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2018 Winners and Finalists

The Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards are the only national book awards chosen only by kids and teens!

Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year Finalists

Winner
Poor Louie

Poor Louie

By: Tony Fucile
Illustrated by:
 Tony Fucile
ISBN: 9780763658281

 
Billy Bloo is Stuck in Goo

Billy Bloo is Stuck in Goo

By: Jennifer Hamburg
Illustrated by:
 Ross Burach
ISBN: 9780545880152
 
Books That Drive Kids Crazy: Did You Take the B from My _ook?

Books That Drive Kids Crazy

By: Beck & Matt Stanton
ISBN: 9780316434416
 
Pete With No Pants

Pete With No Pants

By: Rowboat Watkins
ISBN: 9781452144016
 
This Book Will Not Be Fun

This Book Will Not Be Fun

By: Cirocco Dunlap
Illustrated by:
 Olivier Tallec
ISBN: 9780399550614

Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year Finalists

Winner
50 Wacky Things Animals Do

50 Wacky Things Animals Do

By: Tricia Martineau Wagner
Illustrated by:
 Carles Ballesteros
ISBN: 9781633222953
Winner
Manjhi Moves a Mountain

Manjhi Moves a Mountain

By: Nancy Churnin
Illustrated by:
 Danny Popovici
ISBN: 9781939547347
Nonfiction, 4-6, Biography / Memoir

 
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History

Frederick Douglass

By: Walter Dean Myers
Illustrated by:
 Floyd Cooper
ISBN: 9780060277093
 
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Out of Wonder

By: Kwame Alexander; Chris Colderley
Illustrated by:
 Ekua Holmes
ISBN: 9780763680947
 
Thunder Underground

Thunder Underground

By: Jane Yolen
Illustrated by:
 Josee Masse
ISBN: 9781590789360

Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year Finalists

Winner
The Losers Club

The Losers Club

By: Andrew Clements
ISBN: 9780399557552

 
Disaster Diaries: Spiders!

Disaster Diaries

By: R. McGeddon
ISBN: 9781250135650
 
Finding Mighty

Finding Mighty

By: Sheela Chari
ISBN: 9781419722967
 
Malala: Activist for Girls’ Education

Malala

By: Raphaelle Frier
Illustrated by:
 Aurelia Fronty
ISBN: 9781580897853
 
This Is Just a Test

This Is Just a Test

By: Wendy Wan-Long Shang & Madelyn Rosenberg
ISBN: 9781338037722

Teen Book of the Year Finalists

Winner
The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give

By: Angie Thomas
ISBN: 9780062498533

 
Because You Love to Hate Me

Because You Love to Hate Me

By: Ameriie
ISBN: 9781681197906
 
Caraval

Caraval

By: Stephanie Garber
ISBN: 9781250095251
 
Long Way Down

Long Way Down

By: Jason Reynolds
ISBN: 9781481438254
 
Turtles All the Way Down

Turtles All the Way Down

By: John Green
ISBN: 9780525555384
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