A Snicker of Magic
Author: Natalie Lloyd
Publisher: Scholastic (Pbk.)
Awards: 2015 ALA Notable Book; 2015 E.B. White Read Aloud Honor Book; A Junior Library Guild Selection; A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; An NPR Best Book of 2014; A New York Public Library Sharable Title for 2014; An iBooks Best Book of 2014; A Parents Magazine Best Book of 2014; A 2014 Nerdy Book Club Award Winner; A Mighty Girls Best Book of 2014 for Tweens; A 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Winner for Children’s Literature; A 2016 Georgia Children’s Book Award Winner; A 2015 NCTE Charlotte Huck Recommended Title; Hicklebee’s Spring 2014 Book of the Year; A Top 10 Spring 2014 Kids Indie Next Pick; 2014 NAPPA Silver Award Winner; A SIBA Okra Pick 2014
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A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic
Author: Lisa Papademetriou
Publisher: HarperCollins
Awards: A South Asia Book Award Highly Commended Title
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Beyond the Laughing Sky
Author: Michelle Cuevas
Illustrator: Julie Morstad
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Awards: Amazon ‘Best Book of the Month’ 2014
Breadcrumbs
Author: Anne Ursu
Publisher: Walden Pond Press, HarperCollins Publishers (Pbk.)
Awards: Capitol Choices 2012 List; Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Reading List; Indie Next Pick; Amazon.com Book of the Year; Bank Street Best Children’s Books; Junior Library Guild Selection; Bulletin for the Center of Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Book; NCTE 2012 Notable Children’s Books in the English Language Arts; New York Public Library’s 100 Books for Reading and Sharing; NPR Backseat Book Club, December 2011; Publishers Weekly Book of the Year; School Library Journal Book of the Year
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Charlotte’s Web
Author: E.B. White
Illustrator: Garth Williams
Publisher: Harper
Awards: Newbery Honor Book; Massachusetts Children’s Book Award; Lewis Carroll Shelf Award; ALA Notable Children’s Book; Horn Book Fanfare
Confessions of an Imaginary Friend: A Memoir by Jacques Papier as Told to Michelle Cuevas
Author: Michelle Cuevas
Illustrator: Michelle Cuevas
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Awards: A TIME Magazine Top 10 Children’s Book of 2015; Indie Next List, Indiebound; PW Picks: Book of the Week
Coraline
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Awards: Publishers Weekly Best Book (Winner); New York Public Library’s One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing (Winner); Child Magazine Best Book of the Year (Winner); ALA Notable Children’s Book (Winner); ALA Best Books for Young Adults (Winner); Amazon.com Editors’ Choice (Winner); NYPL Books for the Teen Age (Winner); IRA/CBC Children’s Choice (Winner); Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List (VT); Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers; School Library Journal Best Book; Hugo Award for Best Novella
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Drizzle
Author: Kathleen Van Cleeve
Publisher: Dial
Awards: 2012 Keystone to Reading Book Award – Middle School (Winner)
Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Illustrator: K.G. Campbell
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Awards: 2014 Newbery Medal
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How To Live Forever
Author: Colin Thompson
Illustrator: Colin Thompson
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Awards: Winner of the 2004 Aurealis Award for Children’s Novels – Short Fiction
Matilda
Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group (Pbk.)
