In this story, loosely based on that of Goldilocks, Goldie, who has yet to find a friend to “love with all her heart,” makes an unplanned visit to the house of some bears.
2005-2006 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright April 14, 2003
ISBN# 0-06-000008-2 (PB, HB)
In 1886, their hearts filled with love, a young couple starts their life in the Colorado wilderness. They are unprepared for a merciless winter storm and they may have to cut down the only tree on the property to use for firewood in order to survive.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harcourt
Copyright September 7, 1999
ISBN# 0-15-201821-2, (PB, HB)
As her family gathers for the wedding of her sister Anna, fourth grader Cassie Witting sees the many changes brought about by everyday life and finds comfort in the love of those around her, especially her grandfather.
2008-2009 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.1
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright September 5, 2005
ISBN# 0-06-027560-X (PB, HB)
The summer that Lucy’s family moves to a lake house, she spends time taking pictures of her new surroundings. She wants to show her professional photographer dad that she too has the same talent.
2016-2017 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.5
Published by Scholastic
Copyright February 25, 2014
ISBN# 978-0545035330 (HB)
This is a picture book biography of a woman who despite the handicaps of being blind, deaf, and mute became a champion for knowledge and shared her triumphs with the world.
2015-2016 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.9
Published by Disney/Hyperion
Copyright October 16, 2012
ISBN# 078680890X (HB)
At their new home in the Villa Air-Bel, Aube and her family are used to things being hidden. Among the secrets kept at the château are a radio, a cow, and—most secret of all—Aube herself. Even with the threat of Nazi capture looming over their heads, life at the villa has been colorful for the refugees awaiting their escape to safety. Joined by writers, musicians, artists, and great thinkers like Marc Chagall and Max Ernst, Aube spends each day singing, playing games, and creating art. Together, this lively congregation are able to fight back fear and hatred with bravery and laughter—not just for young Aube, but for themselves as well.
2019-2020 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Copyright February 8, 2017
ISBN# 978-1455622658 (HB)
The tiny male hip-pocket frog is no bigger than a thumbnail, but has a big responsibility. He must care for his children as they grow, protecting them from predators and nature.
2012-2013 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.
Copyright January 31, 2010
ISBN# 9781570917080 (HB)
Ralph Waldo Emerson grew up in the city but always longed for open fields and still country woods. He wondered if he could turn his love of books, ideas, and people into a life built around these things. Then he began to write….
2016-2017 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright February 25, 2014
ISBN# 978-0545350884 (HB)
Jimmy, a yellow Labrador puppy, is separated from his Louisiana family during Hurricane Katrina. After being rescued, he is taken to New York City where he tries to fit in with a new family and accept his new name.
2013-2014 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright June 28, 2011
ISBN# 9780062011039 (HB)
March Anne Tanner has a busy life on the family pumpkin and watermelon farm in Jubilee, Georgia. She feels that something is missing, and when her grandmother passes on, March Anne finds that she must act on her feelings of loss.
2010-2011 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright May 27, 2008
ISBN# 9781429998369 (PB)
Eleven-year-old Nell must spend her spring break with an aunt and cousins she has never met. While there she learns of a mysterious, wild girl with a strong connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
2016-2017 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.5
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright January 7, 2014
ISBN# 978-0062122308 (HB)
It’s 1969 and the country is gearing up for what looks to be the most exciting moment in U.S. history: men landing on the moon. Ten-year-old Mamie’s class is given an assignment to write letters to the astronauts. All the girls write to Neil Armstrong (“So cute!”) and all the boys write to Buzz Aldrin (“So cool!”). Only Mamie writes to Michael Collins, the astronaut who will come so close but never achieve everyone else’s dream of walking on the moon, because he is the one who must stay with the ship. After school ends, Mamie keeps writing to Michael Collins, taking comfort in telling someone about what’s going on with her family as, one by one, they leave the house thinking that someone else is taking care of her―until she is all alone except for her cat and her best friend, Buster. And as the date of the launch nears, Mamie can’t help but wonder: Does no one stay with the ship anymore?
