10-year-old Jack is shocked to discover his parents are moving from their rural homestead to the boring suburbs of Chicago. Full of energy and determination, Jack devises a plan to get himself back to his beloved farmhouse forever. Only three things stand in his way: a neighbor in need, a shocking discovery, and tornado season.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Moody Publishers
Copyright April 6, 2021
ISBN# 978-0802421029 (HB)
When Autumn becomes the secret voice of the advice column in her middle school newspaper she is faced with a dilemma—can she give fair advice to everyone, including her friends, while keeping her identity a secret?
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Delacorte Press
Copyright February 15, 2022
ISBN# 978-0593374122 (HB)
Cooper, a malamute-Great Dane puppy, finds purpose as service dog and emotional support animal to fifth-grader Burke, a boy in a wheelchair.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.4
Published by Starscape
Copyright June 1, 2021
ISBN# 978-1250163387 (HB)
This biography tells the story of Elizebeth Friedman (1892–1980), a brilliant American code breaker who smashed Nazi spy rings, took down gangsters, and created the CIA’s first cryptology unit.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 6.3
Published by Abrams Books for Young Readers
Copyright March 2, 2021
ISBN# 978-1419739637 (HB)
On his eighth birthday, Billy Miller wishes for something exciting to happen. None of his wishes are answered the way he expects, but he does have lots of surprises, and the final one is possibly the best one ever.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.1
Published by Greenwillow Books
Copyright April 6, 2021
ISBN# 978-0063042797 (HB)
Celebrate the joy, wonder, and innocence of being a child with a heartwarming celebration of all the endearing qualities found in children and the hope that those special traits will stay with them forever.
2023-2024 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Zonderkidz
Copyright February 23, 2021
ISBN# 978-0310770084 (HB)
Violet longs for the time when her family was connected: before life, distractions, and technology pulled them all away from each other.
2023-2024 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 2.5
Published by Orchard Books
Copyright November 2, 2021
ISBN# 978-1338572322 (HB)
Follow the epic annual migration of an Arctic Tern on its sixty-thousand-mile journey to the South Pole and back again, the longest such migration in the animal kingdom.
2023-2024 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Neal Porter Books
Copyright July 12, 2022
ISBN# "978-0823447008 (HB)
