2020 Junior Library Guild (Awarded by Junior Library Guild)

Awards List

Selection

The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer
(*)
Andy Runton

The Crossover
(*)
Kwame Alexander

Roller Girl
(*)
Victoria Jamieson

Wonder Woman: Warbringer
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

Illegal
(*)
Eoin Colfer

Jack Blasts Off
(*)
Mac Barnett

On the Come Up
(*)
Angie Thomas

Hi, Jack!
(*)
Mac Barnett

Eleanor Roosevelt's in My Garage!
(*)
Candace Fleming

Mr. Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets
(*)
Alex T. Smith

My Winter City
(*)
James Gladstone

Tight
(*)
Torrey Maldonado

Counting to Perfect
(*)
Suzanne LaFleur

Louisiana's Way Home
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

Mech Cadet Yu Vol. 2
(*)
Greg Pak

Monstrous Devices
(*)
Damien Love

Inkling
(*)
Kenneth Oppel

Dragon Pearl
(*)
Yoon Ha Lee

The Friendship War
(*)
Andrew Clements

Ninth House
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

One-Third Nerd
(*)
Gennifer Choldenko

Two Can Keep a Secret
(*)
Karen M. McManus

The Unteachables
(*)
Gordon Korman

The Bridge Home
(*)
Padma Venkatraman

Narwhal's Otter Friend
(*)
Ben Clanton

Pretend She's Here
(*)
Luanne Rice

We Set the Dark on Fire
(*)
Tehlor Kay Mejia

Field Notes on Love
(*)
Jennifer E. Smith

The Great Jeff
(*)
Tony Abbott

House of a Million Rooms
(*)
Wil Mara

Lovely War
(*)
Julie Berry

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
(*)
Carlos Hernandez

Sweeping Up the Heart
(*)
Kevin Henkes

Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants
(*)
Andrea Beaty

Aru Shah and the Song of Death
(*)
Roshani Chokshi

Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal
(*)
Jeff Kinney

Flubby Will Not Play with That
(*)
J.E. Morris

Good Dog, McTavish
(*)
Meg Rosoff

The Line Tender
(*)
Kate Allen

Our Castle by the Sea
(*)
Lucy Strange

Sparky & Spike
(*)
Barbara Lowell

The Strangers
(*)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Things That Don't Make Sense
(*)
Brynn Kelly (1)

A Is for Elizabeth
(*)
Rachel Vail

Big Mouth Elizabeth
(*)
Rachel Vail

Big Problemas
(*)
Juana Medina

A Box of Bones
(*)
Marina Cohen

Camp Shady Crook
(*)
Lee Gjertsen Malone

The Candle and the Flame
(*)
Nafiza Azad

The Clockwork Ghost
(*)
Laura Ruby

The Doughnut King
(*)
Jessie Janowitz

Finding Orion
(*)
John David Anderson

The First
(*)
Katherine Applegate

Harold & Hog Pretend For Real!
(*)
Dan Santat

I Wish You All the Best
(*)
Mason Deaver

The Kingdom
(*)
Jess Rothenberg

Knights vs. Monsters
(*)
Matt Phelan

Maybe I Can Love My Neighbor Too
(*)
Jennifer Grant

Missing, Presumed Dead
(*)
Emma Berquist

Nixie Ness: Cooking Star
(*)
Claudia Mills

Other Words for Home
(*)
Jasmine Warga

Paper Mice
(*)
Megan Wagner Lloyd

Pie in the Sky
(*)
Remy Lai

A Place to Belong
(*)
Cynthia Kadohata

The Red Maze
(*)
Mark Siegel

She's the Liar
(*)
Alison Cherry

Shouting at the Rain
(*)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Solving for M
(*)
Jennifer Swender

