Oregon State Reading Lists
2023 Oregon Reader's Choice Award Nominee
Legendborn
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe for New Talent Author Award Filled with mystery and an intrig...
2022 Oregon Reader's Choice Award Nominee
Maybe He Just Likes You
A 2020 ALA Notable Children’s Book A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2019 Barbara Dee explores the subject of #MeToo for the middle grade a...
2022 - 2023 Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award
Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business
Fresh Off the Boat meets Junie B. Jones in this first novel in an adorable new chapter book series about Mindy Kim, a young Asian American girl who...
2021 Oregon Book Awards Finalist
Josie Bloom and the Emergency of Life
“Entertaining and emotionally resonant.” —Kirkus Reviews “Long nails the voice of a kid trying as hard as she can to tackle adult problems on her o...
2021 Oregon book Awards Finalist
The Sullivan Sisters
From the author of the “intense coming-of-age story” (School Library Connection) The Great Unknowable End and the “beyond refreshing…irreverent” (B...
2021 - 2022 Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award Nominee
Frankie Sparks and the Class Pet
Ivy and Bean meets Aliens in my Pocket in this start to a brand-new chapter book series about Frankie Sparks, a third grader who uses her love for ...
2020 Oregon Reader's Choice Award Nominee
Long Way Down
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is Na...
2020 - 2021 Oregon Battle of the Books Reading List
Tash Hearts Tolstoy
From the author of Lucky Few comes a “refreshing” (Booklist, starred review) teen novel about Internet fame, peer pressure, and remembering not to ...