Great Stone Face Book Award 2022
The Great Stone Face Book Award
is given annually to an author whose book receives the most votes from 4th through 6th graders throughout the state. Every spring the Children's Librarians of the New Hampshire Library Association names 20 nominees for the Great Stone Face Book Award. Students have until the following spring to read and explore the books before voting for the winner.
The purpose of the award is to promote reading enjoyment, to increase awareness of contemporary writing, and to allow children to honor their favorite authors.
Voting will take place in April.
Learn more at The Children's Librarian Section of the New Hampshire State Library website
Be An Educated Voter!
Read the books at home or in school
Learn more about the authors and illustrators.
Listen to some books read aloud, and try some of the activities below.
Learn more about the authors and illustrators.
Listen to some books read aloud, and try some of the activities below.
The Barren Grounds
The Misewa Saga, book 1
Written by David A. Robertson
Indigenous / Fantasy Fiction
GSF Committee Book Talk
Listen to the author, David A. Robertson reading from The Barren Grounds
Author interview by BiblioVideo
Before the Ever After
Written by Jacqueline Woodson
Realistic Fiction / Novel in Verse
Winner of the NAACP Image Award
Winner of the Corretta Scott King Author Award
GSF Committee Book Talk
Jaqueline Woodson interviewed by Levar Burton about Before the Ever After
Jaqueline Woodson on CBS Morning Show
The Blackbird Girls
Written by Anne Blankman
Historical Fiction
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER
A SYDNEY TAYLOR MIDDLE GRADE HONOR BOOK
GSF Committee Book Talk
Watch a news show interview with Anne Blankman
The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell
Written by Jordan Sonnenblick
Realistic Fiction / Humor
GSF Committee Book Talk
Listen to the author talk about why he wrote the book.
Listen to Jordan Sonnenblick read the first chapter
Brave Like That
Written by Lindsey Stoddard
Realistic Fiction
Fighting Words
Written by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Realistic Fiction
Newbery Honor Book
Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor
*recommended for grades 5 and up due to themes
Watch an interview with Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Ground Zero
Written by Alan Gratz
Harvey Comes Home
Written by Colleen Nelson
The List of Things That Will Not Change
Written by Rebecca Stead
The Lonely Heart of Maybelle Lane
Written by Kate O'Shaughnessy
No Place For Monsters
Written by Kory Merritt
Pine Island Home
Written by Polly Hovarth
Prairie Lotus
Written by Linda Sue Park
Raising Lumie
Written by Joan Bauer
The Silver Arrow
Written by Lev Grossman
Stepping Stones
Written by Lucy Kinsley
The Truth According To Blue
Written by Eve Yohalem
Unplugged
Written by Gordon Korman
When Stars Are Scattered
Written by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohammed
Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor
Written by Ally Carter
