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Book Awards for Children

CALDECOTT MEDAL, most distinguished American picture book for children.

Fireworks illustrated by Catia Chien and written by Matthew Burgess

NEWBERY MEDAL, most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

All the Blue in the Sky by Renee Watson

MONARCH AWARD, Grades K-3

Henna Is… by Marzieh Abbas

Pop! Goes the Nursery Rhyme by Betsy Bird

Fix-It Familia by Lucky Diaz

A Llama is Not an Alpaca: And Other Mistaken Animal Identities by Karen Jameson

Buffalo Fluffalo by Bess Kalb

So Tortoise Dug by Emmy Kastner

The Bakery Dragon by Devin Elle Kurtz

Some of Us: The Story of Citizenship in the United States by Rajani LaRocca

100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle

Touch the Sky by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic

I’m Sorry You Got Mad by Kyle Lukoff

Millie Fleur Saves the Night by Christy Mandin

Not a Monster by Claudia Martinez

Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo

There Are No Ants in This Book by Rosemary Mosco

All at Once Upon a Time by Mara Rockliff

Don’t Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson

Ursula Upside Down by Corey R. Tabor

To Catch a Ghost by Rachel Michelle Wilson

Little Bird Laila by Kelly Yang

BLUESTEM AWARD, Grades 3-5

An American Story by Kwame Alexander

Call Me Roberto! Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso

The Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-el

Mixed-Up by Kami Garcia

The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman

Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Monster and the Maze by Maple Lam

Right Back at You by Carolyn Mackler

Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller

My Antarctica by G. Neri

The Girl and the Robot by Claribel A. Ortega

Averil Offline by Amy Noelle Parks

Leeva at Last by Sara Pennypacker

Octopus Moon by Bobbie Pyron

Lola Reyes is So Not Worried by Cindy L. Rodriquez

Eyes on the Ice by Anna Rosner

The Iguanodon’s Horn by Sean Rubin

Speechless by Aron Nels Steinke

A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga

Sparkle by Lakita Wilson

Lost and Found: Based on a True Story by Mei Yu

REBECCA CAUDILL AWARD, Grades 5-8

Worst-Case Collin by Rebecca Caprara

365 Days to Alaska by Cathy Carr

The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko

The Partition Project by Saadia Faruqi

And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps

The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming

Popcorn by Rob Harrell

The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman (shelved with Bluestem)

Jennifer Chan is Not Alone by Tae Keller

Extra Normal by Kate Alice Marshall

Bye Forever, I Guess by Jodi Meadows

Keeping Pace by Laurie Moorrison

Four Eyes by Rex Ogle

Witchlings by Claribel Ortega

The Sherlock Society by James Ponti

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt

Louder Than Hunger by John Schu (shelved with Lincoln)

Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr.

Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams