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The First State of Being cover
The First State of Being
Erin Entrada Kelly · 2025 medal
Subjects & themes: Time travel · Friendship · Single-parent families · Filipino Americans · Year 2000 date conversion (Computer systems)
Book ×24
The Eyes and the Impossible cover
The Eyes and the Impossible
Dave Eggers · 2024 medal
Subjects & themes: Dogs · Animals · Urban parks · City and town life · Friendship
Book ×61
Freewater cover
Freewater
Amina Luqman-Dawson · 2023 medal
Subjects & themes: African Americans · Slavery · Siblings · Communities
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×43
The Last Cuentista cover
The Last Cuentista
Donna Barba Higuera · 2022 medal
Subjects & themes: Storytellers · Girls · Memory · Life on other planets · Mexican Americans
Reading level: Grades 6-8
Book ×40 Large Print eBook eAudiobook Playaway
When You Trap a Tiger cover
When You Trap a Tiger
Tae Keller · 2021 medal
Subjects & themes: Sisters · Grandmothers · Storytelling · Sick · Tiger
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×50 Large Print
New Kid cover
New Kid
Jerry Craft · 2020 medal
Subjects & themes: Private schools · Parent and child · African American artists · Cartoonists
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×57 Audiobook CD Playaway
Merci Suárez Changes Gears cover
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Meg Medina · 2019 medal
Subjects & themes: Cuban Americans · Interpersonal relations · Girls · Middle school students · Middle schools
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×23 Large Print
Hello, Universe cover
Hello, Universe
Erin Entrada Kelly · 2018 medal
Subjects & themes: Friendship in children · Missing children · Bullying · Hard of hearing people · Psychic ability
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×45 Large Print eBook Audiobook CD
Last Stop on Market Street cover
Last Stop on Market Street
Matt de la Peña · 2016 medal
Subjects & themes: Buses · Grandmothers · City and town life · African Americans
Reading level: Grades K-2 ⓘ
Book ×30
The Crossover cover
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander · 2015 medal
Subjects & themes: Novels in verse. · Basketball stories. · Twins · Brothers · Fathers and sons
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×94 Large Print eAudiobook Audiobook CD
Flora & Ulysses cover
Flora & Ulysses
Kate DiCamillo · 2014 medal
Subjects & themes: Girls · Squirrels · Superheroes
Audiobook CD ×5 Book
Dead End in Norvelt cover
Dead End in Norvelt
Jack Gantos · 2012 medal
Subjects & themes: Punishment · Old age · Norvelt (Pa.)
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×10
Moon Over Manifest cover
Moon Over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool · 2011 medal
Subjects & themes: Family secrets · Fathers · Depressions · Kansas
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×16 Audiobook CD Playaway
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village cover
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Laura Amy Schlitz · 2008 medal
Subjects & themes: Middle Ages · Monologues · Children's plays, American.
Reading level: Grades 6-8
Book ×10
The Higher Power of Lucky cover
The Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Patron · 2007 medal
Subjects & themes: Abandoned children · Interpersonal relations · Runaway children
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×12 Audiobook CD
Criss Cross cover
Criss Cross
Lynne Rae Perkins · 2006 medal
Subjects & themes: Identity (Philosophical concept) · Nineteen sixties
Book
Kira-Kira cover
Kira-Kira
Cynthia Kadohata · 2005 medal
Subjects & themes: Sisters · Friendship · Japanese Americans · Death · Georgia
Reading level: Grades 6-8
Book ×21 Audiobook CD
Crispin: The Cross of Lead cover
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi · 2003 medal
Subjects & themes: Identity (Philosophical concept) · Orphans · Middle Ages · Great Britain
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×28 Audiobook CD
A Year Down Yonder cover
A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck · 2001 medal
Subjects & themes: Grandmothers · Country life · Illinois
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×16 Audiobook CD
Bud, Not Buddy cover
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis · 2000 medal
Subjects & themes: Runaway teenagers · African Americans · Depressions
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×46 Large Print Audiobook CD
Holes cover
Holes
Louis Sachar · 1999 medal
Subjects & themes: Juvenile delinquency · Homeless persons · Friendship · Treasure troves
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×76 Audiobook CD Playaway
Out of the Dust cover
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse · 1998 medal
Subjects & themes: Dust storms · Farm life · Depressions · Readers for new literates. · Poetry
Book ×14 eBook Audiobook CD
The View from Saturday cover
The View from Saturday
E. L. Konigsburg · 1997 medal
Subjects & themes: Teacher-student relationships · Friendship · Schools · Contests · People with disabilities
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×31 Playaway
The Midwife's Apprentice cover
The Midwife's Apprentice
Karen Cushman · 1996 medal
Subjects & themes: Middle Ages · Midwives
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×22
Missing May cover
Missing May
Cynthia Rylant · 1993 medal
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×8
Maniac Magee cover
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli · 1991 medal
Subjects & themes: Athletes · Legends · Orphans
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Audiobook CD ×3
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices cover
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Paul Fleischman · 1989 medal
Subjects & themes: Insects · American poetry
Book ×13
Lincoln: A Photobiography cover
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman · 1988 medal
Subjects & themes: Lincoln, Abraham, · Presidents
Reading level: Grades 6-8
Book ×10
A Visit to William Blake's Inn cover
A Visit to William Blake's Inn
Nancy Willard · 1982 medal
Subjects & themes: American poetry
Book ×7
A Gathering of Days cover
A Gathering of Days
Joan Blos · 1980 medal
