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Monday, March 6, 2017

2017 Children's & Teen Choice Book Awards Finalists





This year is the 10th Annual CHILDREN’S AND TEEN CHOICE BOOK AWARDS. I'm thrilled to share with you, this year's finalists, and information about the Children's and Teen Book Awards. This is going to be hard picking this year. Some of my favorite reads from last year are up against each other. 

ABOUT THE AWARDS

On Friday, March 3, the virtual voting booth will open for kids across the country to vote for their favorite books of the year. The 28 finalists for the 2017 Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards are rich in plotline and prose. The stories, by authors of diverse ethnicities, feature storylines ranging from a tale of a library dog to issues concerning deportation, survival in the face of a school shooting and true love.

Voting for the 2017 CHILDREN’S AND TEEN CHOICE BOOK AWARDS close at the end of the 98th annual Children’s Book Week (May 1-7, 2017). After each ballot is counted, the winners will be announced on May 31stat a special ceremony featuring the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Gene Luen Yang. 

Voting for their favorite books of the year is one of the ways readers let us know what interests them—what’s important to them.
 

The Finalists for the 2017 Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards!
The seven finalists in each of the four categories for the 10th Annual Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards, the only national books awards voted on only by children and teens, are:


TEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS
  • A COURT OF MIST AND FURY, by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
  • CROOKED KINGDOM, by Leigh Bardugo (Macmillan/Henry Holt Books)
  • THE CROWN, by Kiera Cass (HarperCollins)
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS 1 & 2, Special Rehearsal Edition Script, by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany (Scholastic)
  • THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR, by Nicola Yoon (Random House)
  • THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS, by Marieke Nijkamp (Sourcebooks Fire)
  • A TORCH AGAINST THE NIGHT, by Sabaa Tahir (Penguin Young Readers)

K – 2nd Grade BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS
  • DON’T WAKE UP THE TIGER, by Britta Teckentrup (Candlewick/Nosy Crow)
  • FRANKENCRAYON, by Michael Hall (HarperCollins/Greenwillow)
  • KING BABY, by Kate Beaton (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books)
  • MADELINE FINN AND THE LIBRARY DOG, by Lisa Papp (Peachtree Publishers)
  • NANOBOTS, by Chris Gall (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
  • PEEP AND EGG: I’M NOT HATCHING, by Laura Gehl; illus. by Joyce Wan (Macmillan/Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers)
  • THE THANK YOU BOOK, by Mo Willems (Disney-Hyperion)


3rd – 4th Grade BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS
  • THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER, by Carl Sommer; illus. by Ignacio Noe (Advance Publishing)
  • DUCK ON A TRACTOR, by David Shannon (Scholastic/Blue Sky)
  • THE HOLE STORY OF THE DOUGHNUT, by Pat Miller; illus. by Vincent Kirsch (HMH Books for Young Readers)
  • NOODLEHEAD NIGHTMARES, by Tedd Arnold, Martha Hamilton, and Mitch Weiss; illus. by Tedd Arnold (Holiday House)
  • ONCE UPON AN ELEPHANT by Linda Stanek; illus. by Shennen Bersani (Arbordale Publishing)
  • WHOOSH!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream Of Inventions, by Chris Barton; illus. by Don Tate (Charlesbridge)
  • WOLF CAMP, by Andrea Zuill (Random House/ Schwartz & Wade)


5th – 6th Grade BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS
  • BOOKED, by Kwame Alexander (HMH Books for Young Readers)
  • FUZZY, by Tom Angleberger and Paul Dellinger (ABRAMS/Amulet)
  • GARVEY’S CHOICE, by Nikki Grimes (Boyds Mills Press/WordSong)
  • HILO BOOK 2: Saving the Whole Wide World, by Judd Winick (Random House/Random House Books for Young Readers)
  • MAKER LAB, by Jack Challoner (DK)
  • THE MISADVENTURES OF MAX CRUMBLY 1: Locker Hero, by Rachel RenĂ©e Russell (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin)
  • WET CEMENT, by Bob Raczka (Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press)

The children’s award finalists were chosen in pre-voting by 36,000 children from different regions of the U.S., with supervision by the International Literacy Association. Teens nominated their favorite books of the year at TeenReads.com, and their top picks are the Teen Choice Book Award finalists. Voting for the awards will be open online at Every Child a Reader from March 3 - May 7, 2017. Teachers, librarians, and booksellers can also collect group or classroom votes to enter online. Voting will be managed by DOGO Media, a leader in the children’s book field. 


The winning authors and illustrators will be announced on May 31st at a special ceremony at BookExpo featuring the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Gene Luen Yang, and newly-designed award stickers will be distributed to bookstores, libraries and schools across America.


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4 comments:

  1. Great list! Can wait to read some of these.

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  2. This is an amazing list in the Teen category, and I loved ACOMAF, but I never felt it fit YA. Feyre is 19 (I guess she's technically a teen, but more NA); everyone else is over 100. I don't know. Still a great list.

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  3. Wow! What great lists. Tough choices on that teen list this year! I feel like A Court of Mist and Fury is the best book on the list, but in my mind that book should really be categorized as NA. For YA, I'd vote for Crooked Kingdom.

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  4. Yay for awesome books nominated :D Lovely post sweetie. <3 I very much hope that Crooked Kingdom will win :)

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