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AWARD-WINNING CATHOLIC TEEN FICTION

2025 Award Winners

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2024 Award Winners

  • First Place Catholic Media Association Book Award

  • First Place Colorado Author’s League Book Award

  • Moonbeam Children's Book Award Bronze Medal

  • Association of Catholic Publishers--Gold Medal (Teens)

  • Independent Book Awards--Gold (Children's Religious Fiction)

  • Illumination Awards--Silver (Juvenile/YA)

  • Catholic Media Association book awards-- Third Place (YA)

2023 Award Winners

Catholic Media Association 2023:

  • Best Book for YA 12-- 18: 2nd place 

  • Best Book by Small Publisher: 3rd place

  • Gold Medal--2023 Illumination Book Award (Juvenile/YA fiction category)

  • Gold Medal --2023 Catholic Media Book Awards

  • Distinguished Favorite--2023 Independent Press Award (Middle Grade & Cover Design)

  • Finalist--2023 Assoc. of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Award (Children's Books/Teens category)

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2022 Award Winners
 

Best New Religious Book Series

2022 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Awards: Teens

Best Books for Youth Ages 17 to 21

Catholic Press Association

Catholic Novels category

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2021 Award Winners
 

  • Gold Medal--2021 Illumination Book Award

  • ​1st Place--2021 International Book Awards

  • Bronze Medal--2021 Independent Publisher Book Award

  • 3d Place--2021 Catholic Media Association Book Award

  • 3d Place--2021 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Award

Gold Medal--2021 Moonbeam Children's Book Award

2020 Award Winners

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Catholic Press Association

Teen & Young Adults category

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~Finalist in Religious Fiction, 2020 International Book Awards

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~Finalist in Religious Fiction, 2020 IAN Book Awards 

Gold Medal--2020 Moonbeam Children's Book Award

2019 Award Winners

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Catholic Press Association Winners

Teen & Young Adults category

Novel category

Middle Grade 
Division
Selah Awards

Illumination
Book Awards

Colorado Independent Publishers Award

IAN Book Awards 

2018 Award Winners

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Catholic Press
Association Winners

Teen & Young Adults

Children's Books

Catholic

Arts & Letters

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Multi-Award Winners

Readers
Favorite

  • Eric Hoffer Book Awards - Finalist

  • Next Generation Indie Book Awards – 1st Place, Children’s/Juvenile Fiction

  • Next Generation Indie Book Awards – 1st Place, Grand Prize Fiction

  • Independent Author Network Book Awards – Outstanding Children/Juvenile Fiction – 1st Place

  • Independent Author Network Book Awards – Book of the Year – 2nd Place

  • 2018 Readers Favorite Book Awards - Gold Medal, Children: Coming of Age

  • 2018 Literary Classic Book Awards -
    Gold, Upper Middle Grade, General
    Gold, Upper Middle Grade, Historical

  • Write Touch Readers’ Awards YA Category – 2nd Place

  • Wishing Shelf Awards – Silver Medalist

  • Moonbeam Book Awards YA Historical Fiction category – Gold Medal

  • Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards - Outstanding YA Fiction – 1st Place

  • Semi-finalist, 2018 Chanticleer Book Reviews Dante Rossetti Book Award for Young Adult Fiction

  • Finalist, Young Adult Category, 2018 American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) Carol Awards

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2017 Award Winners

Catholic Press
Association
Book Awards

Teen & Young Adult
Children's

Mention

Mention

Moonbeam
Children's
Book Awards

Catholic Read's
Best Catholic
Books of 2017

Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval

Assoc. of Catholic
Publishers Excellence
in Publishing

2016 Award Winners

Catholic Press Association
Book Awards

Teen & Young Adult

Catholic Arts &
Letters Award

Illumination Christian
Book Award

Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval

Carnegie Medal Award

Grace Award

Catholic Arts &
Letters Award

Award Winners from Previous Years

Moonbeam Children's
Book Award 2015

Readers' Favorite
Book Award 2015

Moonbeam Children's
Book Award 2014

Best of Catholic
Homeschooling Books

Award given under the

book's original title, Bird Face.

Windy City RWA
Four Seasons Romance
Writing Contest

Booklist Magazine
Top Ten
First Novel for Youth

Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval

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