2017

=2017 Official Finals Categories:=

(novels in verse) ||
 * ~ Alternative Storytelling: stories told in letter, e-mail form, diaries, and poems
 * Title || Author ||
 * Brown Girl Dreaming || Jacqueline Woodson ||
 * Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Day || Jeff Kinney ||
 * Hidden || Helen Frost ||
 * Home of the Brave || Katherine Applegate ||
 * Inside Out & Back Again || Thanhha Lai ||
 * Love That Dog || Sharon Creech ||
 * Millicent Min, Girl Genius || Lisa Yee ||
 * Mira's Diary: Lost in Paris || Marissa Moss ||
 * One || Sarah Crossan ||
 * Paper Hearts || Meg Wiviott ||
 * Pieces of Georgia || Jen Bryant ||
 * Red Butterfly || A. L. Sonnichsen ||
 * Runaway || Wendelin Van Draanen ||
 * Shark Girl || Kelly Bingham ||
 * Skeleton Creek || Patrick Carman ||
 * Tales from a not-so-fabulous life (Dork diaries) || Rachel Renée Russell ||
 * The Crossover || Kwame Alexander ||
 * The Journal of Curious Letters || James Dashner ||
 * Tru Confessions || Janet Tashjian ||
 * Year of Secret Assignments || Jaclyn Moriarty ||

and/or books in which the main characters learn the truth about their supposedly “perfect” society in a dystopian world ||
 * ~ It’s the End of the World!: Books which take place during or after a post-apocalyptic event
 * Title || Author ||
 * Among the Hidden || Margaret Peterson Haddix ||
 * Divergent || Veronica Roth ||
 * Freakling || Lana Krumweide ||
 * Gone || Michael Grant ||
 * Legend || Marie Lu ||
 * Life as We Knew It || Susan Beth Pfeffer ||
 * Not a Drop to Drink || Mindy McGinnis ||
 * Other Side of the Island || Allegra Goodman ||
 * Ship Breaker || Paolo Bacigalupi ||
 * The 13th Floor || Scott Welvaert ||
 * The Bar Code Tatoo || Suzanne Weyn ||
 * The City of Ember || Jeanne Du Prau ||
 * The Eighth Day || Dianne K. Salerni ||
 * The Giver || Lois Lowry ||
 * The House of the Scorpion || Nancy Farmer ||
 * The Hunger Games || Suzanne Collins ||
 * The Maze Runner || James Dashner ||
 * The One Safe Place || Tania Unsworth ||
 * The Roar || Emma Clayton ||
 * Uglies || Scott Westerfeld ||

(The Adventures of Captain Underpants; bk. 12) || Dav Pilkey ||
 * ~ I Funny: Books in which the overall tone is humorous. ||
 * Title || Author ||
 * Agent Q, or, The Smell of Danger! || M.T Anderson ||
 * Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging || Louise Rennison ||
 * Big Nate goes for broke || Lincoln Peirce ||
 * Captain Underpants and the senstaional saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot
 * Charlie Joe jackson's guide to not reading || Tom Greenwald ||
 * Clueless McGee || Jeff Mack ||
 * How to Survive Middle School || Donna Gephart ||
 * I Funny || James Patterson ||
 * Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key || Jack Gantos ||
 * Lawn Boy || Gary Paulsen ||
 * Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf || Jennifer Holm ||
 * Mission unstoppable || Dan Gutman ||
 * Never Mind || Avi ||
 * The 13th Storey Treehouse || Andy Griffiths ||
 * The 14 Fibs of Gregory K. || Gregory K Pincus ||
 * The fourteenth goldfish || Jennifer L Holm ||
 * The Terrible Two || Mac Barnett ||
 * Ungifted || Gordon Korman ||
 * Vote || Gary Paulsen ||
 * Wonkenstein || Obert Skye ||


 * ~ Whodunnit?: Books in which the main character is a spy or secret agent or detective fiction ||
 * Title || Author ||
 * The Mysterious Benedict Society || Trenton Lee Stewart ||
 * Apothecary || Maile Meloy ||
 * Behind Enemy Lines || Jennifer A. Nielsen ||
 * Chasing Vermeer || Blue Balliett ||
 * Crocodile Tears || Anthony Horowitz ||
 * Flush || Carl Hiassen ||
 * Holes || Louis Sachar ||
 * I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You || Ally Carter ||
 * Liar & Spy || Rebecca Stead ||
 * Moon over Manifest || Clare Vanderpool ||
 * Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics || Chris Grabenstein ||
 * Nerds: Attack of the Bullies || Michael Buckley ||
 * Pie || Sarah Weeks ||
 * River Secrets || Shannon Hale ||
 * SilverFin || Charlie Higson ||
 * The Westing Game || Ellen Raskin ||
 * Three Times Lucky || Sheila Turnage ||
 * Traitor's Gate || Avi ||
 * Trash || Andy Mulligan ||
 * Who Could it Be at This Hour? || Lemony Snickett ||
 * ~ Against All Odds: survival stories ||
 * Title || Author ||
 * A Long Walk to Water || Linda Sue Park ||
 * A Million Shades of Gray || Cynthia Kadohata ||
 * Bamboo People || Mitali Perkins ||
 * Going Where It's Dark || Phyllis Reynolds Naylor ||
 * Hatchet || Gary Paulsen ||
 * I Have a Bad Feeling About This || Jeff Strand ||
 * I Survived: Joplin Tornado || Lauren Tarshis ||
 * Kalahari || Jessica Khoury ||
 * Kensuke's Kingdom || Michael Morpurgo ||
 * Lost in a River of Grass || Ginny Rorby ||
 * My Side of the Mountain || Jean Craighead George ||
 * Ninth Ward || Jewel Parker Rhodes ||
 * Now is the Time for Running || Michael Williams ||
 * Peak || Roland Smith ||
 * Prisoner B-3087 || Alan Gratz ||
 * The Cay || Theodore Taylor ||
 * The Islands at the End of the World || Austin Aslan ||
 * The Raft || S. A. Bodeen ||
 * Then || Morris Gleitzman ||
 * White Darkness || Geraldine McCaughrean ||
 * Then || Morris Gleitzman ||
 * White Darkness || Geraldine McCaughrean ||


