National Jewish Book Awards

Young Adult Literature

Year	Endowment	Winner	Finalists
2025		Eugene Yelchin I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This: A Graphic Memoir Candlewick	Deborah Heiligman Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2024		A. R. Vishny Night Owls Harper Collins	Isaac Blum The Judgment of YoYo Gold Philomel Books Janet Singer Applefield Becoming Janet: Finding Myself in the Holocaust Cypress House
2023		Elana K. Arnold The Blood Years Balzer + Bray	S. Khubiar Just a Hat Blackstone Publishing Neal Shusterman; Andrés Vera Martínez, illus. Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust Graphix Scholastic
2022		Susan Wider It’s My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II Norton Young Readers	Sacha Lamb When the Angels Left the Old Country Levine Querido Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib. Salt & Honey: Jewish Teens on Feminism, Creativity, and Tradition Behrman House R. M. Romero The Ghosts of Rose Hill Peachtree Publishers
2021		Lori Banov Kaufmann Rebel Daughter Delacorte Press	Liz Kessler When the World Was Ours Aladdin Books Aden Polydoros The City Beautiful Inkyard Press
2020		Gavriel Savit The Way Back Knopf Books for Young Readers	Marisa Kanter What I Like About You Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Rachel Lynn Solomon Today Tonight Tomorrow Simon Pulse
2019		Rachel DeWoskin Someday We Will Fly Viking Books for Young Readers	Natasha Díaz Color Me In Delacorte Press Tara Lynn Masih My Real Name is Hanna Mandel Vilar Press Rafi Mittlefehldt What Makes Us Candlewick Press Vesper Stamper What the Night Sings Knopf
2017	Jewish Book Council Award	Alan Gratz Refugee Scholastic Press
2016	The Posner Award	Rachel Mann On Blackberry Hill CreateSpace	Gavriel Savit Anna and the Swallow Man Knopf Books for Young Readers Eva Wiseman Another Me Tundra Books
2015	The Posner Award	Laura Amy Schlitz The Hired Girl Candlewick	Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the Holocaust Aladdin (Simon and Schuster) Melanie Crowder Audacity Philomel Books (Penguin Young Readers) Anne Blankman Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins)