Pennsylvania State Reading Lists

2025-2026 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Awards

All of Those Babies

Illustrated by Stephanie Laberis
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 06, 2024
Ages: 4 - 8

Come meet babies across the animal kingdom and learn their adorable names in this “joyful, rollicking” (School Library Journal, starred review) rhy...

Tricky Chopsticks

Illustrated by Fanny Liem
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 19, 2024
Ages: 4 - 8

A young Chinese American girl uses creative STEAM-powered problem-solving to master chopsticks so she can pick up her dumplings and eat them, too, ...

Ladybug Launch

Inspired by a True Story of Chinitas in Space
Illustrated by Manuela Montoya
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: April 16, 2024
Ages: 4 - 8

Based on a true story, this out-of-this-world picture book follows the exciting scientific journey of a chica and a chinita with sky-high aspiratio...

2025-2026 Keystone to Reading High School Book Awards

The No-Girlfriend Rule

This edition: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: March 05, 2024
Ages: 14 - 99

An instant USA TODAY bestseller Four starred reviews! Julie Murphy meets Heartstopper with a D&D twist in this “magical, heartwarming” (Rachael...

2025-2026 Mountain Laurel Book Award

Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .

A LOVE Story
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: October 08, 2024
Ages: 14 - 99

A Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner A New York Times Bestseller Seven starred reviews! “Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start t...

2024-2025 Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Award List

Bitsy Bat, School Star

Illustrated by Kaz Windness
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: June 06, 2023
Ages: 4 - 8

Three starred reviews! 2024 Bank Street Best Children’s Book Selection A little bat struggles to fit in only to learn to celebrate differences in t...

2024 Bakers Dozen List

You Go First

Illustrated by Marc Rosenthal
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: June 13, 2023
Ages: 4 - 8

In the spirit of Mo Willems and Ben Clanton, this “extremely funny and spot-on sensitive” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) picture book shows how a...

2025 Carolyn W Field Award Honor Book

Grown with Love

Illustrated by Valeria Wicker
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: December 03, 2024
Ages: 4 - 8

A boy with the greenest of thumbs works to unlock the mystery behind his elderly neighbor’s inability to keep a plant alive and to find her the per...

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