Book Award Winners (YA) | Wellington City Libraries

The impossible story of Hannah Kemp : a novel

Agnew, Leonie

Paper Book

The unpublished manuscript was the winner of the 2022 Tessa Duder Award: a powerful exploration of guilt, forgiveness, choice and personal responsibility. Hannah Kemp is dealing with a traumatic accident for which she was responsible. Struggling to come to terms with her guilt...

Storylines Tessa Duder Award (NZ) -- 2022 winner

Displaced

Sanders, Cristina

Paper Book

An enthralling historical novel of immigration, courage and first love from an award-winning New Zealand author. Eloise and her family must leave Cornwall on a treacherous sea journey to start a new life in 1870s colonial New Zealand. On the ship across, Eloise meets...

Storylines Tessa Duder Award (NZ) -- 2020 winner

All my rage

Tahir, Sabaa

Paper Book

National Book Award WINNER Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature WINNER An INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER! "All My Rage is a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home...

Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Book Awards (USA) -- 2023 Printz Award winner

Ursa

Shaw, Tina

Paper Book

This alternate history coming-of-age YA is the Winner of the 2018 Storylines Tessa Duder Award. "An inferior people, that's what the Director called us at the beginning of his reign, but still useful." There are two peoples living in the city...

Storylines Tessa Duder Award (NZ) -- 2018 winner

The traitor and the thief

Ward, Gareth

Paper Book

Storylines Tessa Duder Award (NZ) -- 2015 winner

A necklace of souls

Stedman, R. L.

Paper Book

In the Kingdom of the Rose only the power of the Guardian's necklace can keep the people safe from the forces threatening to destroy it. In a hidden kingdom a mysterious Guardian protects her people with the help of a magical necklace. But evil forces are also seeking the power of the necklace, and...

Storylines Tessa Duder Award (NZ) -- 2012 winner

Reach

Brown, Hugh

Paper Book

Shy Will is finally forced to come out of seclusion, and reach past the myths of his past and the fantasies of his future, to grab hold of life. This witty first novel will wrap you up in its delightful word play as you join Will on his journey. Raised by octogenarian grandparents after...

Storylines Tessa Duder Award (NZ) -- 2011 winner

I must betray you

Sepetys, Ruta

Paper Book

#1 New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to...

The Carnegie Medal (UK) -- 2023 Shadowers' Choice

Iris and me

Werry, Philippa

Paper Book

So begins the story of Iris Wilkinson, who wrote poetry, novels and journalism under the pen name Robin Hyde. In January 1938, she left New Zealand for England. On the way, intrigued by glimpses of China, she ventured inland despite the war raging there, becoming one of the first women war...

New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: YA Fiction Award (NZ) -- 2023 winner

Firekeeper's daughter

Boulley, Angeline

Paper Book

A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER! A MORRIS AWARD WINNER! AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK! A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Soon to be adapted at Netflix...

Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Book Awards (USA) -- 2022 Printz and Morris Award winner

Goodreads Choice Awards -- 2021 YA Fiction winner

Learning to love blue

Koirala, Saradha

Paper Book

Learning to love Blue is the long-awaited sequel to 2017 Storylines Notable Book Award winner Lonesome when you go.With Vox Pop and high school behind her, 18-year-old Paige arrives in Melbourne with her suitcase and bass guitar; a copy of Bob Dylan's Chronicles and Joni Mitchell's Blue - a gift...

New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: YA Fiction Award (NZ) -- 2022 winner

The po?rangi boy

Kino, Shilo

Paper Book

"Twelve-year-old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring and a taniwha named Taukere. The government plan to build a prison here and destroy the home of the taniwha has divided the community. Some are against it, but others see it as an opportunity. Niko is worried about...

New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: YA Fiction Award (NZ) -- 2021 winner

Aspiring

Wilkins, Damien

Paper Book

Sixteen-year-old Ricky has a part time job in a cafe in a South Island town being transformed by tourism. Over several months, as Ricky bicycles through the town and his daily round, we bear witness to his friendships, the trial and hilarity of school, his stirrings for prickly Keri, the mystery of...

New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: YA Fiction Award (NZ) -- 2020 winner

Legacy

Hereaka, Whiti

Paper Book

Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about school and the future, but mostly about his girlfriend, who has suddenly stopped texting him. But on his way to see her, he's hit by a bus and his life radically changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, and finds he's living through...

