Award-Winning Middle-Grade Fiction—Part 2

My blog this week continues the lists of award-winning fiction and poetry generally suitable for children aged eight through twelve.

Notable Children’s Books: Each year, the Association for Library Service to Children “identifies the best of the best of children’s books on the Notable Children’s Books list.” The lists feature books for readers of all ages: Younger Readers – Preschool-grade 2 (age 7), including easy-to-read books; Middle Readers – Grades 3-5, ages 8-10; Older Readers – Grades 6-8, ages 11-14.

Fiction selection for 2013, Middle Readers

Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson

In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz

Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead

Lulu and the Duck in the Park by Hilary McKay

Mary B. by Caroline Starr Rose

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles

Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz

Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Tumage

Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad by Henry Cole

Wonder by R. J. Palacio

Fiction selection for 2013, Older Readers

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Drama by Raina Telgemeier

A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached

My Family for the War by Anne C. Voorhoeve

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Son by Lois Lowry

Son of a Gun by Anne de Graaf

You can find the complete, annotated list at http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb.

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Children’s Choices: This is a project of the InternationalReading Association (IRA) and the Children’s Book Council (CBC), in which approximately 10,000 children choose 100 favorite books each year. These books are listed by year, from 1998 to 2012, annotated, and categorized by grade level. Here is the selection of 2012 titles for grades 5–6:

Bad Island by Doug TenNapel

BONE: Quest for the Spark by Tom Sniegoski

Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald

Cursed Grounds by Steven L. Stern

Dork Diaries 3: Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star by Rachel Renee Russell

Lost and Found by Shaun Tan

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

Prince of Dorkness: More Notes from a Totally Lame Vampire by Tim Collins

Quarterback Season by Fred Bowen

Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog by Garth Stein

Saving Zasha by Randi Barrow

IRA/CBC Children's Choices

Sound Bender by Lin Oliver and Theo Baker

Stickman Odyssey by Christopher Ford

Stir It Up: A Novel by Ramin Ganeshram

Storm Runners by Roland Smith

Ten by Lauren Myracle

Titanic #1: Unsinkable by Gordon Korman

The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

You can find the complete annotated list, which includes nonfiction and books for younger children, along with lists for previous years, at http://www.reading.org/Resources/Booklists/ChildrensChoices.aspx

Teachers’ Choices: The IRA also publishes annotated selections of thirty books chosen each year by teachers. The books are listed by year, from 1998 to 2012, annotated and categorized by age and grade level.

Fiction titles, 2012, for readers aged 8–11:

IRA/CBC Teacher's Choices

Walking Home to Rosie Lee by A. LaFaye

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

Fiction titles, 2012, for readers aged 11–14:

City of Orphans by Avi

Hidden by Helen Frost

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto by Paul B. Janeczko

Saving Zasha by Randi Barrow

You can find the complete, annotated list, which includes nonfiction and books for younger children, along with lists for previous years, at

 http://www.reading.org/Resources/Booklists/TeachersChoices.aspx