KEYSTONE STATE       LITERACY ASSOCIATION

Providing Leadership in Literacy and Education for the Commonwealth


Middle & High School Award Winners


Year

Title

Author

Publisher

1994

Fallen Angels

Walter Dean Myers

Scholastic

1995

Do-Over

Rachel Vail

Orchard Press

1996

MS:  Troubling a Star

Madeline L’Engle

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

1996

HS:  California Blue

David Klass

Scholastic

1997

MS:  Alice the Brave

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Atheneum

1997

Quake

Joe Cottonwood

Scholastic

1998

Crash

Jerry Spinelli

Scholastic

1999

Honor Bright

Randall Beth Platt

Laurel-Leaf Books

2000

The Cow of No Color

Nina Jaffe & Steve Zeitlin

Henry Holt & Co.

2001

Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World

Howard Schwartz & A.N. Olson

Viking Juvenile

2002

Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

Scholastic

2003

The Graduation of Jake Moon

Barbara Park

Aladdin

2004

Dunk

David Lubar

Clarion

2005

Stormcatchers

Tim Bowler

Margaret K. McElderry

2006

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Gennifer Choldenko

G.P. Putnam & Sons

2007

The Ghost’s Grave

Peg Kehret

Dutton Books

2008

Blind Faith

Ellen Wittlinger

Simon & Schuster

2009

Paint the Wind

Pam Munoz Ryan

Scholastic

2010

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Scholastic

2011

MS: Three Cups of Tea

Greg Mortenson

Puffin

2011

HS: Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson

Viking

2012

MS: Drizzle

Katherine Van Cleve

Dial Books

2012

HS: Rot and Ruin

Jonathan Mayberry

Simon & Schuster

2013

MS: Saving Zasha

Randi Barrow

Scholastic

2013

HS: Everybody Sees the Ants

A.S. King

Little, Brown Books

2014

MS: Three Times Lucky

Sheila Turnage

Dial Books

2014

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

Dutton Books

2015

MS: Counting By 7”s

Holly Sloan

Dial Books

2015

HS: The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey

G.P. Putnam & Sons

2016

MS: El Deafo

Cece Bell

Harry N. Abrams

2016

HS: The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

Candace Fleming

Schwartz and Wade

 2017 MS: The Thing About Jellyfish Ali Benjamin  Little Brown Books for Young Readers
 2017 HS: Stranded Melinda Braun Simon Pulse
 2018 MS: The Seventh Wish Kate Messner Bloomsbury
 2018 HS: Everland Wendy Spinale Scholastic
 2019 MS: Restart Gordon Korman Scholastic
 2019 HS: Goodbye Days Jeff Zentner Crown Books for Young Readers
 2020 MS: Deep Water Watt Key Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
 2020 HS: Dry Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman Simon and Schuster
 2021 MS: Song for a Whale Lynne Kelly Yearling
 2021 HS: Internment Samira Ahmed

 Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

 2022

MS: Amari and the Night Brothers 

B.B. Alston Balzer and Bray
 2022HS: Instructions for Dancing Nicola Yoon Ember
 2023

MS: Dear Student 

Elly Swartz Yesrling
 2023HS: Finding Jupiter Kelis Rowe Ember



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