Andre Norton Award facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
Logo of the Andre Norton Award
Presented by	Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
First awarded	2006
Currently held by	Fran Wilde (Riverland)

The Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction is a special prize given every year. It used to be called the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy. This award celebrates the best science fiction or fantasy books written for middle schoolers and young adults. These books must have been published in the United States during the year before the award is given.

The award is named after Andre Norton (1912–2005), a very famous writer of science fiction and fantasy books. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) created this award. It was first announced on February 20, 2005. Any published science fiction or fantasy book for young readers can be nominated, even graphic novels. There's no limit on how long the book can be.

At first, the Andre Norton Award was not officially a Nebula Award. However, it was presented at the same ceremony and followed the same rules for choosing winners. In 2019, the SFWA announced that it would officially be part of the Nebula Awards.

How Winners Are Chosen

Members of the SFWA choose the nominees and winners for the Andre Norton Award. Authors who are nominated do not need to be SFWA members themselves.

Every year, SFWA members can nominate books from around December 15 to January 31. The six books that get the most nominations become the final choices, called the "ballot." If there's a tie, more books might be added to the ballot.

After the final choices are announced, members have about a month to vote for their favorite book. The winners are then announced at the Nebula Awards ceremony, which usually happens in May. Authors are not allowed to nominate their own books. If there's a tie in the final vote, the book with more nominations usually wins.

The rules for the award changed a bit starting in 2009. Before that, books could be nominated up to a year after they were published. This meant a book published in one year could be nominated the next year and win the year after that.

Award History

Over 15 years of nominations, 81 different authors have had their books nominated. Out of these, 14 authors have won the award.

Fran Wilde is the only author who has won the award twice. She won both times she was nominated. Holly Black and Scott Westerfeld have been nominated the most times, with four nominations each. Holly Black has won once, but Scott Westerfeld has not won yet.

Other authors who have won the award more than once include Alaya Dawn Johnson, Delia Sherman, and Ysabeau S. Wilce. They each won once out of their multiple nominations.

Winners and Nominees

The table below shows the winners and nominees for the Andre Norton Award. The years listed are when the award ceremony took place, not when the book was first published. Each year links to a page about literature from that year.

• Books with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the author's name are the winners.
• Books with a white background are the other nominated books.

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See also

In Spanish: Premio Andre Norton para niños