2013 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens

Awards List

Audiobook

Seraphina
(Recommended)
Rachel Hartman

The Mighty Miss Malone
(Recommended)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Ghost Knight
(Recommended)
Cornelia Funke

Liar & Spy
(Recommended)
Rebecca Stead

The Raven Boys
(Recommended)
Maggie Stiefvater

Fourteen and Up

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

Seven to Ten

A Boy Called Dickens
(Recommended)
Deborah Hopkinson

Duck for a Day
(Recommended)
Meg McKinlay

Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O'Keeffe Painted What She Pleased
(Recommended)
Amy Novesky

Chloe and the Lion
(Recommended)
Mac Barnett

Magritte's Marvelous Hat
(Recommended)
D.B. Johnson

Chickadee
(Recommended)
Louise Erdrich

Liar & Spy
(Recommended)
Rebecca Stead

Each Kindness
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Woodson

Starry River of the Sky
(Recommended)
Grace Lin

Return to the Willows
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Kelly

Twelve Kinds of Ice
(Recommended)
Ellen Bryan Obed

Ten to Fourteen

Seraphina
(Recommended)
Rachel Hartman

The Lions of Little Rock
(Recommended)
Kristin Levine

The Mighty Miss Malone
(Recommended)
Christopher Paul Curtis

The One and Only Ivan
(Recommended)
Katherine Applegate

Wonder
(Recommended)
R.J. Palacio

The Summer of the Gypsy Moths
(Recommended)
Sara Pennypacker

A Greyhound of a Girl
(Recommended)
Roddy Doyle

See You at Harry's
(Recommended)
Jo Knowles

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
(Recommended)
Annabel Pitcher

Drama
(Recommended)
Raina Telgemeier

My Name Is Parvana
(Recommended)
Deborah Ellis

Splendors and Glooms
(Recommended)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Up to Seven

Extra Yarn
(Recommended)
Mac Barnett

We March
(Recommended)
Shane Evans

And Then It's Spring
(Recommended)
Julie Fogliano

Listen to My Trumpet!
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

Frog and Fly
(Recommended)
Jeff Mack

Little Bird
(Recommended)
Germano Zullo

More
(Recommended)
I.C. Springman

Z Is for Moose
(Recommended)
Kelly Bingham

Boy + Bot
(Recommended)
Ame Dyckman

Green
(Recommended)
Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Chloe
(Recommended)
Peter McCarty

Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors
(Recommended)
Hena Khan

A Home for Bird
(Recommended)
Philip Christian Stead

Two for One
(Recommended)
Kate DiCamillo; Alison McGhee

Bear Has a Story to Tell
(Recommended)
Philip Christian Stead

Mousterpiece
(Recommended)
Jane Breskin Zalben

Penny and Her Doll
(Recommended)
Kevin Henkes

Andrew Drew and Drew
(Recommended)
Barney Saltzberg

Infinity and Me
(Recommended)
Kate Hosford

Birds of Bethlehem
(Recommended)
Tomie DePaola

Sleep Like a Tiger
(Recommended)
Mary Logue

This Moose Belongs to Me
(Recommended)
Oliver Jeffers

Unspoken
(Recommended)
Henry Cole

Award Categories

Audiobk Too Good to Miss

Audiobook

Children/Young Adult

Fourteen and Up

Seven to Ten

Ten to Fourteen

Up to Seven

Award Years

2015

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