Young Hoosier Book Award

The Young Hoosier Book Award (YHBA) 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.

It gave its first award in 1975, to The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White. 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).