Andre Norton Award
The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to the author of the best young adult or middle grade science fiction or fantasy book published in the United States in the preceding year. It is named to honor prolific science fiction and fantasy author Andre Norton, and it was established by then SFWA president Catherine Asaro and the SFWA Young Adult Fiction committee and announced on February 20, 2005. Any published young adult or middle grade science fiction or fantasy novel is eligible for the prize, including graphic novels. There is no limit on word count. The award was originally not a Nebula Award, despite being presented along with them and following the same rules for nominations and voting, but in 2019 SFWA announced that the award was considered a Nebula category.
Andre Norton Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of the SFWA, though the authors of the nominees do not need to be members. Works are nominated each year between November 15 and February 15 by published authors who are members of the organization, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional nominees possible in the case of ties. A SFWA panel of jurors determines if the nominated works are written for young adults, and they may add up to three works to the ballot. Members may then vote on the ballot throughout March, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received. Beginning with the 2009 awards, the rules were changed to the current format. Prior to then, the eligibility period for nominations was defined as one year after the publication date of the work, which allowed works to be nominated in the calendar year after their publication and then be awarded in the calendar year after that. Works were added to a preliminary list for the year if they had ten or more nominations, which were then voted on to create a final ballot, to which the SFWA organizing panel was also allowed to add an additional work.
During the 15 nomination years, 81 authors have had works nominated, of which 14 have won. Fran Wilde is the only author to win twice, out of two nominations. Holly Black and Scott Westerfeld have had the most nominations at four—with Black winning once and Westerfield yet to win—followed by Sarah Beth Durst with three nominations without winning. Black, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Delia Sherman, and Ysabeau S. Wilce are the only authors besides Wilde nominated multiple times to have won the award, with one win apiece out of four, two, two, and two nominations, respectively.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the novel was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist.* Winners
| Year | Author | Novel | Publisher | Ref. |
| 2006 | * | ' | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2006 | ' | Clarion Books | ||
| 2006 | Siberia | Wendy Lamb Books | ||
| 2006 | Stormwitch | Bloomsbury Publishing | ||
| 2007 | * | Magic or Madness | Razorbill | |
| 2007 | Devilish | Razorbill | ||
| 2007 | ' | Greenwillow Books | ||
| 2007 | Midnighters 2: Touching Darkness | Eos | ||
| 2007 | Peeps | Razorbill | ||
| 2007 | Life as We Knew It | Harcourt | ||
| 2008 | * | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | Arthur A. Levine Books | |
| 2008 | Vintage: A Ghost Story | Haworth Press | ||
| 2008 | Into the Wild | Razorbill | ||
| 2008 | ' | Jump at the Sun | ||
| 2008 | ' | Hyperion Books | ||
| 2008 | Flora Segunda | Harcourt | ||
| 2008 | ' | Viking Juvenile | ||
| 2009 | * | Flora's Dare | Harcourt | |
| 2009 | Graceling | Harcourt | ||
| 2009 | ' | G. P. Putnam's Sons | ||
| 2009 | Savvy | Walden Media | ||
| 2009 | ' | Henry Holt and Company | ||
| 2010 | * | ' | catherynnemvalente.com | |
| 2010 | Hotel Under the Sand | Tachyon Publications | ||
| 2010 | Ice | Margaret K. McElderry | ||
