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.
Submit Votes: Green Mountain Award
2025-2026 Award Year Information and Materials
2025-2026 Green Mountain Book Award Nominee List
- Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo
- Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce
- To the Bone by Alena Bruzas
- Aisle Nine by Ian X. Cho
- The Wilderness of Girls by Madeline Claire Franklin
- Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky by Josh Galarza
- Ghost Roast by Shawnelle Gibbs & Shawneé Gibbs
- A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds by Rebecca E Hirsch
- The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko
- Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States by J. Albert Mann
- The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
- What’s Eating Jackie Oh by Patricia Park
- Darkly by Marisha Pessl
- Night Owls by A.R. Vishny
- Compound Fracture by Andrew J. White
2024-2025 Award Year Information and Materials
- Voting Submission Form Deadline: May 25, 2025
- 2024-2025 Green Mountain Book Award Nominee List (PDF)
- 2024-2025 Green Mountain Book Award Committee Membership (PDF)
2024 Green Mountain Book Award Conference Videos
- 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
Order Vermont Youth Book Award Labels
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.