2016-2017
Vermont’s book award for children, voted for by children, in grades 4-8. These books include fiction and non-fiction books. Titles in our collection are in italics.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Grade |
| Barnett, Mac & Jory John |
The Terrible Two |
Amulet |
4 up |
| Beasley, Cassie |
Circus Mirandus |
Dial |
4 up |
| Benjamin, Ali |
The Thing about Jellyfish |
Little, Brown |
5 up |
| Bond, Rebecca |
Escape from Baxters’ Barn |
Harcourt Brace |
4 up |
| Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker |
The War that Saved my Life |
Dial |
5 up |
| Brown, Don |
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans | Harcourt Brace |
6 up |
| Chmakova, Svetlana |
Awkward | Yen |
5 up |
| Draper, Sharon | Stella by Starlight | Atheneum |
5 up |
| Gannon, Nicholas |
The Doldrums |
Greenwillow |
4 up |
| Gino, Alex |
George (audiobook) |
Scholastic |
4 up |
| Graff, Lisa | Lost in the Sun | Philomel | 5 up |
| Gruenbaum, Michael with Todd Hasak-Lowy | Somewhere There is Still a Sun | Aladdin | 5 up |
| Hautala, Beth |
Waiting for Unicorns |
Philamel |
5 up |
| Hilton, Marilyn |
Full Cicada Moon |
Dial | 5 up |
| Hoose, Phillip |
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club |
Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
7 up |
| Jamieson, Victoria |
Roller Girl |
Dial |
4 up |
| Jones, Kelly |
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer |
Alfred A. Knopf |
4 up |
| Kidd, Ronald |
Night on Fire |
Albert Whitman |
5 up |
| Maberry, Jonathan |
The Orphan Army (Nightsiders #1) |
Simon & Schuster |
5 up |
| Magoon, Kekla |
Shadows of Sherwood |
Bloomsbury | 5 up |
| Nielsen, Jennifer A. |
A Night Divided | Scholastic |
5 up |
| Oppel, Kenneth |
The Nest |
Simon & Schuster |
5 up |
| Pearsall, Shelley |
The Seventh Most Important Thing |
Alfred A. Knopf |
5 up |
| Priest, Cherie |
I am Princess X |
Arthur A. Levine |
7 up |
| Resau, Laura |
The Lightning Queen |
Scholastic |
5 up |
| Ryan, Pam Munoz |
Echo |
Scholastic |
5 up |
| Sands, Kevin |
The Blackthorn Key |
Aladdin |
5 up |
| Stead, Rebecca |
Goodbye Stranger | Wendy Lamb | 6 up |
| Stevenson, Noelle |
Nimona | Harper Teen | 7 up |
| Wiechman, Kathy Cannon | Like a River |
Calkins Creek |
6 up |
