Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing

2024

Winner
The Boy Lost in the Maze by Joseph Coelho illustrated by Kate Milner

Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Award Winner
Crossing the Line by Tia Fisher

Shortlist
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell
Away with Words by Sophie Cameron
Choose Love by Nicola Davies illustrated by Petr Horacek
Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan
Steady for This by Nathanael Lessore

Longlist
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll illustrated by Lauren Child
Electric Life by Rachel Delahaye
Until the Road Ends by Phil Earle
Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner
Wild Song by Candy Gourlay
Boy Like Me by Simon James Green
The Swifts by Beth Lincoln illustrated by Claire Powell
Dogs of the Deadlands by Anthony McGowan illustrated by Keith Robinson
Tyger by SF Said illustrated by Dave McKean
Ravencave by Marcus Sedgwick
Greenwild: The World Behind The Door by Pari Thomson illustrated by Elisa Paganelli

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2023

Winner
The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros

Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Award Winner
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys

Shortlist
The Light in Everything by Katya Balen
When Shadows Fall by Sita Brahmachari illustrated by Natalie Sirett
Medusa by Jessie Burton illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill
The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch
Needle by Patrice Lawrence

Longlist
The Blackthorn Branch by Elen Caldecott
Running with Horses by Jason Cockcroft
The Worlds We Leave Behind by AF Harrold illustrated by Levi Pinfold
Green Rising by Lauren James
When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando
Julia and the Shark by Kiran Millwood Hargrave illustrated by Tom de Freston
Wrath by Marcus Sedgwick
The Silver Chain by Jion Sheibani

Carnegie Medal

2022

Winner & Shadowers’ Choice Award Winner
October, October by Katya Balen illustrated by Angela Harding

Shortlist
Guard Your Heart by Sue Divin
When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
The Crossing by Manjeet Mann
Tsunami Girl by Julian Sedgwick illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada
Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam

Longlist
Musical Truth by Jeffrey Boakye illustrated by Ngadi Smart
We Were Wolves by Jason Cockcroft
When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten
The Climbers by Keith Gray
The Wolf Road by Richard Lambert
Rat by Patrice Lawrence
Grow by Luke Palmer
The Valley of Lost Secrets by Lesley Parr
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner

2021

Winner
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds

Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Award Winner
Run, Rebel by Manjeet Mann

Shortlist
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson illustrated by Kathrin Honesta
The Girl Who Became A Tree by Joseph Coelho illustrated by Kate Milner
On Midnight Beach by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

Longlist
The Space We’re In by Katya Balen illustrated by Laura Carlin
The Short Knife by Elen Caldecott
Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
Furious Thing by Jenny Downham
PET by Akwaeke Emezi
Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
And the Stars were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando
In The Key Of Code by Aimee Lucido
The Deathless Girls by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Burn by Patrick Ness
After The War by Tom Palmer
Somebody Give This Heart A Pen by Sophia Thakur

2020

Winner
Lark by Anthony McGowan

Shortlist
Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black by Marcus & Julian Sedgwick illustrated by Alexis Deacon
The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
Nowhere on Earth by Nick Lake
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Lampie by Annet Schaap
On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
Girl. Boy. Sea. by Chris Vick

Longlist
A Pocketful of Stars by Aisha Bushby
Toffee by Sarah Crossan
Becoming Dinah by Kit de Waal
Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
Monsters by Sharon Dogar
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
The Skylarks’ War by Hilary McKay
No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen
Inkling by Kenneth Oppel
The Boxer by Nikesh Shukla
Paper Avalanche by Lisa Williamson

2019

Winner
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Shortlist
Rebound by Kwame Alexander
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson illustrated by Elisa Paganelli and Melissa Castrillon
Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders

Longlist
The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki by Kevin Crossley-Holland illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love
My Side of the Diamond by Sally Gardner
A Different Boy by Paul Jennings illustrated by Geoff Kelly
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane illustrated by Jackie Morris
Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales by Hilary McKay illustrated by Sarah Gibb
The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily XR Pan
The Boy At The Back of The Class by Onjali Q Rauf
Station Zero by Philip Reeve
Mud by Emily Thomas

2018

Winner
Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean

Shortlist
Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans
After the Fire by Will Hill
Rook by Anthony McGowan
Release by Patrick Ness
Saint Death by Marcus Sedgwick
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk

Longlist
The Tale of Angelino Brown by David Almond illustrated by Alex T Smith
The Hypnotist by Laurence Anholt
Overheard in a Tower Block by Joseph Coelho illustrated by Kate Milner
The Song from Somewhere Else by AF Harrold illustrated by Levi Pinfold
Welcome to Nowhere by Elizabeth Laird
Out of Heart by Irfan Master
A Berlin Love Song by Sarah Matthias
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Call by Peadar O'Guilin
Black Light Express by Philip Reeve
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell illustrated by Hannah Horn
Encounters by Jason Wallace

