Finalist, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, 2018

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage

Philip Pullman (opens in a new tab)

Knopf

An innkeeper's boy with a canoe sets out through a great flood to protect a baby, Lyra, from the forces hunting her.

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The ballot

Akata WarriorNnedi OkoraforVikingWinner
Summer in OrcusT. KingfisherSofawolf PressRunner-up
In Other LandsSarah Rees BrennanBig Mouth House
A Skinful of ShadowsFrances HardingeMacmillan UK / Harry N. Abrams US
The Art of StarvingSam J. MillerHarperTeen