Teens: Margaret A. Edwards Award

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The Margaret A. Edwards Award, established in 1988, honors an author's lifetime achievement for writing books that have been popular with teens over a period of time. The annual award is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association and sponsored by School Library Journal magazine. It recognizes an author's work in helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships, society, and in the world.

2010s

2013 - Tamora Pierce

Alanna, the First Adventure

Wild Magic

Sandry's Book

Terrier

2012 - Susan Cooper

Over Sea, Under Stone

The Dark is Rising

Greenwitch

The Grey King

Silver on the Tree

2011 - Sir Terry Pratchett

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
The Wee Free Men
A Hat Full of Sky
The Color of Magic
Guards! Guards!
Equal Rites
Going Postal
Small Gods
Mort

2009 - Jim Murphy

An American Plague: the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America

The Great Fire

The Long Road to Gettysburg

2000s

2009 - Laurie Halse Anderson

Catalyst

Fever 1793

Speak

2008 - Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game

Ender's Shadow

2007 - Lois Lowry
The Giver
 

2006 - Jacqueline Woodson
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
If You Come Softly
Miracle's Boys
Melanin Sun (not owned by SPL)
Lena
 

2005 - Francesca Lia Bloch
Weetzie Bat
Witch Baby
Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Missing Angel Juan
Baby Be-Bop
 

2004 - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Beginning Place
  

2003 - Nancy Garden
Annie on My Mind

2002 - Paul Zindel
The Pigman
The Pigman’s Legacy
Pigman and Me
My Darling, My Hamburger
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

2001 - Robert Lipsyte
The Contender
The Brave
The Chief (not owned by SPL)
One Fat Summer

2000 - Chris Crutcher
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Athletic Shorts
Chinese Handcuffs
Crazy Horse Electric Game
Stotan
Running Loose

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1990s

1999 - Anne McCaffrey
Dragonflight
Dragonquest
The White Dragon
The Ship Who Sang

Harper Hall Trilogy:
Dragonsong
Dragonsinger
Dragondrums

1998 - Madeleine L’Engle
The Austin Family Series:
The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas
A Full House: An Austin Family Christmas
Meet the Austins

The Anti-Muffins:
The Moon by Night (not owned by SPL)
The Young Unicorns 
Ring of Endless Light 

Time Fantasy Series:
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters
An Acceptable Time (not owned by SPL)

1997 - Gary Paulsen
Hatchet
Woodsong
The Winter Room
The Crossing
Canyons
Dancing Carl (not owned by SPL)

1996 - Judy Blume
Forever

1995 - Cynthia Voigt
Homecoming
Dicey’s Song
A Solitary Blue
Building Blocks
The Runner
Jackaroo
Izzy Willy Nilly

1994 - Walter Dean Myers
Hoops
Motown and Didi (not owned by SPL)
Fallen Angels
Scorpions

1993 - M.E. Kerr
Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack
Gentlehands
Me, Me, Me, Me, Me: Not a Novel (not owned by SPL)
Night Kites (not owned by SPL)

1992 - Lois Duncan
Chapters: My Growth as a Writer (not owned by SPL)
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Killing Mr. Griffin
Ransom
Summer of Fear
The Twisted Window

1991 - Robert Cormier
The Chocolate War
I am the Cheese
After the First Death

1990 - Richard Peck
Are You in the House Alone
Father Figure
The Ghost Belonged to Me
Secrets of the Shopping Mall (not owned by SPL)
Remembering the Good Times (not owned by SPL)

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1980s

1989 - No Award Given

1988 - S.E. Hinton
The Outsiders
Rumble Fish
Tex
That Was Then, This is Now

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