2017

Winner
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Shortlist
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard
Beck by Mal Peet & Meg Rosoff
Railhead by Philip Reeve
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

Longlist
Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot by Horatio Clare
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
How Not to Disappear by Clare Furniss
Whisper to Me by Nick Lake
Beetle Boy by MG Leonard
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D Schmidt
The Marvels by Brian Selznick
Island by Nicky Singer
Dreaming the Bear by Mimi Thebo
Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

2016

Winner
One by Sarah Crossan

Shortlist
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
There Will Be Lies by Nick Lake
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders
The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Fire Colour One by Jenny Valentine

Longlist
Book by John Agard
A Song For Ella Grey by David Almond
The Earth is Singing by Vanessa Curtis
The Door That Led To Where by Sally Gardner
The Imaginary by AF Harrold illustrated by Emily Gravett
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
Jessica's Ghost by Andrew Norriss
Panther by David Owen
The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett
Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton
My Name’s Not Friday by Jon Walter
Liccle Bit by Alex Wheatle

2015

Winner
Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman

Shortlist
When Mr Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan
Apple and Rain by Sarah Crossan
Tinder by Sally Gardner illustrated by David Roberts
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird
The Middle of Nowhere by Geraldine McCaughrean
More Than This by Patrick Ness

2014

Winner
The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks

Shortlist
All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry
The Child's Elephant by Rachel Campbell-Johnston
Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper
Blood Family by Anne Fine
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
The Wall by William Sutcliffe

2013

Winner
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

Shortlist
The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle
In Darkness by Nick Lake
Wonder by RJ Palacio
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat Rhymes by Dave Shelton
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

2012

Winner
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness & Siobhan Dowd illustrated by Jim Kay

Shortlist
My Name is Mina by David Almond
Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans
The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
Everybody Jam by Ali Lewis
Trash by Andy Mulligan
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

2011

Winner
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

Shortlist
Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin
The Death-Defying Pepper Roux by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

2010

Winner
A Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman illustrated by Chris Riddell & Dave McKean

Shortlist
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn
The Ask and the Answer: Chaos Walking, Book Two by Patrick Ness
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve
Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick

2009

Winner
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd

Shortlist
Black Rabbit Summer by Kevin Brooks
Airman by Eoin Colfer
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson

2008

Winner
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve

Shortlist
Gatty's Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Ruby Red by Linzi Glass
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
Apache: Girl Warrior by Tanya Landman
What I Was by Meg Rosoff
Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine

2007

Winner
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff

Shortlist
The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
The Road of Bones by Anne Fine
Beast by Ally Kennen
My Swordhand is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick

2005

Winner
Tamar by Mal Peet

Shortlist
Clay by David Almond
Framed by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Turbulence by Jan Mark
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean

2004

Winner
Millions by Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Shortlist
Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
The Scarecrow and his Servant by Philip Pullman

2003

Winner
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Shortlist
The Fire-Eaters by David Almond
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Sisterland by Linda Newbery

2002

Winner
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

Shortlist
Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks
Up on Cloud Nine by Anne Fine
The Edge by Alan Gibbons
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
The Shell House by Linda Newbery
The Dark Horse by Marcus Sedgwick

2001

Winner
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

Highly Commended
Stop the Train by Geraldine McCaughrean

Commended
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

Shortlist
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Jake's Tower by Elizabeth Laird
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
True Believer by Virginia Wolff

2000

Winner
The Other Side of Truth by Beverly Naidoo

Highly Commended
Troy by Adele Geras
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

Commended
The Ghost Behind the Wall by Melvin Burgess

Shortlist
Heaven Eyes by David Almond
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
Shadow of the Minotaur by Alan Gibbons

1999

Winner
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers

Shortlist
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
Little Soldier by Bernard Ashley
King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
Tightrope by Gillian Cross
The Rinaldi Ring by Jenny Nimmo
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by JK Rowling
The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson illustrated by Nick Sharratt

1998

Winner
Skellig by David Almond

Shortlist
Heroes by Robert Cormier
The Kin by Peter Dickinson
Fly, Cherokee, Fly by Chris d'Lacey
The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price

1997

Winner
River Boy by Tim Bowler

Highly Commended
Fire, Bed and Bone by Henrietta Branford

Commended
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling

Shortlist
Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
Forever X by Geraldine McCaughrean
Scribbleboy by Philip Ridley
Meet me by the Steel Men by Theresa Tomlinson

1996

Winner
Junk by Melvin Burgess

Highly Commended
The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine

Commended
Johnny and the Bomb by Terry Pratchett

Shortlist
Weirdo's War by Michael Coleman
Secret Friends by Elizabeth Laird
Clockwork or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman illustrated by Peter Bailey
Love in Cyberia by Chloe Rayban
Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson illustrated by Nick Sharratt

1995

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

Highly Commended
Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson illustrated by Nick Sharratt

Commended
Raider by Susan Gates

Shortlist
Granny the Pag by Nina Bawden
In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier
The Bronte Girls by Garry Kilworth
The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo
Thomas and the Tinners by Jill Paton Walsh

