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.
2025-2026 Award Year Information and Materials
NEW: 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
- Student Voting Submission is now closed. Winners will be announced by the first week of June!
- 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
- Author K. J. Reilly discussed winner of the 2023-2024 Green Mountain Book Award, Four For The Road, her writing process, and her 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.
- Author K. J. Reilly discussed winner of the 2023-2024 Green Mountain Book Award, Four For The Road, her writing process, and her 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."
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
Updated 5/25/25