Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, 2024
To Shape a Dragon's Breath
Moniquill Blackgoose (opens in a new tab)
A young Wabanaki woman bonds with the first dragon her people have seen in generations, and is sent to a colonial school to learn to fly it.
Also on the ballot
- Liberty’s DaughterNaomi KritzerFairwood PressRunner-up
- The Sinister Booksellers of BathGarth NixKatherine Tegen Books, Gollancz and Allen & Unwin
- UnravellerFrances HardingeMacmillan Children’s Books; eligible due to 2023 U.S. publication by Amulet
- Abeni’s SongP. Djèlí ClarkStarscape
- Promises Stronger than DarknessCharlie Jane AndersTor Teen