South Carolina Young Adult Book Awards
2018-19 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominees
Air by Ryan Gattis
All We Have Left by Wendy Mills
Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA by Bridget Heos
The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
Learning to Swear in America by Katie Kennedy
The Radius of Us by Marie Marquardt
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story by Caren Stelson
The Safest Lies by Megan Miranda
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
2017-18 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominees
Winner:
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Nominees:
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Between the Notes by Sharon Huss Roat
The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan
Denton Little’s Deathdate by Lance Rubin
The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes
Don’t Fail Me Now by Una LaMarche
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham
The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver
Things We Know By Heart by Jessi Kirby
The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne
2016-17 South Carolina Young Adult Book Awards
Winner:
Red Queen by Victori Aveyard
Nominees:
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Beware the Wild by Natalie C. Parker
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
Can’t Look Away by Donna Cooner
Chernobyl’s Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone by Rebecca L. Johnson
Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe
Double Exposure by Bridget Birdsall
Hunt for the Bamboo Rat by Graham Salisbury
The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga
Some Boys by Patty Blount
Soulprint by Megan Miranda
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince with Elaine DePrince
The Walled City by Ryan Graudin
We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story by Josh Sundquist
Wildflower by Alecia Whitaker