New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: YA Fiction Award (NZ) -- 2019 winner

The tomo

Scott, Mary-Anne

Paper Book

I'm too busy to babysit, so I hope you and that mongrel are up for the job. Phil, and his father's beloved heading dog, Blue, have to spend the Christmas break working on a sheep station while Phil's dad undergoes out-of-town, cancer treatment. The station manager, Chopper, isn't happy having a...

Storylines Notable Book List 2022 (NZ)

Black spiral

Merriman, Eileen (Haematologist)

Paper Book

THE SUSPENSE-FILLED CONCLUSION TO THE BLACK SPIRAL TRILOGY Violet and Johnno have escaped the Foundation's compounds. Reunited, they need somewhere safe for the three of them to hide- Violet, Johnno and their unborn child. Beat. Heartbeat. One, two, three. I only just...

Storylines Notable Book List 2022 (NZ)

Coastwatcher

Hill, David

Paper Book

David Hill's tense, exciting war adventure inspired by the coastwatchers of Operation Pacific - winner of the 2022 NZSA Heritage Children's Book Award. 'It's not going to be a cushy job, young Benson. You're on your own. Japs will be looking for you. Far as they're concerned,...

Storylines Notable Book List 2022 (NZ)

Black wolf

Merriman, Eileen (Haematologist)

Paper Book

THE SECOND RIVETING BOOK IN THE FAST-PACED BLACK SPIRAL TRILOGY. Back from Germany and the assignment that went horribly wrong, Violet doesn't know who to trust- It's fortunate for me that the Foundation staff can't read my thoughts. . . If they could read...

Storylines Notable Book List 2022 (NZ)

Tama Sa?moa

Malaeulu, Dahlia

Paper Book

"Sione, Lima, Tavita and Filipo are high school friends, uso or brothers. They are part of a special letter-writing project that helps to start a brave new conversation, an open and honest talanoa with themselves starting with the words, Dear Uso ... Here they share the cultural challenges they face...

Storylines Notable Book List 2022 (NZ)

Indigo moon

Merriman, Eileen (Haematologist)

Paper Book

Book 1 of the gritty, fast-paced, thought-provoking Eternity Loop Series. Promise you will never, ever mess with time . . . Both Rigel and Indigo are Offspring, born to virally optimised parents. With dire warnings about the possible consequences of time...

Storylines Notable Book List 2022 (NZ)

Tiger daughter

Lim, Rebecca

Paper Book

Wen Zhou is determined to create a future for herself that is more satisfying than the life her parents expect her to lead. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, the CBCA shortlisted Tiger Daughter is a wonderfully compelling and authentic Own Voices novel about growing up Asian in Australia...

Children's Book Council of Australia: Book of the Year for Older Readers (AU) -- 2022 winner

This is how we change the ending

Wakefield, Vikki

Paper Book

Sixteen-year-old Nate McKee is doing his best to be invisible. He's worried about a lot of things - how his dad treats Nance and his twin half-brothers; the hydro crop in his bedroom; the way his friend Merrick always drags him into fights. And he has never forgiven his mother for leaving. But none...

Children's Book Council of Australia: Book of the Year for Older Readers (AU) -- 2020 winner

Between us

Atkins, Claire

Paper Book

Winner, CBCA's 2019 Book of the Year for Older Readers Is it possible for two very different teenagers to fall in love despite high barbed-wire fences and a political wilderness between them? Anahita is passionate, curious and determined. She is also an...

Children's Book Council of Australia: Book of the Year for Older Readers (AU) -- 2019 winner

Take three girls

Crowley, Cath

Paper Book

"This beautifully crafted, lively novel captures the good and the bad of female friendship" Bec Kavanagh Books + Publishing, 5 stars. WINNER OF THE CBCA AWARD FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR: OLDER READERS3 award-winning authors.1 compelling book.ADY - not the confident A-Lister she appears to be.KATE - brainy...

Children's Book Council of Australia: Book of the Year for Older Readers (AU) -- 2018 winner

One would think the deep

Zorn, Claire

Paper Book

Sam stared at the picture of the boy about to be tipped off the edge of the world- the crushing weight of water about to pummel him. Sam knew that moment exactly, the disbelief that what was about to happen could even be possible. The intake of breath before the flood. Sam...

Children's Book Council of Australia: Book of the Year for Older Readers (AU) -- 2017 winner

The blood traitor

Noni, Lynette

Paper Book

She'd failed them. All of them. And now she was paying the price. Kiva thought she knew what she wanted - revenge. But feelings change, people change . . . everything has changed. After what happened at the palace, Kiva is desperate to know if her...

