Battle of the Books
2016-2017
Monarch Award Books
How Did That Get In My Lunchbox?
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the
Recycling Women of the Gambia
Princess In Black, The
Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who
Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
Bluestem Award Books
Absolutely Almost
Becoming Babe Ruth
Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., The
Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on
Museum Mile
El Deafo
Fourteenth Goldfish, The
Genius Files, The: Mission Unstoppable
Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse
Christine Butterworth
Kathryn Gibbs Davis
Miranda Paul
Candlewick Press
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Millbrook Press
Shannon Hale & Dean Hale
Sally M. Walker
Candlewick Press
Henry Holt and Co.
Lisa Graff
Philomel Books
Matt Tavares
Kate Messner
Marcia Wells/Marcus Calo
Candlewick Press
Walker
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Cece Bell
Jennifer L. Holm
Dan Gutman
Tamera Will Wissinger/
Matthew Cordell
Journey that Saved Curious George, The Louise Borden
Justin Case: School, Drool, and
Rachel Vail / Matthew
other Daily Disasters
Cordell
Lulu’s Mysterious Mission
Judith Viorst / Kevin Cornell
Misadventures of the Family Fletcher, The Dana Alison Levy
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O’Brien/Zena
Bernstein
Amulet Books
Random House
Harper
Houghton Mifflin
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the
Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands
Katherine Roy
David Macaulay Studio/ Roaring Brook
Press
Rain Reign
Shooting at the Stars: the Christmas
Truce of1914
Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by
Sitting Down
Spirit Animals: Wild Born
Tuck Everlasting
War that Saved my Life, The
Ann M. Martin
John Hendrix
Feiwel and Friends
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Andrea Davis Pinkney / J.
Brian Pinkney
Brandon Mull
Natalie Babbitt
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Little, Brown
Rebecca Caudill Award Books
Fish in a Tree
Great Trouble, The
Masterminds
Screaming Staircase, The
Stella by Starlight
Linda Mullaly Hunt
Deborah Hopkinson
Gordon Korman
Jonathan Stroud
Sharon Draper
Houghton Mifflin
Feiwel and Friends
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
A Yearling Book
Atheneum
Scholastic, Inc.
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Dial Books for Young Readers
Nancy Paulsen
Knopf
Balzer & Bray
Disney/Hyperion
Atheneum
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