Edwards Awards - Past Winners
2025 - Tiffany D. Jackson for “Allegedly,” “The Awakening of Malcolm X” (co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz), “Grown,” “Let Me Hear a Rhyme,” “The Long Walk” (a short story from the collaborative novel “Blackout”), “Monday’s Not Coming,” and “White Smoke.”2013 - Tamora Pierce for Song of the Lioness quartet and The Protector of the Small quartet.
2024 - Neal Shusterman for “The Arc of the Scythe: Scythe, Thunderhead and The Toll,” “Bruiser,” “Challenger Deep,” “Everlost,” “Full Tilt,” “The Schwa Was Here” and “Unwind.”
2023 - Jason Reynolds for “When I was the Greatest”, “The Boy in the Black Suit”, “All American Boys”, “Ghost” and “Long Way Down.”
2022 - A.S. King for “Ask the Passengers,” “Glory O'Brien's History of the Future,” “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”
2021 - Kekla Magoon for “X: A Novel,” “How It Went Down,” “The Rock and the River,” “Fire in the Streets”
2020 - Steve Sheinkin for “Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon,” “The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights,” and “The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery.”
2019 - M.T. Anderson for Feed, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party, and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves
2018 - Angela Johnson for Heaven, Looking for Red, The First Part Last, Sweet, Hereafter, Bird, and Toning the Sweep
2017 - Sarah Dessen for Dreamland, Keeping the Moon, Just Listen, The Truth About Forever, Along for the Ride, What Happened to Goodbye?, and This Lullaby.
2016 - David Levithan for “The Realm of Possibility”, “Boy Meets Boy”, “Love is the Higher Law”, “How They Met, and Other Stories”, “Wide Awake”, and “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”
2015 - Sharon M. Draper for “Tears of a Tiger,” “Forged by Fire,” “Darkness Before Dawn,” “The Battle of Jericho,” “November Blues” and “Copper Sun”
2014 - Markus Zusak for “The Book Thief,” “Fighting Ruben Wolfe,” “Getting the Girl,” and “I Am the Messenger.”
2013 - Tamora Pierce for Song of the Lioness quartet (“Alanna: The First Adventure”; “In the Hand of the Goddess"; "The Woman Who Rides Like a Man”; and “Lioness Rampant”) and The Protector of the Small quartet (“First Test”; “Page”; “Squire”; and “Lady Knight").
2012 - Susan Cooper for The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; and Silver on the Tree.
2011 - Sir Terry Pratchett for The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents; The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky; Going Postal; The Colour of Magic; Guards! Guards!; Equal Rites; Mort; and Small Gods.
2010 - Jim Murphy for An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793; Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America; The Great Fire; The Long Road to Gettysburg; and A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy.
2009 - Laurie Halse Anderson for Catalyst, Fever 1793, and Speak.
2008 - Orson Scott Card for Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow.
2007 - Lois Lowry for The Giver.
2006 - Jacqueline Woodson for I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This; Lena; From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun; If You Come Softly;and Miracle’s Boys.
2005 – Francesca Lia Block for Weetzie Bat; Witch Baby; Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys; Missing Angel Juan; and Baby Be-Bop.
2004 - Ursula K. Le Guin for A Wizard of Earthsea; The Farthest Shore; Tombs of Atuan; Tehanu; The Left Hand of Darkness; and The Beginning Place.
2003 - Nancy Garden for Annie on My Mind.
2002 - Paul Zindel for The Pigman; The Pigman's Legacy; The Pigman & Me; My Darling, My Hamburger; and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds: A Drama in Two Acts.
2001 - Robert Lipsyte for The Contender; The Brave; The Chief; andOne Fat Summer.
2000 - Chris Crutcher for Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes; Athletic Shorts; Chinese Handcuffs; The Crazy Horse Electric Game; Stotan!; and Running Loose.
1999 - Anne McCaffrey for Dragonflight; Dragonquest; The White Dragon; The Ship Who Sang; Dragonsong; Dragonsinger; and Dragondrums.
1998 - Madeleine L’Engle for Meet the Austins; Ring of Endless Light; A Wrinkle in Time; and A Swiftly Tilting Planet.
1997 - Gary Paulsen for Hatchet; Woodsong; Winter Room; The Crossing; Canyons; and Dancing Carl.
1996 - Judy Blume for Forever
1995 - Cynthia Voigt for Homecoming; Dicey's Song; A Solitary Blue; Building Blocks; The Runner; Jackaroo; and Izzy, Willy-Nilly.
1994 - Walter Dean Myers for Hoops; Motown and Didi; Fallen Angels; and Scorpions.
1993 - M.E. Kerr for Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!; Gentlehand;, Me Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel; and Night Kites.
1992 - Lois Duncan for Chapters, My Growth as a Writer; I Know What You Did Last Summer; Killing Mr. Griffin; Ransom; Summer of Fear; and The Twisted Window.
1991 - Robert Cormier for The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese; and After the First Death
1990 - Richard Peck for Are You in the House Alone?; Father Figure; The Ghost Belonged to Me; Ghosts I Have Been; Secrets of the Shopping Mall; and Remembering the Good Times.
1989 -No award given.
1988 - S.E. Hinton for The Outsiders; Rumblefish; Tex; and That Was Then, This is Now.
