Book Title
|
Author(s)
|
Publisher
|
Year
|
Be Not Far from Me
|
Mindy McGinnis
|
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books
|
2021[5]
|
Cemetery Boys
|
Aiden Thomas
|
Macmillan/Swoon Reads
|
Clap When You Land
|
Elizabeth Acevedo
|
HarperCollins/HarperTeen
|
Deeplight
|
Frances Hardinge
|
Abrams Books/Amulet Books
|
Grown
|
Tiffany D. Jackson
|
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books
|
More Than Just a Pretty Face
|
Syed M. Masood
|
Hachette/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
|
Raybearer
|
Jordan Ifueko
|
Abrams Books/Amulet Books
|
This Is My America
|
Kim Johnson
|
Random House Books for Young Readers
|
We Are Not from Here
|
Jenny Torres Sanchez
|
Penguin Random House/Philomel Books
|
What I Carry
|
Jennifer Longo
|
Random House Books for Young Readers
|
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
|
Ben Philippe
|
HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray
|
2020[6]
|
Girls on the Verge
|
Sharon Biggs Waller
|
Holt
|
Heroine
|
Mindy McGinnis
|
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books
|
Like a Love Story
|
Abdi Nazemian
|
HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray
|
Lovely War
|
Julie Berry
|
Viking Press
|
On the Come Up
|
Angie Thomas
|
HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray
|
Patron Saints of Nothing
|
Randy Ribay
|
Penguin/Kokila
|
Pet
|
Akwaeke Emezi
|
Random House/Make Me a World
|
The Stars and the Blackness between Them
|
Junauda Petrus
|
E. P. Dutton
|
With the Fire on High
|
Elizabeth Acevedo
|
HarperTeen
|
The Poet X
|
Elizabeth Acevedo
|
HarperTeen
|
2019[7]
|
What if It’s Us
|
Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
|
HarperTeen
|
The Cruel Prince
(The Folk of the Air, Book One)
|
Holly Black
|
Little, Brown & Co.
|
A Heart in a Body in the World
|
Deb Caletti
|
Simon Pulse
|
Dread Nation
|
Justina Ireland
|
HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray
|
Monday’s Not Coming
|
Tiffany D. Jackson
|
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books
|
Darius the Great is Not Okay
|
Adib Khorram
|
Dial Press
|
Foolish Hearts
|
Emma Mills
|
Henry Holt & Co
|
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe
|
Preston Norton
|
Disney Hyperion
|
Frankie
|
Shivaun Plozza
|
Flatiron Books
|
What Girls Are Made Of
|
Elana Arnold
|
Lerner Publishing Group/Carolrhoda Lab
|
2018[8]
|
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
|
Leigh Bardugo
Sara Kipin (Illus)
|
Macmillan Publishers
|
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
|
Mackenzi Lee
|
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen
|
Sparrow
|
Sarah Moon
|
Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine
|
Long Way Down
|
Jason Reynolds
|
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books
|
Strange the Dreamer
|
Laini Taylor
|
Little, Brown & Co
|
The Hate U Give
|
Angie Thomas
|
HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray
|
Piecing Me Together
|
Renee Watson
|
Bloomsbury USA
|
Eliza and Her Monsters
|
Francesca Zappia
|
HarperCollins/Greenwillow
|
Goodbye Days
|
Jeff Zentner
|
Crown Books for Young Readers
|
The Passion of Dolssa
|
Julie Berry
|
Viking Books for Young Readers
|
2017[9]
|
The Reader
|
Traci Chee
|
G. P. Putnam's Sons / Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
|
The Lie Tree
|
Frances Hardinge
|
Abrams Books
|
The Female of the Species
|
Mindy McGinnis
|
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books
|
Burn Baby Burn
|
Meg Medina
|
Candlewick Press
|
Ghost
|
Jason Reynolds
|
Atheneum Books/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
|
Salt to the Sea
|
Ruta Sepetys
|
Philomel Books
|
Scythe
|
Neal Shusterman
|
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
|
The Sun is Also a Star
|
Nicola Yoon
|
Delacorte Press
|
The Serpent King
|
Jeff Zentner
|
Crown Books for Young Readers
|
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
|
Becky Albertalli
|
HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray
|
2016[10]
|
Six of Crows
|
Leigh Bardugo
|
Holt
|
