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This annual award was added to the National Book Awards in 1996 in order to honor outstanding work in the fields of children's and young adult's literature.
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| The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | Sherman Alexie |
| Skin Hunger | Kathleen Duey |
| Touching Snow | M. Sindy Felin |
| The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick |
| Story of a Girl | Sara Zarr |
| The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party | M.T. Anderson |
| Keturah and Lord Death | Martine Leavitt |
| Sold | Patricia McCormick |
| The Rules of Survival | Nancy Werlin |
| American Born Chinese | Gene Luen Yang |
| The Penderwicks | Jeanne Birdsall |
| Where I Want to Be | Adele Griffin |
| Inexcusable | Chris Lynch |
| Autobiography of My Dead Brother | Walter Dean Myers |
| Each Little Bird That Sings | Deborah Wiles |
| Godless | Pete Hautman |
| Honey, Baby, Sweetheart | Deb Caletti |
| Harlem Stomp! | Laban Carrick Hill |
| The Legend of Buddy Bush | Shelia P. Moses |
| Luna | Julie Ann Peters |
| The Canning Season | Polly Horvath |
| Breakout | Paul Fleischman |
| An American Plague | Jim Murphy |
| The River Between Us | Richard Peck |
| Locomotion | Jacqueline Woodson |
| The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer |
| Feed | M.T. Anderson |
| This Land Was Made for You and Me | Elizabeth Partridge |
| 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| Hush | Jacqueline Woodson |
| True Believer | Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| The Tiger Rising | Kate DiCamillo |
| We Were There Too!: Young People in U.S. History | Phillip Hoose |
| A Step from Heaven | An Na |
| Carver: A Life in Poems | Marilyn Nelson |
| Homeless Bird | Gloria Whelan |
| Forgotten Fire | Adam Bagdasarian |
| Book of the Lion | Michael Cadnum |
| Many Stones | Carolyn Coman |
| Hurry Freedom | Jerry Stanley |
| When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Kimberly Willis Holt |
| Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson |
| The Birchbark House | Louise Erdrich |
| Trolls | Polly Horvath |
| Monster | Walter Dean Myers |
| Holes | Louis Sachar |
| The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods | Ann Cameron |
| Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key | Jack Gantos |
| No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War | Anita Lobel |
| A Long Way from Chicago | Richard Peck |