Show Me Readers Award Nominees (Grades 1-3)
Picture books, easy to read aloud with strong literary value, with interest and appeal to children 6 to 10 years old.
Acorn Was A Little Wild by Jen Arena
Creepy Crayon! Aaron Reynolds
Every Dog in the Neighborhood by Phillip C Snead
Hamsters Make Terrible Roommates by Cheryl B Klein
Little Red and the Big Bad Editor by Rebecca Kraft Rector
Marvelous Mabel by Crystal Hubbard
Pink is Not a Color by Lindsay Ward
Rick the Rock of Room 214 by Julie Falatko
The Library Fish by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Yeits are the Worst! by Alex Willan
Mark Twain Readers Award Nominees (Grades 4-6)
Books should interest children in grades four through six and should be of literary value which may enrich children’s personal lives.
A Rover's Story by Jasmine Warga
Field Guide to the Supernatural Universe by Alyson Noel
Freestyle by Gale Galligan
Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd
Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Lee
Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting by Roseann A Brown
The Curious League of Detectives & Thieves - Egypt's Fire by tom Phillips
The Daredevils by Rob Buyea
The Girl in the Lake by India Hill Brown
The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart
The Tow Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor by Amanda Panitch
Thirst by Varsha Bajaj
Truman Readers Award Nominees (Grades 6-8)**
Books should interest students in their early teen years and should be of literary value and enrich readers lives.
Air by Monica Roe
Dinged by Tommy Greenwald
Ode to a Nobody by Caroline Brooks Dubois
Rain Rising by Courtne Comrie
Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson
The Fort by Gordon Korman
The Last Hope in Hopetown by Maria Tureaud
The Marveeellers by Dhonielle Clayton
The Problem with Prophecies by Scott Reintgen
The Switch by Roland Smith
Two Degrees by Alan Gratz
Undercover Latina by Aya de Leon
**Truman Readers Award Nominees are available in our school library. and are placed in the 6th Grade Only section.