The Bunker Diary
|
Kevin Brooks
|
Lerner Publishing Group/Carolrhoda Lab
|
Audacity
|
Melanie Crowder
|
Philomel Books
|
Shadowshaper
|
Daniel José Older
|
Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
|
The Boy in the Black Suit
|
Jason Reynolds
|
Atheneum Books
|
Bone Gap
|
Laura Ruby
|
HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray
|
X: A Novel
|
Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
|
Candlewick Press
|
Challenger Deep
|
Neal Shusterman
|
HarperTeen
|
More Happy than Not
|
Adam Silvera
|
Soho Teen
|
I’ll Give You the Sun
|
Jandy Nelson
|
Dial Press
|
2015[11]
|
Jackaby
|
William Ritter
|
Algonquin
|
Noggin
|
John Corey Whaley
|
Atheneum Books
|
The Carnival at Bray
|
Jessie Ann Foley
|
Elephant Rock Books
|
The Crossover
|
Kwame Alexander
|
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
|
The Gospel of Winter
|
Brendan Kiely
|
Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry
|
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
|
E. K. Johnston
|
Carolrhoda/Lab
|
The Young Elites
|
Marie Lu
|
G. P. Putnam's sons
|
Vango
|
Timothee de Fombelle
|
Candlewick Press
|
We Were Liars
|
E. Lockhart
|
Delacorte Publishing
|
All the Truth That’s in Me
|
Julie Berry
|
Penguin Putnam/Viking
|
2014[12]
|
Freakboy
|
Kristin Elizabeth Clark
|
Macmillan Publishers/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
|
Better Nate Than Ever
|
Tim Federle
|
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
|
Far Far Away
|
Tom McNeal
|
Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers
|
Eleanor & Park
|
Rainbow Rowell
|
Macmillan Publishers/St. Martin's Press
|
Midwinterblood
|
Marcus Sedgwick
|
Macmillan Publishers/Roaring Brook Press
|
Out of the Easy
|
Ruta Sepetys
|
Penguin Books/Philomel Books
|
Winger
|
Andrew Smith
Sam Bosma (Illus)
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Golden Boy
|
Tara Sullivan
|
Penguin Books/ G. P. Putnam's sons Juvenile
|
Rose Under Fire
|
Elizabeth Wein
|
Disney/Hyperion
|
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
|
Jesse Andrews
|
Abrams Books/Amulet Books
|
2013[13]
|
The Diviners
|
Libba Bray
|
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
|
Seraphina
|
Rachel Hartman
|
Random House Books for Young Readers
|
Enchanted
|
Alethea Kontis
|
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Harcourt Children’s Books
|
Every Day
|
David Levithan
|
Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers
|
Never Fall Down
|
Patricia McCormick
|
HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray
|
Boy 21
|
Matthew Quick
|
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
|
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
|
Benjamin Saenz
|
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
|
The Raven Boys
|
Maggie Stiefvater
|
Scholastic
|
Code Name Verity
|
Elizabeth Wein
|
Disney/Hyperion
|
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
|
Rae Carson
|
HarperTeen
|
2012[14]
|
Leverage
|
Joshua C. Cohen
|
Penguin Group/E. P. Dutton
|
Everybody Sees the Ants
|
A. S. King
|
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
|
Under the Mesquite
|
Guadalupe Garcia McCall
|
Lee & Low Books
|
Shine
|
Lauren Myracle
|
Abrams Books/Amulet Books
|
A Monster Calls
|
Patrick Ness
Jim Kay (Illus)
|
Candlewick Press
|
Between Shades of Gray
|
Ruta Sepetys
|
Penguin Group/Philomel Books
|
The Scorpio Races
|
Maggie Stiefvater
|
Scholastic
|
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
(Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Book One)
|
Laini Taylor
|
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
|
How to Save a Life
|
Sara Zarr
|
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
|
Ship Breaker
|
Paolo Bacigalupi
|
Little, Brown & Co
|
2011[15]
|
Revolution
|
Jennifer Donnelly
|
Random House/Delacorte Press
|
Finnikin of the Rock
|
Melina Marchetta
|
Candlewick Press
|
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour
|
Morgan Matson
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
|
Lish McBride
|
Macmillan Children's Book Group/Henry Holt & Co.
