2024: Steady For This
Author: Nathanael Lessore
Editor: Ella Whiddett and Ruth Bennett
Publisher: Hot Key Books
The Other 2024 Nominees
The Final Year Matt Goodfellow, illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton, edited by Charlotte Hacking (Otter-Barry Books)
The First Move by Jenny Ireland, edited by Ruth Knowles with Sara Jafari (Penguin)
Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan, edited by Eloise Wilson (Andersen Press)
The Swifts by Beth Lincoln, illustrated by Claire Powell, edited by Ben Horslen and Julie Strauss-Gabel (Puffin)
You Think You Know Me by Ayaan Mohamud, edited by Sarah Stewart (Usborne)
2023: Ellie Pillai is Brown
Author: Christine Pillainayagam
Editor: Leah Thaxton
Publisher: Faber: YA
The Other 2023 Nominees
The Bones of Me by Kel Duckhouse, edited by Harriet Birkinshaw (Flying Eye Books) YA
The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch, edited by Siobhán Parkinson (Little Island Books) YA
Seed by Caryl Lewis, edited by Sarah Hughes, illustrated by George Ermos (Macmillan Children’s Books) 8+
Rebel Skies by Ann Sei Lin, edited by Gráinne Clear (Walker Books) 11+
The Cats We Meet Along the Way by Nadia Mikail, edited by Bella Pearson (Guppy Books) YA
The Haunting of Tyrese Walker by J P Rose, edited by Chloe Thackur (Andersen Press) 11+
The Map of Leaves by Yarrow Townsend, edited by Rachel Leyshon (Chicken House) 9+
