2019 Westchester Fiction Award Winners!!!
Children of Blood and Bone…Tomi Adeyemi...Henry Holt and Company
Darius the Great is Not Okay…Adib Khorram...Dial Books
Dry…Neal and Jarrod Shusterman...Simon & Schuster
Empress of all Seasons…Emiko Jean...Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Juan Pablo and the Butterflies…J. J. Flowers...Merit Press
Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix…Julie C. Dao...Philomel Books
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes…Atia Abawi...Philomel books
The Nowhere Girls…Amy Reed...Simon Pulse
This Mortal Coil…Emily Suvada...Simon Pulse
We Are All That is Left…Carrie Arcos...Philomel Books
2019 Westchester Fiction Award Honorable Mentions!!!
After the Shot Drops…Randy Ribay...Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
At the Edge of the Universe…Shaun David Hutchinson...Simon Pulse
I, Claudia…Mary McCoy...Carolrhoda LAB
More Than We Can Tell…Brigid Kemmerer...Bloomsbury
Orphan Monster Spy…Matt Killeen...Viking
2018 Westchester Fiction Award Winners!!!
The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
The Imposter Queen by Sarah Fine published by Margaret K. McElderry Books
Museum of Heartbreak by Meg Leder published by Simon Pulse
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus published by Delacorte Press
Scythe by Neal Shusterman published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green published by Dutton Books for Young Readers
War Cross by Marie Lu published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson published by Simon Pulse
What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum published by Delacorte Press
Honorable Mentions:
Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairytale by Ashley Poston published by Quirk Book
Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner published by Crown Books for Young Readers
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson published by Bloomsbury USA Children's
The Star Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi published by St. Martin's Griffin
Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
2017 Westchester Fiction Award winners
Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee by Mary G. Thompson published by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina published by Candlewick Press
The Call by Peadar O'Guilin published by Scholastic, Inc.
The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury published by Razor Bill (Penguin Random House)
The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron published by Scholastic, Inc.
Future Shock by Elizabeth Briggs published by Albert Whitman & Company
How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather published by Alfred A. Knopf
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt published by Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner published by Crown Books (Penguin Random House)
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum published by Delacorte Press (Penguin Random House)
Honorable Mentions
The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork published by Arthur A. Levine Books (Scholastic, Inc.)
Need by Joelle Charbonneau published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Phantom Limbs by Paula Garner published by Candlewick Press
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys published by Philomel Books
Wax by Gina Damico published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2016 Westchester Fiction Award Winners
Title | Author | Publisher |
All American Boys | Jason Reynolds & Kiely Brendan | A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
Burn Girl | Mandy Mikulencak | Albert Whitman & Co. |
Everything Everything | Nicola Yoon | Delacorte Press |
I Am Princess X | Cherie Priest | Arthur A. Levine Books: Scholastic |
Infandous | Elana K. Arnold | Carolrhoda LAB |
Saint Anything | Sarah Dessen | Viking |
Scorpion Rules | Erin Bow | Margaret K. McElderry Books |
Under a Painted Sky | Stacey Lee | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
The Wrath & the Dawn | Renee Ahdieh | G.P. Putnam’s Sons |
Written in the Stars | Aisha Saeed | Nancy Paulsen Books |
Honorable Mentions
Black Widow: Forever Red | Margaret Stohl | Marvel Press/Disney |
An Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir | Razor Bill |
Ruthless | Carolyn Lee Adams | Simon Pulse |
Sophomores and Other Oxymorons | David Lubar | Dutton Books |
The Wrong Side of Right | Jenn Marie Thorne | Dial Books |
2015 Winners:
Westchester Fiction Award Winners, 2014
- All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry published by Viking (imprint of Penguin)
- Audacious by Gabrielle Prendergast published by Orca Book Publishers
- Fat Angie by E. E. Charlton-Trujillo published by Candlewick Press
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons (imprint of Penguin)
- In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters published by Amulet Books
- Living with Jackie Chan by Jo Knowles published by Candlewick Press
- Proxy by Alex London published by Philomel Books (Imprint of Penguin Books)
- Sick by Tom Leveen published by Abrams Books
- The Sin-Eater's Confession by Ilsa J. Bick published by Lerner Publishing Group
- Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina published by Candlewick Press
Honorable Mentions
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke published by Dial Books (Imprint of Penguin)
- Juvie by Steve Watkins published by Candlewick Press
- Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner published by Candlewick Press
- Orleans by Sherri L. Smith published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons (imprint of Penguin)
- Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys published by Philomel Books (imprint of Penguin)
2013 Winners
1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (Simon & Schuster)
2. Blood Red Road by Moira Young (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
3. Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts (Simon & Schuster)
4. Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
5. The Fault in our Stars by John Green (Dutton Books)
6. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews (Amulet Books)
7. The Peculiars by Maureen Doyle McQuerry (Amulet Books)
8. Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Tu Books; imprint of Lee & Low Books)
9. Vodnik by Bryce Moore (Tu Books; imprint of Lee & Low Books)
10. Witchlanders by Lena Coakley (Atheneum Books)
2013 Honorable Mentions
1. Fingerprints of You by Kristen-Paige Madonia (Simon & Schuster)
2. Girl with Borrowed Wings by Rinsai Rossetti (Dial Books)
3. Legacy by Molly Cochran (Simon & Schuster)
4. Origin by Jessica Khoury (Razorbill; imprint of Penguin Books)
5. Smashed by Lisa Luedeke (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
2012 Winners
Anna Dressed in Blood---Kendra Blake (TOR Teen: Tom Doherty Associates
Blink & Caution---Tim Wynne Jones (Candlewick Press)
Faerie Ring---Kiki Hamilton (Tom Doherty Associates)
The Lost Gate---Orson Scott Card (Tom Doherty Associates)
Mindblind---Jennifer Roy (Marshall Cavendish)
A Monster Calls---Patrick Ness (Candlewick Press)
The Scorpio Races---Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)
Shine---Lauren Myracle (Amulet Books)
Stork---Wendy Delsol (Candlewick Press)
Wolf Mark---Joseph Bruchac (Tu Books: Lee & Low Books)
2012 Honorable Mentions
The Blood Lie by Shirley Reva Vernick, Cinco Puntos Press
Born Ugly by Beth Goobie, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
The Dead by Charlie Higson, Hyperion
The End of the Line by Angela Cerrito, Holiday House
Lost in the River of Grass by Ginny Robert, Lerner Publishing Group
2011
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (Margaret McElderry Books)
Draw the Dark by Ilsa Bick (Carolrhoda/Lerner Books)
Green Witch by Alice Hoffman (Scholastic)
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz (Cinco Puntos Press)
Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork (Scholastic)
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)
Nightshade City by Hilary Wagner (Holiday House)
Salt by Maurice Gee (Orca Books)
Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard (Holiday House)
Struts & Frets by Jon Skovron (Amulet Books)
2010
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (Henry Holt & Company)
Lost by Jacqueline Davies (Marshall Cavendish Childrens Books)
Lunch With Lenin by Deborah Ellis (Fitzhenry and Whiteside)
Pieces of Me by Charlotte Gingras (Kids Can Press)
Shut Up by Marilyn Reynolds (Morning Glory Press)
Watching July by Christine Hart (Sumach Press)