|
Trash
|
Andy Mulligan
|
Random House/David Fickling Books
|
Bamboo People
|
Mitali Perkins
|
Charlesbridge
|
The Things a Brother Knows
|
Dana Reinhardt
|
Random House/Wendy Lamb
|
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
|
Benjamin Saenz
|
Cinco Puntos Press
|
Revolver
|
Marcus Sedgwick
|
MacMillian Publishers/Roaring Brook Press
|
Demon's Lexicon
(The Demon's Lexicon, Book One)
|
Sarah Rees Brennan
|
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing/Margaret K. McElderry
|
2010[16]
|
The Orange Houses
|
Paul Griffin
|
Penguin/Dial Books
|
The Great Wide Sea
|
M. H. Herlong
|
Penguin/Viking
|
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
|
Catherine Jinks
|
Harcourt/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
|
Alligator Bayou
|
Donna Jo Napoli
|
Random House / Alfred A. Knopf
|
Stitches: A Memoir
|
David Small
|
W. W. Norton & Co
|
When You Reach Me
|
Rebecca Stead
|
Random House/Wendy Lamb
|
Marcelo in the Real World
|
Francisco X. Stork
|
Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
|
Lips Touch: Three Times
|
Laini Taylor
|
Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books
|
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
|
Sally M. Walker
|
Lerner/Carolrhoda Books
|
It's Complicated: The American Teenager
|
Robin Bowman
|
Umbrage Editions
|
2009[17]
|
The Hunger Games
|
Suzanne Collins
|
Scholastic
|
Waiting for Normal
|
Leslie Conner
|
HarperCollins/HarperTeen
|
Mexican WhiteBoy
|
Matt de la Pena
|
Delacorte Press
|
Bog Child
|
Siobhan Dowd
|
Random House/David Fickling Books
|
Ten Cents a Dance
|
Christine Fletcher
|
Bloomsbury
|
Baby
|
Joseph Monninger
|
Boyd Mills Press/Front Street
|
Nation
|
Terry Pratchett
|
HarperCollins
|
Skim
|
Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
|
House of Anansi Press / Groundwood Books
|
The Brothers Torres
|
Coert Voorhees
|
Disney/Hyperion
|
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
|
Sherman Alexie
Ellen Forney (Illus)
|
Little, Brown & Co.
|
2008[18]
|
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
|
Ishmael Beah
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Sarah Crichton
|
Before I Die
|
Jenny Downham
|
Random House/David Fickling
|
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath
|
Stephanie Hemphill
|
Random House/Alfred A. Knopf
|
Mister Pip
|
Lloyd Jones
|
Dell Publishing/Dial Press
|
Skulduggery Pleasant: The Sceptor of the Ancients
(Skulduggery Pleasant, Book One)
|
Derek Landy
|
HarperCollins
|
Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
|
Mal Peet
|
Candlewick Press
|
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
|
Matthew Polly
|
Penguin Group USA/Gotham Books
|
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel
|
Brian Selznick
|
Scholastic
|
The Arrival
|
Shaun Tan
|
Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine
|
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
|
M. T. Anderson
|
Candlewick Press
|
2007[19]
|
Samurai Shortstop
|
Alan Gratz
|
Penguin Group/Dial Press
|
Surrender
|
Sonya Hartnett
|
Candlewick Press
|
Sold
|
Patricia McCormick
|
Hyperion
|
Anahita’s Woven Riddle
|
Meghan Nuttall Sayres
|
Abrams Books/Amulet Books
|
The Trap
|
John Smelcer
|
Henry Holt & Co
|
The King of Attolia
|
Megan Whalen Turner
|
HarperCollins/Greenwillow
|
The Rules of Survival
|
Nancy Werlin
|
Penguin Group/Dial Press
|
American Born Chinese
|
Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien
|
Roaring Brook Press/First Second Books
|
The Book Thief
|
Markus Zusak
|
