Workman- State Awards
Early Childhood
THE OBAMAS: A LIFT-THE-FLAP BOOK illustrated by Violet Lemay (ISBN: 978-1-9474-5882-6 | 9.95)
- SCBWI 2019 Reading List
THIS IS ME by Jamie Lee Curtis (ISBN: 978-0-7611-8011-1 | 16.95)
- Alabama Camellia Children’s Choice Book Award, 2017-2018 list
Middle Grade/Chapter Book
OWLING by Mark Wilson (ISBN: 978-1-6121-2962-4 | 18.95)
- NYPL Best Book of 2019
THE BECKET LIST by Adele Griffin (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0790-8 | 7.95)
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Intermediate Level 2020, TOP PICK
HURRICANE SEASON by Nicole Melleby (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0906-3 | 16.95)
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Junior Level 2020, TOP PICK
ANNA STRONG AND THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR CULPER SPY RING by Enigma Alberti (ISBN: 978-1-5235-0794-8 | 9.95)
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Intermediate Level 2020
THE ATLAS OBSCURA EXPLORER’S GUIDE FOR THE WORLD’S MOST ADVENTUROUS KID by Dylan Thuras (ISBN: 978-1-5235-0354-4 | 19.95)
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Intermediate Level 2019
MASON JAR SCIENCE by Jonathon Adolph (ISBN: 978-1-6121-2986-0 | 14.95)
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Intermediate Level 2019
GODS AND HEROES by Korwin Briggs (ISBN: 978-1-5235-0378-0 | 19.95)
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Junior Level 2019, Recognized with a Starred Review as the “Best of the Best”
A POSSIBILITY OF WHALES by Karen Rivers (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0723-6 | 8.95)
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Junior Level 2019
LEAVING CHINA: AN ARTIST PAINTS HIS WWII CHILDHOOD by James McMullan (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0255-2 | 19.95)
- Bank Street Best Book of the Year, 2015 list (*recognized for Outstanding Merit)
THE SECRET OF DREADWILLOW CARSE by Brian Farrey (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0505-8 | $6.95)
- Indiana Young Hoosiers Award long list, 2018-2019
- Minnesota Book Award, 2016 list
- Wisconsin Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award, 2017 list
- Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Division I (3rd-5th grade) Award Nominee 2020
CATCH YOU LATER, TRAITOR by Avi (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0359-7 | $8.95)
- Wisconsin Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award, 2016 list
WHO WINS? by Clay Swartz (ISBN: 978-0-7611-8544-4 | $14.95)
- Texas Library Association Topaz Reading List, 2017
FEARSOME CREATURES OF THE LUMBERWOODS by Hal Johnson (ISBN: 978-1-5235-0121-2 | $8.95)
- South Dakota Children’s Book Award Prairie Pasque list, 2017-2018
- Alabama Camellia Children’s Choice Book Award, 2017-2018 list
- Indiana Young Hoosiers Award long list, 2018-2019
THE GIRL IN THE WELL IS ME by Karen Rivers (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0569-0 | $6.95)
- Florida Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award list, 2017-2018
- Indiana Young Hoosiers Award long list, 2018-2019
THE JUMBIES by Tracey Baptiste (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0414-3 | $7.95)
- Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award, 2017-2018 list
- Massachusetts Children’s Book Award list, 2018
- Bank Street Best Book of the Year, 2016 list
THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON by Kelly Barnhill (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0567-6 | $9.95)
- Texas Library Association’s Bluebonnet list, 2017
- Vermont Dorothy Canfield Award list, 2017-2018
- Wisconsin’s WSRA Just One More Page, 2017 list
- Florida Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award list, 2017-2018
- North Carolina YA Book Award, Middle School list, 2017-2018
- Hawaii Nēnē Award list, 2018
- Great Texas Mosquito List for the 2019-2020
- Indiana Young Hoosiers Award long list, 2018-2019
- Bank Street Best Book of the Year, 2017 list
- Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award, 2018-2019 list
- Louisiana Young Readers Choice List, 2019
- Charlotte Huck Book Award 2017 Honor
SPY ON HISTORY: MARY BOWSER AND THE CIVIL WAR SPY RING by Enigma Alberti (ISBN: 978-0-7611-8739-4 | $12.95)
- Alabama Camellia Children’s Choice Book Award, 2017-2018 list
THE ONE SAFE PLACE by Tania Unsworth (ISBN: 978-1-61620-483-9 | $6.95)