Australian Book Industry Awards: Book of the Year for Older Children (AU) -- 2023 winner

The prison healer

Noni, Lynette

Paper Book

From bestselling Australian author Lynette Noni comes a dark, thrilling YA fantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir. Here at Zalindov, the only person you can trust is yourself. Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years...

Australian Book Industry Awards: Book of the Year for Older Children (AU) -- 2022 winner

Everything sad is untrue : (a true story)

Nayeri, Daniel

Paper Book

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Christopher Award Winner Middle East Book Award Winner National Indie Bestseller NPR Best Book of the Year New York Times Best of the Year Amazon Best of the Year Booklist Editors' Choice ...

Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Book Awards (USA) -- 2021 Printz Award winner

The left-handed booksellers of London

Nix, Garth

Paper Book

This ABIA award-winning fantasy set in 1980s London follows one girl's quest to find her father, leading her to a secret society of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World when it disastrously intrudes into the modern world. For anyone who likes light-hearted adventure and...

Australian Book Industry Awards: Book of the Year for Older Children (AU) -- 2021 winner

Welcome to your period!

Stynes, Yumi

Paper Book

The #1 best-selling, award-winning guide to getting your period for the first time, from 'Dolly Doctor' Dr Melissa Kang and journalist Yumi Stynes (Ladies, We Need to Talk). Getting your period for the first time can be mortifying, weird and messy - and asking...

Australian Book Industry Awards: Book of the Year for Older Children (AU) -- 2020 winner

Jane Doe and the cradle of all worlds

Lachlan, Jeremy

Paper Book

Step inside. Don't look back. Forward is the only way. His Dark Materials meets Mad Max in this unforgettable blockbuster adventure about the world between worlds. When a fierce quake strikes the remote island of Bluehaven, and her father...

Australian Book Industry Awards: Book of the Year for Older Children (AU) -- 2019 winner

The blue book of Nebo

Steffan Ros, Manon

Paper Book

Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo paints a spellbinding and eerie picture of society's collapse, and the relationships that persist after everything as we know it disappears. After nuclear disaster, Rowenna and her young son are among...

The Carnegie Medal (UK) -- 2023 winner

October, October

Balen, Katya

Paper Book

_______________WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL 2022 WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE SHADOWERS' CHOICE AWARD 2022_______________'A very special new addition to the shelf and deserves classic status' - The Times Children's Book of the Week'A modern classic .....

The Carnegie Medal (UK) -- 2022 winner

Look both ways : a tale told in ten blocks

Reynolds, Jason

Paper Book

A National Book Award Finalist Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book UK Carnegie Medal winner An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2019 A Time Best Children's Book of 2019 A...

The Carnegie Medal (UK) -- 2021 winner

Lark

McGowan, Anthony

Paper Book

Nature's fury tests a brother's courage and a dog's loyalty in this Carnegie Medal winning ending to the story of the beloved brothers of the Truth of Things series. WINNER OF THE 2020 CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL. Things are tense at home for Nicky and Kenny. Their mum's coming to...

The Carnegie Medal (UK) -- 2020 winner

The Poet X

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Paper Book

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award...

Run, rebel

Mann, Manjeet

Paper Book

I am restless, my feet need to fly. Amber is trapped - by her father's rules, by his expectations, by her own fears. Now she's ready to fight - for her mother, for her sister, for herself. Freedom always comes at a price.

The Carnegie Medal (UK) -- 2021 Shadowers' Choice

When our worlds collided

Jawando, Danielle

Paper Book

WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE AND THE JHALAK CHILDREN'S AND YA PRIZE 2023. A powerful coming-of-age story about chance encounters, injustice and how the choices that we make can completely change our future. The second YA novel from multi-award-winning Danielle Jawando, ...

YA Book Prize (UK and Ireland) -- 2023 winner

Hani and Ishu's guide to fake dating

Jaigirdar, Adiba

Paper Book

Everyone likes Humaira "Hani" Khan--she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she's in a relationship...with a girl...

YA Book Prize (UK and Ireland) -- 2022 winner

Loveless

Oseman, Alice

Ebook

WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI CHILDREN'S & YA BOOK PRIZE 2022 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and the graphic novel series Heartstopper - now a major Netflix series. ...

