William Allen White Children’s Book Awards Michelle Hammond Beverley Buller Executive Director Selection Committee chairperson

2016-2017 master list Grades 3-5

EL DEAFO by CeCe Bell Amulet Books

LIFE ON MARS by Jennifer Brown Bloomsbury USA

THE MAP TRAP by Andrew Clements Atheneum Books for Young Readers

ABSOLUTELY TRULY: A Pumpkin Falls Mystery by Heather Vogel Frederick Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

HALF A CHANCE by Cynthia Lord Scholastic Press

RAIN REIGN by Ann M. Martin Feiwel & Friends

HELLO, I’M JOHNNY CASH by G. Neri Candlewick Press

JOSEPHINE: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell Chronicle Books, LLC

NEIGHBORHOOD SHARKS: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands by Katherine Roy David McCaulay Studio/Roaring Brook Press

Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh Abrams Books for Young Readers

2016-2017 master list Grades 6-8

CROSSOVER by Kwame Alexander Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers

THE NIGHT GARDENER by Jonathan Auxier Amulet Books

UNDER THE EGG by Laura Marx Fitzgerald Dial

THE FAMILY ROMANOV: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming Schwartz & Wade

COURAGE FOR BEGINNERS by Karen Harrington Little Brown Books for Young Readers

THE FOURTEENTH GOLDFISH by Jennifer Holm Random House

TIME OF THE FIREFLIES by Kimberley Griffiths Little Scholastic Press

GREENGLASS HOUSE by Kate Milford Clarion Books

THE BOUNDLESS by Kenneth Oppel Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

THE MEANING OF MAGGIE by Megan Jean Sovern Chronicle Books, LLC

LOOT: How to Steal a Fortune by Jude Watson Scholastic Press

A MILLION WAYS HOME by Diana Dorsi Winget Scholastic Press

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