# Andre Norton Award

The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction (formerly the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy) is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) to the author of the best young adult or middle grade science fiction or fantasy book published in the United States in the preceding year. It is named to honor prolific science fiction and fantasy author Andre Norton (1912–2005), and it was established by then SFWA president Catherine Asaro and the SFWA Young Adult Fiction committee and announced on February 20, 2005. Any published young adult or middle grade science fiction or fantasy novel is eligible for the prize, including graphic novels. There is no limit on word count. The award was originally not a Nebula Award, despite being presented along with them and following the same rules for nominations and voting, but in 2019 SFWA announced that the award was considered a Nebula category.
Andre Norton Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of SFWA, though the authors of the nominees do not need to be members. Works are nominated each year by members in a period around December 15 through January 31, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional nominees possible in the case of ties. Soon after, members are given a month to vote on the ballot, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received. Beginning with the 2009 awards, the rules were changed to the current format. Prior to then, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed works to be nominated in the calendar year after their publication and then be awarded in the calendar year after that. Works were added to a preliminary list for the year if they had ten or more nominations, which were then voted on to create a final ballot, to which the SFWA organizing panel was also allowed to add an additional work.
During the 20 nomination years, 98 authors have had works nominated, of which 18 have won. Fran Wilde is the only author to win twice, out of two nominations. Holly Black, Jenn Reese, and Scott Westerfeld have had the most nominations at four—with Black winning once and Reese and Westerfeld yet to win—followed by Sarah Beth Durst and Greg van Eekhout with three nominations each without winning. Black, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Delia Sherman, and Ysabeau S. Wilce are the only authors besides Wilde nominated multiple times to have won the award, with one win apiece out of four, two, two, and two nominations, respectively.

## Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.
* Winners
Winners and nominees :
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
| 2006 | Holly Black* | Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie | Simon & Schuster |
| 2006 | Louise Spiegler | The Amethyst Road | Clarion Books |
| 2006 | Ann Halam | Siberia | Wendy Lamb Books |
| 2006 | Susan Vaught | Stormwitch | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| 2007 | Justine Larbalestier* | Magic or Madness | Razorbill |
| 2007 | Maureen Johnson | Devilish | Razorbill |
| 2007 | Megan Whalen Turner | The King of Attolia | Greenwillow Books |
| 2007 | Scott Westerfeld | Midnighters 2: Touching Darkness | Eos |
| 2007 | Scott Westerfeld | Peeps | Razorbill |
| 2007 | Susan Beth Pfeffer | Life as We Knew It | Harcourt |
| 2008 | J. K. Rowling* | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | Arthur A. Levine Books |
| 2008 | Steve Berman | Vintage: A Ghost Story | Haworth Press |
| 2008 | Sarah Beth Durst | Into the Wild | Razorbill |
| 2008 | Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu | The Shadow Speaker | Jump at the Sun |
| 2008 | Adam Rex | The True Meaning of Smekday | Hyperion Books |
| 2008 | Ysabeau S. Wilce | Flora Segunda | Harcourt |
| 2008 | Elizabeth Wein | The Lion Hunter | Viking Juvenile |
| 2009 | Ysabeau S. Wilce* | Flora's Dare | Harcourt |