YA Book Prize (UK and Ireland) -- 2021 winner

Meat market

Dawson, Juno

Paper Book

Fall into the lives of the city's filthy rich with Juno Dawson's deliciously dark and intoxicating London Collection. WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2020 Jana Novak's history sounds like a classic model cliché: tall and gangly, she's uncomfortable with her...

YA Book Prize (UK and Ireland) -- 2020 winner

Goodbye, perfect

Barnard, Sara.

Paper Book

How far would you go to protect a friend? An incredible novel from the bestselling author of Beautiful Broken Things and A Quiet Kind of Thunder.Eden McKinley knows she can't count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So...

YA Book Prize (UK and Ireland) -- 2019 winner

The life and crimes of Hoodie Rosen

Blum, Isaac

Ebook

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD! A WILLIAM C. MORRIS AWARD WINNER! The Chosen meets Adam Silvera in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friendship, betrayal, and the hatred that divides us. Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad....

Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Book Awards (USA) -- 2023 Morris Award winner

We are okay : a novel

LaCour, Nina

Paper Book

Winner of the 2018 Michael L. Printz Award * An achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship. "Short, poetic and gorgeously written." --The New York Times Book Review "A beautiful, devastating piece of art."<...

Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Book Awards (USA) -- 2020 Printz Award winner

Man made monsters

Rogers, Andrea L.

Paper Book

Uncover the Terrifying Intersection of History and Horror Imagine a chilling horror collection that weaves classic monsters like werewolves and vampires with the true horrors of colonialism, domestic violence, and displacement. Man Made Monsters, by...

The International Literacy Association Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards -- 2023 winner

We deserve monuments

Hammonds, Jas

Ebook

What's more important: knowing the truth or keeping the peace? When her family moves to Bardell, Georgia, on the cusp of her senior year, Avery Anderson is uprooted from DC and thrust into the hostile home of her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. The...

The International Literacy Association Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards -- 2023 Honour Award

The magic fish

Trung, Le Nguyen

Paper Book

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by New York Public Library . Kirkus Reviews . Booklist . Publishers Weekly In this gorgeous debut graphic novel, fairy tales are the only way one boy can communicate with his Vietnamese immigrant parents. But how will he find the...

The International Literacy Association Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards -- 2021 winner

The lucky ones

Lawson, Liz

Paper Book

For fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, This Is How It Ends, and All the Bright Places, comes a new novel about life after. How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all? May is a survivor. But she doesn't feel like one. She feels...

The International Literacy Association Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards -- 2021 Honour Award

How to make friends with the dark

Glasgow, Kathleen

Paper Book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a novel about love and loss and learning how to continue when it feels like you're surrounded by darkness. "A rare and powerful novel." --Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of...

The International Literacy Association Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards -- 2020 Honour Award

Dear Rachel Maddow : a novel

Kisner, Adrienne

Paper Book

In Adrienne Kisner's Dear Rachel Maddow, a high school girl deals with school politics and life after her brother's death by drafting emails to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in this funny and heartfelt YA debut. Brynn Haper's life has one steadying force--Rachel Maddow. ...

The International Literacy Association Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards -- 2019 winner

Clap when you land

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Paper Book

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Camino Rios lives for the...

Goodreads Choice Awards -- 2020 YA Fiction winner

The beauty that remains

Woodfolk, Ashley

Paper Book

Told from three diverse points of view, this story of life and love after loss is one Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give, believes "will stay with you long after you put it down." We've lost everything...and found ourselves. Loss pulled Autumn, Shay, and...

The International Literacy Association Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards -- 2019 Honour Award

The final gambit

Barnes, Jennifer Lynn

Paper Book

OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SERIES! Avery's fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few...

Goodreads Choice Awards -- 2022 YA Fiction winner

Gallant

Schwab, Victoria

Paper Book

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A KIRKUS BEST BOOK A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER "A bone-chilling standalone . . . which fuses Shirley Jackson's gothic horror sensibilities with the warmth and dark whimsy of Neil Gaiman."--Publishers Weekly...

Goodreads Choice Awards -- 2022 YA Fantasy winner

Rule of wolves

Bardugo, Leigh

Paper Book

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! 2021 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fantasy! See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone -- Season 2 streaming now! Discover what...

Goodreads Choice Awards -- 2021 YA Fantasy winner

Five feet apart

Lippincott, Rachael

Paper Book

Now a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 A YALSA 2020 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel...

Goodreads Choice Awards -- 2019 YA Fiction winner

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