Random House/Alfred A. Knopf
|
Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story
|
Said Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton
|
Bloomsbury Publishing
|
2006[20]
|
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow
|
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
|
Scholastic
|
Upstate
|
Kalisha Buckhanon
|
St. Martin's Press
|
Looking for Alaska
|
John Green
|
E. P. Dutton
|
Inexcusable
|
Chris Lynch
|
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books
|
Twilight: A Novel
(Twilight, Book One)
|
Stephenie Meyer
|
Little, Brown & Co./Megan Tingley
|
Runaways: Volume 1 HC
|
Brian K. Vaughan
Adrian Alphona (Illus)
|
Marvel Press
|
Peeps
|
Scott Westerfeld
|
Penguin Books/Razorbill
|
Poison
|
Chris Wooding
|
Scholastic/Orchard
|
I am the Messenger
|
Markus Zuzak
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green
|
Joshua Braff
|
Workman Publishing Co. / Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
|
2005[21]
|
Bucking the Sarge
|
Christopher Paul Curtis
|
Random House/Wendy Lamb
|
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
|
Phillip M. Hoose
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books
|
The Realm of Possibility
|
David Levithan
|
Random House Children's Books/Alfred A. Knopf
|
Saving Francesca
|
Melina Marchetta
|
Random House Children's Books/Alfred A. Knopf
|
Private Peaceful
|
Michael Morpurgo
|
Scholastic
|
Airborn
|
Kenneth Oppel
|
HarperCollins Children's Book Group/Eos Press
|
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
|
Adam Rapp
|
Candlewick Press
|
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
|
Benjamin Alire Saenz
|
Cinco Puntos Press
|
So B. It: a novel
|
Sarah Weeks
|
HarperCollins Children's Books/ Laura Geringer Books
|
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
|
Martha Brooks
|
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books
|
2004[22]
|
A Northern Light
|
Jennifer Donnelly
|
Harcourt
|
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
|
Mark Haddon
|
Random House/Doubleday
|
The First Part Last
|
Angela Johnson
|
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
|
Boy Meets Boy
|
David Levithan
|
Random House/Alfred A. Knopf
|
The Usual Rules
|
Joyce Maynard
|
St. Martin’s Press
|
East
|
Edith Pattou
|
Harcourt Children’s Books
|
33 Snowfish
|
Adam Rapp
|
Candlewick Press
|
The Amulet of Samarkand
(Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One)
|
Jonathan Stroud
|
Hyperion Books for Children/Miramax
|
Blankets: An Illustrated Novel
|
Craig Thompson
|
Top Shelf Productions
|
The Lightkeeper's Daughter
|
Lain Lawrence
|
Random House/Delacorte Press
|
2003[23]
|
America
|
E. R. Frank
|
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/A Richard Jackson Book
|
Catalyst
|
Laurie Halse Anderson
|
Penguin Putnam/Viking Press
|
The House of the Scorpion
|
Nancy Farmer
|
Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/A Richard Jackson Book
|
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
|
Naomi Shihab Nye
|
HarperCollins/Greenwillow
|
This Land Was Made For You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie
|
Elizabeth Partridge
|
Penguin Putnam/Viking
|
Son of the Mob
|
Gordon Korman
|
Hyperion Books for Children
|
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
|
Peter Nelson
|
Random House/Delacorte Press
|
Feed
|
M. T. Anderson
|
Candlewick Press
|
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
|
Christopher Moore
|
HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co.