2019-2020 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.1
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright June 20, 2017
ISBN# 978-0374303853 (HB)
In 1920, the only things that keep Sammy out of trouble on New York’s tough streets are his quick wit and amazing singing voice.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Copyright November 21, 2006
ISBN# 978-1550415919 (PB)
Myanmar is the only country in Asia that still can boast a healthy elephant population. Thousands roam in the wild there, and thousands more work with humans to harvest valuable wood.
2000-2001 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Gulliver Green
Copyright March 1, 1998
ISBN# 0-15-201289-3 (PB, HB)
Together with Gramps, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life’s challenges.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright April 1, 2002
ISBN# 0-06-029531-7 (PB, HB)
The story of Irene Sendler, a social worker who helped rescue nearly 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Includes an afterward, sources and glossary.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Lee and Low
Copyright November 1, 2011
ISBN# 9781600604393 (HB)
Bill Traylor, a former slave, began to draw pictures when he was eighty-five, based on his memories of rural and urban life in Alabama. Includes afterward, author’s note, and sources.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Lee & Low
Copyright April 28, 2012
ISBN# 9781600602603 (HB)
An out-of-work pirate, Jack Plank, comes ashore to look for a different line of work, but every night he explains how each non-sailing career he has investigated just won’t work for him.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Michael di Capua Books
Copyright April 1, 2007
ISBN# 545004977 (PB)
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)
The story of Jesus’s life with stunning paintings by this gifted artist.
2002-2003 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Eerdmans
Copyright September 20, 2000
ISBN# 0-8028-5212-2 (HB)
Quoting liberally from John Muir’s diaries, Kathryn Lasky tells the inspiring tale of one of America’s most dedicated and influential environmentalists.
2008-2009 Crown Award
Reading Level: 6.1
Published by Candlewick Press
Copyright March 13, 2006
ISBN# 076361957-4 (PB, HB)
During the Civil War, Joseph must decide whether to defend his stepfather’s abolitionist and pro-Union beliefs.
2002-2003 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright August 1, 2000
ISBN# 0-06-029226-1 (PB)
Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard take long walks through their neighborhood. One hot summer she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
2010-2011 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Scholastic, Inc.
Copyright July 1, 2010
ISBN# 9780545033527 (PB)
Auggie and her grandfather use found objects to transform the appearance of their home and, in the process, change a whole town’s perceptions of beauty and art.
2016-2017 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Dial
Copyright February 6, 2014
ISBN# 978-0803737259 (HB)
Gus is a livestock guardian dog with one job―protecting his farm from coyotes and foxes. He likes keeping the sheep, the chickens, and his humans safe, and he’s very good at it.One day, Diego and his dad come to visit the farm, and Gus immediately connects to the small boy. They both like to sit still and enjoy the quiet, and Gus can tell that Diego likes being around a gentle giant of a dog, that it helps relieve the boy’s constant worry.When Gus detects the scent of a bear in the woods, he rushes to protect his flock, injuring his leg in a fight with the dangerous beast. Wounded, Gus needs to rest and heal away from his sheep, so he doesn’t risk reinjuring his leg. Diego suggests Gus come home with them to the North Carolina coast.Suddenly, Gus is thrust into a new world of saltwater and sand and neighbors who don’t appreciate the presence of a large guard dog, like the neighbor who reminds Gus of his first owner―the junkyard man with the heavy boots.Gus realizes Diego might need a friend as much as his sheep need a protector, but if he can’t learn to control his instincts, like barking and patrolling the neighborhood, Gus might lose his chance to stay in his new home. If he can’t protect the farm or his boy, Gus worries he might never find his place in the world.
2024-2025 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Shadow Mountain Publishing
Copyright April 3, 2023
ISBN# 978-1639930937 (HB)
Readers will be entranced by the many adventures of a raccoon as he learns to survive in the wilds of Nova Scotia.
2002-2003 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Groundwood
Copyright May 1, 2000
ISBN# 0-88899-375-7 (PB, HB)
Based on a true story, Lessons From a Sheepdog, by Phillip Keller, this account tells how he rescues Lass from an unhappy life in the city. Lass learns to trust and to become the great dog she was created to be.
2000-2001 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Tommy Nelson
Copyright June 1, 1997
ISBN# 0-8499-1449-3 (HB)
The last Canadian airlift rescue operation that left Saigon in 1975 had fifty seven babies and children aboard. One of those, was Son Thi Anh Tuyet, and this is the story of her suspenseful journey.
2015-2016 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.8
Published by Pajama Press
Copyright October 1, 2013
ISBN# 0986949515 (PB)
Life is unusually easy for popular sixth grader Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use all of his leadership skills to unite the other students.
2006-2007 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Simon & Schuster
Copyright October 1, 2004
ISBN# 0-689-84516-2 (HB)
Lety Muñoz’s first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together. She loves volunteering at the Furry Friends Animal Shelter because the dogs and cats there don’t care if she can’t always find the right word. When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal profiles, Lety jumps at the chance. But grumpy classmate Hunter also wants to write profiles—so now they have to work as a team. Hunter’s not much of a team player, though. He devises a secret competition to decide who will be the official shelter scribe. Whoever helps get their animals adopted the fastest wins. The loser scoops dog food.
2021-2022 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.5
Published by Scholastic Press
Copyright February 26, 2019
ISBN# 9781338159349 (HB)
Meriwether Lewis’s dog, Seaman, describes Lewis and Clark’s expedition, which he accompanied from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Henry Holt
Copyright August 1, 2002
ISBN# 0-8050-6368-4 (HB)
When spring comes, Papa will take a wagonload of goods to sell in Santa Fe. Lewis feels so grown-up because his dad has said he is old enough to go along. During the trip Papa continues to build confidence in his son as they share rich daily experiences.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Chronicle ’98
Copyright March 31, 1998
ISBN# 0-8118-1959-0 (HB)
Og the Frog has just moved into Room 26, and the place is hopping. There are lively kids, new routines, and a furry neighbor who seems to squeak all day. Luckily, everyone seems friendly and—BING, BANG, BOING!—some even put juicy crickets in his tank. But just as Og is getting used to this new life, there is talk of sending him back to the pond. Sure, he misses his friends, but now he has a lot more time for his favorite hobby—making up songs and poems—and he loves listening to his new friends and giving them encouraging BOINGS just when they need them. And there’s that steady supply of crickets . . . Og doesn’t want to say goodbye to his new life or his furry neighbor. But will his classmates decide to keep Og as their classroom pet or take him back to his old life, at the pond?
2020-2021 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.2
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Reader
Copyright July 3, 2018
ISBN# 978-1524739942 (HB)
This is a novel in verse about Mark, a lost dog, a small town, and small acts of bravery that bring lost-feeling neighbors together.
2015-2016 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.4
Published by Simon & Schuster
Copyright May 1, 2012
ISBN# 1442434236 (PB, HB)
In Communist China in 1966, Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his best friend, by trying to get a caged bird to sing, and through the music he is learning to play on a bamboo flute.
2010-2011 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Barefoot Books
Copyright February 28, 2011
ISBN# 9781846865398 (PB)
Mr.Wolfe has selected 18 paintings from around the world and across art history to teach young art enthusiasts the most important skill in enjoying beauty on a canvas.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Oxford
Copyright September 12, 2002
ISBN# 0-19-521912-0 (HB)
Set in the 1930s, Edith is the fourth of twelve children, so it seems she is always taking care of someone younger while trying to understand just how a big family works in these hard times.
2015-2016 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Houghton
Copyright September 10, 2013
ISBN# 0544022718 (PB, HB)
This is a picture book biography of J. M. Barrie and the events of his life that led him to write one of the world’s most beloved children’s books.
