Quiz: Have you read any of these award-winning YA novels?
Quiz: Have you read any of these award-winning YA novels?
The world of literature awards is usually something dominated by heavy, literary, adult fiction, but YA is just as worthy. Awards such as the YA Book Prize, Carnegie and Kate Greenway Medal, Printz Award and the National Book Award celebrate the excellence of YA literature. But how many winners of these prestigious awards have you actually read?
The world of literature awards is usually something dominated by heavy, literary, adult fiction, but YA is just as worthy. Awards such as the YA Book Prize, Carnegie and Kate Greenway Medal, Printz Award and the National Book Award celebrate the excellence of YA literature. But how many winners of these prestigious awards have you actually read?
A Gathering Light, Jennifer Donnelly
2003 Carnegie Medal
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
2010 Carnegie Medal
Looking for Alaska, John Green
2006 Printz Award
Bog Child, Siobhan Curham
2009 Carnegie Medal
The Amazing Maurice, Terry Pratchett
2001 Carnegie Medal
Midwinterblood, Marcus Sedgwick
2014 Printz Award
Only Ever Yours, Louise O'Neill
2015 YA Book Prize
Just in Case, Meg Rosoff
2007 Carnegie Medal
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, MT Anderson
2006 National Book Award
In Darkness, Nick Lake
2013 Printz Award
What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell
2008 National Book Award
Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman
2015 National Book Award
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
2007 National Book Award
I'll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson
2015 Printz Award
The Bunker Diary, Kevin Brooks
2014 Carnegie Medal
On the Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
2009 Printz Award
Where Things Come Back, John Corey Whaley
2012 Printz Medal
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
2014 National Book Award
Skellig, David Almond
1998 Carnegie Medal
How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
2005 Printz Award
Junk, Melvin Burgess
1996 Carnegie Medal
A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
2012 Carnegie Medal
Northern Lights, Philip Pullman
1995 Carnegie Medal
Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness
2011 Carnegie Medal
Millions, Frank Cottrell Boyce
2004 Carnegie Medal
Going Bovine, Libba Bray
2010 Printz Award