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2024- 2025 Little Bluestem Award

Abdul's Story

By Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Illustrated by Tiffany Rose
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 29, 2022

A 2022 New York Public Library Best Book for Kids! A little boy who loves storytelling but struggles with writing learns that it’s okay to make mis...

Creepy Crayon!

By Aaron Reynolds
Illustrated by Peter Brown
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: August 23, 2022
Ages: 4 - 8

A #1 New York Times bestseller! From the team behind the New York Times bestselling Creepy Carrots! and Creepy Pair of Underwear! comes the third i...

2024-2025 Honeybee Award

Finally Seen

By Kelly Yang
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: February 28, 2023
Ages: 8 - 12

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes a “involving, realistic” (Booklist, starred review) middle grade novel about a young...

Bunnicula

The Graphic Novel
By James Howe and Andrew Donkin
Illustrated by Stephen Gilpin
This edition: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publication date: August 30, 2022
Ages: 8 - 12

“Bunnicula rules!” —Dav Pilkey, creator of the Captain Underpants series Celebrate over forty years of the modern classic Bunnicula with this fang-...

2024-2025 Meadowlock Award

Ain't Burned All the Bright

By Jason Reynolds
Illustrated by Jason Griffin
This edition: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publication date: January 11, 2022
Ages: 12 - 99

A Caldecott Honor winner! Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is ...