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YRCA 2021 Nominees
Junior
- Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster by Jonathan Auxier (CDN)
- The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani DasGupta
- Granted by John David Anderson
- Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
- Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire
- Wings of Fire. The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland ; adapted by Barry Deutsch and Rachel Swirsky (Graphic Novel)
- Positively Izzy by Terri Libenson
- Inkling by Kenneth Oppel (CDN)
Intermediate
- Impostors by Scott Westerfeld
- The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
- No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen-Fernlund (CDN)
- TBH: This is SO Awkward by Lisa Greenwald
- Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian
- City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Senior
- Sadie by Courtney Summers (CDN)
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
- A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
- I am Still Alive by Kate Marshall (CDN)
- Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich
- Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
- Dry by Neal Shusterman