ShelfEvidentNational Book Award for Young People's Literature — Complete Winners List
45 years of winners · National Book Foundation · Since 1969 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Daniel Nayeri | Holiday House | |
| 2024 | Shifa Saltagi Safadi | — | |
| 2023 | Dan Santat | — | |
| 2022 | Sabaa Tahir | Razorbill | |
| 2021 | — | — | |
| 2020 | — | — | |
| 2019 | Martin W. Sandler | — | |
| 2018 | Elizabeth Acevedo | HarperTeen | |
| 2017 | Robin Benway | HarperTeen | |
| 2016 | — | — | |
| 2015 | Neal Shusterman | HarperTeen | |
| 2014 | Jacqueline Woodson | Nancy Paulsen Books | |
| 2013 | Cynthia Kadohata | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | |
| 2012 | William Alexander | Margaret K. McElderry Books | |
| 2011 | Thanhha Lai | Harper | |
| 2010 | Kathryn Erskine | Philomel Books | |
| 2009 | Phillip Hoose | — | |
| 2008 | Judy Blundell | — | |
| 2007 | Sherman Alexie | — | |
| 2006 | M. T. Anderson | — | |
| 2005 | Jeanne Birdsall | — | |
| 2004 | Pete Hautman | — | |
| 2003 | Polly Horvath | — | |
| 2002 | Nancy Farmer | — | |
| 2001 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | — | |
| 2000 | Gloria Whelan | — | |
| 1999 | Kimberly Willis Holt | — | |
| 1998 | Louis Sachar | — | |
| 1997 | Han Nolan | — | |
| 1996 | Victor Martinez | — | |
| 1983 | Jean Fritz | — | |
| 1982 | Lloyd Alexander | — | |
| 1981 | Betsy Byars | — | |
| 1980 | Joan Blos | — | |
| 1979 | Katherine Paterson | — | |
| 1978 | Judith Kohl and Herbert Kohl | — | |
| 1977 | Katherine Paterson | — | |
| 1976 | Walter D. Edmonds | — | |
| 1975 | Virginia Hamilton | — | |
| 1974 | Eleanor Cameron | — | |
| 1973 | Ursula K. Le Guin | — | |
| 1972 | Donald Barthelme | — | |
| 1971 | Lloyd Alexander | — | |
| 1970 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | — | |
| 1969 | Meindert DeJong | — |
