2012 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens

Awards List

Audiobook

After Ever After
(Recommended)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Moon over Manifest
(Recommended)
Clare Vanderpool

Chime
(Recommended)
Franny Billingsley

The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
(Recommended)
Jeanne Birdsall

Beauty Queens
(Recommended)
Libba Bray

Cleopatra's Moon
(Recommended)
Vicky Alvear Shecter

Dead End in Norvelt
(Recommended)
Jack Gantos

Fourteen and Up

Jasper Jones
(Recommended)
Craig Silvey

The Running Dream
(Recommended)
Wendelin Van Draanen

Pink
(Recommended)
Lili Wilkinson

Trapped
(Recommended)
Michael Northrop

Blink and Caution
(Recommended)
Tim Wynne-Jones

Flip
(Recommended)
Martyn Bedford

Page by Paige
(Recommended)
Laura Lee Gulledge

Shine
(Recommended)
Lauren Myracle

Where Things Come Back
(Recommended)
John Corey Whaley

Beauty Queens
(Recommended)
Libba Bray

Bronxwood
(Recommended)
Coe Booth

Daughter of Smoke and Bone
(Recommended)
Laini Taylor

Everybody Sees the Ants
(Recommended)
A.S. King

A Monster Calls
(Recommended)
Patrick Ness

Why We Broke Up
(Recommended)
Daniel Handler

Seven to Ten

Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie
(Recommended)
Julie Sternberg

The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
(Recommended)
Wendy Wan-Long Shang

The Great Migration: Journey to the North
(Recommended)
Eloise Greenfield

Zita the Spacegirl
(Recommended)
Ben Hatke

Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
(Recommended)
Robert Burleigh

The Trouble With Chickens
(Recommended)
Doreen Cronin

The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
(Recommended)
Jeanne Birdsall

Grin and Bear It
(Recommended)
Leo Landry

Pearl Verses the World
(Recommended)
Sally Murphy

Clementine and the Family Meeting
(Recommended)
Sara Pennypacker

The Unforgotten Coat
(Recommended)
Frank Cottrell Boyce

E-Mergency!
(Recommended)
Tom Lichtenheld

Secrets at Sea
(Recommended)
Richard Peck

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature
(Recommended)
Joyce Sidman

The Third Gift
(Recommended)
Linda Sue Park

Junonia
(Recommended)
Kevin Henkes

Ten to Fourteen

Camo Girl
(Recommended)
Kekla Magoon

Inside Out and Back Again
(Recommended)
Thanhha Lai

Lost and Found, Volume 3
(Recommended)
Shaun Tan

Between Shades of Gray // Ashes in the Snow
(Recommended)
Ruta Sepetys

Okay for Now
(Recommended)
Gary D. Schmidt

Ten Miles Past Normal
(Recommended)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

The Trouble with May Amelia
(Recommended)
Jennifer L. Holm

Horton Halfpott: Or, the Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor
(Recommended)
Tom Angleberger

Silhouetted by the Blue
(Recommended)
Traci L. Jones

Bluefish
(Recommended)
Pat Schmatz

Dead End in Norvelt
(Recommended)
Jack Gantos

Wonderstruck
(Recommended)
Brian Selznick

Breadcrumbs
(Recommended)
Anne Ursu

Breaking Stalin's Nose
(Recommended)
Eugene Yelchin

Liesl & Po
(Recommended)
Lauren Oliver

A Web of Air
(Recommended)
Philip Reeve

Up to Seven

Underground
(Recommended)
Shane W. Evans

Little White Rabbit
(Recommended)
Kevin Henkes

Where's Walrus?
(Recommended)
Stephen Savage

Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?
(Recommended)
Susan A. Shea

Me... Jane
(Recommended)
Patrick McDonnell

Perfect Square
(Recommended)
Michael Hall

Press Here
(Recommended)
Herve Tullet

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
(Recommended)
Sherri Duskey Rinker

Goyangi Means Cat
(Recommended)
Christine McDonnell

Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator!
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

Rrralph
(Recommended)
Lois Ehlert

Blackout
(Recommended)
John Rocco

Bone Dog
(Recommended)
Eric Rohmann

Grandpa Green
(Recommended)
Lane Smith

Bailey
(Recommended)
Harry Bliss

The Twins' Blanket
(Recommended)
Hyewon Yum

I Want My Hat Back
(Recommended)
Jon Klassen

Mouse & Lion
(Recommended)
Rand Burkert

Over and Under the Snow
(Recommended)
Kate Messner

Stars
(Recommended)
Mary Lyn Ray

Red Sled
(Recommended)
Lita Judge

King Jack and the Dragon
(Recommended)
Peter Bently

Red Wagon
(Recommended)
Renata Liwska

Award Categories

Audiobk Too Good to Miss

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Children/Young Adult

Fourteen and Up

Seven to Ten

Ten to Fourteen

Up to Seven

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