2008 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens

Awards List

Fourteen and Up

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

Seven to Ten

Henry's Freedom Box
(Recommended)
Ellen Levine

Wind Flyers
(Recommended)
Angela Johnson

The Talented Clementine
(Recommended)
Sara Pennypacker
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

A Seed Is Sleepy
(Recommended)
Dianna Hutts Aston

No Talking
(Recommended)
Andrew Clements

A Crooked Kind of Perfect
(Recommended)
Linda Urban

Little Red Riding Hood
(Recommended)
Jerry Pinkney

Ten to Fourteen

Dragon Slippers
(Recommended)
Jessica Day George

Feathers
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
(Recommended)
Brian Selznick

The Mysterious Benedict Society
(Recommended)
Trenton Lee Stewart

Peak
(Recommended)
Roland Smith

The Wednesday Wars
(Recommended)
Gary D. Schmidt

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
(Recommended)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Elijah of Buxton
(Recommended)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
(Recommended)
J.K. Rowling

Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf
(Recommended)
Jennifer L. Holm

Book of a Thousand Days
(Recommended)
Shannon Hale

The Land of the Silver Apples
(Recommended)
Nancy Farmer

The Arrival
(Recommended)
Shaun Tan

Who Was First?
(Recommended)
Russell Freedman

Up to Seven

Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
(Recommended)
Janice N. Harrington

My Friend Is Sad
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

Today I Will Fly!
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

Fabian Escapes
(Recommended)
Peter McCarty

I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean
(Recommended)
Kevin Sherry

Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug
(Recommended)
Mark Newgarden; Megan Montague Cash

Orange Pear Apple Bear
(Recommended)
Emily Gravett

I Am Invited to a Party!
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

Leaves
(Recommended)
David Ezra Stein

There Is a Bird on Your Head!
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

Jazz Baby
(Recommended)
Lisa Wheeler

Two Friends, Three Stories
(Recommended)
Laura Vaccaro Seeger

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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