Nebraska State Reading Lists
Award Lists
2019 - 2020 Golden Sower Award Nominee
Creepy Pair of Underwear!
(Part of Creepy Tales!)
Illustrated by Peter Brown
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: August 15, 2017
Ages: 4 - 8
From the celebrated team behind Creepy Carrots!, Aaron Reynolds and Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown, comes a hilarious (and just a little creepy...
2019 Golden Sower Book Award
Scythe
(Book #1 of Arc of a Scythe)
This edition: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publication date: November 22, 2016
Ages: 12 - 99
Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the...
2020 - 2021 Golden Sower Award Nominee
Dry
By Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
This edition: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publication date: October 02, 2018
Ages: 12 - 99
When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harro...