2013-2014 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Penguin Group
Copyright August 5, 2010
ISBN# 9780525478867 (HB)
When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn’t overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and find a way home. But as Louisiana’s life becomes entwined with the lives of the people of a small Georgia town — including a surly motel owner, a walrus-like minister, and a mysterious boy with a crow on his shoulder — she starts to worry that she is destined only for good-byes.
2020-2021 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.5
Published by Candlewick Press
Copyright October 2, 2018
ISBN# 978-0763694630 (HB)
In the same way that Love Does has struck a deep chord with adults, kids will experience God in new and thrilling ways and see that living out our faith certainly isn’t boring! With this book, children will laugh, dream, and be inspired to make a difference for God.
2020-2021 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Thomas Nelson
Copyright October 23, 2018
ISBN# 978-0718095222 (HB)
Another loss comes and Amalia wonders if she will ever make any sense of it all.
2015-2016 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.8
Published by Simon and Schuster
Copyright July 10, 2012
ISBN# 1442424028 (PB, HB)
ile her grandmother spends the summer in Hawaii, Ruby learns self-reliance by writing letters and befriending a new girl in town.
2003-2004 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harcourt
Copyright March 31, 2001
ISBN# 0-15-202314-3 (PB, HB)
Ten-year-old Lula Bell Bonner of White House, Tennessee, tries to fade in the background to avoid a bully, but after her beloved grandmother’s death Lula Bell understood about letting her light shining in the darkness.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Amazon Children’s
Copyright October 2, 2012
ISBN# 9780761462255 (HB)
This story tells how a young but talented girl who lived in France more that 600 years ago. Her father is a manuscript illuminator, but when he falls ill it is up to Marguerite to finish his current work so that a grand lady can get her book on time.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Getty Museum
Copyright October 28, 1999
ISBN# 0-89236-372-X (HB)
This book explores marsupials of all sizes. It further tells about their habits, physical appearance, and environment.
2011-2012 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Scholastic, Inc.
Copyright September 1, 2009
ISBN# 9780439877589 (HB)
Mary Breckinridge, trained as a nurse during World War I, rode on horseback into the isolated mountains of Appalachia to bring medical help to those in need. Joined by others, her work became a model for rural health care worldwide.
2000-2001 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Dial Press
Copyright September 1, 1998
ISBN# 0-8037-2154-4 (HB)
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Random
Copyright January 6, 2014
ISBN# 9780385374149 (PB)
In this book of poems based on fairy tales, a new twist is given. The poems are read top to bottom and then reversed to create a new take on the fairy tales.
2012-2013 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Penguin Young Readers Group
Copyright March 3, 2010
ISBN# 9780525479017 (HB)
Sage turns her misunderstanding over a spelling word into pure inspiration for the vocabulary parade
2002-2003 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harcourt
Copyright August 1, 2000
ISBN# 0-15-202163-9 (PB, HB)
A biography of Lady Bird Johnson, who, as the wife of President Lyndon Johnson, reminded citizens about the importance of conserving natural resources and promoted the beautification of cities and highways by planting wildflowers.
2006-2007 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright February 14, 2005
ISBN# 0-06-001107-6 (HB)
There was a time in America when children were not allowed to enter a library much less take books home because they might ruin them or forget to bring them back, until Miss Moore came along!
2015-2016 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.6
Published by Houghton
Copyright March 4, 2013
ISBN# 054747105X (HB)
In a small Louisiana town in 1940, Jolene still misses her dad who died and she does not want her Mamma to marry the logger who has been courting her. It seems though, that even her most defiantly bad behavior cannot make him go away.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Putnam
Copyright October 31, 2000
ISBN# 978-0698118690 (PB)
Eight-year old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that was her brother Caleb’s helps sort out her feelings and she finally learns that Sarah will always love her.
