Golden Sower Award - Young Adult

Awards List

2016

Stung
(Nominee)
Bethany Wiggins

Far Far Away
(Nominee)
Tom Mcneal

The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die
(Nominee)
April Henry

The Testing
(Nominee)
Joelle Charbonneau

Golden Boy
(Nominee)
Tara Sullivan

Prisoner 88
(Nominee)
Leah Pileggi

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

QB 1
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Turn Left at the Cow
(Nominee)
Lisa Bullard

2015

Prisoner B-3087
(Winner)
Alan M. Gratz

A Long, Long Sleep
(Nominee)
Anna Sheehan

The Silence of Murder
(Nominee)
Dandi Daley Mackall

Variant
(Nominee)
Robison Wells

Cinder
(Nominee)
Marissa Meyer

Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Starters
(Nominee)
Lissa Price

The Raft
(Nominee)
S.A. Bodeen

Ungifted
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Prisoner B-3087
(Nominee)
Alan M. Gratz

2014

Legend
(Winner)
Marie Lu

After Ever After
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Epitaph Road
(Nominee)
David Patneaude

Red Cell
(Nominee)
John Kalkowski

Dark Life
(Nominee)
Kat Falls

Payback Time
(Nominee)
Carl Deuker

Matched
(Nominee)
Ally Condie

Between Shades of Gray // Ashes in the Snow
(Nominee)
Ruta Sepetys

The Prisoner of Cell 25
(Nominee)
Richard Paul Evans

Jefferson's Sons
(Nominee)
Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

2013

The Running Dream
(Winner)
Wendelin Van Draanen

Scat
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

All the Broken Pieces
(Nominee)
Ann E. Burg

A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
(Nominee)
Brenda Woods

The Cardturner
(Nominee)
Louis Sachar

Bruiser
(Honor Book)
Neal Shusterman

Guitar Boy
(Nominee)
Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

Girl, Stolen
(Honor Book)
April Henry

A Long Walk to Water
(Nominee)
Linda Sue Park

2012

The Compound
(Winner)
S.A. Bodeen

Graceling
(Honor Book)
Kristin Cashore

Anything But Typical
(Nominee)
Nora Raleigh Baskin

Cold Hands, Warm Heart
(Nominee)
Jill Wolfson

2011

The Hunger Games
(Winner)
Suzanne Collins

The Boy Who Dared
(Nominee)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Go Big or Go Home
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

The Challenge
(Nominee)
Ridley Pearson

Chains
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Home of the Brave
(Nominee)
Katherine Applegate

2010

Cracker!
(Winner)
Cynthia Kadohata

The Shadow Thieves
(Nominee)
Anne Ursu

Shark Girl
(Nominee)
Kelly Bingham

Peak
(Honor Book)
Roland Smith

The Wednesday Wars
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

2009

Twilight
(Winner)
Stephenie Meyer

Crossing the Wire
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Heat
(Honor Book)
Mike Lupica

Life As We Knew It
(Honor Book)
Susan Beth Pfeffer

2008

The Lightning Thief
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

Code Talker
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

Flush
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

The Perfect Shot
(Honor Book)
Elaine Marie Alphin

2007

The Pack
(Honor Book)
Elisa Carbone

Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and Me
(Nominee)
Timothy Tocher

So B. It
(Honor Book)
Sarah Weeks

2006

High Heat
(Winner)
Carl Deuker

Jackie's Wild Seattle
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Hear the Wind Blow
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
(Nominee)
E.L. Konigsburg

2004

Touching Spirit Bear
(Winner)
Ben Mikaelsen

The Graduation of Jake Moon
(Nominee)
Barbara Park

Soldier X
(Honor Book)
Don Wulffson

Soldier Boys
(Honor Book)
Dean Hughes

Bronx Masquerade
(Nominee)
Nikki Grimes

Lord of the Deep
(Nominee)
Graham Salisbury

2003

Esperanza Rising
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Hope Was Here
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

The Last Book in the Universe
(Nominee)
Rodman Philbrick

Over the Wall
(Honor Book)
John H. Ritter

2002

Among the Hidden
(Honor Book)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Armageddon Summer
(Nominee)
Jane Yolen; Bruce Coville

Framed in Fire
(Nominee)
David Patneaude

Jackie & Me
(Nominee)
Dan Gutman

1999

The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson
(Winner)
Carol Lynch Williams
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1996

Heart of a Champion
(Winner)
Carl Deuker

1994

Flight 116 Is Down
(Winner)
Caroline B. Cooney

1993

Whispers from the Dead
(Winner)
Joan Lowery Nixon

Award Categories

Grades 4-6

Grades K-3

Intermediate

Primary

Young Adult

Award Years

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

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