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or the North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC). In 2018 they were replaced by Notable Book Lists of the same names sponsored by the

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(LITA). The Golden Duck Awards were funded by Super-Con-Duck-Tivity, Inc., the sponsor of the U.S. midwest regional science fiction convention

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. Winners were selected by a group of teachers, librarians, parents, high tech workers and reviewers.

Winners

Picture Book Award

The Picture Book Award is sometimes given to a book with non-fictional science content with a story "wrapper" as well as traditional science fiction themes. * 1992 – ''Time Train'' by

Paul Fleischman Paul Fleischman (born 1952) is an American writer of children's books. He and his father Sid Fleischman have both won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American lit ...

, illustrated by Claire Ewart * 1993 – ''June 29, 1999'' by David Wiesner * 1994 – ''Richie's Rocket'' by Joan Anderson, photographed by George Ancona * 1995 – ''Time Flies'' by Eric Rohmann * 1996 – ''Insects from Outer Space'' by Vladimir Vagin and Frank Asch * 1997 – ''Grandpa Takes Me to the Moon'' by Timothy Gaffney, illustrated by Barry Root * 1998 – ''Floating Home'' by David Getz, illustrated by Michael Rex * 1999 – ''Noah and the Space Ark'' by Laura Cecil, illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark * 2000 – ''Hush, Little Alien'' by Daniel Kirk * 2001 – ''Rex'' by Robert Gould and Kathleen Duey, illustrated by Eugene Epstein * 2002 – '' Baloney (Henry P.)'' by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith * 2003 – ''Incredible Cross-Sections of Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones'' by Curtis Saxton and Richard Chasemore * 2004 – ''Hazel Nutt, Mad Scientist'' by David Elliot, illustrated by True Kelley (Holliday House, ) * 2005 – ''Science Verse'' by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith (Viking) * 2006 – ''Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery'' by Kevin O'Malley, illustrated by Patrick O'Brien * 2007 – ''Night of the Homework Zombies'' by Scott Nickel, illustrated by Steve Harpster () * 2008 – ''Mars Needs Moms'' by

Berkeley Breathed Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (; born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author, Film director, director, and screenwriter, known for his comic strips ''Bloom County'', ''Outland (comic strip), Outland'', and ''Opus (comic s ...

* 2009 – ''We're Off to Look for Aliens'' by Colin McNaughton * 2010 – ''Swamps of Sleethe'' by Jack Prelutsky * 2011 – ''Oh No! (Or, How My Science Project Destroyed the World)'' by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Dan Santat * 2012 – ''Earth to Clunk'' by Pam Smallcomb, illustrated by Joe Berger * 2013 – ''Oh No! Not Again!: (Or How I Built a Time Machine to Save History) (Or At Least My History Grade)'' by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Dan Santat * 2014 – ''Vader's Little Princess'' by Jeffrey Brown * 2015 – ''Max Goes to the Space Station'' by Jeffrey Bennett, illustrated by Michael Carroll * 2016 – ''Interstellar Cinderella'', by Deborah Underwood, illustrated by Meg Hunt * 2017 – ''Blip!'' written and illustrated by Barnaby Richards

Eleanor Cameron Award

This award is given to chapter books and middle grade novels. The protagonists are science users and problem solvers. Occasionally, books with fantasy elements but a science fiction theme have won. * 1992 – '' My Teacher Glows in the Dark'' by Bruce Coville * 1993 – ''Weirdos of the Universe Unite!'' by Pamela Service * 1994 – ''Worf's First Adventure'' by Peter David * 1995 – ''Shape Changer'' by Bill Brittain * 1996 – ''Star Hatchling'' by Margaret Bechard * 1997 – ''Kipton and the Tower of Time'' by Charles L. Fontenay * 1998 – '' The Andalite Chronicles'' by

Katherine Applegate Katherine Alice Applegate (born October 9, 1956), known professionally as K. A. Applegate, is an American young adult and children's fiction writer, best known as the author of the ''Animorphs'', '' Remnants'', and '' Everworld'' book series. S ...

* 1999 – '' Young Jedi Knights'' series by Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta * 2000 – ''I Was a Sixth Grade Alien'' by Bruce Coville * 2001 – ''The Power of Un'' by Nancy Etchemendy * 2002 – ''Beatnik Rutabagas from Beyond the Stars'' by Quentin Dodd * 2003 – ''Andrew Lost'' series: ''Andrew Lost on the Dog''; ''Andrew Lost in the Bathroom''; ''Andrew Lost in the Kitchen'' by J. C. Greenburg * 2004 – '' Escape from Memory'' by

Margaret Peterson Haddix Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) is an American writer known best for the two children's series, Shadow Children (series), ''Shadow Children'' (1998–2006) and The Missing (novel series), ''The Missing'' (2008–2015). She also wro ...

* 2005 – ''

The Supernaturalist ''The Supernaturalist'' is a science fiction cyberpunk novel by Irish author Eoin Colfer. The book was influenced by film noir and other predecessors of the cyberpunk Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic set ...

