Learning
Guardian book prize
2016 Alex Wheatle Crongton Knights
2015 David Almond A Song for Ella Grey
2014 Piers Torday The Dark Wild
2013 Rebecca Stead Liar & Spy
2012 Frank Cottrell Boyce The Unforgotten Coat
2011 Andy Mulligan Return To Ribblestrop
2010 Michelle Paver Ghost Hunter
2009 Mal Peet Exposure
2008 Patrick Ness The Knife of Never Letting Go
2007 Jenny Valentine Finding Violet Park
2006 Philip Reeve A Darkling Plain
2005 Kate Thompson The New Policeman
2004 Meg Rosoff How I Live Now
2003 Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2002 Sonya Hartnett Thursday's Child
2001 Kevin Crossley-Holland The Seeing Stone
2000 Jacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum
1999 Susan Price The Sterkarm Handshake
1998 Henrietta Branford Fire, Bed and Bone
1997 Melvin Burgess Junk
1996 Philip Pullman Northern Lights
(US title, The Golden Compass)
1996 Alison Prince The Sherwood Hero
1995 Lesley Howarth MapHead
1994 Sylvia Waugh The Mennyms
1993 William Mayne Low Tide
1992 Rachel Anderson Paper Faces
1992 Hilary McKay The Exiles
1991 Robert Westall The Kingdom by the Sea
1990 Anne Fine Goggle-Eyes
1989 Geraldine McCaughrean A Pack of Lies
1988 Ruth Thomas The Runaways
1987 James Aldridge The True Story of Spit MacPhee
1986 Ann Pilling Henry's Leg
1985 Ted Hughes What is the Truth
1984 Dick King-Smith The Sheep-Pig
(US title, Babe, the Gallant Pig)
1983 Anita Desai The Village by the Sea
1982 Michelle Magorian Goodnight Mr Tom
1981 Peter Carter The Sentinels
1980 Ann Schlee The Vandal
1979 Andrew Davies Conrad's War
1978 Diana Wynne Jones Charmed Life
1977 Peter Dickinson The Blue Hawk
1976 Nina Bawden The Peppermint Pig
1975 Winifred Cawley Gran at Coalgate
1974 Barbara Willard The Iron Lily
1973 Richard Adams Watership Down
1972 Gillian Avery A Likely Lad
1971 John Christopher The Guardians
1970 K. M. Peyton The Flambards trilogy (1967–1969)
1969 Joan Aiken The Whispering Mountain
1968 Alan Garner The Owl Service
1967 Leon Garfield Devil-in-the-Fog