2021 Longlist The Infinite by Patience Agbabi The Sky is Mine by Amy Beashel Wranglestone by Darren Charlton Tiger Heart by Penny Chrimes Boy, Everywhere by AM Dassu The Good Hawk by Joseph Elliott When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth by Francesca Gibbons illustrated by Chris Riddell Last Lesson by James Goodhand Orla and the Serpent’s Curse by CJ Haslam Witch by Finbar Hawkins And the Stars were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando The Wild Way Home by Sophie Kirtley The Wolf Road by Richard Lambert The Strangeworlds Travel Agency by LD Lapinski Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll Orphans of the Tide by Struan Murray illustrated by Manuel Sumberac Anisha Accidental Detective by Serena Patel illustrated by Emma McCann The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates by Jenny Pearson illustrated by Rob Biddulph Are You Watching? by Vincent Ralph The Vanishing Trick by Jenni Spangler illustrated by Chris Mould The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke illustrated by Ayesha L Rubio The Pure Heart by Trudi Tweedie Diary of a Confused Feminist by Kate Weston
2020 Winner Bearmouth by Liz Hyder
Highly Commended The Space We’re In by Katya Balen illustrated by Laura Carlin
Shortlist Little Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties by Humza Arshad & Henry White Illustrated by Aleksei Bitskoff A Pocketful of Stars by Aisha Bushby A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson Frostheart by Jamie Littler The Million Pieces of Neena Gill by Emma Smith-Barton
Longlist The Middler by Kirsty Applebaum Asha & the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan Charlie Changes Into a Chicken by Sam Copeland illustrated by Sarah Horne Potkin and Stubbs by Sophie Green illustrated by Karl Mountford The Garden of Lost Secrets by AM Howell The Girl who Lost her Shadow by Emily Ilett High-Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson Lori and Max by Catherine O'Flynn Nevertell by Katharine Orton The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read & Laura Trinder The Tzar’s Curious Runaways by Robin Scott-Elliot Bloom by Nicola Skinner illustrated by Flavia Sorrentino Starfell: Willow Moss and the Lost Day by Dominique Valente illustrated by Sarah Warburton
2019 Winner I Am Thunder by Muhammad Khan Shortlist The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson illustrated by Elisa Paganelli & Melissa Castrillon The Train to Impossible Places by PG Bell Rosie Loves Jack by Mel Darbon The Goose Road by Rowena House Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen The Boy At The Back of The Class by Onjali Q Rauf Longlist Boy Underwater by Adam Baron The Fandom by Anna Day Me Mam. Me Dad. Me. by Malcolm Duffy Twister by Juliette Forrest Flight by Vanessa Harbour Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure by Vashti Hardy Pages & Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James The Mystery of the Colour Thief by Ewa Jozefkowicz On a Scale of One to Ten by Ceylan Scott Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw Sunflowers in February by Phyllida Shrimpton Run, Riot by Nikesh Shukla The Fox and the White Gazelle by Victoria Williamson
2018 Winner Kick by Mitch Johnson Shortlist A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars by Yaba Badoe The Starman and Me by Sharon Cohen Fish Boy by Claire Daykin Knighthood for Beginners by Elys Dolan Potter’s Boy by Tony Mitton The City of Secret Rivers by Jacob Sager Weinstein
2017 Winner Beetle Boy by MG Leonard
Shortlist Cogheart by Peter Bunzl We Are Giants by Amber Lee Dodd Little Bits of Sky by SE Durrant The Bubble Boy by Stewart Foster The Girl Of Ink And Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Riverkeep by Martin Stewart
2016 Winner Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot by Horatio Clare Shortlist Stone Rider by David Hofmeyr The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones by Will Mabbitt illustrated by Ross Collins My Brother is a Superhero by David Solomons illustrated by Laura Ellen Anderson Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
2015 Winner Leopold Blue by Rosie Rowell Shortlist Bone Jack by Sara Crowe The Year Of The Rat by Clare Furniss Cowgirl by GR Gemin Half Bad by Sally Green Trouble by Non Pratt The Dark Inside by Rupert Wallis
2014 Winner Infinite Sky by CJ Flood Shortlist Winter Damage by Natasha Carthew Wild Boy by Rob Lloyd Jones Red Ink by Julie Mayhew Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door by Ross Montgomery The Poison Boy by Fletcher Moss Geek Girl by Holly Smale
2013 Winner A Boy and a Bear in a Boat Rhymes by Dave Shelton Highly Commended A World Between Us by Lydia Syson Shortlist After the Snow by SD Crockett The Things We Did for Love by Natasha Farrant Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan A Hen in the Wardrobe by Wendy Meddour Black Arts by Andrew Prentice & Jonathan Weil
2012 Winner My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher Shortlist Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough Being Billy by Phil Earle Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans Everybody Jam by Ali Lewis Sky Hawk by Gill Lewis A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master
2011 Winner Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace Shortlist I Am The Blade by JP Buxton When I Was Joe by Keren David Tall Story by Candy Gourlay Unhooking The Moon by Gregory Hughes The Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh
2010 Winner Stolen by Lucy Christopher Shortlist Devil’s Kiss by Sarwat Chadda Life, Interrupted by Damian Kelleher Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera Big and Clever by Dan Tunstall Numbers by Rachel Ward Paradise Barn by Victor Watson
2009 Winner The Traitor Game by BR Collins Shortlist The Toymaker by Jeremy De Quidt Flood Child (Reavers’ Ransom) by Emily Diamand Between Two Seas by Marie-Louise Jensen Bloodline by Katy Moran The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls
2008 Winner Before I Die by Jenny Downham
2007 Winner A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd Highly Commended Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer Shortlist Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher Beast by Ally Kennen The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke by Sian Pattenden You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum! by Andy Stanton illustrated by David Tazzyman Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma
2006 Winner Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge Highly Commended Century by Sarah Singleton
Shortlist Home by Nicola Davies A Dog Called Grk by Joshua Doder The Burying Beetle by Ann Kelley Hellbent by Anthony McGowan Barkbelly by Cat Weatherill
2005 Winner How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Shortlist Unique by Alison Allen-Grey Dizzy by Cathy Cassidy Millions by Frank Cottrell-Boyce Zeus on the Loose by John Dougherty Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver Last Train from Kummersdorf by Leslie Wilson
2004 Winner Keeper by Mal Peet Shortlist The Various by Steve Augarde Inventing Elliott by Graham Gardner Follow me down by Julie Hearn Fish by LS Matthews Montmorency by Eleanor Updale
2003 Winner Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks Shortlist Massive by Julia Bell Ice Boy by Patricia Elliott The Firing by Richard MacSween The Quigleys by Simon Mason Frank and the Black Hamster of Narkiz by Livi Michael Feather Boy by Nicky Singer
2002 Winner Cold Tom by Sally Prue Shortlist Jessica Haggerthwaite – witch dispatcher by Emma Barnes The Beat Goes On by Adelen Minchin (Un)arranged Marriage by Bali Rai Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
2001 Winner Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick Shortlist Control Shift by Nick Manns The Wind Singer by William Nicholson Thanis by Hazel Riley
2000 Winner Song Quest by Katherine Roberts Shortlist Sharp Stuf by Dominic Barker Can we keep it, Dad? by Gus Clarke The Giant Goldfish Robbery by Richard Kidd Troublemakers by Paul May Hunting Gumnor by Stephen Pots Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison