Chapter Book Titles

Hotel Balzaar 

Kate DiCamillo 

One Big Open Sky 

Lesa Cline- Ransome

Popcorn

Rob Harrell 

We Are Big Time 

Hena Khan

Call Me Roberto

Natalie Alonso

Max in the House of Spies 

Adam Gidwitz

Beti and the Little Round House 

Atinuke 

Buffalo Dreamer 

Violet Duncan 

Honoring literature about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage based on literary and artistic merit.

The NCTE Charlotte Huck Award®

Recognizing fiction that has the potential to transform children’s lives.

And Then Boom! 

Lisa Fipps 

Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All 

Chanel Miller 

The NCTE Award for Excellence in Children's Poetry Committee creates an annual list of Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels published in the current year by any poet, living or deceased, and of any nationality.

A Planet is a Poem 

Amanda West Lewis 

Great Gusts of Wind

Melanie Crowder & Megan Benedict

Hoop Queens 2 

Charles R. Smith 

Kareem Between

Shifa Saltagi Safadi 

Unsinkable Cayenne

Jessica Vitalis 

Onyx and Beyond 

Amber McBride

Presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. 

Lola 

Karla Arenas Valenti

2025 Honor

Cruzita and the Mariacheros

Ashley Granillo 

Honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

Recognizing diverse authors whose works feature diverse main characters and address diversity in a meaningful way.