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

Awards List

2015

Caminar
(Recommended)
Skila Brown

The Crossover
(Recommended)
Kwame Alexander

Freedom Summer
(Recommended)
Susan Goldman Rubin

Lost Girl Found
(Recommended)
Leah Bassoff; Laura DeLuca

West of the Moon
(Recommended)
Margi Preus

The Night Gardener
(Recommended)
Jonathan Auxier

This One Summer
(Recommended)
Jillian Tamaki; Mariko Tamaki

Absolutely Almost
(Recommended)
Lisa Graff

Revolution
(Recommended)
Deborah Wiles

Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms
(Recommended)
Katherine Rundell

The Fourteenth Goldfish
(Recommended)
Jennifer L. Holm

Greenglass House
(Recommended)
Kate Milford

The Red Pencil
(Recommended)
Andrea Davis Pinkney / Andrea Pinkney

The Witch's Boy
(Recommended)
Kelly Barnhill

Rain Reign
(Recommended)
Ann M. Martin

Vango: Between Sky and Earth
(Recommended)
Timothee de Fombelle

2014

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

2013

Seraphina
(Recommended)
Rachel Hartman

The Lions of Little Rock
(Recommended)
Kristin Levine

The Mighty Miss Malone
(Recommended)
Christopher Paul Curtis

The One and Only Ivan
(Recommended)
Katherine Applegate

Wonder
(Recommended)
R.J. Palacio

The Summer of the Gypsy Moths
(Recommended)
Sara Pennypacker

A Greyhound of a Girl
(Recommended)
Roddy Doyle

See You at Harry's
(Recommended)
Jo Knowles

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
(Recommended)
Annabel Pitcher

Drama
(Recommended)
Raina Telgemeier

My Name Is Parvana
(Recommended)
Deborah Ellis

Splendors and Glooms
(Recommended)
Laura Amy Schlitz

2012

Camo Girl
(Recommended)
Kekla Magoon

Inside Out and Back Again
(Recommended)
Thanhha Lai

Lost and Found, Volume 3
(Recommended)
Shaun Tan

Between Shades of Gray // Ashes in the Snow
(Recommended)
Ruta Sepetys

Okay for Now
(Recommended)
Gary D. Schmidt

Ten Miles Past Normal
(Recommended)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

The Trouble with May Amelia
(Recommended)
Jennifer L. Holm

Horton Halfpott: Or, the Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor
(Recommended)
Tom Angleberger

Silhouetted by the Blue
(Recommended)
Traci L. Jones

Bluefish
(Recommended)
Pat Schmatz

Dead End in Norvelt
(Recommended)
Jack Gantos

Wonderstruck
(Recommended)
Brian Selznick

Breadcrumbs
(Recommended)
Anne Ursu

Breaking Stalin's Nose
(Recommended)
Eugene Yelchin

Liesl & Po
(Recommended)
Lauren Oliver

A Web of Air
(Recommended)
Philip Reeve

2011

The Death-Defying Pepper Roux
(Recommended)
Geraldine McCaughrean

After Ever After
(Recommended)
Jordan Sonnenblick

One Crazy Summer
(Recommended)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Smile
(Recommended)
Raina Telgemeier

A Conspiracy of Kings
(Recommended)
Megan Whalen Turner

Out of My Mind
(Recommended)
Sharon M. Draper

The Dreamer
(Recommended)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Mockingbird
(Recommended)
Kathryn Erskine

Turtle in Paradise
(Recommended)
Jennifer L. Holm

Heart of a Samurai
(Recommended)
Margi Preus

Plain Kate
(Recommended)
Erin Bow

2010

Heart of a Shepherd
(Recommended)
Rosanne Parry

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
(Recommended)
Rodman Philbrick

All the Broken Pieces
(Recommended)
Ann E. Burg

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Kelly

Wild Things
(Recommended)
Clay Carmichael

The Duel
(Recommended)
Judith St. George

When You Reach Me
(Recommended)
Rebecca Stead

The Storm in the Barn
(Recommended)
Matt Phelan

Leviathan
(Recommended)
Scott Westerfeld

2009

After Tupac and D Foster
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Boy Who Dared
(Recommended)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Shooting the Moon
(Recommended)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Waiting for Normal
(Recommended)
Leslie Connor

Sunrise Over Fallujah
(Recommended)
Walter Dean Myers

Our White House
(Recommended)
David McCullough

The Porcupine Year
(Recommended)
Louise Erdrich

Chains
(Recommended)
Laurie Halse Anderson

The Graveyard Book
(Recommended)
Neil Gaiman

Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Almost True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka
(Recommended)
Jon Scieszka

2008

Dragon Slippers
(Recommended)
Jessica Day George

Feathers
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
(Recommended)
Brian Selznick

The Mysterious Benedict Society
(Recommended)
Trenton Lee Stewart

Peak
(Recommended)
Roland Smith

The Wednesday Wars
(Recommended)
Gary D. Schmidt

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
(Recommended)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Elijah of Buxton
(Recommended)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
(Recommended)
J.K. Rowling

Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf
(Recommended)
Jennifer L. Holm

Book of a Thousand Days
(Recommended)
Shannon Hale

The Land of the Silver Apples
(Recommended)
Nancy Farmer

The Arrival
(Recommended)
Shaun Tan

Who Was First?
(Recommended)
Russell Freedman

2007

Blood on the River: James Town, 1607
(Recommended)
Elisa Carbone

Jazz
(Recommended)
Walter Dean Myers

Larklight
(Recommended)
Philip Reeve

River Secrets
(Recommended)
Shannon Hale

2006

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(Recommended)
J.K. Rowling

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
(Recommended)
David Lubar

Flush
(Recommended)
Carl Hiaasen

Totally Joe
(Recommended)
James Howe

Where I Want to Be
(Recommended)
Adele Griffin

Criss Cross
(Recommended)
Lynne Rae Perkins

2002

Hush
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Woodson

2001

The Cod's Tale
(Recommended)
Mark Kurlansky

1996

Jip: His Story
(Recommended)
Katherine Paterson

Award Categories

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Seven to Ten

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