- Vermont’s 2015-2016 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award master list
- Louisiana 2017 Readers’ Choice Award list
THREE RING RASCALS: THE SHOW MUST GO ON! by Kate Klise and Illustrations by Sarah Klise (ISBN: 978-1-61620-244-6 | $5.95)
- Kansas City Great Kids Can Read/KC3, 2015 list
- Virginia Readers Choice, 2015-16 list
- Oklahoma Library Association “Not Quite Sequoyah,” 2016 list
THE WITCH’S BOY by Kelly Barnhill (ISBN: 978-1-61620-351-1 | $16.95)
- Minnesota Book Award, 2015 list
- Capitol Choices, 2015 list
- Maine Student Book Award, 2015-2016 list
THE TIME FETCH by Amy Herrick (ISBN: 978-1-61620-453-2 | $6.95)
- New York State Reading Association Charlotte Award, 2016 list
ANTON AND CECIL: CATS AT SEA by Lisa Martina and Valerie Martin (ISBN: 978-1-61620-456-3 | $6.95)
- Great Stone Face Children’s Book Award (New Hampshire), 2015-2016 list
Young Adult
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF TRUE by Susan Kaplan Carlton (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0860-8 | $17.95)
- 2020 Sydney Taylor Notable Book
- Rise: A Feminist Book Project 2020 list
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Senior Level 2020
(DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY by Kelly Jensen (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0781-6 | $16.95)
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Senior Level 2019
- 2019 Schnieder Family Book Award Honor
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound 2019
HERE TO STAY by Sara Farizan (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0700-7 | $17.95)
- Kansas NEA Reading Circle Senior Level 2019
- 2019 Rainbow List: Young Adult
- 2019 Project Lit Inlusion
VOTES FOR WOMEN by Winifred Conkling (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0734-2)
- Capitol Choices, 2019 list
RADIOACTIVE by Winifred Conkling (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0641-3 | $10.95)
- Bank Street Best Book of the Year, 2017 list
WRECKED by Maria Padian (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0624-6 | $9.95)
- Vermont Dorothy Green Mountain Book Award list, 2017-2018
- Maine Lupine Book Award, 2017
A FIERCE AND SUBTLE POISON by Samantha Mabry (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0521-8 | $9.95)
- Texas Library Association Tayshas Reading List, 2017
- Texas Library Association Spirit of Texas High School Program, 2017
- Oklahoma Sequoyah High School, 2018 list
HIT COUNT by Chris Lynch (ISBN: 978-1-6162-0250-7 | $9.95)
- Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award List, 2018
CHOOSING COURAGE by Peter Collier (ISBN: 978-1-5796-5596-9 | $8.95)
- Texas Library Association Lone Star Reading List, 2017
- Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award List, 2017-2018
- Texas Library Association Topaz Reading List, 2017
- Bank Street Best Book of the Year, 2016 list
THE ART OF SECRETS by James Klise (ISBN: 978-1-61620-482-2 | $9.95)
- Vermont’s Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, 2015-2016 master list
GO! A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd (ISBN: 978-0-76117-219-2 | $17.95)
- Oklahoma Intermediate Sequoyah, 2016 list
PASSENGER ON THE PEARL: THE TRUE STORY OF EMILY EDMONSONS’S FLIGHT FROM SLAVERY by Winifred Conkling (ISBN: 978-1-61620-196-8 | $17.95)
- New York State Reading Association Charlotte Award, 2016 list
IF YOU COULD BE MINE by Sara Farizan (ISBN: 978-1-61620-455-6 | $9.95)
- Illinois’ Abraham Lincoln Award, 2016 master list (as chosen by the student panel!)
TELL ME AGAIN HOW A CRUSH SHOULD FEEL by Sara Farizan (ISBN: 978-1-61620-284-2 | $16.95)
- Capitol Choices, 2015 list
- Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), 2015 list
JACKABY by William Ritter (ISBN: 978-1-61620-353-5 | $16.95)
- Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers, 2015-2016 list
- Florida Teen Reads (FAME), 2015-2016 list
- Mississippi Magnolia Award, 2016 list
- Oklahoma Sequoyah Intermediate, 2017 list
- Nebraska Golden Sower Award for YA, 2017 list
- Connecticut Nutmeg Award for Teens, 2017 list
- The Children’s Literature Association of Utah Beehive Award for YA, 2017 list
- Kentucky Bluegrass Award for High School, 2016-2017 list
- Land of Enchantment Black Bear Award (New Mexico), 2016-2017 list
THE WALLS AROUND US by Nova Ren Suma (ISBN: 978-1-61620-372-6 | $17.95)
- Texas Library Association Tayshas Reading List, 2016
- Capitol Choices, 2016 list