Picture Books
Thunder Boy Jr. / Sherman Alexie
Our Great Big Backyard / Laura Bush
Blocks / Irene Dickson
Lailah’s Lunchbox: a Ramadan Story / Reem Faruqi
Again! / Emily Gravett
Excellent Ed / Stacy McAnulty
Leo Can Swim / Anna McQuinn
If You Plant a Seed / Kadir Nelson
Frank and Lucky Get Schooled / Lynne Rae Perkins
Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep! / Todd Tarpley

Children’s Fiction
The Rat With the Human Face / Tom Angleberger
School of the Dead / Avi
Raymie Nightingale / Kate DiCamillo
I Am Pan! / Mordicai Gerstein (graphic novel)
The Tree in the Courtyard / Jeff Gottesfeld
The Lie Tree / Frances Hardinge
A Handful of Stars / Cynthia Lord
Wishing Day / Lauren Myracle
Soccer Sabotage / Liam O’Donnell (graphic novel)
No Ordinary Sound (American Girl) / Denise Lewis Patrick
The Fog Diver / Joel N. Ross
Harriet the Invincible / Ursula Vernon

Children’s Nonfiction
Welcome to Mars: making a home on the Red Planet / Buzz Aldrin
Guinness world records : the world’s biggest everything / James Buckley
Dragons : collected manuscripts detailing the masters’ secrets for studying and drawing dragons / Eugene Caine
Star Wars: the secret life of Droids / Jason Fry
Barack Obama / Caroline Crosson Gilpin
Who Was Johnny Appleseed? / Joan Holub
Making comics : storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels /Scott McCloud
A Chicken Followed Me Home: questions and answers about a familiar fowl / Robin Page
Woodpecker Wham! / April Pulley Sayre

For Teens
Through the Woods / Emily Carroll (graphic novel)
Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist / Rachel Cohn
You Know Me Well / Nine LaCour and David Levithan
We are All Made of Molecules / Susin Nielsen
Between Shades of Gray / Ruta Sepetys
Vampire Loves / Joanne Sfar (graphic novel)