National Book Foundation Book Award Finalists & Winners

2014

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: Former WCYA faculty and alumna Deborah Wiles, ’03, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)
• Winner, Young People’s Literature: Former WCYA faculty member Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group (USA))

2013

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: WCYA faculty member Kathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

2012

• Winner, Young People’s Literature: WCYA faculty member William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
• Finalist, Poetry: MFAW faculty member Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies (Southern Illinois University Press)
• Finalist, Poetry: MFAW alum Tim Seibles, Fast Animal (Etruscan Press)

2011

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: Former WCYA faculty member Franny Billingsley, Chime (Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, Inc.)
• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: WCYA alumna Debby Dahl Edwardson, ’05, My Name Is Not Easy (Marshall Cavendish)

2010

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: WCYA faculty member Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer  (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

2009

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: WCYA faculty member Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)

2008

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: WCYA faculty member Kathi Appelt, The Underneath (Atheneum)

2006

• Winner, Young People’s Literature: Board Member and former WCYA faculty member M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party  (Candlewick Press)
• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: WCYA faculty member and alumna Martine Leavitt, ’03, Keturah and Lord Death (Front Street Books/Boyds Mills Press)

2005

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: Former WCYA faculty and alumna Deborah Wiles, ’03, Each Little Bird That Sings (Harcourt)
• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: Chris Lynch, Inexcusable (Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

2004

• Winner, Poetry: Former MFAW faculty member and Distinguished Visiting Faculty member Jean Valentine, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003

2002

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: Board Member and former faculty member M.T. Anderson, Feed
• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: WCYA faculty member Elizabeth (Betsy) Partridge, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: Former WCYA faculty member Jacqueline Woodson – Hush

2001

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: WCYA faculty member An Na, ’99, A Step from Heaven

2000

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: Former WCYA faculty member Carolyn Coman, Many Stones

1998

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: Former WCYA faculty member Jack Gantos, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

1997

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: Former WCYA faculty member Brock Cole, The Facts Speak for Themselves

1996

• Finalist, Young People’s Literature: Former WCYA faculty member Carolyn Coman, What Jamie Saw

Board member Katherine Paterson has also won an NBA twice: In 1977 for The Master Puppeteer, and in 1979 for The Great Gilly Hopkins.