2018 Nominees

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor

Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova

Beneath by Roland Smith

Blind Guide to Stinkville by Beth Vrabel

Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Drowned City by Don Brown

Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Falling Over Sideways by Jordan Sonnenblick

Firefly Code by Megan Frazer Blakemore

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka & Martin Ganda

It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas

Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart

Nest by Kenneth Oppel

Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt

The Other Boy by M.G. Hennessey

Scourge by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

When Friendship Followed Me Home by Paul Griffin