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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 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


Registration Now Open: 2024 VT Youth Book Awards Conference

Vermont Youth Book Award Conference will be Tuesday, October 22

Please join us for the Vermont Youth Book Awards virtual conference taking place Tuesday, October 22, 2024, from 9:00am-5:00pm. The conference is a celebration of readers and creators of children’s and young adult literature! Each session will feature an author keynote and a presentation from a book award committee. This year we invite students to watch the author presentations in libraries and classrooms across the state. The authors will speak directly to students and have asked us to encourage them to submit questions prior to the conference. Please submit student (and your own) questions for authors through this form by Friday, October 11. All sessions will be recorded and available after the conference.

The Green Mountain Book Award session takes place from 3:00-5:00pm.

3:00-4:00pm: Author K. J. Reilly will discuss winner of the 2023-2024 Green Mountain Book Award, Four For The Road, her writing process, and introduce her new book Sixteen Minutes. She is also the author of Words We Don’t Say, which was on the Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year list in 2019.

10-11:00am: Green Mountain Book Award committee members will lead an exploration into the award nomination list, highlighting innovative and fun ways to promote and engage book award participation in schools and libraries.

Meeting information:


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.


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