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Green Mountain Book Award

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The Green Mountain Book Award (GMBA), initiated in 2005, is a reader's choice award for Vermont students in grades 9 - 12. The program is intended to encourage high schoolers to become enthusiastic and discriminating readers.

2023-2024 Award Year Information and Materials - Coming soon!

  • 2023-2024 Green Mountain Book Award Nominee List (Will be posted on 4/3/23)

2022-2023 Program Information and Materials

Past Nominees and Winners

Committee

Policies

The 2022-2023 GMBA committee is:

  • Andrew Cassarino - Burr & Burton Academy (Manchester)
  • Danielle Cotte - Colchester Middle School
  • Roeki DeMaria - Waterbury Public Library
  • Shannon DeSantis Gile - Peoples Academy (Morrisville)
  • Abby Granoff - Williston Central School
  • Abbey Heimlich - Deborah Rawson Memorial Library (Jericho)
  • Brooke Nadzam, Committee Chair  - Williamstown Middle/High School
  • Teen Member - Essex Junction
  • Teen Member - Thetford

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.

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