2006-2007 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright August 3, 2004
ISBN# 0-06-027558-8 (HB)
Morris Frank and a German shepherd named Buddy develop a relationship that leads to the establishment of programs for training seeing eye dogs and laws supporting their use in public places in America.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Albert Whitman & Company
Copyright December 31, 2006
ISBN# 807552844 (HB)
Moto and Me tells the remarkable firsthand story of wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas’s care for an orphaned baby serval—a small, spotted wildcat—in Kenya. When a grass fire separates the serval from his family, a ranger asks Suzi, who is living in a bush camp and is skilled with animals, to be the serval’s foster mom.
2019-2020 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.3
Published by Owlkids
Copyright April 11, 2017
ISBN# 978-1771472425 (HB)
Luigi has a knack for games and puzzles, but sometimes it feels like the cards are stacked against him. When a carnival arrives in town, Luigi gets the chance of a lifetime.
2023-2024 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.2
Published by Random House Books for Young Readers
Copyright May 3, 2022
ISBN# 978-0593480830 (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)
Inspiring stories of how librarians and volunteers around the world deliver books to remote areas, often by unusual means such as boat, train, donkey and even wheelbarrow.
2007-2008 Crown Award
Reading Level: 6.3
Published by Boyd Mills Press
Copyright August 1, 2005
ISBN# 1-59078-093-0 (HB)
This captivating photographic collaboration reveals fascinating fractal patterns in nature based on their discovery by scientist Benoit Mandellbrot.
2016-2017 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.2
Published by Boyds Mills Press
Copyright April 1, 2014
ISBN# 978-1620916278 (HB)
Precious already knows she wants to be a detective and she hones her skills by helping to find a missing cow that belongs to the family of two new students at her school.
2016-2017 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.8
Published by Random House
Copyright October 22, 2013
ISBN# 978-0345804587 (HB)
This title was originally written in 1952 and it has just been republished. She is the author of the much loved Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Series, as well as her fascinating adult autobiography, The Egg and I which is still in print. Nancy and Plum are sisters who live in an orphanage run by the cruel and greedy Mrs. Munday. They dream of someday having enough to eat and to be able to experience a real Christmas.
2013-2014 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Knopf
Copyright October 11, 2011
ISBN# 9780375859861 (PB)
Nick Newton is not a Genius. He’s just a merely average boy from the country of Thauma. He may not be brilliant like his mom and dad or a child prodigy like his sister, but he won’t let that stop him from uncovering the mysteries of a clockwork factory or revealing a war hero’s greatest secret. With help from two new friends and his butler named Jude, Nick embarks on an adventure that will change his life forever.
2018-2019 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by JourneyForth
Copyright October 18, 2016
ISBN# 978-1628562354 (PB)
Nim loves her island and her animals, but when her father does not return as expected from his scientific experiments, Nim’s only source of help may the new friend she’s made via email.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Yearling
Copyright February 11, 2008
ISBN# 385736061 (PB)
During the Great Depression Bonnie’s Ontario family is struggling and her family moves north to a farm where she attends a one-room schoolhouse. Bonnie’s spirit and bravery in the face of adversity are admirable. The story is written by one of Canada’s most popular authors of historical fiction.
2013-2014 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside
Copyright September 15, 2010
ISBN# 9781554551699 (PB)
Noah Webster is a true story about a man that felt he could help unite the thirteen colonies by creating a national language. This would also help break the bond with England.
2011-2012 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Highlights Press
Copyright November 1, 2009
ISBN# 9781590784419 (HB)
A passionate lover of nature and a renowned artist track the incredible spring migration of millions of creatures to the Arctic—one of the greatest journeys on Earth.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Candlewick
Copyright September 10, 2013
ISBN# 9780763666637 (PB)
Jed, TsTs, and Chai are the very best of friends. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. Mysteriously, the hawk has dropped him. They saw it. Jed could be alive. New communities are discovered, new friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat variety) and the mysteries of squirrel culture are revealed.