 * ~ Made of Metal: books that feature artificial intelligence, robots, video games or computer games. ||
 * Title || Author ||
 * A Boy and His Bot || Daniel H Wilson ||
 * Afterschock (H.I.V.E.; bk. 7) || Mark Walden ||
 * Bunker 10 || J. A. Henderson ||
 * Cinder || Marissa Meyer ||
 * Clan castles || Evan Jacobs ||
 * Different Girl || Gordon Dahlquest ||
 * Ender's Game || Orson Scott Card ||
 * Frank Einstein and the Antimatter motor || Jon Scieszka ||
 * Heir Apparent || Vivian Vande Velde ||
 * House of Robots || James Patterson ||
 * Illuminae || Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff ||
 * Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation || Matt Myklusch ||
 * Long Long Sleep || Anna Sheehand ||
 * Mila 2.0 || Debra Driza ||
 * Only You Can Save Mankind || Terry Pratchett ||
 * Revolution 19 || Gregg Rosenblum ||
 * The Clone Codes || Pat McKissack ||
 * The Eye of Minds || James Dashner ||
 * The Reality Bug || D. J. MacHale ||
 * Ungifted || Gordon Korman ||


 * ~ Abracadabra: books where magic/magicians and/or dragons play an important role ||
 * Title || Author ||
 * Alchemyst || Michael Scott ||
 * Amulet of Samarkand || Jonathan Stroud ||
 * Amulet. Book one. The Stone Keeper || Kazu Kibuishi ||
 * Dragon Rider || Cornelia Funke ||
 * Dragon's nest || Emily Rodda ||
 * Eragon || Christopher Paolini ||
 * Fyre || Angie Sage ||
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows || JK Rowling ||
 * How to Train Your Dragon || Cressida Cowell ||
 * Inkheart || Cornelia Funke ||
 * Magic thief || Sarah Prineas ||
 * Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy || Karen Foxlee ||
 * Seraphina || Rachel Hartman ||
 * Shadow and Bone || Leigh Bardugo ||
 * The blood of the Olympus || Rick Riordan ||
 * The Fire Within || Chris D'Lacey ||
 * The Iron Trial || Holly Black ||
 * The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles; bk. 3) || Rick Riordan ||
 * Tiger's Apprentice || Laurence Yep ||
 * Where the Mountain Meets the Moon || Grace Lin ||

Panda Award for the last 5 years || changed the world (Young Readers Edition) || Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick ||
 * ~ Panda Power: books from the Middle and Older Readers winners of the
 * Title || Author ||
 * Absolutely Almost || Lisa Graff ||
 * Anya's Ghost || Vera Brosgol ||
 * Counting by 7s || Sloan, Holly Goldberg ||
 * Earth Girl || Janet Edwards ||
 * Echo || Pam Munoz Ryan ||
 * Fish in a tree || Lynda Mullaly Hunt ||
 * Goodbye stranger || Rebecca Stead ||
 * I am Malala: How one girl stood up for education and
 * Leviathan || Scott Westerfeld ||
 * Rain Reign || Ann M. Martin ||
 * Shadow || Michael Morpurgo ||
 * Squish No. 1, Super Amoeba || Jennifer L. Holm ||
 * The astounding broccoli boy || Frank Cottrell Boyce ||
 * The Candymakers || Wendy Mass ||
 * The Fault in Our Stars || John Green ||
 * The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell || Chris Colfer ||
 * The Screaming Staircase || Jonathan Stroud ||
 * The war that saved my life || Kimberly Bruaker Bradley ||
 * Threatened || Schrefer, Eliot ||
 * Wonder || R.J. Palacio ||


 * ~ Fuzzy Perspective: stories told from the point-of-view of an animal (fuzzy or not) ||
 * Title || Author ||
 * Lone Wolf (Wolves of the Beyond Book 1) || Kathryn Lasky ||
 * A Dog's Life: Autobiography of a Stray || Ann M. Martin ||
 * A Rat's Tale || Tor Seidler ||
 * Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat || Lynne Jonell ||
 * Mouseheart || Lisa Fiedler ||
 * Palace of Dreams (Familiars) || Adam Jay Epstein ||
 * Pax || Sarah Pennypacker ||
 * Poppy's Return || Avi ||
 * Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog || Garth Stein ||
 * Runt || Marion Dane Bauer ||
 * Silverwing || Kenneth Oppel ||
 * Snakes Don't Miss Their Mothers || M. E. Kerr ||
 * Tale of Despereaux || Kate DiCamillo ||
 * The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents || Terry Pratchett ||
 * The Empty City || Erin Hunter ||
 * The One and Only Ivan || Katherine Applegate ||
 * The World According to Humphrey || Betty G. Birney ||
 * Varjak Paw || S. F. Said ||
 * Warriors: Into the Wild || Erin Hunter ||
 * Wild Born || Brandon Mull ||

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