There's Something about Sweetie
(*)
Sandhya Menon

These Witches Don't Burn
(*)
Isabel Sterling

The Things She's Seen
(*)
Ambelin Kwaymullina

A Trip To the Top of the Volcano with Mouse
(*)
Viva

Up for Air
(*)
Laurie Morrison

The Usual Suspects
(*)
Maurice Broaddus

With the Fire on High
(*)
Elizabeth Acevedo

The Worst Book Ever
(*)
Elise Gravel

All the Greys on Greene Street
(*)
Laura Tucker

Bruce's Big Fun Day
(*)
Ryan T. Higgins

Cursed
(*)
Karol Ruth Silverstein

The Darwin Affair
(*)
Tim Mason

Duckworth, the Difficult Child
(*)
Michael Sussman

Five Midnights
(*)
Ann Davila Cardinal

The Girl Who Sailed the Stars
(*)
Matilda Woods

The Grief Keeper
(*)
Alexandra Villasante

The Hideout
(*)
Susanna Mattiangeli

Horse & Buggy Paint It Out!
(*)
Ethan Long

Hungry Hearts
(*)
Elsie Chapman

Like a Love Story
(*)
Abdi Nazemian

Nadya Skylung and the Masked Kidnapper
(*)
Jeff Seymour

Patron Saints of Nothing
(*)
Randy Ribay

Puppy Truck
(*)
Brian Pinkney

Queen of the Sea
(*)
Dylan Meconis

The Rest of the Story
(*)
Sarah Dessen

Sam the Man & the Cell Phone Plan
(*)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

See Me Play
(*)
Paul Meisel

The Singing Rock & Other Brand-New Fairy Tales
(*)
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

A Small Zombie Problem
(*)
K.G. Campbell

Sorry for Your Loss
(*)
Jessie Ann Foley

Tell Me How You Really Feel
(*)
Aminah Mae Safi

This Time Will Be Different
(*)
Misa Sugiura

This Was Our Pact
(*)
Ryan Andrews

Virtually Yours
(*)
Sarvenaz Tash

When the Ground Is Hard
(*)
Malla Nunn

Wicked Fox
(*)
Kat Cho

The Zombie Steals Home
(*)
Scott Morse

Changeling
(*)
William Ritter

Hawking
(*)
Jim Ottaviani

Hide and Seek
(*)
Katie May Green

I'm Trying to Love Math
(*)
Bethany Barton

Look Out! A Storm!
(*)
David Milgrim

Maybe This Time
(*)
Kasie West

Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
(*)
Guillermo del Toro; Chuck Hogan