2017-2018 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.2
Published by Greenwillow Books
Copyright August 26, 2014
ISBN# 978-0060092757 (PB)
This new biography invites the reader to travel along on a journey of curiosity,laughter, and scientific discovery.
2016-2017 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.5
Published by Chronicle
Copyright April 23, 2013
ISBN# 978-0811872355 (HB)
Kojo never has enough money or food. He is given a small loan and buys a chicken which he turns into a profitable business buying more chickens and helping others.
2010-2011 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Kids Can Press, Limited
Copyright February 27, 2008
ISBN# 9781554530281 (HB)
Mallie learns the hard way that she has her own distinct personality apart from her twin.
2002-2003 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Random
Copyright October 1, 2000
ISBN# 0-613-30076-9 (PB)
Left orphans in 1828, three children try to make it back to their grandmother’s home on their own.
2002-2003 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Avon
Copyright February 29, 2000
ISBN# 0-380-97811-3 (PB, HB)
Originally published in 1995, this book has six stories, one from each decade from the 1940’s to the 1990’s, about children growing up in Levittown, New York.
2008-2009 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Scholastic Press
Copyright November 30, 2005
ISBN# 0-439-74508-X (HB)
From deep within the human body, stunning photographs reveal subatomic particles that are truly out of sight.
2002-2003 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by SeaStar (North-South)
Copyright August 1, 2000
ISBN# 1-58717-012-4 (HB)
The true story of two great friends: a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-year-old giant tortoise named Mzee.
2008-2009 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.4
Published by Scholastic Press
Copyright January 31, 2006
ISBN# 0-439-82973-9 (PB, HB)
When her grandmother dies, Maya, a sheltered orphan from California, is forced move to a family ranch in Wyoming, where she discovers a connection with her mother through a love of horses.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright January 31, 2009
ISBN# 9780545101769 (PB)
The author describes the experiences with a family of roadrunners that came to live near her house.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Millbrook
Copyright March 31, 2002
ISBN# 0-7613-1250-1 (PB)
Pronghorns are the fastest land animals in North America and this account follows them through their migration route that they have traveled since the Ice Age. Stunning color photographs give a close look at these extraordinary creatures.
2013-2014 Crown Award
Reading Level: 6.0
Published by Highlights Press
Copyright October 1, 2010
ISBN# 9781590787564 (HB)
Andy finds that spending a summer doing chores for his grandmother and connecting with his mother’s childhood friend in West Carthage, New York, helps him accept that faith will help him begin to heal after his father’s recent death.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Elva Resa Publishing
Copyright October 1, 2007
ISBN# 9781934617007 (HB)
Pinduli, a young striped Hyena, talks with Dog, Lion, and Zebra about their ears, manes, and stripes.
2006-2007 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harcourt
Copyright September 1, 2004
ISBN# 0-15-204668-2 (PB, HB)
Written in 1958, the famous Pye family acquires a small kitten that can type, during a summer on Fire Island.
2002-2003 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harcourt
Copyright September 1, 2000
ISBN# 0-15-202559-6 (PB, HB)
Jack Prelutsky provides the techniques of how to write a poem and what has inspired his poetry. He includes several of his own poems as inspiration.
2010-2011 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by HarperCollins Publishers
Copyright February 25, 2008
ISBN# 9780061434488 (PB)
In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time though not his freedom. Horton became the first African American to be published in the South, protesting slavery in the form of verse.
2017-2018 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.5
Published by Peachtree Publishers
Copyright September 1, 2015
ISBN# 978-1561458257 (HB)
During the Great Depression three siblings must move from the city to a farm and learn to survive on their own when their father takes a construction job far away.
2015-2016 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.7
Published by Random House
Copyright August 9, 2011
ISBN# 0375838899 (PB, HB)
After he learns Morse code, a 12 year-old sends a message thru an amateur radio station that leads to the rescue of a stranded family.
