The books running for the 2025 edition
Initiated in 2015, this prize is aimed at CM1/CM2 students and rewards a detective novel or album for young people published in 2024.
Between December and February, the young jurors of the participating primary schools familiarize themselves with the five competing books during workshops led by the Book Ambassadors, supervised by the Association of the Student Foundation for the City (Afev).
The winning author who receives the most votes from students is invited to the Festival to present the Youth prize on Friday 4 April 2025.
- La folle évasion by Sandrine Bonini – Éditions Seuil Jeunesse
- Soie – Les orphelins d’Argentan by Alice Brière-Haquet – Éditions Le Rouergue
- Inspecteur Gambas et l’agente spéciale La Crevette by Caryl Férey et Irène Bonacina – Éditions Robert Laffont Jeunesse
- Détectives Grébor de père en fille by Yves Grevet and Carole Trébor – Éditions Little Urban
- Éloïse, mousquetaire du roi by Jean-Luc Marcastel – Gulf Stream Éditeur
The jury
The schools taking part in the 2025 jury are: Jean de La Fontaine (Lyon 4e), Louis Pradel (Lyon 6e), Françoise Héritier (Lyon 7e), Marie Bordas (Lyon 8e), Louis Pasteur (Lyon 8e), Simone Signoret (Lyon 8e), Léon Jouhaux (Lyon 3e) and Joannes Masset (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) and Bertrand Puard for Les Arsène, La Clef aux trois joyaux (2024).
