The William Allen White Children’s Book Awards “bringing authors, books and children together” Celebrating 60 years Master lists
Grades 3 to 5
America is Under Attack: September 11, 2011: The Day the Towers Fell by Don Brown Published by Flash Point, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press and MacMillan Children’s Publishing Group
Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet Art by Melissa Sweet Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin
Breaking Stalin’s Nose by Eugene Yelchin Published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
Close to Famous by Joan Bauer Reprinted by permission of Viking
The Summer of Hammers and Angels by Shannon Wiersbitzky Reprinted by permission of namelos llc.
Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica George Reprinted by permission of Bloomsbury Books
True…Sort of by Katherine Hannigan Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Wonderstruck: A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick Scholastic Press
Grades 6 to 8
Bluefish by Pat Schmatz Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos Published by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, in imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
Dragon Castle by Joseph Bruchac Reprinted by permission of Dial Books
Drawing from Memory by Alan Say Scholastic Press
Hidden by Helen Frost Published by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt Reprinted by permission of Clarion Books
The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen Published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books
The Silver Bowl by Diane Stanley HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA
Take Me to the River by Will Hobbs HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
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