Our Past Winners

Click on the titles to see if you can borrow a copy from Wake County Public Libraries.

2018
Nightbooks by J.A. White (medal)
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (honor)
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab (honor)
Illegal by Eoin Colfer (honor)

2017
Counting Thyme by Melanie Conklin (medal)
Pax  by Sara Pennypacker (honor)
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin (honor)
The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan (honor)
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor (honor)

2016
Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan (medal)
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (honor)
Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton (honor)
Wish Girl by Nikki Loftin (honor)
The Toymaker’s Apprentice by Sherri L. Smith (honor)

2015
Paper Cowboy by Levine (medal)
Bird by Chan (honor)
Nest by Ehrlich (honor)
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier (honor)
Rain Reign by Ann Martin (honor)

2014
Counting by 7s by Sloan (medal)
Far, Far Away by McNeal (honor)
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Sheinkin (honor)

2013
Wonder by R. J. Palacio (medal)
Lions of Little Rock by Levine (honor)
Son by Lowry (honor)
Splendors and Glooms by Schlitz (honor)

2012
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (medal)
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (honor)
Bird in a Box by Andrea Davis Pinkney (honor)
Michael Vey: the Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans (honor)
Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy (honor)

2011
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (medal)
After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick (honor)
Heist Society  by Ally Carter (honor)
Keeper by Kathi Appelt (honor)
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (honor)

2010
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon (medal)
The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry (honor)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (honor)
Jane in Bloom by Deborah Lytton (honor)
Watersmeet by Ellen Jensen Abbott (honor)

2009
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (medal)
The Dead & the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer (honor)
The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecilia Galante (honor)
Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli (honor)

2008
Peak by Roland Smith (medal)
Cracker! by Cynthia Kadohata (honor)
Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf (honor)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt (honor)
Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick (honor)

2007
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (medal)
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (honor)
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (honor)
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages (honor)

2006
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester (medal)
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick (honor)
The Liberation of Gabriel King by K. L. Going (honor)

2005
Amalee by Dar Williams (medal)
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer (honor)
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt (honor)
Messenger by Lois Lowry (honor)

2004
Birdland by Tracy Mack (medal)
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (honor)
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass (honor)
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (honor)

2003
When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park (medal)
The Legend of Lady Ilena by Patricia Malone (honor)
Coraline by Neil Gaimon (honor)

2002
Benno’s Bear by Naomi Zucker (medal)
Flipped by Wendelin VanDraanen (honor)
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech (honor)
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen (honor)

2001
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (medal)
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (honor)
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry (honor)
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (honor)
The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whelan Turner (honor)

2000
The Folk Keeper by Franny Billingsley (medal)
Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett (honor)
The Cure by Sonia Levitin (honor)

1999
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher (medal)
Holes by Louis Sachar (honor)
I Am Mordred: A Tale From Camelot by Nancy Springer (honor)
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman (honor)

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