The Pigeon HAS to Go to School!
(*)
Mo Willems

Raven
(*)
Kami Garcia

The Rise of Kyoshi
(*)
F.C. Yee

Rocket's Very Fine Day
(*)
Tad Hills

Spin the Dawn
(*)
Elizabeth Lim

Survivor Girl
(*)
Erin Teagan

Truman
(*)
Jean Reidy

Ultrabot's First Playdate
(*)
Josh Schneider

Vroom!
(*)
Barbara McClintock

We Walked the Sky
(*)
Lisa Fiedler

Alfred's Book of Monsters
(*)
Sam Streed

Back to the Drawing Board
(*)
Kristen Gudsnuk

The Beasts of Grimheart
(*)
Kieran Larwood

Cats: Nature and Nurture
(*)
Andy Hirsch

The Downstairs Girl
(*)
Stacey Lee

Ghost
(*)
Illustratus

Goldilocks for Dinner
(*)
Susan Montanari

I Got Next
(*)
Daria Peoples-Riley

Marie Curie: A Life of Discovery
(*)
Alice Milani

On Thin Ice
(*)
Michael Northrop

Poppy and Sam and the Mole Mystery
(*)
Cathon

Skyjacked
(*)
Paul Griffin

A Slip of a Girl
(*)
Patricia Reilly Giff

Spot & Dot
(*)
Henry Cole

Super Potato's Mega Time-Travel Adventure
(*)
Artur Laperla

Truly Madly Royally
(*)
Debbie Rigaud

Two for Me, One for You
(*)
Jorg Muhle

Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black
(*)
Julian Sedgwick

Aalfred and Aalbert
(*)
Morag Hood

The Avant-Guards Vol. 1
(*)
Carly Usdin

Bad Bella
(*)
Ali Standish

The Balcony
(*)
Melissa Castrillon

Between Us and Abuela
(*)
Mitali Perkins

Beverly, Right Here
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

A Boy Is Not a Bird
(*)
Edeet Ravel

Bruce's Big Storm
(*)
Ryan T. Higgins

Caster
(*)
Elsie Chapman

Child of St Kilda
(*)
Beth Waters

The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster
(*)
Cary Fagan

The Distance between Me and the Cherry Tree
(*)
Paola Peretti

Douglas
(*)
Randy Cecil

Ella McKeen, Kickball Queen
(*)
Beth Mills

The Fresh New Face of Griselda
(*)
Jennifer Torres

Girl Under a Red Moon
(*)
Da Chen

Grass
(*)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

The Great Santa Stakeout
(*)
Betsy Bird

Guts
(*)
Raina Telgemeier

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass
(*)
Mariko Tamaki

Helen's Birds
(*)
Sara Cassidy

How to Be Remy Cameron
(*)
Julian Winters

I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919
(*)
Lauren Tarshis

I Want a Dog
(*)
Jon Agee

Iggy's World
(*)
Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Indian No More
(*)
Charlene Willing McManis

It's the End of the World as I Know It
(*)
Matthew Landis

Joe Quinn's Poltergeist
(*)
David Almond

The Knights of Mars
(*)
Alex Alice

The Long Ride
(*)
Marina Budhos

Mammal Takeover!
(*)
Abby Howard

A Match Made in Mehendi
(*)
Nandini Bajpai

Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus
(*)
Dusti Bowling

Mr. Scruff
(*)
Simon James

Noodleheads Fortress of Doom
(*)
Mitch Weiss; Martha Hamilton; Tedd Arnold

Nya's Long Walk
(*)
Linda Sue Park

Once Upon a Goat
(*)
Dan Richards

Otto Goes North
(*)
Ulrika Kestere

Our Favorite Day
(*)
Joowon Oh

The Proudest Blue
(*)
Ibtihaj Muhammad

Rated
(*)
Melissa Grey

Sauerkraut
(*)
Kelly Jones

The Scarecrow
(*)
Beth Ferry

SLAY
(*)
Brittney Morris

Small in the City
(*)
Sydney Smith

Smell My Foot!
(*)
Cece Bell

Snack Attack!
(*)
Terry Border

Snail and Worm All Day
(*)
Tina Kugler

Spencer's New Pet
(*)
Jessie Sima

Stargazing
(*)
Jen Wang

Top-Secret Smackdown
(*)
Mac Barnett

The Tyrant's Tomb
(*)
Rick Riordan

Unicorns 101
(*)
Cale Atkinson

The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue
(*)
Karina Yan Glaser

Wildfire
(*)
Rodman Philbrick

Allies
(*)
Alan M. Gratz

Along the Tapajos
(*)
Fernando Vilela

The Best at It
(*)
Maulik Pancholy

Beware!
(*)
Bob Raczka

A Big Bed for Little Snow
(*)
Grace Lin

Blood Mountain
(*)
James Preller

Bouncing Back
(*)
Scott Ostler

The Class
(*)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

The Clothesline
(*)
Orbie

Dear Sweet Pea
(*)
Julie Murphy

The Disaster Days
(*)
Rebecca Behrens

Double Bass Blues
(*)
Andrea Loney

Everything Awesome About Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Beasts
(*)
Mike Lowery

Field Trip
(*)
Molly Brooks

The Forty Thieves: Marjana's Tale
(*)
Christy Lenzi

The Fountains of Silence
(*)
Ruta Sepetys

Frank and Bean
(*)
Jamie Michalak

Frostfire
(*)
Jamie Smith

Hello
(*)
Aiko Ikegami

The Hike
(*)
Alison Farrell

I Hope You Get This Message
(*)
Farah Naz Rishi

Jackpot
(*)
Nic Stone

Just In Case You Want to Fly
(*)
Julie Fogliano

The Last True Poets of the Sea
(*)
Julia Drake

Lintang and the Pirate Queen
(*)
Tamara Moss

Little Frida
(*)
Anthony Browne

Look Both Ways
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Maybe He Just Likes You
(*)
Barbara Dee

