Kentucky Bluegrass Award - Grades 6-8

Awards List

2016

The Crossover
(Nominee)
Kwame Alexander

I Kill the Mockingbird
(Nominee)
Paul Acampora

The Night Gardener
(Nominee)
Jonathan Auxier

The Secret Hum of a Daisy
(Nominee)
Tracy Holczer

Curses and Smoke
(Nominee)
Vicky Alvear Shecter

Wildflower
(Nominee)
Alecia Whitaker

The Iron Trial
(Nominee)
Holly Black; Cassandra Clare

Skink -- No Surrender
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

Unfriended
(Nominee)
Rachel Vail

2015

Steelheart
(Winner)
Brandon Sanderson

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
(Nominee)
Liesl Shurtliff

Soldier Dog
(Nominee)
Sam Angus

Doll Bones
(Nominee)
Holly Black

Paperboy
(Nominee)
Vince Vawter

Sure Signs of Crazy
(Nominee)
Karen Harrington

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

The Great Trouble
(Nominee)
Deborah Hopkinson

Steelheart
(Nominee)
Brandon Sanderson

Foul Trouble
(Nominee)
John Feinstein

2014

The Ghost of Graylock
(Winner)
Dan Poblocki

Shelter
(Nominee)
Harlan Coben

Cinder
(Nominee)
Marissa Meyer

The Lions of Little Rock
(Nominee)
Kristin Levine

Chomp
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

The False Prince
(Nominee)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

One for the Murphys
(Nominee)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Guitar Notes
(Nominee)
Mary Amato

Unstoppable
(Nominee)
Tim Green

2013

Legend
(Winner)
Marie Lu

The Fourth Stall
(Nominee)
Chris Rylander

Okay for Now
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

True (. . . Sort Of)
(Nominee)
Katherine Hannigan

Addie on the Inside
(Nominee)
James Howe

The Prisoner of Cell 25
(Nominee)
Richard Paul Evans

The Apothecary
(Nominee)
Maile Meloy

A Monster Calls
(Nominee)
Patrick Ness

Same Sun Here
(Nominee)
Silas House; Neela Vaswani

2012

A Tale Dark and Grimm
(Winner)
Adam Gidwitz

Leaving Gee's Bend
(Nominee)
Irene Latham

The Line
(Nominee)
Teri Hall

Scrawl
(Nominee)
Mark Shulman

Hero
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

A Long Walk to Water
(Nominee)
Linda Sue Park

Virals
(Nominee)
Kathy Reichs; Brendan Reichs

Liar, Liar
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen

Sean Griswold's Head
(Nominee)
Lindsey Leavitt

2011

Million-Dollar Throw
(Winner)
Mike Lupica

2010

The Graveyard Book
(Winner)
Neil Gaiman

2009

Call Me Hope
(Winner)
Gretchen Olson

2008

Rules
(Winner)
Cynthia Lord

2006

So B. It
(Winner)
Sarah Weeks

2002

Stuck in Neutral
(Winner)
Terry Trueman

Award Categories

Children's Literature

Grades 3-5

Grades 4-8

Grades 6-8

Grades 9-12

Grades K-2

Grades K-3

Preschool

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