South Carolina Junior Book Awards
2018-19 South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominees
23 Minutes by Vivian Vande Velde
Beautiful Blue World by Suzanne Lafleur
The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye
The Darkest Hour by Caroline Tung Richmond
Falling Over Sideways by Jordan Sonnenblick
The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry
The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, the Three Magic Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz
Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman
2017-18 South Carolina Book Award Nominees
Winner:
Code of Honor by Alan Gratz
Nominees:
Adrift by Paul Griffin
Beneath by Roland Smith
Big Top Burning: The True Story of an Arsonist, a Missing Girl, and the Greatest Show on Earth by Laura A. Woollett
Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Chasing Secrets by Gennifer Choldenko
The Chosen Prince by Diane Stanley
I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest
Mark of the Thief by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall
Terror at Bottle Creek by Watt Key
Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Berry
2016-17 South Carolina Young Adult Book Awards
Winner:
The Swap by Megan Shull
Nominees:
Being Sloane Jacobs by Lauren Morrill
The Bridge from Me to You by Lisa Schroeder
The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
Famous Last Words by Katie Alender
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart
Hunt for the Bamboo Rat by Graham Salisbury
If You’re Reading This by Trent Reedy
The Iron Trial by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare
Loot: How to Steal a Fortune by Jude Watson
The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson
Paper Things by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
The Walk On by John Feinstein