Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Fourteen and Up

Awards List

2015

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

2014

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
(Recommended)
Holly Black
in The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire

The Tragedy Paper
(Recommended)
Elizabeth Laban

Midwinterblood
(Recommended)
Marcus Sedgwick

Out of Nowhere
(Recommended)
Maria Padian

Out of The Easy
(Recommended)
Ruta Sepetys

Eleanor & Park
(Recommended)
Rainbow Rowell

OCD, The Dude, and Me
(Recommended)
Lauren Roedy Vaughn

The Sin Eater's Confession
(Recommended)
Ilsa J. Bick

If You Find Me
(Recommended)
Emily Murdoch (1)

The Milk of Birds
(Recommended)
Sylvia Whitman

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
(Recommended)
Meg Medina

Openly Straight
(Recommended)
Bill Konigsberg

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
(Recommended)
Matthew Quick

This Song Will Save Your Life
(Recommended)
Leila Sales

Two Boys Kissing
(Recommended)
David Levithan

All the Truth That's in Me
(Recommended)
Julie Berry

Sex & Violence
(Recommended)
Carrie Mesrobian

He Said, She Said
(Recommended)
Kwame Alexander

Ketchup Clouds // Yours Truly
(Recommended)
Annabel Pitcher

2013

Cinder
(Recommended)
Marissa Meyer

The Fault in Our Stars
(Recommended)
John Green

No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
(Recommended)
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Beneath a Meth Moon
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Miseducation of Cameron Post
(Recommended)
Emily M. Danforth

Froi of the Exiles
(Recommended)
Melina Marchetta

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
(Recommended)
Jesse Andrews

The Wicked and the Just
(Recommended)
J. Anderson Coats

Bitterblue
(Recommended)
Kristin Cashore

Code Name Verity
(Recommended)
Elizabeth Wein

The Drowned Cities
(Recommended)
Paolo Bacigalupi

For Darkness Shows the Stars
(Recommended)
Diana Peterfreund

The Diviners
(Recommended)
Libba Bray

Fire in the Streets
(Recommended)
Kekla Magoon

The Raven Boys
(Recommended)
Maggie Stiefvater

Ask the Passengers
(Recommended)
A.S. King

Pinned
(Recommended)
Sharon G. Flake

2012

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

2011

Incarceron
(Recommended)
Catherine Fisher

Finnikin of the Rock
(Recommended)
Melina Marchetta

Nothing
(Recommended)
Janne Teller

Before I Fall
(Recommended)
Lauren Oliver

The Six Rules of Maybe
(Recommended)
Deb Caletti

The Sky is Everywhere
(Recommended)
Jandy Nelson

Birthmarked
(Recommended)
Caragh M. O'Brien

Will Grayson, Will Grayson
(Recommended)
John Green; David Levithan

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
(Recommended)
Morgan Matson

The Cardturner
(Recommended)
Louis Sachar

Ship Breaker
(Recommended)
Paolo Bacigalupi

Stolen
(Recommended)
Lucy Christopher

Bruiser
(Recommended)
Neal Shusterman

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
(Recommended)
Lish McBride

I Shall Wear Midnight
(Recommended)
Terry Pratchett

Revolution
(Recommended)
Jennifer Donnelly

Matched
(Recommended)
Ally Condie

2010

The Rock and the River
(Recommended)
Kekla Magoon

North of Beautiful
(Recommended)
Justina Chen / Justina Chen Headley

Marcelo in the Real World
(Recommended)
Francisco X. Stork

If I Stay
(Recommended)
Gayle Forman

Funny How Things Change
(Recommended)
Melissa Wyatt

The Summer I Turned Pretty
(Recommended)
Jenny Han

After
(Recommended)
Amy Efaw

Love Is the Higher Law
(Recommended)
David Levithan

Pop
(Recommended)
Gordon Korman

Almost Perfect
(Recommended)
Brian Katcher

Crossing Stones
(Recommended)
Helen Frost

Lips Touch: Three Times
(Recommended)
Laini Taylor

Struts & Frets
(Recommended)
Jon Skovron

2008

Beige
(Recommended)
Cecil Castellucci

Touching Snow
(Recommended)
M. Sindy Felin

Kissing the Bee
(Recommended)
Kathe Koja

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
(Recommended)
Sherman Alexie

Unwind
(Recommended)
Neal Shusterman

Tamar
(Recommended)
Mal Peet

2007

Alive, on the Inside!
(Recommended)
Annette Curtis Klause

The Book Thief
(Recommended)
Markus Zusak

Just Listen
(Recommended)
Sarah Dessen

American Born Chinese
(Recommended)
Gene Luen Yang

The Pox Party
(Recommended)
M.T. Anderson

An Abundance of Katherines
(Recommended)
John Green

2006

Boy Proof
(Recommended)
Cecil Castellucci

Looking for Alaska
(Recommended)
John Green

Inexcusable
(Recommended)
Chris Lynch

1999

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
(Recommended)
Stephen Chbosky

1997

Harlem
(Recommended)
Walter Dean Myers

1996

Maestro
(Recommended)
Tim Wynne-Jones

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