Andre Norton Award

The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction (formerly the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy) is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to the author of the best young adult or middle grade science fiction or fantasy book published in the United States in the preceding year. It is named to honor prolific science fiction and fantasy author Andre Norton (1912–2005), and it was established by then SFWA president Catherine Asaro and the SFWA Young Adult Fiction committee and announced on February 20, 2005.[1][2] Any published young adult or middle grade science fiction or fantasy novel is eligible for the prize, including graphic novels. There is no limit on word count. The award was originally not a Nebula Award, despite being presented along with them and following the same rules for nominations and voting, but in 2019 SFWA announced that the award was considered a Nebula category.[3][4][5]

Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
Logo of the Andre Norton Award
Awarded for	The best middle grade or young adult science fiction or fantasy novel published in the prior calendar year
Presented by	Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
First awarded	2006
Currently held by	Fran Wilde (Riverland)
Website	https://nebulas.sfwa.org/

Andre Norton Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of the SFWA, though the authors of the nominees do not need to be members. Works are nominated each year between November 15 and February 15 by published authors who are members of the organization, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional nominees possible in the case of ties. A SFWA panel of jurors determines if the nominated works are written for young adults, and they may add up to three works to the ballot. Members may then vote on the ballot throughout March, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received.[4] Beginning with the 2009 awards, the rules were changed to the current format. Prior to then, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed works to be nominated in the calendar year after their publication and then be awarded in the calendar year after that. Works were added to a preliminary list for the year if they had ten or more nominations, which were then voted on to create a final ballot, to which the SFWA organizing panel was also allowed to add an additional work.[6]

During the 15 nomination years, 81 authors have had works nominated, of which 14 have won. Fran Wilde is the only author to win twice, out of two nominations. Holly Black and Scott Westerfeld have had the most nominations at four—with Black winning once and Westerfield yet to win—followed by Sarah Beth Durst with three nominations without winning. Black, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Delia Sherman, and Ysabeau S. Wilce are the only authors besides Wilde nominated multiple times to have won the award, with one win apiece out of four, two, two, and two nominations, respectively.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.

