THIS YEAR’S BOOK LISTS

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PICTURE BOOKS

  • Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Frank Morrison

  • The Cot In The Living Room by Hilda Eunice Burgos, illustrated by Gaby D'Alessandro

  • Change Sings by Amanda Gorman, illustrated by Loren Long

  • Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes A Congresswoman by Sharice Davids, illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley

  • Norman Didn't Do It!: (Yes, He Did) by Ryan T. Higgins

  • Every Night Is Pizza Night by J. Kenji Lopéz-Alt, illustrated by Gianna Ruggiero

  • Zonia’s Rain Forest by Juana Martinez-Neal

  • My First Day by Phùng Nguyên Quang, Huỳnh Kim Liên

  • Stollercoaster by Matt Ringler, illustrated by Raul The Third

  • This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth by Sean Rubin

  • Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima

  • Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Natasha Donovan

  • Except Antarctica by Todd Sturgell

  • A Walk in the Words by Hudson Talbott

  • Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by Loren Long

  • Everything Naomi Loved by Katie Yamasaki

MIDDLE GRADE BOOKS

  • Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds by Samira Ahmed

  • The In-Between by Rebecca K.S. Ansari

  • The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus

  • The Great Peach Experiment 1: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie by Erin Soderberg Downing

  • Long Distance by Whitney Gardner

  • Ground Zero by Alan Gratz

  • Ahmed Aziz’s Epic Year by Nina Hamza

  • The Lion Of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm

  • Linked by Gordon Korman

  • Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd

  • Millionaires For The Month by Stacey McAnulty

  • Chunky by Yehudi Mercado

  • Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson & Kwame Alexander

  • Miles Morales: Shock Waves by Justin A. Reynolds

  • All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat

  • Last Gamer Standing by Katie Zhao