The Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Middle Grade Fiction. The Gertrude Warner Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Gertrude Warner Book Awards competition is named for Gertrude Chandler Warner, the wonderful author of The Boxcar Children.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Contemporary Middle Grade, SFF & Paranormal Middle Grade, Mystery Middle Grade, Historical Middle Grade, Adventure Middle Grade, and Graphic Novels. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them. For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards here and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards here.

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 GERTRUDE WARNER Middle Grade entries to the 2024 Gertrude Warner Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Gertrude Warner Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Four Points by Sheraton sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Gertrude Warner Book Awards novel competition for Middle Grade Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

Brian Starr – The Missing Children of Blackwood
Valerie Biel – Haven
Thomas Kuhn – Tommy Rocket and the Goober Patrol
Michael L Ross – The Horse at Phantom Beach
Norah Lally – Back To Bainbridge
CK Van Dam – When the Chokecherries Bloom
Lawrey Goodrick – Half-Life
Christopher & Christine Kezelos – Intergalactic Jack and the Child of the Prophecy
Debbie Noble Black – Deetjen’s Closet
Gregory Saur – Drink the Blood
M.J. Evans – Coal Dust and Dreams-The Story of a Girl and Her Pit Pony in the Coal Mines of South Wales
~CRK – ZCN & Friends: The Angel’s Curse
Elisa Eliot – Zak Vs. Zombies
Donald Willerton – War Train
Claire Bahamon – The Giving Gifts
M.C. Dingman – Samantha Smee: A Pirate’s Life
Maggie Lynch – The Power of S.A.D.
Jason Colpitts – Miss Adventure’s Misadventures
Stephanie Brick – The Secret Doors of Cannondale
Jane Hershberger – World of Green, World of Gray
Sue C. Dugan – Mayday
Douglas D. Meredith – Shelter: Generation Mars, Book Two
Douglas D. Meredith – Water: Generation Mars, Book Three
Carolyn Armstrong – No Time To Waste
Sherry Roberts – The Galaxy According to Cece
Linda Moore Kurth – Born for Trouble
Laura J Peterson – The Totally Tubular Travels of Josie Baker
Susan Diamond Riley – The Sea Devil’s Demise: A Delta & Jax Mystery
T. Lynne Jackson – Mr. K’s Sonata – A WWII Novel
Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Fish & Sphinx
Bronwen Butter Newcott – Race to the Great Invention
Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Serpent’s Spell
Jill Pabich – A Misery of Magpies
Aaron Arsenault – The Climate Diaries: Book One: The Academy
Dr. Mythomaniac – The Strange Case of Mr. Beets
Tamar Anolic – The Tunnel to Darkness and Light
Sandy Grubb – Just Like Click
David Towner – The Spectacular Life Of Benito Martin Del Canto
Shirley Miller Kamada – No Quiet Water

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Gertrude Warner Grand Prize Winner

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By Rae Knightly

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Gertrude Warner Book Award Winners for Middle Grade Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction.

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Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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