2002-2003 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by FSG
Copyright October 1, 2000
ISBN# 0-374-36166-5 (HB)
Ramona’s World, by Beverly Cleary, 0-688-16816-7, Morrow ’99, $15.00. To the delight of Ramona Quimby readers everywhere, Beverly Cleary has, for the first time in fifteen years, brought a new story about one of the most loved characters in children’s literature. Ramona believes her fourth grade year will be her very best yet!
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Morrow
Copyright March 18, 1999
ISBN# 0-688-16816-7 (PB, 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)
In her village in Bangladesh, Naimi is very talented at painting, but she would have to be a boy, or at least seem to be a boy, to help her poverty-stricken family make money.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Charlesbridge Publishing
Copyright February 14, 2008
ISBN# 9781580893091 (PB)
This is the story of Peter Mark Roget, creator of Roget’s Thesaurus, which has continually been in print for almost 175 years and is still one of the most widely used reference books.
2016-2017 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.1
Published by Eerdman's
Copyright September 15, 2014
ISBN# 978-0802853851 (HB)
The magnificent faces of Mount Rushmore have captured the grandeur of the creator’s vision of the world’s most colossal stone carving. The author’s breathtaking illustrations and compelling narrative focus on four outstanding American presidents.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright March 31, 1999
ISBN# 0-590-22573-1 (PB, HB)
A collection of family stories as they relate their memories of growing up in Latin America.
2002-2003 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright February 29, 2000
ISBN# 0-590-63118-7 (PB, HB)
Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they’re both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL. Joe’s lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own. Ravi’s family just moved to America from India, and he’s finding it pretty hard to figure out where he fits in. Joe and Ravi don’t think they have anything in common—but soon enough they have a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and a common mission: to take control of their lives over the course of a single crazy week.
2018-2019 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.8
Published by Scholastic Press
Copyright May 9, 2016
ISBN# 978-0545846608 (HB)
What if you had to leave your dog behind when you fled? Nine-year-old Rudi has a chance to leave the dangers of Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to England. However, he cannot bring Hanno, his wonderful dachshund. Luckily, his family finds a way to smuggle Hanno to London. But with England on the brink of war, Hanno is still not safe.
2021-2022 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Holiday House
Copyright April 23, 2019
ISBN# 9780823441655 (HB)
A class of sixth-graders tries to save a mistreated elephant from being sold to a hunting park.
2003-2004 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Minstrel
Copyright October 31, 2001
ISBN# 0-671-03422-7 (PB, HB)
The author finds Samantha, a fox pup, in a rusty trap. The author recounts how Samantha is nursed back to health, and gradually reintroduced into the wild.
2006-2007 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Sleeping Bear Press
Copyright March 3, 2004
ISBN# 1-58536-220-4 (HB)
In book #7 Humphrey is puzzled when students fill Mrs. Brisbane’s classroom at summer’s end, but he soon learns his friends from last year are fine and that the new class needs his special help.
2013-2014 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Penguin Group
Copyright May 31, 2013
ISBN# 9780142421062 (PB)
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Penguin
Copyright October 11, 2012
ISBN# 9780142421833 (PB)
The tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea—to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of readers and writers.
2006-2007 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Houghton Mifflin
Copyright October 31, 2004
ISBN# 0-618-36947-3 (HB)
A free-verse novel about an eleven-year old Xiao Mei’s visit with her extended family in China, where the Chinese-American girl finds many differences but also the similarities that bind a family together.
2007-2008 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.7
Published by Lee & Low Books
Copyright September 1, 2005
ISBN# 978-1-58430-238-4 (HB)
The making of “Show ways” or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author’s family.
2007-2008 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.8
Published by Putnam
Copyright September 8, 2005
ISBN# 0-399-23749-6 (HB)
A biography of William ‘Dummy’ Hoy, who perused his love of baseball and became the first deaf player to have a long career in the major leagues, where he accumulated records and top-ranking statistics.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Lee and Low
Copyright April 1, 2012
ISBN# 9781600604119 (HB)
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