Category: Young Adult Novel / Works for Young Readers

Nominations: House of Hollow (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), Young Adult Novel, 2021

Nominations: Bad Witch Burning (Delacorte Press), Young Adult Novel, 2021

Nominations: All These Bodies (Quill Tree Books), Young Adult Novel, 2021

Nominations: The Book of the Baku (Titan Books ), Young Adult Novel, 2021 BIO: R. L. Boyle studied Classical Civilisation at the University of Leeds, after which she worked in a variety of jobs – none of which had anything to do with her degree. Her debut, The Book of The Baku, is a vivid, haunting YA horror and it was published […]

AWARDS: The River Has Teeth (HarperTeen), Young Adult Novel, 2021 NOMINATIONS: Ghost Wood Song (HarperTeen), Young Adult Novel, 2020 BIO: Erica Waters grew up in the pine woods of rural Florida, though she now resides in Nashville, Tennessee. She has a Master’s degree in English and works as a university writing tutor. When she’s not writing books, you can find […]

NOMINATIONS: Cemetery Boys (Swoon Reads/Macmillan), Young Adult Novel, 2020

AWARDS: Oware Mosaic (Omnium Gatherum), Young Adult Novel, 2019 BIO: Nzondi was born Acemandese Nzondi Hall in Elmhurst, New York. He earned his BFA from C. W. Post, Long Island University. Having resided in Los Angeles for sixteen years, Nzondi is a gym enthusiast, enjoys drop-biscuit peach cobbler, hiking, sweet and oaky-flavored whiskey and writing. His daily thoughts and shenanigans […]

NOMINATIONS: These Fleeting Shadows (Viking), Young Adult Novel, 2022 Rules for Vanishing (Viking Books for Young Readers), Young Adult Novel, 2019

NOMINATIONS: Speak No Evil (Vesuvian Books), Young Adult Novel, 2019 BIO: Liana Gardner is the multi-award-winning author of 7th Grade Revolution, The Journal of Angela Ashby, and Speak No Evil. The daughter of a rocket scientist and an artist, Liana combines the traits of both into a quirky yet pragmatic writer and in everything sees the story lurking beneath the […]