Home / New Zealand Book Awards For Children and Young Adults New Zealand Book Awards For Children and Young Adults 2025 Shortlist Alice and the Strange Bird Isaac du Toit A Ariā me te atua o te kūmara : te rerenga o... Witi Ihimaera Bear Kiri Lightfoot Brave Kāhu & The Pōrangi Magpie Shelley Burne-Field Brown Bird Jane Arthur Black Magic David Riley Beddybye Time in the Kowhai Tree Juliette MacIver Dear Moko Hinemoa Elder Detective Beans & the Case of the Missing Hat Li Chen Migration Steph Matuku The Raven's Eye Runaways Claire Mabey Gracehopper Mandy Hager Ko ngā whetū kai o Matariki : ko Tupuānuku rāua... Miriama Kamo Hineraukatauri me te ara pūoro Elizabeth Gray Ngā kupenga a Nanny Rina Qiane Matata-Sipu Mataal'i Dahlia Malaeulu Ruru, Night Hunter Katie Furze Play Wild Rachel Clare Ten Nosey Weka Kate Preece Sad Sushi Anna Aldridge The Paradise Generation Sanna Thompson The Mess of Our Lives Mary-Anne Scott The Apprentice Witnesser Bren MacDibble The Witch of Maketu and the Bleating Lambs Anika Moa The Treaty of Waitangi = Te Tiriti o Waitangi Ross Calman Titiro = Look Gavin Bishop The Writing Desk Di Morris Violet and the Velvets: The Case of the Missing... Rachael King Tui Pea Luva Mele Tonga-Grant You Can't Pat a Fish Ruth Paul