Monday, September 22, 2014

NC Young Adult Book Award Nominees 2014-2015


The following titles are on this year's list of nominees.  Voting will occur in March 2015 and the winner will be announced in April.  As you are reading these titles and others throughout the year, keep any in mind that you would like to nominate for next's year's competition.  We can submit suggestions in March, when we vote.


  • The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey, 2013 Putnam Juvenile
  • The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas, 2013 Balzar + Bray
  • I am Malala by Malala Yousafzal & Christina Lamb, 2013 Little Brown and Company
  • Invisibility by Andrea Cremer & David Levithan, 2013 Philomel
  • No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale, 2014 Harper Teen
  • Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg, 2013 Arthur A. Levine Books
  • Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, 2012 Bloomsbury USA Children's
  • Tilt by Ellen Hopkins, 2012 Margaret K. McElderry Books
  • Waiting by Carol Lynch Williams, 2012 Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
  • Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina, 2013 Candlewick