2015 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens

Awards List

Audiobook

Homeland
(Recommended)
Cory Doctorow

Annie
(Recommended)
Thomas Meehan

Half Bad
(Recommended)
Sally Green

Revolution
(Recommended)
Deborah Wiles

The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
(Recommended)
Dana Alison Levy

Fourteen and Up

The Gospel of Winter
(Recommended)
Brendan Kiely

The Impossible Knife of Memory
(Recommended)
Laurie Halse Anderson

When I Was the Greatest
(Recommended)
Jason Reynolds

Grasshopper Jungle
(Recommended)
Andrew Smith

The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
(Recommended)
E.K. Johnston

Noggin
(Recommended)
John Corey Whaley

We Were Liars
(Recommended)
E. Lockhart

Girls Like Us
(Recommended)
Gail Giles

One Man Guy
(Recommended)
Michael Barakiva

The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone
(Recommended)
Adele Griffin

I'll Give You the Sun
(Recommended)
Jandy Nelson

Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
(Recommended)
Isabel Quintero

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
(Recommended)
A.S. King

How It Went Down
(Recommended)
Kekla Magoon

Lies We Tell Ourselves
(Recommended)
Robin Talley

Love Is the Drug
(Recommended)
Alaya Dawn Johnson

Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel
(Recommended)
Sara Farizan

Seven to Ten

Mumbet's Declaration of Independence
(Recommended)
Gretchen Woelfle

The Scraps Book
(Recommended)
Lois Ehlert

A Walk in Paris
(Recommended)
Salvatore Rubbino

Hidden: A Child's View of the Holocaust
(Recommended)
Loic Dauvillier

All Different Now
(Recommended)
Angela Johnson

Gravity
(Recommended)
Jason Chin

Emily's Blue Period
(Recommended)
Cathleen Daly

El Deafo
(Recommended)
Cece Bell

The Farmer and the Clown
(Recommended)
Marla Frazee

Nuts to You
(Recommended)
Lynne Rae Perkins

Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads
(Recommended)
Bob Shea

Mikis and the Donkey
(Recommended)
Bibi Dumon Tak

Ten to Fourteen

Caminar
(Recommended)
Skila Brown

The Crossover
(Recommended)
Kwame Alexander

Freedom Summer
(Recommended)
Susan Goldman Rubin

Lost Girl Found
(Recommended)
Leah Bassoff; Laura DeLuca

West of the Moon
(Recommended)
Margi Preus

The Night Gardener
(Recommended)
Jonathan Auxier

This One Summer
(Recommended)
Jillian Tamaki; Mariko Tamaki

Absolutely Almost
(Recommended)
Lisa Graff

Revolution
(Recommended)
Deborah Wiles

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
(Recommended)
Katherine Rundell

The Fourteenth Goldfish
(Recommended)
Jennifer L. Holm

Greenglass House
(Recommended)
Kate Milford

The Red Pencil
(Recommended)
Andrea Davis Pinkney / Andrea Pinkney

The Witch's Boy
(Recommended)
Kelly Barnhill

Rain Reign
(Recommended)
Ann M. Martin

Vango: Between Sky and Earth
(Recommended)
Timothee de Fombelle

Up to Seven

Early Bird
(Recommended)
Theodore Cogswell
in Astounding
  • / Science Fiction
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Numeralia
(Recommended)
Jorge Lujan

Two Little Birds
(Recommended)
Mary Newell DePalma

Lost for Words
(Recommended)
Natalie Russell

Some Bugs
(Recommended)
Angela DiTerlizzi

Tap Tap Boom Boom
(Recommended)
Elizabeth Bluemle

Breathe
(Recommended)
Scott Magoon

Found
(Recommended)
Salina Yoon

The Most Magnificent Thing
(Recommended)
Ashley Spires

Two Speckled Eggs
(Recommended)
Jennifer K. Mann

The Baby Tree
(Recommended)
Sophie Blackall

Number One Sam
(Recommended)
Greg Pizzoli

Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine
(Recommended)
Gloria Whelan

Gaston
(Recommended)
Kelly DiPucchio

Little Elliot, Big City
(Recommended)
Mike Curato

Winter Is Coming
(Recommended)
Tony Johnston

My Grandfather's Coat
(Recommended)
Jim Aylesworth

Once Upon an Alphabet
(Recommended)
Oliver Jeffers

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
(Recommended)
Mac Barnett

Award Categories

Audiobk Too Good to Miss

Audiobook

Children/Young Adult

Fourteen and Up

Seven to Ten

Ten to Fourteen

Up to Seven

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