2018 Georgia Children's Book Award

Awards List

Children's Book (Grades 4 - 5)

Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy
(Nominee)
Susan Vaught

The Wild Robot
(Nominee)
Peter Brown

Unidentified Suburban Object
(Nominee)
Mike Jung

Ms. Bixby's Last Day
(Nominee)
John David Anderson

Nine, Ten
(Nominee)
Nora Raleigh Baskin

Children's Book (Grades 4 - 8)

The Seventh Most Important Thing
(Nominee)
Shelley Pearsall

House Arrest
(Nominee)
K.A. Holt

Pax
(Nominee)
Sara Pennypacker

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
(Nominee)
Leslie Connor

Once Was a Time
(Nominee)
Leila Sales

As Brave as You
(Nominee)
Jason Reynolds

Lily and Dunkin
(Nominee)
Donna Gephart

Mayday
(Nominee)
Karen Harrington

Waiting for Augusta
(Nominee)
Jessica Lawson

What Elephants Know
(Nominee)
Eric Dinerstein

Wolf Hollow
(Nominee)
Lauren Wolk

When Friendship Followed Me Home
(Nominee)
Paul Griffin

The Best Man
(Nominee)
Richard Peck

Projekt 1065
(Nominee)
Alan M. Gratz

Children's Book (Grades 6 - 8)

Echo
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Orbiting Jupiter
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

Salt to the Sea
(Nominee)
Ruta Sepetys

Booked
(Nominee)
Kwame Alexander

Some Kind of Happiness
(Nominee)
Claire Legrand

Picture Book

I Don't Want to Be a Frog
(Nominee)
Dev Petty

The New Small Person
(Nominee)
Lauren Child

Red: A Crayon's Story
(Nominee)
Michael Hall

Tell Me What to Dream about
(Nominee)
Giselle Potter

Granddaddy's Turn
(Nominee)
Michael S. Bandy; Eric Stein

Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans
(Nominee)
Phil Bildner

The Night Gardener
(Nominee)
Terry Fan; Eric Fan

Cloth Lullaby
(Nominee)
Amy Novesky

Are We There Yet?
(Nominee)
Dan Santat

Maybe Something Beautiful
(Nominee)
F. Isabel Campoy

Diana's White House Garden
(Nominee)
Elisa Carbone

It Came in the Mail
(Nominee)
Ben Clanton

The Lion Inside
(Nominee)
Rachel Bright

Lion Lessons
(Nominee)
Jon Agee

School's First Day of School
(Nominee)
Adam Rex

The Darkest Dark
(Nominee)
Chris Hadfield

Award Categories

Children's Book (Grades 4 - 5)

Children's Book (Grades 4 - 8)

Children's Book (Grades 6 - 8)

Picture Book

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