The YA Book Prize 2021 shortlist has been announced with ten YA titles on the list.
Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2021
Category: Book Awards
The YA Book Prize 2021 shortlist has been announced with ten YA titles on the list.
YA Book Prize 2021 shortlist
The winner will be presented with a £2,000 prize and feature on the YA programme at Hay Festival.
The ten shortlisted titles include:
Wranglestone by Darren Charlton (Little Tiger)
Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson (Electric Monkey)
And the Stars Were Burning Brightly by Danielle Jawando (Simon and Schuster Children's Books)
Eight Pieces of Silva by Patrice Lawrence (Hodder Children's Books)
Loveless by Alice Oseman (HarperCollins Children's Books)
The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff (Bloomsbury's Children's Books)
Melt My Heart by Bethany Rutter (Macmillan Children's Books)
Hold Back the Tide by Melinda Salisbury (Scholastic UK)
Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle (Andersen Press)
A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood (Scholastic UK)
Find out more about the shortlisted books and authors, and read the first chapter of each book for free, on The Bookseller website.
This year, the prize is also awarding the third ever YA Book Prize Special Achievement Award to the Queen of UK YA, Malorie Blackman, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first novel in her seminal YA series, Noughts & Crosses.
During her 30-year career as an author, Malorie has inspired generations of young readers, not only through her own writing, but also during her time as Children's Laureate, which saw the founding of the UK's first Young Adult Literature Convention (YALC).
Previous winners include Louise O'Neill's Only Ever Yours (2015), Sarah Crossan's One (2016), Patrice Lawrence's Orangeboy (2017), Will Hill's After the Fire (2018) and Sara Barnard's Goodbye, Perfect (2019). The most recent YA Book Prize winner was Meat Market by Juno Dawson, a "gritty and compelling" expose of the fashion industry.
