National Book Awards

Congratulations to Daniel Nayeri, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for his novel The Teacher of Nomad Land. Check out other titles and vocabulary lists nominated for this prestigious award.

Congratulations to Shifa Saltagi Safadi, winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Our vocabulary lists will help you get the most out of her novel in verse Kareem Between — and the other titles nominated for this prestigious award.

Congratulations to Dan Santat, winner of the 2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Our vocabulary lists will help you get the most out of his graphic memoir A First Time for Everything — and the other titles nominated for this prestigious award.

Congratulations to Sabaa Tahir, winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Our vocabulary lists will help you get the most out of her novel All My Rage — and the other titles nominated for this prestigious award.

Congratulations to Malinda Lo, winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Our vocabulary lists will help you get the most out of her novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club — and the other titles nominated for this prestigious award.

Congratulations to Kacen Callender, winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Our vocabulary lists will help you get the most out of their moving novel King and the Dragonflies — and the other finalists and longlisted titles for this prestigious award.

Congratulations to Martin W. Sandler, winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Our vocabulary lists will help you get the most out of his gripping and informative book, 1919: The Year that Changed America — and the other finalists and longlisted titles for this prestigious award.