2013 Junior Library Guild (Awarded by Junior Library Guild)

Awards List

Selection

Lincoln's Grave Robbers
(*)
Steve Sheinkin
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A Bag of Marbles
(*)
Joseph Joffo

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

Violet Mackerel's Remarkable Recovery
(*)
Anna Branford

The Bully Book
(*)
Eric Kahn Gale

Cardboard
(*)
Doug TenNapel

Chickadee
(*)
Louise Erdrich

Emily and Jackson Hiding Out
(*)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Palace of Stone
(*)
Shannon Hale

Animal Stories 2: Never Trust a Tiger PB
(*)
Lari Don

The Captive Prince
(*)
Scott Chantler

Claws
(*)
Mike Grinti; Rachel Grinti

The Crimson Shard
(*)
Teresa Flavin

Homesick
(*)
Kate Klise

I'm Bored
(*)
Michael Ian Black

Lunch Lady and the Picture Day Peril
(*)
Jarrett J. Krosoczka

One Year in Coal Harbor
(*)
Polly Horvath

Playing Favourites
(*)
Trevor Kew

The Second Life of Abigail Walker
(*)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

The Secret of the Stone Frog
(*)
David Nytra

Sophia's War
(*)
Avi

Spike, the Mixed-up Monster
(*)
Susan Hood

Ten
(*)
Gretchen McNeil

True Legend
(*)
Mike Lupica

Unstoppable
(*)
Tim Green

Abe Lincoln's Dream
(*)
Lane Smith

Ask the Passengers
(*)
A.S. King

Becoming Holmes
(*)
Shane Peacock

Boot and Shoe
(*)
Marla Frazee

Charley's First Night
(*)
Amy Hest

Danger Goes Berserk
(*)
Mac Barnett

Darkwater
(*)
Catherine Fisher

Deck Z
(*)
Chronicle Books

Each Kindness
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Finn at Clee Point
(*)
Richard Knight