The Moose of Ewenki
(*)
Gerelchimeg Blackcrane

The Never Tilting World
(*)
Rin Chupeco

No Room for a Pup!
(*)
Elizabeth Suneby

One Fox
(*)
Kate Read

Our Year in Love and Parties
(*)
Karen Hattrup

Please Don't Eat Me
(*)
Liz Climo

Pokko and the Drum
(*)
Matthew Forsythe

Ra the Mighty: The Great Tomb Robbery
(*)
A.B. Greenfield

River
(*)
Elisha Cooper

Rogue Heart
(*)
Axie Oh

salt slow
(*)
Julia Armfield

The Space We're In
(*)
Katya Balen

The Story That Cannot Be Told
(*)
J. Kasper Kramer

Sunny Rolls the Dice
(*)
Jennifer L. Holm

Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
(*)
Laura Ruby

This Is Not That Kind of Book
(*)
Christopher Healy

Tiny Tough
(*)
Abby Hanlon

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
(*)
Kwame Mbalia

The Trouble with Time Travel
(*)
Stephen W. Martin

The Twisted Ones
(*)
T. Kingfisher

Under the Broken Sky
(*)
Mariko Nagai

The Underhills
(*)
Bob Graham

The Upper Case: Trouble in Capital City
(*)
Tara Lazar

War Girls
(*)
Tochi Onyebuchi

The Whispering Wars
(*)
Jaclyn Moriarty

White Bird
(*)
R.J. Palacio

Who is the Mystery Reader?
(*)
Mo Willems

Why?
(*)
Adam Rex

The Year We Fell From Space
(*)
Amy Sarig King

Across a Broken Shore
(*)
Amy Trueblood

All the Things We Do in the Dark
(*)
Saundra Mitchell

All-American Muslim Girl
(*)
Nadine Jolie Courtney

The Betrayer
(*)
Stel Pavlou

Bolivar Eats New York
(*)
Sean Rubin

Catfishing on CatNet
(*)
Naomi Kritzer

The Cheffe
(*)
Marie Ndiaye

A Constellation of Roses
(*)
Miranda Asebedo

Crying Laughing
(*)
Lance Rubin

Every Stolen Breath
(*)
Kimberly Gabriel

Full Disclosure
(*)
Camryn Garrett

Gravity
(*)
Sarah Deming

Henry and Bea
(*)
Jessixa Bagley

The House
(*)
Paco Roca

The Light at the Bottom of the World
(*)
London Shah

Lily the Thief
(*)
Janne Kukkonen

Little Mole's Wish
(*)
Sang-Keun Kim

Penny and Her Sled
(*)
Kevin Henkes

Pluto Gets the Call
(*)
Adam Rex

A River of Royal Blood
(*)
Amanda Joy

Shadowscent
(*)
P.M. Freestone

Sick Kids In Love
(*)
Hannah Moskowitz

Song of the Crimson Flower
(*)
Julie C. Dao

A Thousand Fires
(*)
Shannon Price

Wild Honey from the Moon
(*)
Kenneth Kraegel

Wrecking Ball
(*)
Jeff Kinney

Dangerous Alliance
(*)
Jennieke Cohen

Do Fish Sleep?
(*)
Jens Raschke

Dog Driven
(*)
Terry Lynn Johnson

Freedom Soup
(*)
Tami Charles

Major Impossible
(*)
Nathan Hale

The Serious Goose
(*)
Jimmy Kimmel

Where the World Ends
(*)
Geraldine McCaughrean

Almost Time
(*)
Gary D. Schmidt

Bear Goes Sugaring
(*)
Maxwell Eaton III

The Best of Iggy
(*)
Annie Barrows

Catherine's War
(*)
Julia Billet

Clean Getaway
(*)
Nic Stone

Dark and Deepest Red
(*)
Anna-Marie McLemore

Green Lantern: Legacy
(*)
Minh Le

In a Jar
(*)
Deborah Marcero

Leaving Lymon
(*)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

Lizzie Demands a Seat!
(*)
Beth Anderson

One of Us Is Next
(*)
Karen M. McManus

Overground Railroad
(*)
Lesa Cline-Ransome

Race to the Sun
(*)
Rebecca Roanhorse

Scavenge the Stars
