Every house has a story. This house—an old one hunkered in the deep grass below a wide country sky—is a waiting house. Once it was full of laughter and song. The sounds of life rang within its walls. Now it stands quiet and still.
2023-2024 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Candlewick
Copyright April 13, 2021
ISBN# 978-1536200973 (HB)
This is a story of a child writing a story that encourages persistence and celebrates the strength of every child’s unique voice and the story they have to tell.
2023-2024 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Neal Porter Books
Copyright November 9, 2021
ISBN# 978-0823444915 (HB)
Gino Bartali pedaled across Italy for years, winning one cycling race after another, including the 1938 Tour de France. Gino became an international sports hero! But the next year, World War II began, and it changed everything. Soldiers marched into Italy. Tanks rolled down the cobbled streets of Florence. And powerful leaders declared that Jewish people should be arrested.
To the entire world, Gino Bartali was merely a champion cyclist. But Gino’s greatest achievement was something he never told a soul—that he secretly worked with the Italian resistance to save hundreds of Jewish men, women, and children, and others, from certain death, using the one thing no authority would question: his bicycle.
2022-2023 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 4.2
Published by Quill Tree Books
Copyright February 23, 2021
ISBN# 978-0062908117 (HB)
Chicken Little is NOT afraid of anything, not even a wolf. No matter how big or bad he is. In fact, she’s never even seen a wolf. So when a real wolf shows up and ruffles her feathers, what’s a fretful fowl to do: Join the frenzied flock and fly the coop? Or find out if this newcomer is as bad as his reputation?
2022-2023 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 2.1
Published by Scholastic Press
Copyright March 2, 2021
ISBN# 978-1338359008 (HB)
Fred Rogers was a quiet boy with big feelings. Sometimes, he felt scared or lonely; at other times, he was playful and joyous. But when Fred’s feelings felt too big, his Grandfather McFeely knew exactly what to say to make him feel better: I like you just the way you are.
The story of Mister Rogers: a quiet, compassionate hero whose essential message—that it is okay to have and to express feelings—still resonates today.
2022-2023 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 4.1
Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Copyright January 14, 2020
ISBN# 978-1534441224 (HB)
Jabari is inventing a machine that will fly all the way across the yard! But making it go from CRASH to WHOOSH will take grit, patience, and maybe even a little help from his sister. A tale that shows that through perseverance and flexibility, an inventive thought can become a brilliant reality.
2022-2023 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 2.3
Published by Candlewick
Copyright September 8, 2020
ISBN# 978-1536207163 (HB)
Meet Henley, an all-around good kid, who hates to read. When he’s supposed to be reading, he would rather do anything else. But one day, he gets the scariest homework assignment in the world: find your favorite book to share with the class tomorrow.
What’s a kid to do? How can Henley find a story that speaks to everything inside of him?
2022-2023 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 4.1
Published by Orchard Books
Copyright December 29, 2020
ISBN# 978-1338225327 (PB)
One tiny act of kindness can have a huge impact. Sincerely, Emerson follows eleven-year-old Emerson Weber as she writes a letter of thanks to her postal carrier, Doug, and creates a nationwide outpouring of love.
This is a story of gratitude, hope, and recognition: for all the essential helpers we see everyday, and all those who go unseen
2022-2023 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 2.9
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright December 8, 2020
ISBN# 978-0063066960 (HB)