|
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
|
Ann Brashares
|
Delacorte
|
2002[24]
|
The Rag and Bone Shop
|
Robert Cormier
|
Delacorte
|
Whale Talk
|
Chris Crutcher
|
HarperCollins
|
Breathing Underwater
|
Alex Flinn
|
HarperCollins
|
Damage
|
A. M. Jenkins
|
HarperCollins
|
Zazoo
|
Richard Mosher
|
Houghton Mifflin
|
Lirael
|
Garth Nix
|
HarperCollins
|
The Land
|
Mildred Taylor
|
Penguin Putnam
|
Every Time a Rainbow Dies
|
Rita Williams-Garcia
|
William Morrow
|
True Believer
|
Virginia Euwer Wolff
|
Atheneum
|
Forgotten Fire
|
Adam Bagdasarian
|
DK
|
2001[25]
|
Hope was Here
|
Joan Bauer
|
G. P. Putnam's Sons
|
Girl with a Pearl Earring
|
Tracy Chevalier
|
E. P. Dutton
|
Geeks: How Two Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
|
Jon Katz
|
Villard
|
Silent to the Bone
|
E. L. Konigsburg
|
Jean Karl Book/Atheneum Books
|
The Beet Fields
|
Gary Paulsen
|
Delacorte Press
|
Esperanza Rising
|
Pam Munoz Ryan
|
Scholastic Press
|
Stargirl
|
Jerry Spinelli
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Homeless Bird
|
Gloria Whelan
|
HarperCollins
|
Memories of Summer
|
Ruth White
|
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
|
Speak
|
Laurie Halse Anderson
|
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
|
2000[26]
|
Ender's Shadow
|
Orson Scott Card
|
Tor
|
When Zachary Beaver came to Town
|
Kimberly Willis Holt
|
Henry Holt & Co
|
The Raging Quiet
|
Sherryl Jordan
|
Simon and Schuster
|
Crooked
|
Laura and Tom McNeal
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Mary, Bloody Mary
|
Carolyn Meyer
|
Harcourt Brace
|
Monster
|
Walter Dean Myers
|
HarperCollins
|
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break
|
Lensey Namioka
|
Delacorte Press
|
Imani All Mine
|
Connie Porter
|
Houghton Mifflin
|
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
|
Irene Gut Opdyke
|
Alfred A. Knopf
|
Among the Hidden
(Shadow Children, Book One)
|
Margaret Haddix
|
Simon and Schuster
|
1999[27]
|
Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts
|
Penny Colman
|
Holt
|
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
(Harry Potter, Book One)
|
J. K. Rowling
|
Scholastic Press
|
Holes
|
Louis Sachar
|
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
|
If You Come Softly
|
Jacqueline Woodson
|
Putnam
|
Love Among the Walnuts
|
Jean Ferris
|
Harcourt Brace
|
My Louisiana Sky
|
Kimberly Willis Holt
|
Holt Publishing
|
No Pretty Pictures: a Child of War
|
Anita Lobel
|
Greenwillow
|
Petey
|
Ben Mikaelson
|
Hyperion
|
Rules of the Road
|
Joan Bauer
|
Putnam
|
Blood And Chocolate
|
Annette Curtis Klause
|
Random House
|
1998[28]
|
Tangerine
|
Edward Bloor
|
Harcourt
|
Into Thin Air
|
Jon Krakauer
|
Villard Books
|
Swallowing Stones
|
Joyce McDonald
|
Ember
|
Out Of The Dust
|
Karen Hesse
|
Scholastic Incorporated
|
Starlite Drive-In
|
Marjorie Reynolds
|
Penguin Group
|
Tenderness
|
Robert Cormier
|
Random House Children's Books
|
Seamstress
|
Sara Tuvel Bernstein
|
Berkley Books
|
Growing Up In Coal Country
|
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
|
Houghton Mifflin Company
|
Harlem
|
Walter Dean Myers
|
Scholastic Press
|
A Girl Named Disaster
|
Nancy Farmer
|
Orchard Books
|
1997[29]
|
Far North
|
Will Hobbs
|
HarperCollins
|
Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood
|
Binjamin Wilkomirski
|
Schocken
|
Golden Compass / Northern Lights
|
Philip Pullman
|
Scholastic Point
|
Nathan's Run
|
John Gilstrap
|
Pinnacle Books
|
One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album
|
Walter Dean Myers
|
Harcourt Brace
|
Rats Saw God
|
Rob Thomas
|
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
|
The United States of Poetry
|
Josual Blum, Bob Holman and Mark Pellington
|
Harry N. Abrams
|
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems
|
Mel Glenn
|
Lodestar Books
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Wrestling Sturbridge
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Rich Wallace
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Random House Children's Books
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