Iowa State Reading Lists
2019 - 2020 Goldfinch Award Nominee
Creepy Pair of Underwear!
From the celebrated team behind Creepy Carrots!, Aaron Reynolds and Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown, comes a hilarious (and just a little creepy...
2019 - 2020 Iowa Children's Choice Book Award Nominee
Space Case
It’s a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School.Like his fellow lunar...
The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street
A girl unravels a centuries-old mystery after moving into a haunted house in this deliciously suspenseful mystery.Tessa Woodward isn’t exactly thri...
2020 - 2021 Iowa Children's Choice Book Award Nominee
The Rhino in Right Field
“Laugh-out-loud fun…A winner in every way.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Funny and good-hearted.” —Publishers Weekly A boy who loves baseball ...
2019 - 2020 Iowa High School Book 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 Iowa High School Book Award Nominee
Dry
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harro...
2019 - 2020 Iowa Teen Book Award Nominee
Some Kind of Happiness
Reality and fantasy collide in this heartfelt and mysterious novel for fans of Counting by 7s and Bridge to Terabithia, about a girl who must save ...
2020 - 2021 Iowa Teen Book Award Nominee
Five Feet Apart
Now a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 A YALSA 2020 Q...