The Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy is a yearly juried award that is part of the Nebula Award. It is presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to the author of an outstanding young adult science fiction or fantasy book published in the previous year.

2011 Nominees:

AKATA WITCH
by Nnedi Okorafor
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.

CHIME
by Franny Billingsley
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.

DAUGHTER OF SMOKE & BONE
by Laini Taylor
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters – the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.

EVERYBODY SEES THE ANTS
by A. S. King
Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.

THE BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD
by Greg van Eekhout
Born half-grown in a world that is being destroyed, Fisher has instinctive knowledge of many things, including that he must avoid the robot that knows his name.

THE FREEDOM MAZE
by Delia Sherman
In 1960, thirteen-year-old Sophie isn't happy about spending the summer at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou until she finds a maze with a secretive and mischievous inhabitant. Bored and lonely, Sophie makes an impulsive wish and finds herself in 1860 at her family's home, where she is mistaken for a slave. What will happen to her?

THE GIRL OF FIRE AND THORNS
by Rae Carson
A fearful sixteen-year-old princess discovers her heroic destiny after being married off to the king of a neighboring country in turmoil and pursued by enemies seething with dark magic.

ULTRAVIOLET
by R. J. Anderson
Almost seventeen-year-old Alison, who has synesthesia, finds herself in a psychiatric facility accused of killing a classmate whose body cannot be found.

For more information, please visit the Nebula Awards website.

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