(*)
Tara Sim

The Thief Knot
(*)
Kate Milford

Three Things I Know Are True
(*)
Betty Culley

Where's Baby?
(*)
Anne Hunter

All the Pieces Fit
(*)
Judd Winick

Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier
(*)
Jim Ottaviani

Blood Sport
(*)
Tash McAdam

The Bold, Brave Bunny
(*)
Beth Ferry

Bug Boys
(*)
Laura Knetzger

Dandelion's Dream
(*)
Yoko Tanaka

Friday Night Wrestlefest
(*)
J.F. Fox

Gloom Town
(*)
Ronald L. Smith

The Golden Age, Book 1
(*)
Roxanne Moreil

Grow a Garden!
(*)
Alexis Frederick-Frost

How to Build a Heart
(*)
Maria Padian

Itch
(*)
Polly Farquhar

Noisemakers
(*)
Kazoo Media

Old Rock (is not boring)
(*)
Deb Pilutti

On the Rocks
(*)
Eric Walters

Sea Sheep
(*)
Eric Seltzer

The Shark Report
(*)
Derek Anderson

Snail Crossing
(*)
Corey R. Tabor

Snapdragon
(*)
Kat Leyh

Taylor Before and After
(*)
Jennie Englund

Up On Bob
(*)
Mary Sullivan

When You Trap a Tiger
(*)
Tae Keller

Aster and the Accidental Magic
(*)
Thom Pico

A Bear Named Bjorn
(*)
Delphine Perret

Charlie & Mouse Outdoors
(*)
Laurel Snyder

Crows: Genius Birds
(*)
Kyla Vanderklugt

Egg or Eyeball?
(*)
Cece Bell

Flight for Freedom
(*)
Kristen Fulton

Goodnight, Veggies
(*)
Diana Murray

Hello, World!
(*)
Ethan Long

Hike
(*)
Pete Oswald

King & Kayla and the Case of the Unhappy Neighbor
(*)
Dori Hillestad Butler

The Littlest Voyageur
(*)
Margi Preus

Most Wanted
(*)
Sarah Jane Marsh

My Best Friend
(*)
Julie Fogliano

The Nest That Wren Built
(*)
Randi Sonenshine

Nesting
(*)
Henry Cole

Open Fire
(*)
Amber Lough

The Three Billy Goats Buenos
(*)
Susan Middleton Elya

Vamos! Let's Go Eat
(*)
Raul the Third

Vera Vance: Comics Star
(*)
Claudia Mills

Baby Clown
(*)
Kara LaReau

Baloney and Friends
(*)
Greg Pizzoli

The Cat Man of Aleppo
(*)
Irene Latham; Karim Shamsi-Basha

Department of Mind-Blowing Theories
(*)
Tom Gauld

Don't Worry, Little Crab
(*)
Chris Haughton

Fergus and Zeke and the Field Day Challenge
(*)
Kate Messner

Fox & Rabbit
(*)
Beth Ferry

A Is for Another Rabbit
(*)
Hannah Batsel

Knot Cannot
(*)
Tiffany Stone

The Little Duckling Who Wouldn't Get Wet
(*)
Gek Tessaro

Madame Badobedah
(*)
Sophie Dahl

Marvin & James Save the Day and Elaine Helps!
(*)
Elise Broach

Ronan the Librarian
(*)
Tara Luebbe

Sticks & Scones
(*)
Ngozi Ukazu

The Stone Giant
(*)
Anna Hoglund

This Way, Charlie
(*)
Caron Levis

What a Masterpiece!
(*)
Riccardo Guasco

What Grew in Larry's Garden
(*)
Laura Alary

XL
(*)
Scott Brown

The Amber Anthem
(*)
Mark Siegel

The Camping Trip
(*)
Jennifer K. Mann

Dear Beast
(*)
Dori Hillestad Butler

Hooray for Lolo
(*)
Catalyst Press

Let's Go to Taekwondo!
(*)
Aram Kim

Lift
(*)
Minh Le

Our Friend Hedgehog
(*)
Lauren Castillo

What About Worms!?
(*)
Ryan T. Higgins

13 Stories About Harris
(*)
Amy Schwartz

King of King Court
(*)
Travis Dandro

Field Trip to the Ocean Deep
(*)
John Hare

Horse & Buggy Plant a Seed!
(*)
Ethan Long

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