The Green Mountain Book Award (GMBA), initiated in 2005, is a reader's choice award for Vermont students in grades 9 - 12 created to honor excellence in young adult literature. The program is intended to encourage high schoolers to become enthusiastic and discriminating readers.
Green Mountain Book Award Committee Website
Find information about this year's nominees, related links, and teaching resources.
Order Vermont Youth Book Award Labels
2024-2025 Award Year Information and Materials
- 2024-2025 Green Mountain Book Award Nominee List (PDF)
- 2024-2025 Green Mountain Book Award Committee Membership (PDF)
Videos Now Available
434 students and adults joined us for the Vermont Youth Book Awards virtual conference on Tuesday, October 22, 2024. The conference was a celebration of readers and creators of children’s and young adult literature. Each session featured an author keynote and a presentation from a book award committee. NEW this year: an active and enthusiastic question flow from our audience which included many students.
Watch on our educational platform, Niche Academy: 2024 Green Mountain Book Award Conference Videos
- Author K. J. Reilly discussed winner of the 2023-2024 Green Mountain Book Award, Four For The Road, her writing process, and introduced her new book Sixteen Minutes. From her moving and inspiring presentation: "Librarians are basically soldiers in a rebel army of community building superheros defending literacy, education, and intellectual freedom. And librarians change lives."
- Green Mountain Book Award committee members led an exploration into the award nomination list, highlighting innovative and fun ways to promote and engage book award participation in schools and libraries.
2023-2024 Award Year Information and Materials
2022-2023 Award Year Information and Materials
Past Nominees and Winners
Publisher Submission Guidelines
Books to be considered by the GMBA Committee can be submitted by publishers. Five copies of each title, which will be circulated to committee members, should be sent to:
GMBA Committee
c/o Vermont Department of Libraries
60 Washington St., Suite 2
Barre, VT 05641
Books published in the current calendar year may be sent at any time during the year. However, sending books as soon as feasible makes it possible to give all books more careful consideration.
The committee reviews books from June - December of each year. In order to be considered, books must be received by the end of the calendar year in which they were published.
Publishers are invited to submit books that meet the following criteria:
- The book must have been published in the current calendar year. Reprints and compilations previously copyrighted are not eligible.
- Sequels are rarely considered. Please do not send sequels unless we specifically request a title.
- The book must be original or, if traditional in origin, the result of individual research. The retelling and reinterpretation must be the writer's own.
- All forms of writing are eligible for consideration – fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels and poetry.
- Books written by a previous recipient of the GMBA Award may be considered at the discretion of the committee.
- Books should have teens as their intended audience and be appropriate for teens in grades nine through twelve.
Questions may be addressed to Committee Chair Brooke Nadzam.