian Forgotten Fire Carolyn Coman Many Stones Lori Aurelia Williams When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune 2001 Mildred D. Taylor The Land Winner [ 2] A. M. Jenkins Damage Finalist [ 6] Norma Fox Mazer Girlhearts Beverley Naidoo The Other Side of Truth Kevin Crossley-Holland The Seeing Stone 2002 M. T. Anderson Feed Winner [ 2] E. R. Frank America Finalist [ 7] Joyce Carol Oates Big Mouth & Ugly Girl Kate Banks Dillon Dillon Sarah Dessen This Lullaby 2003 Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light Winner [ 8] Francine Prose After Finalist [ 8] Kevin Henkes Olive’s Ocean Richard Peck The River Between Us Martha Brooks True Confessions of a Heartless Girl 2004 Melvin Burgess Doing It Winner [ 9] Meg Rosoff How I Live Now Finalist [ 9] Michael Morpurgo Private Peaceful Benjamin Alire Sáenz Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood Adam Rapp Under the Wolf, Under the Dog 2005 Per Nilsson You & You & You Winner [ 10] Margo Lanagan Black Juice Finalist [ 10] Markus Zusak I Am the Messenger John Green Looking for Alaska Andreas Steinhöfel The Center of the World 2006 Coe Booth Tyrell Winner [ 2] [ 11] John Green An Abundance of Katherines Finalist [ 12] Meg Rosoff Just in Case M. T. Anderson The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party Nancy Werlin The Rules of Survival 2007 Philip Reeve A Darkling Plain Winner [ 13] Kenneth Oppel Darkwing Finalist [ 13] Sherman Alexie Ellen Forney The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Geraldine McCaughrean The White Darkness Walter Dean Myers What They Found: Love on 145th Street 2008 Terry Pratchett Nation Winner [ 14] [ 15] Oscar Hijuelos Dark Dude Finalist [ 16] Nate Powell Swallow Me Whole Neil Gaiman Dave McKean and Chris Riddell (illus.) The Graveyard Book Candace Fleming The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary 2009 Elizabeth Partridge Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary Winner [ 17] Deborah Heiligman Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith Finalist [ 17] Shaun Tan Tales from Outer Suburbia Frances Hardinge The Lost Conspiracy James Cross Giblin The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy 2010 Megan Whalen Turner A Conspiracy of Kings Winner [ 18] Marc Aronson Marina Budhos Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science Finalist [ 18] Rick Yancey The Curse of the Wendigo Jonathan Stroud The Ring of Solomon Stephanie Hemphill Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials 2011 Pete Hautman The Big Crunch Winner [ 19] Patrick Ness Jim Kay (illus.) A Monster Calls Finalist [ 20] Libba Bray Beauty Queens Mal Peet Life: An Exploded Diagram Maggie Stiefvater The Scorpio Races 2012 A. S. King Ask the Passengers Winner [ 21] [ 22] Matthew Quick Boy21 Finalist [ 23] Elizabeth Wein Code Name Verity Martine Leavitt My Book of Life by Angel Paolo Bacigalupi The Drowned Cities 2013 Gene Yang Boxers and Saints Winner [ 24] Rainbow Rowell Fangirl Finalist [ 25] Jonathan Stroud Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase Elizabeth Knox Mortal Fire Joyce Sidman What the Heart Knows: Chants 2014 Candace Fleming The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia Winner [ 26] Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming Finalist [ 27] Paul Fleischman Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines Andrew Smith Grasshopper Jungle E.K. Johnston The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim 2015 Marilyn Nelson My Seneca Village Winner [ 28] Don Brown Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans Finalist [ 28] Steve Sheinkin Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War Jason Reynolds The Boy in the Black Suit Laura Amy Schlitz The Hired Girl 2016 Frances Hardinge The Lie Tree Winner [ 29] Meg Medina Burn, Baby, Burn Finalist [ 30] John Lewis Andrew Aydin , and Nate Powell March: Book Three Socorro Acioli Daniel Hahn (trans.)The Head of the Saint Julie Berry The Passion of Dolssa 2017 Jason Reynolds Long Way Down Winner [ 31] E. Lockhart Genuine Fraud Finalist [ 31] Renée Watson Piecing Me Together Dashka Slater The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives Angie Thomas The Hate U Give 2018 Elizabeth Acevedo The Poet X Winner [ 32] M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge Finalist [ 33] Leslie Connor The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle Christopher Paul Curtis The Journey of Little Charlie Jarrett J. Krosoczka Hey, Kiddo 2019 Malla Nunn When the Ground is Hard Winner [ 34] Laurie Halse Anderson Shout Finalist [ 35] A. S. King Dig Thanhha Lai Butterfly Yellow Randy Ribay Patron Saints of Nothing 2020 Yusef Salaam Ibi Zoboi Punching the Air Winner [ 36] Allan Wolf The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party Finalist [ 37] Dean Atta The Black Flamingo Karen Schneemann Go With the Flow Tracy Deonn Legendborn 2021 Rita Williams-Garcia A Sitting in St. James Winner [ 38] Malinda Lo Last Night at the Telegraph Club Finalist [ 39] Darcie Little Badger A Snake Falls to Earth Kekla Magoon Revolution in Our Time Paula Yoo From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry 2022 Lyn Miller-Lachmann Torch Winner [ 40] Samira Ahmed Hollow Fires Finalist [ 40] Sabaa Tahir All My Rage Andrew Joseph White Hell Followed With Us Kip Wilson The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin 2023 Amber McBride Gone Wolf Winner [ 41] Jennifer Baker Forgive Me Not Finalist [ 42] Olivia A. Cole Dear Medusa Kim Johnson Invisible Son Sarah Myer Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story 2024 Kim Johnson The Color of a Lie Winner [ 43] Traci Chee Kindling Finalist K.A. Cobell Looking for Smoke Safia Elhillo Bright Red Fruit Carolina Ixta Shut Up, This Is Serious