Book
Recommendations
Alex Award http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/alex-awards
Given to an adult book with appeal to ages 12-18.
Mildred L. Batchelder Award http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/mildred-l-batchelder-award
Given to a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.
Pura Belpre' Award http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/pura-belpré-award
Presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Margaret A. Edwards Award http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/margaret-edwards-award
Honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, that have been popular over a period of time.
Alexander, Kwame The Crossover Grades 4-8 2014
Auxier, Jonathan The Night Gardener Grades 6-8 2014
Bradley, Kimberly Brusker The War that Saved My Life Grades 5-8 2015
Draper, Sharon Stella by Starlight Grades 4-7 2015
Hoffman, Alice Nightbird Grades 5-8 2015
Holczer, Tracy The Secret Hum of a Daisy 2014 Grades 5-8
Holm, Jennifer L. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014 Grades 4 -7
Holt, K.A. Rhyme Schemer 2014 Grades 5 -8
Hopkinson, Deborah The Great Trouble 2013 Grades 5 - 8
Hunt, Lynda Mullally Fish in a Tree 2015 Grades 4 - 6
Johnston, E.K. The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim 2014 Grades 7-8
Korman, Gordon Masterminds 2014 Grades 4 - 7
Levine, Kristin The Paper Cowboy 2014 Grades 5-8
Lowery, Lynda Blackmon Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March 2015 Grades 4-8
Martin, Ann. M. Rain Reign 2014 Grades 4-7
Ryan, Pam Muñoz Echo 2015 Grades 5-8
Sheinkin, Steve The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights 2014 Grades 6-8
Stroud, Jonathan The Screaming Staircase 2013 Grade 5-8
Tingle, Tim How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story 2013 Grades 5-8
Venkatraman, Padma A Time to Dance 2014 Grades 6-8