  *   Winners

Year	Author	Novel	Publisher	Ref.
2006	Holly Black*	Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie	Simon & Schuster	[7]
	Louise Spiegler	The Amethyst Road	Clarion Books	[7]
	Ann Halam	Siberia	Wendy Lamb Books	[7]
	Susan Vaught	Stormwitch	Bloomsbury Publishing	[7]
2007	Justine Larbalestier*	Magic or Madness	Razorbill	[8]
	Maureen Johnson	Devilish	Razorbill	[8]
	Megan Whalen Turner	The King of Attolia	Greenwillow Books	[8]
	Scott Westerfeld	Midnighters 2: Touching Darkness	Eos	[8]
	Scott Westerfeld	Peeps	Razorbill	[8]
	Susan Beth Pfeffer	Life as We Knew It	Harcourt	[8]
2008	J. K. Rowling*	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	Arthur A. Levine Books	[9]
	Steve Berman	Vintage: A Ghost Story	Haworth Press	[9]
	Sarah Beth Durst	Into the Wild	Razorbill	[9]
	Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu	The Shadow Speaker	Jump at the Sun	[9]
	Adam Rex	The True Meaning of Smekday	Hyperion Books	[9]
	Ysabeau S. Wilce	Flora Segunda	Harcourt	[9]
	Elizabeth Wein	The Lion Hunter	Viking Juvenile	[9]
2009	Ysabeau S. Wilce*	Flora's Dare	Harcourt	[10]
	Kristin Cashore	Graceling	Harcourt	[10]
	D. M. Cornish	Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter	G. P. Putnam's Sons	[10]
	Ingrid Law	Savvy	Walden Media	[10]
	Mary E. Pearson	The Adoration of Jenna Fox	Henry Holt and Company	[10]
2010	Catherynne M. Valente*	The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making	catherynnemvalente.com	[11]
	Kage Baker	Hotel Under the Sand	Tachyon Publications	[11]
	Sarah Beth Durst	Ice	Margaret K. McElderry	[11]
	Malinda Lo	Ash	Little, Brown and Company	[11]
	Lisa Mantchev	Eyes Like Stars	Feiwel & Friends	[11]
	John Scalzi	Zoe's Tale	Tor Books	[11]
	Rebecca Stead	When You Reach Me	Wendy Lamb Books	[11]
	Scott Westerfeld	Leviathan	Simon Pulse	[11]
2011	Terry Pratchett*	I Shall Wear Midnight	Victor Gollancz Ltd	[12]
	Paolo Bacigalupi	Ship Breaker	Little, Brown and Company	[12]
	Holly Black	White Cat	Margaret K. McElderry	[12]
	Suzanne Collins	Mockingjay	Scholastic Press	[12]
	Barry Deutsch	Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword	Amulet Books	[12]
	Pearl North	The Boy from Ilysies	Tor Teen	[12]
	Megan Whalen Turner	A Conspiracy of Kings	Greenwillow Books	[12]
	Scott Westerfeld	Behemoth	Simon Pulse	[12]
2012	Delia Sherman*	The Freedom Maze	Big Mouth House	[13]
	Nnedi Okorafor	Akata Witch	Viking Juvenile	[13]
	Franny Billingsley	Chime	Dial Press	[13]
	Laini Taylor	Daughter of Smoke and Bone	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	[13]
	A. S. King	Everybody Sees the Ants	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers	[13]
	Greg van Eekhout	The Boy at the End of the World	Bloomsbury Children's Books	[13]
	Rae Carson	The Girl of Fire and Thorns	Greenwillow Books	[13]
	R. J. Anderson	Ultraviolet	Orchard Books	[13]
2013	E. C. Myers*	Fair Coin	Pyr	[14]
	Kelly Barnhill	Iron Hearted Violet	Little, Brown and Company	[14]
	Holly Black	Black Heart	Victor Gollancz Ltd	[14]
	Leah Bobet	Above	Arthur A. Levine Books	[14]
	Libba Bray	The Diviners	Little, Brown and Company	[14]
	Sarah Beth Durst	Vessel	Margaret K. McElderry	[14]
	Rachel Hartman	Seraphina	Random House	[14]
	Alethea Kontis	Enchanted	Harcourt	[14]
	David Levithan	Every Day	Alice A. Knopf Books for Young Readers	[14]
	Guadalupe Garcia McCall	Summer of the Mariposas	Tu Books	[14]
	China Miéville	Railsea	Del Rey Books	[14]
	Jenn Reese	Above World	Candlewick Press	[14]
2014	Nalo Hopkinson*	Sister Mine	Grand Central Publishing	[15]
	Holly Black	The Coldest Girl in Coldtown	Little, Brown and Company	[15]
	Karen Healey	When We Wake	Little, Brown and Company	[15]
	Alaya Dawn Johnson	The Summer Prince	Arthur A. Levine Books	[15]
	Alethea Kontis	Hero	Harcourt	[15]
	Bennett Madison	September Girls	Harper Teen	[15]
	Jaclyn Moriarty	A Corner of White	Arthur A. Levine Books	[15]
2015	Alaya Dawn Johnson*	Love Is the Drug	Arthur A. Levine Books	[16]
	Sarah Rees Brennan	Unmade	Random House	[16]
	Alexandra Duncan	Salvage	Greenwillow Books	[16]
	A. S. King	Glory O'Brien's History of the Future	Little, Brown and Company	[16]
	Sarah McCarry	Dirty Wings	St. Martin's Griffin	[16]
	Kate Milford	Greenglass House	Clarion Books	[16]
	Leslye Walton	The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender	Candlewick Press	[16]
2016	Fran Wilde*	Updraft	Tor Books	[17]
	Nicole Kornher-Stace	Archivist Wasp	Big Mouth House	[17]
	Laura Ruby	Bone Gap	Balzer + Bray	[17]
	Kate Elliott	Court of Fives	Little, Brown and Company	[17]
	Frances Hardinge	Cuckoo Song	Macmillan Publishers, Amulet	[17]
	Noelle Stevenson	Nimona	Harper Teen	[17]
	Tina Connolly	Seriously Wicked	Tor Teen	[17]
	Daniel José Older	Shadowshaper	Arthur A. Levine Books	[17]
	Fonda Lee	Zeroboxer	Flux	[17]
2017	David D. Levine*	Arabella of Mars	Tor Books	[18]
	Kelly Barnhill	The Girl Who Drank the Moon	Algonquin Young Readers	[18]
	Roshani Chokshi	The Star-Touched Queen	St. Martin's Press	[18]
	Frances Hardinge	The Lie Tree	Macmillan Publishers, Abrams Books	[18]
	Philip Reeve	Railhead	Oxford University Press, Switch Press	[18]
	Lindsay Ribar	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies	Kathy Dawson Books	[18]
	Delia Sherman	The Evil Wizard Smallbone	Candlewick Press	[18]
2018	Sam J. Miller*	The Art of Starving	HarperCollins	[19]
	Fonda Lee	Exo	Scholastic Books	[19]
	Kari Maaren	Weave a Circle Round	Tor Books	[19]
	Cindy Pon	Want	Simon Pulse	[19]
2019	Tomi Adeyemi*	Children of Blood and Bone	Henry Holt and Company	[20]
	Roshani Chokshi	Aru Shah and the End of Time	Rick Riordan Presents	[20]
	Justina Ireland	Dread Nation	Balzer + Bray	[20]
	A. K. DuBoff	A Light in the Dark	BDL Press	[20]
	Henry Lien	Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword	Henry Holt and Company	[20]
	Rachel Hartman	Tess of the Road	Random House	[20]
2020	Fran Wilde*	Riverland	Amulet Paperbacks	[21]
	Carlos Hernandez	Sal and Gabi Break the Universe	Disney Hyperion	[21]
	Naomi Kritzer	Catfishing on CatNet	Tor Teen	[21]
	Yoon Ha Lee	Dragon Pearl	Disney Hyperion	[21]
	Henry Lien	Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions	Henry Holt and Company	[21]
	Greg van Eekhout	Cog	Harper	[21]

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