Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers

Mission

* To encourage Georgia young adults in grades 9-12 to recognize and read quality literature appropriate to their needs, interests, and reading levels.

* To honor outstanding works in young adult literature.

* To recognize authors in the field of young adult literature.

* To develop cooperative school and public library services to teens.

2019-2020 Georgia Peach Teen Results

And the winner of the 2019/2020 Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers is

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Georgia Peach Honor Books

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

and

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang!

2020-2021 George Peach Teen Book Nominees

The purpose of the Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers is to highlight and promote the best current young adult literature for Georgia high school age students, to encourage teens to read, and to promote the development of cooperative school and public library services for young adults. The Nominees for the 2020-2021 Award are as follows: American Road Trip by Patrick Flores-Scott Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones Dry by Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman Have a Little Faith in Me by Sonia Hartl Here to Stay by Sara Farizan House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver Internment by Samira Ahmed The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg On the Come Up by Angie Thomas Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds Pride by Ibi Zoboi Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett Skyward by Brandon Sanderson Sorry For Your Loss by Jessie Ann Foley Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

The purpose of of the Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers is to highlight and promote the best current young adult literature for Georgia high school age students, to encourage teens to read, and to promote the development of cooperative school and public library services for young adults.

The Nominees for the 2020-2021 Award are as follows:

American Road Trip by Patrick Flores-Scott

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez

The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones

Dry by Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman

Have a Little Faith in Me by Sonia Hartl

Here to Stay by Sara Farizan

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver

Internment by Samira Ahmed

The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner

Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

Sorry For Your Loss by Jessie Ann Foley

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

2021-2022 George Peach Teen Book Nominees

10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Flamer by Mike Curato

Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez

Golden Arm by Carl Deuker

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

How We Became Wicked by Alexander Yates

I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee

If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley

It Came From the Sky by Chelsea Sedoti

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

Skyhunter by Marie Lu

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

What I Carry by Jennifer Longo

You Should See Me In a Crown by Leah Johnson

All the YA made into movies