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×4
M. C. Higgins, the Great cover
M. C. Higgins, the Great
Virginia Hamilton · 1975 medal
Subjects & themes: African Americans · Families · Mountain life · Ohio
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×4 Large Print eBook
The Slave Dancer cover
The Slave Dancer
Paula Fox · 1974 medal
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×6
The High King
Lloyd Alexander · 1969 medal
Subjects & themes: Taran · Prydain (Imaginary place) · Good and evil
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×4
Up a Road Slowly cover
Up a Road Slowly
Irene Hunt · 1967 medal
Subjects & themes: Aunts · Families
Book ×5
I, Juan de Pareja cover
I, Juan de Pareja
Elizabeth Borton de Treviño · 1966 medal
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×7
Shadow of a Bull cover
Shadow of a Bull
Maia Wojciechowska · 1965 medal
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×4
It's Like This, Cat cover
It's Like This, Cat
Emily Cheney Neville · 1964 medal
Book ×4 eBook
A Wrinkle in Time cover
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle · 1963 medal
Subjects & themes: Time travel · Murry family (Fictitious characters)
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Audiobook CD Book Large Print Playaway
The Bronze Bow cover
The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George Speare · 1962 medal
Subjects & themes: Jesus Christ · Romans · Revenge · Forgiveness · Israel
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×20 eBook eAudiobook
Onion John
Joseph Krumgold · 1960 medal
Book ×4
Rifles for Watie
Harold Keith · 1958 medal
Book ×4
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch cover
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Jean Lee Latham · 1956 medal
Subjects & themes: Bowditch, Nathaniel, · Nautical astronomy · Navigation · Astronomers
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×8 eAudiobook
The Wheel on the School cover
The Wheel on the School
Meindert DeJong · 1955 medal
Subjects & themes: Storks · American fiction · Netherlands
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×2
...And Now Miguel
Joseph Krumgold · 1954 medal
Subjects & themes: Sheep · New Mexico
Book ×6
Secret of the Andes
Ann Nolan Clark · 1953 medal
Subjects & themes: Incas · Peru
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×4
Amos Fortune, Free Man cover
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Elizabeth Yates · 1951 medal
Subjects & themes: Fortune, Amos,
Book ×10
The Door in the Wall cover
The Door in the Wall
Marguerite de Angeli · 1950 medal
Subjects & themes: Middle Ages · People with disabilities · Great Britain
Reading level: Grades 6-8
Book ×6
The Twenty-One Balloons
William Pène du Bois · 1948 medal
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×4
Miss Hickory
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey · 1947 medal
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book
Rabbit Hill cover
Rabbit Hill
Robert Lawson · 1945 medal
Subjects & themes: Animals
Reading level: Grades K-2 ⓘ
Audiobook CD ×2 Book
Johnny Tremain cover
Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes · 1944 medal
Subjects & themes: Boston (Mass.) · United States
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×17 eBook eAudiobook
Adam of the Road cover
Adam of the Road
Elizabeth Gray Vining · 1943 medal
Subjects & themes: Middle Ages · Great Britain
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×9
The Matchlock Gun cover
The Matchlock Gun
Walter D. Edmonds · 1942 medal
Book ×4
Daniel Boone
James Daugherty · 1940 medal
Subjects & themes: Boone, Daniel, · Pioneers · Explorers · Frontier and pioneer life · Kentucky
Book
Thimble Summer cover
Thimble Summer
Elizabeth Enright · 1939 medal
Book ×2
The White Stag cover
The White Stag
Kate Seredy · 1938 medal
Subjects & themes: Legends · Folklore · Hungary
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book
Roller Skates cover
Roller Skates
Ruth Sawyer · 1937 medal
Subjects & themes: New York (N.Y.)
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×2
Dobry
Monica Shannon · 1935 medal
Book
Invincible Louisa: the Story of the Author of Little Women cover
Invincible Louisa: the Story of the Author of Little Women
Cornelia Meigs · 1934 medal
Subjects & themes: Alcott, Louisa May,
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×2
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze cover
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis · 1933 medal
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×4
Waterless Mountain
Laura Adams Armer · 1932 medal
Subjects & themes: Navajo Indians · Indians of North America · Navajo boys · Shamans
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×2
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
Elizabeth Coatsworth · 1931 medal
Subjects & themes: Tales · Cats · Buddhism
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×4
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years cover
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
Rachel Field · 1930 medal
Subjects & themes: Dolls · Storytelling
Reading level: Grades 3-5
Book ×4
The Trumpeter of Krakow cover
The Trumpeter of Krakow
Eric P. Kelly · 1929 medal
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×5
Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
Dhan Gopal Mukerji · 1928 medal
Subjects & themes: Pigeons
Book ×2
Smoky, the Cowhorse
Will James · 1927 medal
Subjects & themes: Horses
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×5 Audiobook CD
Shen of the Sea
Arthur Bowie Chrisman · 1926 medal
Book ×3
Tales from Silver Lands cover
Tales from Silver Lands
Charles J. Finger · 1925 medal
Subjects & themes: Indians of South America · Fairy tales. · Folklore · South America
Book ×6
The Dark Frigate
Charles Hawes · 1924 medal
Subjects & themes: Sea stories.
Book
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle cover
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting · 1923 medal
Reading level: Grades 3-5 ⓘ
Book ×2 eBook
The Story of Mankind
Hendrik Willem van Loon · 1922 medal
Subjects & themes: World history
Reading level: Grades 6-8 ⓘ
Book ×2
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH cover
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O'Brien · 1972 medal