Previous winners and shortlists:
RED 15 (2020-2021 award): Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin Illegal
Nominated:
- Summer Bird Blue, Akemi Dawn Bowman
- A Pocketful of Stars, Aisha Bushby
- My Name’s Not Friday, Jon Walter
RED 14 (2019-2020 award): Lauren James The Quiet at the End of the World
Nominated:
- Orphan Monster Spy, Matt Killeen
- The Closest Thing to Flying, Gill Lewis
- Outwalkers, Fiona Shaw
RED 13 (2018-2019 award): Phyllida Shrimpton Sunflowers in February
Nominated:
- Kick Mitch Johnson
- I am Traitor Sif Sigmarsdottir
- Sky Thieves Dan Walker
RED 12 (2017-2018 award): Elizabeth Laird Welcome to Nowhere
Nominated:
- Boy X Dan Smith
- Hell and High Water Tanya Landman
- Rebel of the Sands Alwyn Hamilton
RED 11 (2016-2017 award): 13 Hours by Narinder Dhami
Nominated:
- The Apple Tart of Hope Sarah M Fitzgerald
- The Year of the Rat Clare Furniss
- Devil You Know Cathy MacPhail
RED 10 (2015-2016 award): Mind Blind by Lari Don
Nominated:
- Beneath Gill Arbuthnot
- Salvage Keren David
- Inflicted Ria Frances
RED 9 (2014-2015 award): Raining Fire by Alan Gibbons
Nominated:
- Rat Runners Oisin McGann
- Mosi’s War Cathy MacPhail
- Soul Shadows Alex Woolf
RED 8 (2013-2014 award): Slated byTeri Terry
Nominated:
- Mortal Chaos Matt Dickinson
- Torn David Massey
- Mr Creecher Chris Priestly
RED 7 (2012-2013 award): An Act of Love by Alan Gibbons
Nominated:
- My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Annabel Pitcher
- Gladiator Simon Scarrow
- Blood Red Road Moira Young
RED 6 (2011-12 award): Wasted by Nicola Morgan
Nominated:
- Ausländer Paul Dowswell
- Koh Tabu Ann Kelley
- Black Out Sam Mills
- Timeriders Alex Scarrow
RED 5 (2010-11 award): Grass by Cathy MacPhail
Nominated:
- Wolfcry Julia Golding
- Colony J A Henderson
- Chalkline Jane Mitchell
- Deathwatch Nicola Morgan
RED 4 (2009-10 award): Divided City by Theresa Breslin
Nominated:
- Don’t Tell Sandra Glover
- Beast Ally Kennan
- Forged in the Fire Ann Turnbull
RED 3 (2008-09 award): Worse Than Boys by Cathy MacPhail
Nominated:
- Message from Mia Sandra Glover
- Bunker 10 J A Henderson Fearless Tim Lott
- Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea Michael Morpurgo
RED 2 (2007-08 award): Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie
Nominated:
- The Ice Cream Con Jimmy Docherty
- Ostrich Boys Keith Gray
- Strangled Silence Oisin McGann
- Spider Linda Strachan
RED 1 (2006-07 award): Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy
Nominated:
- The Star of Kazan Eva Ibbotson
- Airborn Kenneth Oppel
- Tamar Mal Peet
- Montmorency Eleanor Updale
