When a child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, Brother Edik nurses her back to health. When he uncovers her dangerous secret, she is sent away into the world with a goat and a boy.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.4
Published by Candlewick
Copyright September 28, 2021
ISBN# 978-1536213614 (HB)
While spending the summer with his grandmother on Dewees Island, eleven-year-old Jake finds two friends also struggling with family issues. Together, they try to save a sea turtle nest.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.8
Published by Aladdin
Copyright June 15, 2021
ISBN# 978-1534427273 (HB)
Meet men who have used their God-given talents to live out their faith to the fullest. They come from a variety of backgrounds, eras, and ethnicities, but each one has answered the Lord’s call on their life in bold and innovative ways.
2022-2023 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harvest Kids
Copyright October 6, 2020
ISBN# 978-0736981330 (HB)
Mr. Penguin and his Adventuring gang board a luxury cruise ship for some much-needed rest and a little entertainment. With Colin, his kung fu spider sidekick, preparing to perform with the Ladies Choir and fish finger sandwiches available twenty-four hours a day, Mr. Penguin isn’t even bothered that he can’t swim and is deeply afraid of water. When he befriends a young stowaway with a mystery of her own to solve, he soon finds that Adventures are lying in wait.
2022-2023 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.9
Published by Peachtree Publishing Company
Copyright October 1, 2020
ISBN# 978-1682632130 (HB)
Amelia does not like noise. In fifth grade, she has to learn to play an instrument or, as she sees it, make noise on purpose. To help Amelia cope, her father gives her a pair of earmuffs to wear. When she makes a new friend in trombone class, the two form an unlikely friendship that helps Amelia find a way to let in the noisy world she’s muffled for so long.
2022-2023 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Copyright October 27, 2020
ISBN# 978-1534463653 (HB)
Olive Hudson desperately wants a dog. But that doesn’t seem to be a possibility right now. Newly orphaned, she’s moving in with the half-sister she hardly knows and their life is too chaotic to include a dog. But then something wonderful happens: Olive gets a chance to raise Lumie, a guide dog puppy. Discipline. Rules. Lots of hugs. Only the best of the best puppies continue on to become guide dogs, and of course Olive wants Lumie to be chosen. But if she is, that means that Olive will lose her.
2022-2023 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Viking Books for Young Readers
Copyright June 16, 2020
ISBN# 978-0593113202 (HB)
In the middle of the night, the Carpathia received a distress call from the sinking Titanic. The intrepid little ship heroically changed course and headed straight into the frozen sea to help save as many people as it could. Follow the Carpathia as it risks everything to navigate remote, treacherous ice fields in the dark and come to the rescue of passengers on the world-famous ocean liner.
2022-2023 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Wide Eyed Editions
Copyright September 7, 2021
ISBN# 978-0711262782 (HB)
Ryan Hart can be and do anything. Her name means “king”, that she is a leader, and she is determined to keep growing into the name her parents gave her. She is all about trying to see the best in people, to be a good daughter, sister, and friend. But Ryan has a lot on her mind. For instance: Dad finally has a new job, but money is still tight. That means some changes, like moving into a new (old) house, and Dad working the night shift. And with the fourth-grade talent show coming up, Ryan wonders what talent she can perform on stage in front of everyone without freezing. As even more changes and challenges come her way, Ryan always finds a way forward and shows she is a girl who knows how to glow.
2022-2023 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.5
Published by Bloomsbury Children's Books
Copyright April 28, 2020
ISBN# 978-1547600564 (HB)