| 2009 | Kristin Cashore | Graceling | Harcourt |
| 2009 | D. M. Cornish | Monster Blood Tattoo: Lamplighter | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| 2009 | Ingrid Law | Savvy | Walden Media |
| 2009 | Mary E. Pearson | The Adoration of Jenna Fox | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2010 | Catherynne M. Valente* | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making | catherynnemvalente.com |
| 2010 | Kage Baker | Hotel Under the Sand | Tachyon Publications |
| 2010 | Sarah Beth Durst | Ice | Margaret K. McElderry |
| 2010 | Malinda Lo | Ash | Little, Brown and Company |
| 2010 | Lisa Mantchev | Eyes Like Stars | Feiwel & Friends |
| 2010 | John Scalzi | Zoe's Tale | Tor Books |
| 2010 | Rebecca Stead | When You Reach Me | Wendy Lamb Books |
| 2010 | Scott Westerfeld | Leviathan | Simon Pulse |
| 2011 | Terry Pratchett* | I Shall Wear Midnight | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2011 | Paolo Bacigalupi | Ship Breaker | Little, Brown and Company |
| 2011 | Holly Black | White Cat | Margaret K. McElderry |
| 2011 | Suzanne Collins | Mockingjay | Scholastic Press |
| 2011 | Barry Deutsch | Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword | Amulet Books |
| 2011 | Pearl North | The Boy from Ilysies | Tor Teen |
| 2011 | Megan Whalen Turner | A Conspiracy of Kings | Greenwillow Books |
| 2011 | Scott Westerfeld | Behemoth | Simon Pulse |
| 2012 | Delia Sherman* | The Freedom Maze | Big Mouth House |
| 2012 | Nnedi Okorafor | Akata Witch | Viking Juvenile |
| 2012 | Franny Billingsley | Chime | Dial Press |
| 2012 | Laini Taylor | Daughter of Smoke and Bone | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 2012 | A. S. King | Everybody Sees the Ants | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| 2012 | Greg van Eekhout | The Boy at the End of the World | Bloomsbury Children's Books |
| 2012 | Rae Carson | The Girl of Fire and Thorns | Greenwillow Books |
| 2012 | R. J. Anderson | Ultraviolet | Orchard Books |
| 2013 | E. C. Myers* | Fair Coin | Pyr |
| 2013 | Kelly Barnhill | Iron Hearted Violet | Little, Brown and Company |
| 2013 | Holly Black | Black Heart | Victor Gollancz Ltd |
| 2013 | Leah Bobet | Above | Arthur A. Levine Books |
| 2013 | Libba Bray | The Diviners | Little, Brown and Company |
| 2013 | Sarah Beth Durst | Vessel | Margaret K. McElderry |
| 2013 | Rachel Hartman | Seraphina | Random House |
| 2013 | Alethea Kontis | Enchanted | Harcourt |
| 2013 | David Levithan | Every Day | Alice A. Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| 2013 | Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Summer of the Mariposas | Tu Books |
| 2013 | China Miéville | Railsea | Del Rey Books |
| 2013 | Jenn Reese | Above World | Candlewick Press |
| 2014 | Nalo Hopkinson* | Sister Mine | Grand Central Publishing |
| 2014 | Holly Black | The Coldest Girl in Coldtown | Little, Brown and Company |
| 2014 | Karen Healey | When We Wake | Little, Brown and Company |
| 2014 | Alaya Dawn Johnson | The Summer Prince | Arthur A. Levine Books |
| 2014 | Alethea Kontis | Hero | Harcourt |
| 2014 | Bennett Madison | September Girls | Harper Teen |
| 2014 | Jaclyn Moriarty | A Corner of White | Arthur A. Levine Books |
| 2015 | Alaya Dawn Johnson* | Love Is the Drug | Arthur A. Levine Books |
| 2015 | Sarah Rees Brennan | Unmade | Random House |
| 2015 | Alexandra Duncan | Salvage | Greenwillow Books |
| 2015 | A. S. King | Glory O'Brien's History of the Future | Little, Brown and Company |
| 2015 | Sarah McCarry | Dirty Wings | St. Martin's Griffin |
| 2015 | Kate Milford | Greenglass House | Clarion Books |
| 2015 | Leslye Walton | The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender | Candlewick Press |
| 2016 | Fran Wilde* | Updraft | Tor Books |
| 2016 | Nicole Kornher-Stace | Archivist Wasp | Big Mouth House |
| 2016 | Laura Ruby | Bone Gap | Balzer + Bray |
