2010 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens

Awards List

Audiobook

Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Almost True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka
(Recommended)
Jon Scieszka

Peace, Locomotion
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Kelly

When You Reach Me
(Recommended)
Rebecca Stead

Odd and the Frost Giants
(Recommended)
Neil Gaiman

Fourteen and Up

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

Seven to Ten

Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude
(Recommended)
Jonah Winter

Redwoods
(Recommended)
Jason Chin

How Oliver Olson Changed the World
(Recommended)
Claudia Mills

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
(Recommended)
Grace Lin

Ten to Fourteen

Heart of a Shepherd
(Recommended)
Rosanne Parry

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
(Recommended)
Rodman Philbrick

All the Broken Pieces
(Recommended)
Ann E. Burg

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Kelly

Wild Things
(Recommended)
Clay Carmichael

The Duel
(Recommended)
Judith St. George

When You Reach Me
(Recommended)
Rebecca Stead

The Storm in the Barn
(Recommended)
Matt Phelan

Leviathan
(Recommended)
Scott Westerfeld

Up to Seven

Bubble Trouble
(Recommended)
Margaret Mahy

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

Posy
(Recommended)
Linda Newbery

The Snow Day
(Recommended)
Komako Sakai

Birds
(Recommended)
Kevin Henkes

The Odd Egg
(Recommended)
Emily Gravett

Duck! Rabbit!
(Recommended)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Little Chick
(Recommended)
Amy Hest

Watch Me Throw the Ball!
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes
(Recommended)
Alice Schertle

Houndsley and Catina in Plink and Plunk
(Recommended)
James Howe

Hello Baby!
(Recommended)
Mem Fox

Elephants Cannot Dance!
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

It's a Secret!
(Recommended)
John Burningham

The Sleepy Little Alphabet: A Bedtime Story from Alphabet Town
(Recommended)
Judy Sierra

Thunder-Boomer!
(Recommended)
Shutta Crum

Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales
(Recommended)
Lucy Cousins

All the World
(Recommended)
Liz Garton Scanlon

The Christmas Magic
(Recommended)
Lauren Thompson

The Lion & the Mouse
(Recommended)
Jerry Pinkney

Otis
(Recommended)
Loren Long

Princess Hyacinth
(Recommended)
Florence Parry Heide

Spells
(Recommended)
Emily Gravett

Award Categories

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Children/Young Adult

Fourteen and Up

Seven to Ten

Ten to Fourteen

Up to Seven

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