Margaret A. Edwards Award winners: S.E. Hinton

The publication of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders (1967) is often heralded as the birth of modern YA. Appropri- ately, the first Margaret A. Edwards committee named Hinton the inaugu- ral recipient of the award. 1988

Sweet Valley High Pascal Scorpions Walter Dean Myers Richard Peck Robert Cormier Lois Duncan

No winner in 1989, as it was originally conceived to be a The Chocolate War Cormier biennial award.

Rudine Sims Bishop coins “windows, mirrors, & sliding doors.” 1990–1991 1992

Fear Street Stine M.E. Kerr Walter Dean Myers Cynthia Voigt

I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This Woodson 1993

Amazon is born, and soon emerges The Giver 1994 as a book-buying 1995 Lowry resource.

Judy Blume Gary Paulsen Madeleine L’Engle

The Golden Compass Pullman

A boy wizard from

1996 across the pond starts to work his magic in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by

1997–1998 newbie J.K. Rowling.

Anne McCaffrey Chris Crutcher

The Princess Diaries In 1999 the first Cabot Michael In 2000, past L. Printz MAE winner “The thing I like best Award Walter Dean about winning the committee Myers’s Margaret A. Edwards convenes. Monster wins the first is the company in award for a book that which it puts me.” —Chris Crutcher

1999 “exemplifies literary excellence in young adult 2000 Someone Like You Heaven literature.” Stargirl Dessen Johnson Spinelli

CONTINUED Robert Lipsyte Paul Zindel

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Brashares

9/11

2001 2002 Hole in My Life Gantos Nancy Garden Ursula LeGuin

Looking A banner year for LGBTQ in for Alaska YA—David Levithan’s ground- Green breaking Boy Meets Boy pub- lishes the same year Nancy Garden receives the MAE. “Vlogs” (video blogs) Facebook begin to crop up, launches. as YouTube, social 2004 media, and “apps”

2003 become staples of How I Live Now popular culture. Rosoff 2005 Francesca Lia Block Jacqueline Woodson

The “Twilight” saga Octavian Nothing pushes teen fiction to Anderson the mainstream, and soon adults begin to read YA Twitter and as avidly Goodreads as young both launch people. A in 2006. paranormal romance franchise is born. 2006 The Book Thief Zusak

Lois Lowry Orson Scott Card Dystopian fiction con- tinues to amp up the prevalence of YA with the publication of the block- Soon after Orson buster “Hunger Games” by Scott Card was Suzanne Collins in 2006. named the recip- ient of the MAE, his homophobia Gene Luen Yang’s Lois Lowry, author was made public American Born of The Giver, which knowledge. A de- Chinese is first predated the genre’s cade later, 2017 graphic novel to recipient Levithan denounced Card in 2007 surge in popularity, is win the Printz. honored in 2007. 2008 his MAE acceptance speech. Laurie Halse Anderson Jim Murphy Sir Terry Pratchett

Graceling Cashore M William C. Morris The Great Award for YA Recession Debut Award YALSA’s first given. Excellence in Nonfiction Award first

2009 given. 2010–2011

CONTINUED Susan Cooper Tamora Pierce

The Fault in Our Stars Green #WeNeedDiverseBooks makes history on Twitter Aristotle and pushes the industry to and Dante recognize its lack of repre- Discover sentation of marginalized the Secrets experiences in children’s of the Universe books. The rallying cry 2012 wins the Printz. becomes a movement. 2013

Markus Zusak Sharon Draper David Levithan

“I…believe that the committee that chose Orson Scott Card …was not knowledgeable of his [homophobia] ….It is not okay. It will never be okay. So it is up to me and the other winners …to be the counterbalance against [Card], who is so full of hate and was so full of hate when he won this award.” —David Levithan 2014

2015–2016 The Sun Is Also a Star Yoon Sarah Dessen Angela Johnson

March sweeps the Youth Media 2017 Awards. The Poet X The Hate U Give 2018 Acevedo Thomas