'' by Eoin Colfer (Hyperion) * 2006 – (tie) ::'' Whales on Stilts'' by M. T. Anderson, illustrated by Kurt Cyrus (Harcourt, 2005. ) ::'' The Fran That Time Forgot'' by Jim Benton (Aladdin, ) * 2007 – ''Apers'' by

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with Barbara Day Zinicola (Dailey Swan Publishing, 2006; ) * 2008 – (tie) ::''Shanghaied to the Moon'' by Michael J. Daley ::''Gravity Buster: Journal #2 of a Cardboard Genius'' by Frank Asch * 2009 – ''Lighter than Air'' by Henry Melton * 2010 – ''Z Rex'' by Steve Cole * 2011 – ''Alien Encounter'' by Pamela Service and Mike Gorman * 2012 – ''Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Adventure #2: Mars!'' by Hena Kahn and David Borgenicht * 2013 – ''Alien on a Rampage'' from the Intergalactic Bed and Breakfast series by Clete Barrett Smith * 2014 – Two books from the Galaxy Zack series: ''Hello, Nebulon!'' and ''Journey to Juno'' by Ray O'Ryan and Colin Jack * 2015 – ''Ambassador'' by William Alexander * 2016 – ''Fuzzy Mud'', by Louis Sacher

Hal Clement Award

Hal Clement's own writings were not YA, but his high school science teaching career strongly connects him to the YA age group. The primary story elements are correct science with science fictional extrapolations and characters who solve problems on their own. * 1992 – '' Invitation to the Game'' by Monica Hughes * 1993 – ''River Rats'' by Caroline Stevermer * 1994 – ''

The Giver ''The Giver'' is a 1993 young adult dystopian novel written by American author Lois Lowry and is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. In the novel, the society has take ...

'' by

Lois Lowry Lois Ann Lowry (; née Hammersberg; born March 20, 1937) is an American writer. She is the author of many books for children and young adults, including '' The Giver Quartet'', '' Number the Stars'', the Anastasia series, and '' Rabble Starkey''. ...

* 1995 – '' The Ear, the Eye and the Arm'' by

Nancy Farmer Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is an American writer of children's literature, children's and young adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor books and won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Liter ...

* 1996 – (tie) ::''The Winds of Mars'' by H. M. Hoover ::''The Night Room'' by E. M. Goldman * 1997 – ''Wildside'' by Steven Gould * 1998 – '' Shade's Children'' by

Garth Nix Garth Richard Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the ''The Old Kingdom, Old Kingdom'', ''The Seventh Tower, Seventh Tower'' and ''The Keys to the Kingdom, Keys t ...

* 1999 – ''Alien Dreams'' by Larry Segriff * 2000 – ''The Game of Worlds'' by Roger McBride Allen from

David Brin Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American science fiction author. He has won the Hugo Award, Hugo,

's Out of Time series * 2001 – '' Jumping Off the Planet'' by

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* 2002 – ''This Side of Paradise'' by Steven Layne * 2003 – '' Feed'' by M. T. Anderson * 2004 – '' Gunpowder Empire'' by

Harry Turtledove Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949) is an American author who is best known for his work in the genres of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery fiction. He is a student of history and completed his ...

(Tor Books) * 2005 – ''Balance of Trade'' by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (Meisha Merlin, 2004) * 2006 – '' Uglies'' by

Scott Westerfeld Scott David Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known as the author of the ''Uglies series, Uglies'' and the ''Leviathan (Westerfeld novel), Leviathan'' series. Early life Westerfeld was born in Dal ...

( Simon Pulse) * 2007 – ''

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'' by Pete Hautman (Simon & Schuster, 2006; ) * 2008 – ''Sky Horizon'' by

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and illustrated by Scott Hampton (Subterranean Press, 2007, ) * 2009 – (tie) ::''

The Hunger Games ''The Hunger Games'' are a series of Young adult fiction, young adult Dystopian fiction, dystopian novels written by American author Suzanne Collins. The series consists of a trilogy that follows teenage protagonist Katniss Everdeen, and two ...

'' by

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(Scholastic Press, 2008, ) ::'' Little Brother'' by

Cory Doctorow Cory Efram Doctorow (; born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog ''Boing Boing''. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of th ...

(Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC, 2008, ) * 2010 – '' Catching Fire'' by

* 2011 – '' WWW: Watch'' by Robert J. Sawyer * 2012 – (tie) :: '' A Beautiful Friendship'' by

David Weber David Mark Weber (born October 24, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written several science-fiction and fantasy books series, the best-known of which is the Honor Harrington science-fiction series. His first nov ...

:: ''A Long, Long Sleep'' by Anna Sheehan * 2013 – ''

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'' by Marissa Meyer * 2014 – ''The Planet Thieves'' by Dan Krokos * 2015 – ''Expiration Day'' by William Campbell Powell * 2016 – '' Armada'', by Ernest Cline

Special awards

* 1997 Strong Female Characters – ''Kipton and the Android'' by Charles L. Fontenay (Royal Fireworks Press, 1996) * 1999 Australian Contribution to Children's Science Fiction –

* 2000 Promotion of Reading – '' Harry Potter series'' by

J. K. Rowling Joanne Rowling ( ; born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name , is a British author and philanthropist. She is the author of ''Harry Potter'', a seven-volume fantasy novel series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has List of best-sell ...

* 2003 Best Science and Technology Education – ''Tales from the Wonder Zone'' (entire series) by Julie E. Czerneda (Trifolium Books) * 2007 Nonfiction – ''Write Your Own Science Fiction Story'' by Tish Farrell (Compass Point Books, 2006; ) * 2008 Nonfiction – ''World of Science Fiction'' – 12 titles by John Hamilton (ABDO Publishing Company) :: + Stone Arch Books for publishing quality science fiction graphic novels * 2010 Nonfiction – ''You Write It: Science Fiction'' by John Hamilton (ABDO Publishing Company)

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