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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