| 2010 | Ash | Little, Brown and Company | ||
| 2010 | Eyes Like Stars | Feiwel & Friends | ||
| 2010 | Zoe's Tale | Tor Books | ||
| 2010 | When You Reach Me | Wendy Lamb Books | ||
| 2010 | Leviathan | Simon Pulse | ||
| 2011 | * | I Shall Wear Midnight | Victor Gollancz Ltd | |
| 2011 | Ship Breaker | Little, Brown and Company | ||
| 2011 | White Cat | Margaret K. McElderry | ||
| 2011 | Mockingjay | Scholastic Press | ||
| 2011 | Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword | Amulet Books | ||
| 2011 | ' | Tor Teen | ||
| 2011 | ' | Greenwillow Books | ||
| 2011 | Behemoth | Simon Pulse | ||
| 2012 | * | ' | Big Mouth House | |
| 2012 | Akata Witch | Viking Juvenile | ||
| 2012 | Chime | Dial Press | ||
| 2012 | Daughter of Smoke and Bone | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | ||
| 2012 | Everybody Sees the Ants | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | ||
| 2012 | ' | Bloomsbury Children's Books | ||
| 2012 | ' | Greenwillow Books | ||
| 2012 | Ultraviolet | Orchard Books | ||
| 2013 | * | Fair Coin | Pyr | |
| 2013 | Iron Hearted Violet | Little, Brown and Company | ||
| 2013 | Black Heart | Victor Gollancz Ltd | ||
| 2013 | Above | Arthur A. Levine Books | ||
| 2013 | ' | Little, Brown and Company | ||
| 2013 | Vessel | Margaret K. McElderry | ||
| 2013 | Seraphina | Random House | ||
| 2013 | Enchanted | Harcourt | ||
| 2013 | Every Day | Alice A. Knopf Books for Young Readers | ||
| 2013 | Summer of the Mariposas | Tu Books | ||
| 2013 | Railsea | Del Rey Books | ||
| 2013 | Above World | Candlewick Press | ||
| 2014 | * | Sister Mine | Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2014 | ' | Little, Brown and Company | ||
| 2014 | When We Wake | Little, Brown and Company | ||
| 2014 | ' | Arthur A. Levine Books | ||
| 2014 | Hero | Harcourt | ||
| 2014 | September Girls | Harper Teen | ||
| 2014 | ' | Arthur A. Levine Books | ||
| 2015 | * | Love Is the Drug | Arthur A. Levine Books | |
| 2015 | Unmade | Random House | ||
| 2015 | Salvage | Greenwillow Books | ||
| 2015 | Glory O'Brien's History of the Future | Little, Brown and Company | ||
| 2015 | Dirty Wings | St. Martin's Griffin | ||
| 2015 | Greenglass House | Clarion Books | ||
| 2015 | Candlewick Press | |||
| 2016 | * | Updraft | Tor Books | |
| 2016 | Archivist Wasp | Big Mouth House | ||
| 2016 | Bone Gap | Balzer + Bray | ||
| 2016 | Court of Fives | Little, Brown and Company | ||
| 2016 | Cuckoo Song | Macmillan Publishers, Amulet | ||
| 2016 | Nimona | Harper Teen | ||
| 2016 | Seriously Wicked | Tor Teen | ||
| 2016 | Shadowshaper | Arthur A. Levine Books | ||
| 2016 | Zeroboxer | Flux | ||
| 2017 | * | Arabella of Mars | Tor Books | |
| 2017 | Algonquin Young Readers | |||
| 2017 | St. Martin's Press | |||
| 2017 | Macmillan Publishers, Abrams Books | |||
| 2017 | Railhead | Oxford University Press, Switch Press | ||
| 2017 | Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies | Kathy Dawson Books | ||
| 2017 | Candlewick Press | |||
| 2018 | * | HarperCollins | ||
| 2018 | Exo | Scholastic Books | ||
| 2018 | Weave a Circle Round | Tor Books | ||
| 2018 | Want | Simon Pulse | ||
| 2019 | * | Children of Blood and Bone | Henry Holt and Company | |
| 2019 | Aru Shah and the End of Time | Rick Riordan Presents | ||
| 2019 | Dread Nation | Balzer + Bray | ||
| 2019 | BDL Press | |||
| 2019 | Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword | Henry Holt and Company | ||
| 2019 | Tess of the Road | Random House | ||
| 2020 | * | Riverland | Amulet Paperbacks | |
| 2020 | Sal and Gabi Break the Universe | Disney Hyperion | ||
| 2020 | Catfishing on CatNet | Tor Teen | ||
| 2020 | Dragon Pearl | Disney Hyperion | ||
| 2020 | Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions | Henry Holt and Company | ||
| 2020 | Cog | Harper |