The Evergreen Teen Book Award is the teen readers’ choice award that has been sponsored by the Washington Young Adult Review Group since 1991.  The Evergreen Committee has featured a graphic novel on almost every list since its inception, but we were finding it increasingly difficult to choose just one from more and more excellent graphic novel titles. So we did what any group seeking to promote literacy and celebrate books would (should?) do.  We decided this year to create a new award exclusively for graphic novels. 

As with the Evergreen Book Award, teen readers will read at least two nominees from the list, and they will then vote for their favorite in March. Initially, we were prepared to shorten our normally ten nominees to five for our graphic novel award launch—and then realized that we would be able to field our full complement of ten nominees.