Heartland Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

Given by The Writing Conference, Inc.

65 Works / 66 Items 286,886 Books 13,662 Reviews 4.0
Stages:
All, Winner (14), Honor Book (10), Recommendations (30), Featured Books (2), Nominee (34)
Years:
All, 2019 (12), 2018 (10), 2017 (10), 2015 (10), 2010 (3), 2009 (3), 2008 (3), 2007 (3), 2006 (3), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1)

Winner 14

WorkYear
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins2010
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher2009
Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs2008
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper2007
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult2006
Drowning Anna by Sue Mayfield2005
Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman2004
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares2003
Jade Green: A Ghost Story by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor2002
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson2001
Heroes by Robert Cormier2000
Bull Catcher by Alden R. Carter1999
Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse1998
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech1997

Honor Book 10

WorkYear
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson2010
If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser2010
Deadline by Chris Crutcher2009
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin2009
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson2008
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer2008
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen2007
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar2007
Looking for Alaska by John Green2006
Jude by Kate Morgenroth2006

Recommendations 30

WorkYear
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo2019
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson2019
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor2019
Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray2019
Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald2019
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson2019
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram2019
Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham2019
Dry by Neal Shusterman2019
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater2019
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate2018
Armstrong and Charlie by Steven B. Frank2018
Refugee by Alan Gratz2018
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt2018
Orphan Train Girl by Christina Baker Kline2018
One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus2018
A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck2018
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards)) by Steve Sheinkin2018
Paperboy by Vince Vawter2018
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon2018
Booked by Kwame Alexander2017
Mosquitoland by David Arnold2017
A Crack in the Sea by H. M. Bouwman2017
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley2017
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas2017
Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson2017
The Diabolic by S. J. Kincaid2017
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story by Caren Stelson2017
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk2017
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner2017

Featured Books 2

WorkYear
Class Action by Steven B. Frank2019
Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary D. Schmidt2019

Nominee 34

WorkYear
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander2015
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming2015
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson2015
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart2015
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson2015
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven2015
Positive: A Memoir by Paige Rawl2015
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell2015
The Accidental Highwayman: Being the Tale of Kit Bristol, His Horse Midnight, a Mysterious Princess, and Sundry Magical Persons Besides by Ben Tripp2015
Revolution by Deborah Wiles2015
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins2010
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson2010
If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser2010
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher2009
Deadline by Chris Crutcher2009
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin2009
Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs2008
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson2008
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer2008
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper2007
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen2007
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar2007
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult2006
Looking for Alaska by John Green2006
Jude by Kate Morgenroth2006
Drowning Anna by Sue Mayfield2005
Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman2004
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares2003
Jade Green: A Ghost Story by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor2002
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson2001
Heroes by Robert Cormier2000
Bull Catcher by Alden R. Carter1999
Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse1998
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech1997

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