2016—2017 South Carolina
Book Award Nominees
Blizzard
John Rocco
Breaking News: Bear Alert
David Biedrzycki
Dog vs. Cat
Chris Gall
E-I-E-I-O: How Old MacDonald Got His
Farm (with a Little Help from a Hen)
Judy Sierra
Flight School
Lita Judge
Gaston
Kelly DiPucchio
Going Places
Paul A. Reynolds & Peter H. Reynolds
Here Comes the Easter Cat
Deborah Underwood
I’m My Own Dog
David Ezra Stein
It’s an Orange Aardvark
Michael Hall
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the
Shopping Mall Gorilla
Katherine Applegate
Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads
Bob Shea
Mister Bud Wears the Cone
Carter Goodrich
The Monkey Goes Bananas
C.P. Bloom
My Teacher is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.)
Peter Brown
One Big Pair of Underwear
Laura Gehl
Pardon Me
Daniel Miyares
Peanut Butter & Cupcake
Terry Border
A Piece of Cake
LeUyen Pham
Rags: Hero Dog of WWI: A True Story
Margot Theis Raven
A Million Ways Home
Dianna Dorisi Winget
Always, Abigail
Nancy Cavanaugh
Anybody Shining
Frances O’Roark Dowell
Eddie Red, Undercover:
Mystery on Museum Mile
Marcia Wells
El Deafo
CeCe Bell
Eliza Bing is (Not) a Big, Fat Quitter
Carmella Van Vleet
The Fourteenth Goldfish
Jennifer L. Holm
Gabriel Finley and the Raven’s Riddle
George Hagen
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing
Sheila Turnage
The Iron Trial
Holly Black & Cassandra Clare
Masterminds
Gordon Korman
Neighborhood Sharks:
Hunting with the Great Whites of
California’s Farallon Islands
Katherine Roy
Pack of Dorks
Beth Vrabel
Rain Reign
Ann M. Martin
Rescue on the Oregon Trail
(Ranger in Time #1)
Kate Messner
The Rookie Bookie
L. Jon Wertheim
Saving Kabul Corner
N.H. Senzai
Ship of Dolls
Shirley Parenteau
Shooting at the Stars
John Hendrix
Stella By Starlight
Sharon M. Draper
All Fall Down
Ally Carter
Being Sloane Jacobs
Lauren Morrill
The Bridge from Me to You
Lisa Schroeder
The Cure for Dreaming
Cat Winters
Famous Last Words
Katie Alender
Fantasy League
Mike Lupica
Fish in a Tree
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Girl on a Wire
Gwenda Bond
The Honest Truth
Dan Gemeinhart
Hunt for the Bamboo Rat
Graham Salisbury
If You’re Reading This
Trent Reedy
The Iron Trial
Holly Black & Cassandra Clare
Listen, Slowly
Thanhha Lai
Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
Jude Watson
The Mark of the Dragonfly
Jaleigh Johnson
Paper Things
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Snow Like Ashes
Sara Raasch
The Swap
Megan Shull
Tell Me
Joan Bauer
The Walk On
John Feinstein
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
Beware the Wild
Natalie C. Parker
The Boy in the Black Suit
Jason Reynolds
Can’t Look Away
Donna Cooner
Chernobyl’s Wild Kingdom:
Life in the Dead Zone
Rebecca L. Johnson
Death Coming Up the Hill
Chris Crowe
Double Exposure
Bridget Birdsall
Firebug
Lish McBride
Hunt for the Bamboo Rat
Graham Salisbury
The Last Time We Say Goodbye
Cynthia Hand
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Jasmine Warga
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard
Some Boys
Patty Blount
Soulprint
Megan Miranda
Sweet Unrest
Lisa Maxwell
Taking Flight:
From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
Michaela DePrince with Elaine DePrince
Tunnel Vision: A Novel
Susan Adrian
The Walled City
Ryan Graudin
We Should Hang Out Sometime:
Embarrassingly, a True Story
Josh Sundquist
Wildflower
Alecia Whitaker
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