Children's & Teen Choice Book Awards

The 2017 Children’ & Teen Choice Book Awards are ready to be voted on from March 3 – May 7. This is the only national book award that is voted on only by kids and teens.  A number of schools and states have their own awards, but this is the only national award.

To vote, head over to the Every Child A Reader website, where kids can vote or teachers and librarians and place a group ballot for classes and schools. The website also has printable ballots, I voted stickers and more!

The Awards are broken down into four categories with seven finalists in each category. The finalist are:

K – 2nd Grade BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS

• DON’T WAKE UP THE TIGER, by Britta Teckentrup (Candlewick/Nosy Crow)
• FRANKENCRAYON, by Michael Hall (HarperCollins/Greenwillow)
• KING BABY, by Kate Beaton (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books)
• MADELINE FINN AND THE LIBRARY DOG, by Lisa Papp (Peachtree Publishers)
• NANOBOTS, by Chris Gall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• PEEP AND EGG: I’M NOT HATCHING, by Laura Gehl; illus. by Joyce Wan (Macmillan/Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers)
• THE THANK YOU BOOK, by Mo Willems (Disney-Hyperion)

3rd – 4th Grade BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS

• THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER, by Carl Sommer; illus. by Ignacio Noe (Advance Publishing)
• DUCK ON A TRACTOR, by David Shannon (Scholastic/Blue Sky)
• THE HOLE STORY OF THE DOUGHNUT, by Pat Miller; illus. by Vincent Kirsch (HMH Books for Young Readers)
• NOODLEHEAD NIGHTMARES, by Tedd Arnold, Martha Hamilton, and Mitch Weiss; illus. by Tedd Arnold (Holiday House)
• ONCE UPON AN ELEPHANT by Linda Stanek; illus. by Shennen Bersani (Arbordale Publishing)
• WHOOSH!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream Of Inventions, by Chris Barton; illus. by Don Tate (Charlesbridge)
• WOLF CAMP, by Andrea Zuill (Random House/ Schwartz & Wade)

5th – 6th Grade BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS

• BOOKED, by Kwame Alexander (HMH Books for Young Readers)
• FUZZY, by Tom Angleberger and Paul Dellinger (ABRAMS/Amulet)
• GARVEY’S CHOICE, by Nikki Grimes (Boyds Mills Press/WordSong)
• HILO BOOK 2: Saving the Whole Wide World, by Judd Winick (Random House/Random House Books for Young Readers)
• MAKER LAB, by Jack Challoner (DK)
• THE MISADVENTURES OF MAX CRUMBLY 1: Locker Hero, by Rachel Renée Russell (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin)
• WET CEMENT, by Bob Raczka (Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press)

TEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS

• A COURT OF MIST AND FURY, by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
• CROOKED KINGDOM, by Leigh Bardugo (Macmillan/Henry Holt Books)
• THE CROWN, by Kiera Cass (HarperCollins)
• HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS 1 & 2, Special Rehearsal Edition Script, by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany (Scholastic)
• THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR, by Nicola Yoon (Random House)
• THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS, by Marieke Nijkamp (Sourcebooks Fire)
• A TORCH AGAINST THE NIGHT, by Sabaa Tahir (Penguin Young Readers)