California State Reading Lists
2024 - 2025 California Young Reader Medal Award Nominee
Room for Everyone
A young boy on a crowded bus discovers that, after some wiggles and giggles, there’s room for everyone in this lighthearted rhyming picture book se...
Cougar Crossing
How Hollywood's Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife
Discover the amazing true story of P-22, the wild cougar living in Los Angeles, in this inspiring picture book.P-22, the famed “Hollywood Cougar,” ...
New from Here
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! This “timely and compelling” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade novel about courage, hope, and resilience follo...
Three Strike Summer
Four starred reviews! A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Selection A Horn Book Magazine Best Book of 2022 “Told in a voice that is so real i...
My Nest of Silence
“Evocative prose and illustrations bring to life…[the] heart-wrenching decisions and considerations that Japanese Americans had to face…[and] their...
2023 - 2024 California Young Reader Medal Winner
2023 Eureka Gold Awards
Born Reading
20 Stories of Women Reading Their Way into History
Once books kick-start their brains, girls change history. Discover the foundation of reading that empowered some of the world’s most influential wo...
2023 Eureka Silver/Honor Awards
Jerry Changed the Game!
How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever
Junior Library Guild Selection | Eureka! Excellence in Nonfiction Honor | CBC Best STEM Book List | Mathical Book Prize Honor | BCALA Youth Literar...
Love Is Loud
How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement
Four starred reviews! Meet Diane Nash, a civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, in this “poignant and powe...
O Is for Ossicone
A Surprising Animal Alphabet
Did you know that ossicones are the hornlike parts of a giraffe’s head? Introduce young readers to unusual animal facts and new vocabulary like “os...