2017-2018
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 |
| Anderson, John David |
Ms. Bixby’s Last Day |
Walden Pond |
5 up |
| Barnhill, Kelly |
The Girl Who Drank the Moon |
Algonquin |
5 up |
| Bauer, Joan |
Soar |
Viking |
5 up |
| Bayard, Louis |
Lucky Strikes |
Henry Holt |
7 up |
| Brown, Peter |
The Wild Robot |
Little, Brown |
4 up |
| Burg, Ann E. |
Unbound: A Novel in Verse | Scholastic |
5 up |
| Cohen, Marina |
The Inn Between | Roaring Brook |
5 up |
| Crilley, Mark | The Drawing Lesson: A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw | Watson-Guptill |
4 up |
| Davies, Jacqueline |
Nothing But Trouble |
Katherine Tegen |
5 up |
| Dumas, Firoozeh |
It Ain’t So Awful, Falalfel |
Clarion |
5 up |
| Gemeinhart, Dan | Some Kind of Courage | Scholastic | 6 up |
| Gidwitz, Adam | The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog | Dutton | 6 up |
| Gratz, Alan |
Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II |
Scholastic |
6 up |
| Griffin, Paul |
When Friendship Followed Me Home |
Dial | 6 up |
| Harrington, Karen |
Mayday |
Little, Brown |
5 up |
| Hopkinson, Deborah |
A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket |
Knopf |
5 up |
| Kelly, Erin Entrada |
The Land of Forgotten Girls |
Greenwillow |
5 up |
| LaFleur, Suzanne |
Beautiful Blue World |
Wendy Lamb |
5 up |
| MacLachlan, Patricia |
The Poet’s Dog |
Katherine Tegen |
4 up |
| Messner, Kate |
The Seventh Wish |
Bloomsbury | 5 up |
| O’Connor, Barbara |
Wish | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
4 up |
| Olson, Todd |
Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink |
Scholastic |
5 up |
| Reynolds, Jason |
Ghost |
Athenaeum |
5 up |
| Sherman, Delia |
The Evil Wizard Smallbone |
Candlewick |
5 up |
| Sonnenblick, Jordan |
Falling Over Sideways |
Scholastic |
6 up |
| Sullivan, Tara |
The Bitter Side of Sweet |
Putnam |
7 up |
| Sweet Melissa |
Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White |
HMH |
4 up |
| Weeks, Sarah & Gita Varadarajan |
Save Me a Seat | Scholastic | 4 up |
| Weiner, Jennifer |
The Littlest Bigfoot | Aladdin | 4 up |
| Wolk, Lauren | Wolf Hollow |
Dutton |
6 up |