Awards: Children’s Book Award (1988); Voted ‘Nation’s Favorite Children’s Book’ in BBC Bookworm Poll; Blue Peter Prize (2000)
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No Flying in the House
Author: Betty Brock
Illustrator: Wallace Tripp
Publisher: HarperCollins
Ollie’s Odyssey
Author: William Joyce
Illustrator: William Joyce and Moonbot
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/A Moonbot Book
Starry River of the Sky
Author: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Awards: 2013 ALA Notable; 2013 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Titles; NPR Year’s Outstanding ‘Backseat’ Readers for Ages 9 to 14; 2012 Publisher’s Weekly Best Books; 2012 Booklist Editor’s Choice Best List; 2013 CCBC Choices; Atlantic Wire’s the YA/Middle-Grade Book Awards; 2012 Editor: Best Slow Read; A Junior Library Guild Book
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The BFG
Author: Roald Dahl
Illustrator: Quentin Blake
Publisher: Penguin Books
Awards: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German translation): Year’s Best Children’s Book, 1985; 1991 Read Alone and Read Aloud BILBY Awards; National Education Association “Teacher’s ‘Top 100 Books for Children’ “ (2007); Good Book Guide ‘Best Books of the Past 20 Years’ (1997)
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The Boy, The Bird & the Coffin Maker
Author: Matilda Woods
Illustrator: Anuska Allepuz
Publisher: Philomel Books
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The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
Author: Michelle Cuevas
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Young Readers Group
The Fourteenth Goldfish
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
Publisher: Random House
Awards: Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices Selection 2015; IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Selection 2015; Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Award (VT) Selection 2015
The Girl Who Sailed The Stars
Author: Matilda Woods
Illustrator: Anuska Allepuz
Publisher: Philomena Books
The Imaginary
Author: A.F. Harrold
Illustrator: Emily Gravett
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Awards: Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Books of 2015, Middle-Grade; CCBC Choices 2016, Fiction for Children; Winner of the British Book Design and Production Award (children’s category and overall winner, 2015) and the UKLA Book Award (7-11 category, 2016); Longlisted for CILIP Carnegie and CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals (2016); Shortlisted for Sheffield Children’s Book Award (2015), Leeds Book Award (2015), Redbridge Children’s Book Award (2015), The English Association 4-11 Picture Books Award (2015), St. Helen’s School Library Service Book Award (2016), and the Haringey Children’s Book Award (2017)
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The Key to Extraordinary
Author: Natalie Lloyd
Awards: A Junior Library Guild Selection; A Bank Street College of Education Best Books of 2017; A Texas Bluebonnet List Selection; Honorable Mention, Entertainment Weekly’s Best Middle Grade Books of 2016; Long Listed for the SIBA Southern Book Prize; An Amazon Best Children’s Book of 2016; A NE Library Commission Best Book of 2016; An Audible Best Children’s Book of 2016; A Volunteer State Book Award Finalist
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The Magician’s Elephant
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Illustrator: Yoko Tanaka
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Awards: ALA Notable Children’s Books; Bluegrass Award (KY); Delaware Diamond Booklist; Minessota Book Award; Oprah’s Book club Kids Reading List selection; Notable Children’s Recordings List; ABA 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards; ABA “Indie Bestseller List;” PW Off the Cuff Awards; Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books; Hudson Booksellers Best Books; Borders Best Kids Books of 2009; Booklist Editors’ Choice; Nick Jr. Ten Best Kids Books; Parents Choice Award Recommended; Amazon Best Books Of; Scanduizzi Children’s Book Award Honorable Mention; Bank Street Mock Newbery Titles; Kids’ Indie Nextlist
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The Masterwork of a Painting Elephant
Author: Michelle Cuevas
Illustrator: Ed Young
Publisher: Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Illustrator: Bagram Ibatoulline
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Awards: Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Fiction
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The Real Boy
Author: Anne Ursu
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Awards: National Book Award Longlist; 2014 Bank Street Children’s Book Committee Best Book of the Year
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Illustrator: Timothy Basic Ering
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Awards: Newbery Medal Winner; Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award
The Zoo at the Edge of the World
Author: Eric Kahn Gale
Illustrator: Sam Nielson
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Author: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Awards: 2010 Newbery Honor; 2010 Bank Street College of Education Josette Frank Award; 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards Finalist for Middle Reader Book of the Year; Al Roker’s TODAY Show Kid’s Book Club Pick, December 2009; 2010 Mythopeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature; Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy for Youth: 2009; 2009 Parents’ Choice Gold Winner; 2010 CCBC Choice Gold Winner; 2010 CCBC Choices List; 2010 E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book; 2010 Massachusetts Book Award for Children’s/Young Adult Literature
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Wishtree
Author: Katherine Applegate
Illustrator: Charley Santoso
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Awards: Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017, Middle Grade; Amazon.com Best Books of 2017, Ages 9-12; The New York Times Notable Children’s Books of 2017, Middle Grade; Goodreads Choice Awards 2017, Middle Grade and Children’s; Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2017, Fiction for Older Readers; Booklist Top of the List Editor’s Choice, Fiction Middle Readers; Los Angeles Public Library Best of 2017: Children’s Books; NPR’s Book Concierge, 2017 Great Reads; The Washington Post Best Books Children’s Books of 2017, Fiction; Brightly Best Children’s Books of 2017, According to Kids; ILA Teachers’ Choices-2018; Capitol Choices 2018, Seven to Ten; Final Nominee ALSC Notable Children’s Books 2018, Middle; Buckeye Children’s Book Award 2018 Nominee; 2019 North Carolina Children’s Book Award Final Nominee; 2018-2019 Black-Eyed Susan Award Winner, Grades 4-6; 2018 E.B White Read-Aloud Award Winner, Middle Reader; Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards 2019 Nominee; Indian Paintbrush Book Award 2018-2019 Nominee: Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award 2018-2019 Nominee; Keystone to Reading Award 2019-2019 Nominee
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