Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Seven to Ten

Awards List

2015

Mumbet's Declaration of Independence
(Recommended)
Gretchen Woelfle

The Scraps Book
(Recommended)
Lois Ehlert

A Walk in Paris
(Recommended)
Salvatore Rubbino

Hidden: A Child's View of the Holocaust
(Recommended)
Loic Dauvillier

All Different Now
(Recommended)
Angela Johnson

Gravity
(Recommended)
Jason Chin

Emily's Blue Period
(Recommended)
Cathleen Daly

El Deafo
(Recommended)
Cece Bell

The Farmer and the Clown
(Recommended)
Marla Frazee

Nuts to You
(Recommended)
Lynne Rae Perkins

Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads
(Recommended)
Bob Shea

Mikis and the Donkey
(Recommended)
Bibi Dumon Tak

2014

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

2013

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

2012

Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie
(Recommended)
Julie Sternberg

The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
(Recommended)
Wendy Wan-Long Shang

The Great Migration: Journey to the North
(Recommended)
Eloise Greenfield

Zita the Spacegirl
(Recommended)
Ben Hatke

Night Flight: Amelia Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
(Recommended)
Robert Burleigh

The Trouble With Chickens
(Recommended)
Doreen Cronin

The Penderwicks at Point Mouette
(Recommended)
Jeanne Birdsall

Grin and Bear It
(Recommended)
Leo Landry

Pearl Verses the World
(Recommended)
Sally Murphy

Clementine and the Family Meeting
(Recommended)
Sara Pennypacker

The Unforgotten Coat
(Recommended)
Frank Cottrell Boyce

E-Mergency!
(Recommended)
Tom Lichtenheld

Secrets at Sea
(Recommended)
Richard Peck

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature
(Recommended)
Joyce Sidman

The Third Gift
(Recommended)
Linda Sue Park

Junonia
(Recommended)
Kevin Henkes

2011

The "Extraordinary" Mark Twain
(Recommended)
Barbara Kerley

Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
(Recommended)
Andrea Davis Pinkney / Andrea Pinkney

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
(Recommended)
Marilyn Singer

The Night Fairy
(Recommended)
Laura Amy Schlitz

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
(Recommended)
Tom Angleberger

School, Drool and Other Daily Disasters
(Recommended)
Rachel Vail

As Simple As It Seems
(Recommended)
Sarah Weeks

Ruth And The Green Book
(Recommended)
Calvin A. Ramsey

The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester
(Recommended)
Barbara O'Connor

GUYKU
(Recommended)
Bob Raczka

Mirror
(Recommended)
Jeannie Baker

2010

Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude
(Recommended)
Jonah Winter

Redwoods
(Recommended)
Jason Chin

How Oliver Olson Changed the World
(Recommended)
Claudia Mills

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
(Recommended)
Grace Lin

2009

Donavan's Double Trouble
(Recommended)
Monalisa DeGross

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
(Recommended)
Marla Frazee

Silent Music
(Recommended)
James Rumford

Annie and Simon
(Recommended)
Catharine O'Neill

How I Learned Geography
(Recommended)
Uri Shulevitz

The Willoughbys
(Recommended)
Lois Lowry

Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears
(Recommended)
Emily Gravett

Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog
(Recommended)
Mini Grey

Abc3D
(Recommended)
Marion Bataille

Masterpiece
(Recommended)
Elise Broach

There's a Wolf at the Door
(Recommended)
Zoe Alley

Wabi Sabi
(Recommended)
Mark Reibstein

Abe's Honest Words
(Recommended)
Doreen Rappaport

2008

Henry's Freedom Box
(Recommended)
Ellen Levine

Wind Flyers
(Recommended)
Angela Johnson

The Talented Clementine
(Recommended)
Sara Pennypacker
  • / General Fiction
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A Seed Is Sleepy
(Recommended)
Dianna Hutts Aston

No Talking
(Recommended)
Andrew Clements

A Crooked Kind of Perfect
(Recommended)
Linda Urban

Little Red Riding Hood
(Recommended)
Jerry Pinkney

2007

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
(Recommended)
Kate DiCamillo

Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding
(Recommended)
Lenore Look

John, Paul, George & Ben
(Recommended)
Lane Smith

Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
(Recommended)
Lenore Look

Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride
(Recommended)
Kate DiCamillo

Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!
(Recommended)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

One Potato, Two Potato
(Recommended)
Cynthia DeFelice

Clementine
(Recommended)
Sara Pennypacker

Flotsam
(Recommended)
David Wiesner

Moses
(Recommended)
Carole Boston Weatherford

2006

Sweet Smell of Roses
(Recommended)
Angela Johnson

Precious and the Boo Hag
(Recommended)
Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

Freedom on the Menu
(Recommended)
Carole Boston Weatherford

Michael Rosen's Sad Book
(Recommended)
Quentin Blake

Seen Art?
(Recommended)
Jon Scieszka

The Penderwicks
(Recommended)
Jeanne Birdsall

Mercy Watson to the Rescue
(Recommended)
Kate DiCamillo

Show Way
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Woodson

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