1994

Winner
Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin

Highly Commended
Willa and Old Miss Annie by Berlie Doherty
Maphead by Lesley Howarth

Shortlist
Broken Bridge by Lynne Reid Banks
Arthur, High King of Britain by Michael Morpurgo
Griffin's Castle by Jenny Nimmo
A Time of Fire by Robert Westall
The Bed and Breakfast Star by Jacqueline Wilson

1993

Winner
Stone Cold by Robert Swindells

Highly Commended
The Baby and Fly Pie by Melvin Burgess
The Stone Mouse by Jenny Nimmo

1992

Winner
Flour Babies by Anne Fine

Highly Commended
Gulf by Robert Westall

1991

Winner
Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty

Highly Commended
The Story Of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson illustrated by Nick Sharratt

1990

Winner
Wolf by Gillian Cross

Highly Commended
The Cry of the Wolf by Melvin Burgess
The Kingdom by the Sea by Robert Westall

1989

Winner
Goggle-eyes by Anne Fine

Highly Commended
Bill's New Frock by Anne Fine illustrated by Philippe Dupasquier
The Charlie Barber Treatment by Carole Lloyd

1988

Winner
A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCaughrean

Highly Commended
A Map of Nowhere by Gillian Cross
Eva by Peter Dickinson
Red Sky in the Morning by Elizabeth Laird

1987

Winner
The Ghost Drum by Susan Price

Highly Commended
Memory by Margaret Mahy

1986

Winner
Granny was a Buffer Girl by Berlie Doherty

Highly Commended
Isaac Campion by Janni Howker

1985

Winner
Storm by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Highly Commended
The Nature of the Beast by Janni Howker

1984

Winner
The Changeover by Margaret Mahy

Highly Commended
Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells

1983

Winner
Handles by Jan Mark

Highly Commended
Talking in Whispers by James Watson

1982

Winner
The Haunting by Margaret Mahy

Highly Commended
The Dark Behind the Curtain by Gillian Cross

1981

Winner
The Scarecrows by Robert Westall

Highly Commended
The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam

1980

Winner
City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament by Peter Dickinson illustrated by Michael Foreman

Highly Commended
Nothing To Be Afraid Of by Jan Mark

1979

Winner
Tulku by Peter Dickinson

Highly Commended
The Castle Story by Sheila Sancha

1978

Winner
The Exeter Blitz by David Rees

1977

Winner
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp

1976

Winner
Thunder and Lightnings by Jan Mark

1975

Winner
The Machine-Gunners by Robert Westall

1974

Winner
The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter

Highly Commended
The Battle of Gettysburg, 1–3 July 1863 by Ian Ribbons

1973

Winner
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively

1972

Winner
Watership Down by Richard Adams

1971

Winner
Josh by Ivan Southall

1970

Winner
The God Beneath the Sea by Leon Garfield illustrated by Charles Keeping

1969

Winner
The Edge of the Cloud by Kathleen Peyton

1968

Winner
The Moon in the Cloud by Rosemary Harris

1967

Winner
The Owl Service by Alan Garner

Highly Commended
The Dream Time by Henry Treece

1966

Highly Commended
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Story of the Norman Conquest, 1066 by Norman Denny & Josephine Filmer-Sankey

1965

Winner
The Grange at High Force by Philip Turner

1964

Winner
Nordy Bank by Sheena Porter

1963

Winner
Time of Trial by Hester Burton illustrated by Victor Ambrus

1962

Winner
The Twelve and the Genii by Pauline Clarke

1961

Winner
A Stranger at Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston

1960

Winner
The Making of Man by Dr IW Cornwall

1959

Winner
The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff

1958

Winner
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

1957

Winner
A Grass Rope by William Mayne

1956

Winner
The Last Battle by CS Lewis

1955

Winner
The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon

1954

Winner
Knight Crusader by Ronald Welch (Ronald Oliver Felton)

Highly Commended
Lavender's Blue by Kathleen Lines illustrated by Harold Jones

1953

Winner
A Valley Grows Up by Edward Osmond

1952

Winner
The Borrowers by Mary Norton

1951

Winner
The Woolpack by Cynthia Harnett

1950

Winner
The Lark on the Wing by Elfrida Vipont Foulds

1949

Winner
The Story of Your Home by Agnes Allen

1948

Winner
Sea Change by Richard Armstrong

1947

Winner
Collected Stories for Children by Walter de la Mare

1946

Winner
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

1944

Winner
The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater

1942

Winner
The Little Grey Men by BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford)

1941

Winner
We Couldn’t Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold

1940

Winner
Visitors from London by Kitty Barne

1939

Winner
Radium Woman by Eleanor Doorly

1938

Winner
The Circus is Coming by Noel Streatfield

1937

Winner
The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett

1936

Winner
Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome

Commended
Sampson's Circus by Howard Spring
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

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