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.
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