Young Adult Book Award
- 2010 Drink the Air by Richard Yaxley
- 2009 A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda Millard
- 2008 Requiem for a Beast by Matt Ottley
- 2007 One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
- 2006 The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky
- 2005 Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman
- 2004 How to Make a Bird by Martine Murray
- 2003 Boys of Blood and Bone by David Metzenthen
- 2002 When Dogs Cry by Markus Zusak
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