2014 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens

Awards List

Audiobook

Matilda
(Recommended)
Roald Dahl

Eleanor & Park
(Recommended)
Rainbow Rowell

Far Far Away
(Recommended)
Tom Mcneal

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

Screaming Staircase
(Recommended)
Jonathan Stroud

Fourteen and Up

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

Seven to Ten

Building Our House
(Recommended)
Jonathan Bean

Lulu and the Dog from the Sea
(Recommended)
Hilary McKay

The Matchbox Diary
(Recommended)
Paul Fleischman

When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky
(Recommended)
Lauren Stringer

Brush of the Gods
(Recommended)
Lenore Look

Third-Grade Reading Queen
(Recommended)
Claudia Mills

Journey
(Recommended)
Aaron Becker

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

Rooftoppers
(Recommended)
Katherine Rundell

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Woodson

Words with Wings
(Recommended)
Nikki Grimes

Year of the Jungle
(Recommended)
Suzanne Collins

The Year of Billy Miller
(Recommended)
Kevin Henkes

Africa Is My Home
(Recommended)
Monica Edinger

Battle Bunny
(Recommended)
Mac Barnett; Jon Scieszka

Deep in the Sahara
(Recommended)
Kelly Cunnane

Ten to Fourteen

Better Nate Than Ever
(Recommended)
Tim Federle

A Tangle of Knots
(Recommended)
Lisa Graff

Doll Bones
(Recommended)
Holly Black

P.S. Be Eleven
(Recommended)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Far Far Away
(Recommended)
Tom Mcneal

The Thing About Luck
(Recommended)
Cynthia Kadohata

Boxers & Saints Boxed Set
(Recommended)
Gene Luen Yang

Counting by 7s
(Recommended)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Ghost Hawk
(Recommended)
Susan Cooper

The Great Trouble
(Recommended)
Deborah Hopkinson

Screaming Staircase
(Recommended)
Jonathan Stroud

Constable & Toop
(Recommended)
Gareth P. Jones

Up to Seven

Lucky Ducklings
(Recommended)
Eva Moore

One Gorilla
(Recommended)
Anthony Browne

Penny and Her Marble
(Recommended)
Kevin Henkes

Exclamation Mark!
(Recommended)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Inside Outside Book
(Recommended)
Lizi Boyd

Ball
(Recommended)
Mary Sullivan

The Dark
(Recommended)
Lemony Snicket

Farm
(Recommended)
James Brown

A Big Guy Took My Ball!
(Recommended)
Mo Willems

If You Want to See a Whale
(Recommended)
Julie Fogliano

Night Light
(Recommended)
Nicholas Blechman

Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom
(Recommended)
John Rocco

The Favorite Daughter
(Recommended)
Allen Say

Bully
(Recommended)
Laura Vaccaro Seeger

The Day the Crayons Quit
(Recommended)
Drew Daywalt

Wait! Wait!
(Recommended)
Hatsue Nakawaki

Sophie's Squash
(Recommended)
Pat Zietlow Miller

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
(Recommended)
Peter Brown

Mr. Wuffles!
(Recommended)
David Wiesner

The Tortoise & the Hare
(Recommended)
Jerry Pinkney

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

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