Grace's Thanksgiving
(*)
Lisa Bullard

H.O.R.S.E.
(*)
Christopher Myers

The Herd Boy
(*)
Niki Daly

Infinity and Me
(*)
Kate Hosford

Jepp, Who Defied the Stars
(*)
Katherine Marsh

The Journey Back
(*)
Priscilla Cummings

Little White Duck: A Childhood in China
(*)
Na Liu; Andres Vera Martinez

Magisterium
(*)
Jeff Hirsch

Neil Flambe and the Tokyo Treasure
(*)
Kevin Sylvester

Otter and Odder
(*)
James Howe

The Savage Fortress
(*)
Sarwat Chadda

Stealing Air
(*)
Trent Reedy

That's Not a Feeling
(*)
Dan Josefson

There Was a Tree
(*)
Rachel Isadora

The Vengekeep Prophecies
(*)
Brian Farrey

Colin Fischer
(*)
Ashley Edward Miller; Zack Stentz

Days of Blood and Starlight
(*)
Laini Taylor

Dear Teen Me
(*)
Author Unknown

Earth and Air
(*)
Peter Dickinson

Fitz
(*)
Mick Cochrane

Owly & Wormy, Bright Lights and Starry Nights
(*)
Andy Runton

The Secret Prophecy
(*)
Herbie Brennan

Unspoken
(*)
Henry Cole

What Body Part Is That?
(*)
Andy Griffiths

Don't Say a Word, Mama
(*)
Joe Hayes

Sugar, Fat, Salt
(*)
Author Unknown

Sumo
(*)
Thien Pham

Wyatt Burp Rides Again
(*)
Greg Trine

The Black Rabbit
(*)
Philippa Leathers

Bunnies on Ice
(*)
Johanna Wright

Curses! Foiled Again
(*)
Jane Yolen

Gingersnap
(*)
Patricia Reilly Giff

Henry and the Cannons
(*)
Don Brown

Paper Valentine
(*)
Brenna Yovanoff

The Price of Freedom
(*)
Dennis Brindell Fradin

Red Kite, Blue Kite
(*)
Ji-li Jiang

See Me Dig
(*)
Paul Meisel

The Water Castle
(*)
Megan Frazer Blakemore

Better Nate Than Ever
(*)
Tim Federle

The Colossus Rises
(*)
Peter Lerangis

Crash and Burn
(*)
Michael Hassan

Follow Follow
(*)
Marilyn Singer

Hattie Ever After
(*)
Kirby Larson

Knit Your Bit
(*)
Deborah Hopkinson

Letting Go
(*)
Janet Morgan Stoeke

Light in the Darkness
(*)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

Lucky Ducklings
(*)
Eva Moore

The Market Bowl
(*)
Jim Averbeck

Midwinterblood
(*)
Marcus Sedgwick

Nurse Clementine
(*)
Simon James

Out of The Easy
(*)
Ruta Sepetys

Penny and Her Marble
(*)
Kevin Henkes

Pinch and Dash and the Terrible Couch
(*)
Michael J. Daley

Play Makers
(*)
Mike Lupica

Snow School
(*)
Sandra Markle

The Sweet Revenge of Celia Door
(*)
Karen Finneyfrock

Take Me Out to the Yakyu
(*)
Aaron Meshon

A Tangle of Knots
(*)
Lisa Graff

Under Shifting Glass
(*)
Nicky Singer

Want to Be in a Band?
(*)
Suzzy Roche

17 & Gone
(*)
Nova Ren Suma

The Center of Everything
(*)
Linda Urban

Chasing the Prophecy
(*)
Brandon Mull

Crap Kingdom
(*)
D.C. Pierson

Double Play
(*)
Sara Cassidy

Down the Rabbit Hole: The Diary of Pringle Rose
(*)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Exclamation Mark!
(*)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Force Out
(*)
Tim Green

Gone Fishing
(*)
Tamera Will Wissinger

Grandma and the Great Gourd
(*)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Hold Fast
(*)
Blue Balliett

Ivy Takes Care
(*)
Rosemary Wells

The Madness Underneath
(*)
Maureen Johnson

The Matchbox Diary
(*)
Paul Fleischman

Nora's Chicks
(*)
Patricia MacLachlan

Ol' Mama Squirrel
(*)
David Ezra Stein

Operation Oleander
(*)
Valerie O. Patterson

Orleans
(*)
Sherri L. Smith

Poison
(*)
Bridget Zinn

Prisoner B-3087
(*)
Alan M. Gratz

Scowler
(*)
Daniel Kraus

The Summer Prince
(*)
Alaya Dawn Johnson

Tito Puente, Mambo King
(*)
Monica Brown

When We Wake
(*)
Karen Healey

When We Wuz Famous
(*)
Greg Takoudes

White Fur Flying
(*)
Patricia MacLachlan

Ball
(*)
Mary Sullivan

Barbed Wire Baseball
(*)
Marissa Moss

The Beast
(*)
Paul Hoblin

Black Helicopters
(*)
Blythe Woolston

Bluebird
(*)
Bob Staake

The Boy and the Airplane
(*)
Mark Pett

Breath
(*)
Jackie Morse Kessler

The Dark
(*)
Lemony Snicket

Double Cross
(*)
Stuart Gibbs

Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle
(*)
Chris Raschka

Fearless
(*)
Cornelia Funke

Hide and Seek
(*)
Kate Messner

How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers
(*)
Mordicai Gerstein

I Scream! Ice Cream!
(*)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

If He Had Been with Me
(*)
Laura Nowlin

Jerusalem: A Family Portrait
(*)
Boaz Yakin

Lenny Cyrus, School Virus
(*)
Joe Schreiber

The Milk of Birds
(*)
Sylvia Whitman

Obsidian Mirror
(*)
Catherine Fisher

P.K. Pinkerton and the Petrified Man
(*)
Caroline Lawrence

The Rising
(*)
Kelley Armstrong

Rotten
(*)
Michael Northrop

The Rules
(*)
Stacey Kade

Strangelets
(*)
Michelle Gagnon

That Is Not a Good Idea!
(*)
Mo Willems

This Is What Happy Looks Like
(*)
Jennifer E. Smith

Thrice Upon a Marigold
(*)
Jean Ferris

Unnatural Creatures
(*)
Neil Gaiman

The Wild Berries
(*)
Julie Flett

William and the Lost Spirit
(*)
Gwen De Bonneval

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

15 Days Without a Head
(*)
Dave Cousins

Below
(*)
Meg McKinlay

Ben Rides On
(*)
Matt Davies

The Caged Graves
(*)
Dianne K. Salerni

Criminal
(*)
Terra Elan McVoy

The Cydonian Pyramid
(*)
Pete Hautman

Doll Bones
(*)
Holly Black

Ellray Jakes the Dragon Slayer
(*)
Sally Warner

The Frog Who Croaked
(*)
Jarrett J. Krosoczka

The Girl from Felony Bay
(*)
J.E. Thompson

In Harm's Way
(*)
Andrew Clements

The Lucy Variations
(*)
Sara Zarr

The Meanest Birthday Girl
(*)
Josh Schneider

Mouse Bird Snake Wolf
(*)
David Almond

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
(*)
Prudence Shen

Odd Duck
(*)
Author Unknown

Rogue
(*)
Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Saturday Is Dadurday
(*)
Robin Pulver

School Spirits
(*)
Rachel Hawkins

September Girls
(*)
Bennett Madison

Sugar
(*)
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Thousand Words
(*)
Jennifer Brown

Vote
(*)
Gary Paulsen

The Apprentices
(*)
Maile Meloy

Belle Epoque
(*)
Elizabeth Ross

Bo at Ballard Creek
(*)
Kirkpatrick Hill

Bogart and Vinnie
(*)
Audrey Vernick

The Favorite Daughter
(*)
Allen Say

Haunters
(*)
Thomas Taylor

The Hidden Summer
(*)
Gin Phillips

The Hostage Prince
(*)
Jane Yolen; Adam Stemple

The Impossibility of Tomorrow
(*)
Avery Williams

Ink
(*)
Amanda Sun

A Moment Comes
(*)
Jennifer Bradbury

The Moon and More
(*)
Sarah Dessen

Papa's Mechanical Fish
(*)
Candace Fleming

Parched
(*)
Melanie Crowder

Saturday Boy
(*)
David Fleming

Ship Out of Luck
(*)
Neal Shusterman

Siege and Storm
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

The Thing About Luck
(*)
Cynthia Kadohata

The Truth of Me
(*)
Patricia MacLachlan

The Ugly One
(*)
Leanne Statland Ellis

The Wells Bequest
(*)
Polly Shulman

Wild Awake
(*)
Hilary T. Smith

Witch Fire
(*)
Laura Powell

Written in Stone
(*)
Rosanne Parry

Binny for Short
(*)
Hilary McKay

Bluffton: My Summer with Buster Keaton
(*)
Matt Phelan

Chews Your Destiny
(*)
Rhode Montijo

The Distance Between Us
(*)
Kasie West

Falcon in the Glass
(*)
Susan Fletcher

The Feros
(*)
Wesley King

The Flying Beaver Brothers: Birds vs. Bunnies
(*)
Maxwell Eaton III

The Fury
(*)
Alexander Gordon Smith

Genius
(*)
Steven T. Seagle

Golden Boy
(*)
Tara Sullivan

How to Lose Everything: A Mostly True Story
(*)
Philipp Mattheis

In Too Deep
(*)
Coert Voorhees

The Music of Zombies
(*)
Vivian French

Ocd Love Story
(*)
Corey Ann Haydu

The Silver Six
(*)
A.J. Lieberman

Still Star-Crossed
(*)
Melinda Taub

Substitute Trouble
(*)
Karen English

Templar
(*)
Jordan Mechner

The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
(*)
Kathi Appelt

Vortex
(*)
S.J. Kincaid

The Weight of Water
(*)
Sarah Crossan

What Floats in a Moat?
(*)
Lynne Berry

The Whoopie Pie War
(*)
Emily Jenkins

Al Capone Does My Homework
(*)
Gennifer Choldenko

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas
(*)
David Almond

Dinosaur Kisses
(*)
David Ezra Stein

Fire with Fire
(*)
Jenny Han; Siobhan Vivian

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
(*)
Matthew Quick

The Golden Day
(*)
Ursula Dubosarsky

The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe
(*)
Dan Poblocki

If I Ever Get Out of Here
(*)
Eric Gansworth

Maria Had a Little Llama
(*)
Angela Dominguez

Mo and Jo Fighting Together Forever
(*)
Dean Haspiel

Mountain Dog
(*)
Margarita Engle

The Problem with Being Slightly Heroic
(*)
Uma Krishnaswami

Second Impact
(*)
David Klass

The Spotted Dog Last Seen
(*)
Jessica Scott Kerrin

A Very Witchy Spelling Bee
(*)
George Shannon

The Very Inappropriate Word
(*)
Jim Tobin

VIII
(*)
H.M. Castor

The Waffler
(*)
Gail Donovan

Amber Brown Is on the Move
(*)
Bruce Coville; Elizabeth Levy

Are You Experienced?
(*)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Big Snow
(*)
Jonathan Bean

The Big Wet Balloon
(*)
Liniers

Cherry Money Baby
(*)
John M. Cusick

Conjured
(*)
Sarah Beth Durst

Counting by 7s
(*)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Dusk
(*)
Uri Shulevitz

Fallout
(*)
Todd Strasser

Fangirl
(*)
Rainbow Rowell

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

From Norvelt to Nowhere
(*)
Jack Gantos

Ghost Hawk
(*)
Susan Cooper

How to Catch a Bogle
(*)
Catherine Jinks

Jane, the Fox, and Me
(*)
Isabelle Arsenault

The League
(*)
Thatcher Heldring

Ling & Ting Share a Birthday
(*)
Grace Lin

Living with Jackie Chan
(*)
Jo Knowles

The Lord of Opium
(*)
Nancy Farmer

Love in the Time of Global Warming
(*)
Francesca Lia Block

Magic Marks the Spot
(*)
Caroline Carlson

Make Tree Magic
(*)
Christie Matheson

Mitchell Goes Bowling
(*)
Hallie Durand

Open Mic
(*)
Mitali Perkins

Pitcher
(*)
William Elliott Hazelgrove

Rose Under Fire
(*)
Elizabeth Wein

Saints
(*)
Gene Luen Yang

Sasquatch in the Paint
(*)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Raymond Obstfeld

Scare Scape
(*)
Sam Fisher

The Show Must Go On!
(*)
Kate Klise

The Song of the Quarkbeast
(*)
Jasper Fforde

Takedown
(*)
Allison van Diepen

The Treasure of Way Down Deep
(*)
Ruth White

Two Boys Kissing
(*)
David Levithan

The Wolf Princess
(*)
Cathryn Constable

Xander's Panda Party
(*)
Linda Sue Park

The Year of Billy Miller
(*)
Kevin Henkes

The Camel in the Sun
(*)
Griffin Ondaatje

Captain Cat
(*)
Inga Moore

Daisy Gets Lost
(*)
Chris Raschka

Deep in the Sahara
(*)
Kelly Cunnane

The Extra
(*)
Kathryn Lasky

Head Kick
(*)
Patrick Jones

How to Love
(*)
Katie Cotugno

Little Santa
(*)
Jon Agee

The Midnight Dress
(*)
Karen Foxlee

Mr. Wuffles!
(*)
David Wiesner

Numbed!
(*)
David Lubar

Reality Boy
(*)
A.S. King

Season of the Witch
(*)
Mariah Fredericks

Tea Party Rules
(*)
Ame Dyckman

Yes! We Are Latinos
(*)
Alma Flor Ada

House of Secrets
(*)
Chris Columbus

Poet Upstairs, The
(*)
Judith Ortiz Cofer

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