Teen Award Book Nominees 2025-2026

Title                        Author
Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell
Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis
This Book Won't Burn by Samira Ahmed
The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow
Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson
Youth Group by Jordan Morris and Bowen McCurdy
Another First Chance by Robbie Couch
Darkly by Marisha Pessl
Diet Soda Club by Chaz Hayden
Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce
The Merciless King of Moore High by Lily Sparks
Stay Dead by April Henry

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Title                     Author
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Not Nothing by Gayle Forman
Westfallen by Ann & Ben Brashares
Medusa by Katherine Marsh
The Liars Society by Alyson Gerber
The Last Dragon on Mars by Scott Reintgen
Uprising by Jennifer A Nielsen
The Secret Dead Club by Karen Strong
Not if You Break up with me First by G.F. Miller
The Legend of the Last Library by Frank L. Cole
​Bye Forever, I Guess by Jodi Meadows
Shadowed  by Carl Deuker

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Title                         Author
A Royal Conundrum by Lisa yee and Dan Santat
On a Wing and Tear  by Cynthia Leitch Smith
And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps
Popcorn by Rob Harrell
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Alan Gratz
The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Sherlock Society by James Ponti
The Night Librarian by Christopher Lincoln
Light and Air by Mindy Nichols Wendell
Carter Avery's Tricky Fourth-Grade Year  by Rob Buyea
Slugfest by Gordon Korman
The Pumpkin Princess and the Forever Night by Steven Banbury

Children's Book Award Nominees 2025-2026

 Title                                    Author / Illustrator                                            
The Yellow Bus by Loren Long
Porcupine Had a Fuzzy Sweater by Jody Jensen Shaffer / Angela Edmonds
Camping Land by Ame Dyckman / James Burks
Itty Bitty Betty Blob by Constance Lomardo/ Micah Player
A Letter to My Best Friend by Yangsook Choi
The Little Red Chair by Cathy Stefanec Ogren / Alexandra Thompson 
The Boy Who Found His Voice by Tyler Gordon
All the Books by Hayley Rocco / John Rocco
Apple Pie Tired by Beth Charles / Hannah Brinson
Sinclair, the Velociraptor Who Thought He Was A Chicken by Douglas Rees / Galia Bernstein

Title                        Author / Illustrator
The Man Who Didn't Like Animals by Deborah Underwood / LeUyen Pham
Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan
Let's Be Bees  by Shawn Harris
POP! Goes the Nursery Rhyme by Betsy Bird /Andrea Tsurumi
Broken  by X. Fang
I Hate Everything! by Sophy Henn
Shmoof by Heidi McKinnon
Go, Go, Dodo by Huw Lewis Jones /  Fred Blunt
E-I-UFO: Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Zach von Zonk / Benjamin Chlaud
Rory the Remarkable Dragon by Kathryn Rammell