The books running for the 2026 edition - to come
Initiated in 2015, this award is aimed at CM1/CM2 students and rewards a detective novel or album for young people published in the past year.
Between December and February, the young judges from the participating primary schools will discover the five titles in the running during workshops run by the Book Ambassadors, under the wing of the Association of the Student Foundation for the City (Afev). The award-winning author is invited to the festival to receive the Youth Award.
Discover the titles running for the next edition from January 2026.
- Les Découvertes vertes d’Anna Zavatian, by Vincent Cuvellier (Hélium)
- Le Secret de Golden Island, by Natasha Farrant (Gallimard Jeunesse)
- Le Jour où le monde est devenu bizarre, by Marie Pavlenko (Flammarion Jeunesse)
- Zeno et le crime du dragon, by Éric Senabre (Didier Jeunesse)
- Thelma Templeton mène l’enquête – Le Disparu de Blackwood, by Colin Thibert (La Joie de lire)
The jury
The schools taking part in the 2026 jury are: the schools Aimé Césaire (Lyon 3e), George Lapierre (Lyon 4e), Marc Bloch (Lyon 7e), Jean Macé (Lyon 8e), Simone Veil (Lyon 8e), Antonin Laborde (Lyon 9e), Les Bleuets (Lyon 9e) et Audrey Hepburn (Lyon 9e).
Previous winners
In previous editions, the prize was awarded to Séverine Vidal for Drôle d’évasion (2015), Jean-Christophe Tixier for Dix minutes à perdre (2016), Aurélie Neyret et Joris Chambain for Les carnets de Cerise T4 – La déesse sans visage (2017), Anne-Gaëlle Balpe for Le mystère Vandam Pishar (2018), Jean-Claude Mourlevat for Jefferson (2019), Claire Renaud for Les Mamies attaquent (2020), Anaïs Vachez for Les élèves de l’ombre (2021), Richard Petitsigne for La Cité des squelettes (2022), Anne Schmauch for Rose Asphalte, enquêtrice de l’étrange – Tome 1, La colo des zombis (2023), Bertrand Puard for Les Arsène, La Clef aux trois joyaux (2024) and Sandrine Bonini for La Folle évasion (2025).
