Book Award Winners (YA)

You might find yourself having to read an award winning book for school at some time, so we thought we'd help out a bit and produce a list of recent award-winning books (with one or two critically acclaimed almost-award-winning books) from our Young Adult Fiction collection.

For space reasons we haven't included all past winners of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults -- but you can find them all in this list if you're looking for them.

Updated June 19, 2024
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Wakefield, Vikki
Ebook
I have questions I've never asked. Worries I've never shared. Thoughts that circle and collide and die screaming because they never make it outside my head. Stuff like that, if you let it go--it's a survival risk. Sixteen-year-old Nate McKee is doing his best to be invisible. He's...

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

Between us
Atkins, Claire
Ebook
From the award-winning author of Nona & Me comes a stunning new novel about two teenagers separated by cultural differences, their parents' expectations and twenty kilometres of barbed-wire fence. Is it possible for two very different teenagers to fall in love despite high...

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

Everything sad is untrue : (a true story)
Nayeri, Daniel
Audiobook
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and...

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

The blue book of Nebo
Steffan Ros, Manon
Paper Book
Dylan was six when The End came, back in 2018; when the electricity went off for good, and the 'normal' 21st-century world he knew disappeared. Now he's 14 and he and his mam have survived in their isolated hilltop house above the village of Nebo in north-west Wales, learning new skills, and...

The Carnegie Medal (UK) -- 2023 winner

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

The final gambit
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
Paper Book
Avery's fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. To inherit billions, all Avery has to do is survive a few more weeks in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact...

Goodreads Choice Awards -- 2022 YA Fiction winner

Gallant
Schwab, Victoria
Ebook

Goodreads Choice Awards -- 2022 YA Fantasy winner


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