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The Young Hoosier Book Award (YHBA)[1] is an annual book award given by the Indiana Library Federation. It is divided into three categories: Picture Books (kindergarten through second grade), Intermediate (third through fifth grade), and Middle Grade (sixth through eighth grade). It encourages self-selected reading among elementary and middle school/junior high school children. Indiana students vote for their favorite among the 20 nominees in each category.
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It gave its first award in 1975, to The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White.[2] The YHBAs added the Intermediate and Middle Grade categories in 1896, and the Picture Book category in 1992.
The most recent winners (2023 - 2024) were There's a Ghost in This House by Oliver Jeffers (Picture Book), What Comes Next by Rob Buyea (Intermediate), and Alone by Megan E. Freeman (Middle Grade).