When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead was awarded the John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children (Wendy Lamb Books, editor, Wendy Lamb)

Going Bovine by Libba Bray was awarded the Michael L. Printz Award for literary excellence in Young Adult literature. (Delacorte Press, editor Wendy Loggia)

Julia Alvarez has won the Pura Belpre Author Award for her novel Return to Sender for a Latino writer whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino culture and experience in an exemplary work for youth. (Alfred A. Knopf, editor Erin Clarke)

Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis was awarded a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for an African-American author's contribution to youth literature.

The Great and Only Barnum by Candace Fleming was a YALSA Best Nonfiction Award Finalist for best nonfiction published for young adults.

Also, Random House Children's Books also received the Mildred Batchelder Award for the most distinguished translated work from an American publisher for A Faraway Island by Annika Thor; translated by Linda Schenck (Delacorte Press, Francoise Bui)