| 2016 | Kate Elliott | Court of Fives | Little, Brown and Company |
| 2016 | Frances Hardinge | Cuckoo Song | Macmillan Publishers, Amulet |
| 2016 | ND Stevenson | Nimona | Harper Teen |
| 2016 | Tina Connolly | Seriously Wicked | Tor Teen |
| 2016 | Daniel José Older | Shadowshaper | Arthur A. Levine Books |
| 2016 | Fonda Lee | Zeroboxer | Flux |
| 2017 | David D. Levine* | Arabella of Mars | Tor Books |
| 2017 | Kelly Barnhill | The Girl Who Drank the Moon | Algonquin Young Readers |
| 2017 | Roshani Chokshi | The Star-Touched Queen | St. Martin's Press |
| 2017 | Frances Hardinge | The Lie Tree | Macmillan Publishers, Abrams Books |
| 2017 | Philip Reeve | Railhead | Oxford University Press, Switch Press |
| 2017 | Lindsay Ribar | Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies | Kathy Dawson Books |
| 2017 | Delia Sherman | The Evil Wizard Smallbone | Candlewick Press |
| 2018 | Sam J. Miller* | The Art of Starving | HarperCollins |
| 2018 | Fonda Lee | Exo | Scholastic Books |
| 2018 | Kari Maaren | Weave a Circle Round | Tor Books |
| 2018 | Cindy Pon | Want | Simon Pulse |
| 2019 | Tomi Adeyemi* | Children of Blood and Bone | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2019 | Roshani Chokshi | Aru Shah and the End of Time | Rick Riordan Presents |
| 2019 | Justina Ireland | Dread Nation | Balzer + Bray |
| 2019 | A. K. DuBoff | A Light in the Dark | BDL Press |
| 2019 | Henry Lien | Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2019 | Rachel Hartman | Tess of the Road | Random House |
| 2020 | Fran Wilde* | Riverland | Amulet Paperbacks |
| 2020 | Carlos Hernandez | Sal and Gabi Break the Universe | Rick Riordan Presents |
| 2020 | Naomi Kritzer | Catfishing on CatNet | Tor Teen |
| 2020 | Yoon Ha Lee | Dragon Pearl | Rick Riordan Presents |
| 2020 | Henry Lien | Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2020 | Greg van Eekhout | Cog | Harper |
| 2021 | Ursula Vernon (as T. Kingfisher)* | A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking | Argyll Productions |
| 2021 | Jordan Ifueko | Raybearer | Amulet Books |
| 2021 | Darcie Little Badger | Elatsoe | Levine Querido |
| 2021 | Jenn Reese | A Game of Fox & Squirrels | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2021 | Shveta Thakrar | Star Daughter | HarperTeen |
| 2022 | Darcie Little Badger* | A Snake Falls to Earth | Levine Querido |
| 2022 | Xiran Jay Zhao | Iron Widow | Penguin Teen/Rock the Boat |
| 2022 | Jordan Ifueko | Redemptor | Amulet Books/Hot Key Books |
| 2022 | Eden Royce | Root Magic | Walden Pond Press |
| 2022 | Leah Cypess | Thornwood | Delacorte Press |
| 2022 | Charlie Jane Anders | Victories Greater Than Death | Tor Teen/Titan Books |
| 2023 | K. Tempest Bradford* | Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2023 | H. A. Clarke | The Scratch Daughters | Erewhon Books |
| 2023 | Deva Fagan | The Mirrorwood | Atheneum Books |
| 2023 | Maya MacGregor | The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester | Astra Young Readers |
| 2023 | Jenn Reese | Every Bird a Prince | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2024 | Moniquill Blackgoose* | To Shape a Dragon's Breath | Del Rey Books |
| 2024 | J. Dianne Dotson | The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern | Android Press |
| 2024 | Naomi Kritzer | Liberty's Daughter | Fairwood Press |
| 2024 | Greg van Eekhout | The Ghost Job | HarperCollins |
| 2025 | José Pablo Iriarte | Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed | Alice A. Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| 2025 | Leah Cypess | Braided | Delacorte Press |
| 2025 | Rob Cameron | Daydreamer | Labyrinth Road |
| 2025 | Yoon Ha Lee | Moonstorm | Delacorte Press, Solaris Books |
| 2025 | Jenn Reese | Puzzleheart | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2025 | Vanessa Ricci-Thode | The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts | (self-published) |