Rhode Island Children's Book Award - Grades 3-6

Awards List

2016

The Vanishing Coin
(Nominee)
Kate Egan; Mike Lane

Another Day as Emily
(Nominee)
Eileen Spinelli

Kate Walden Directs: Night of the Zombie Chickens
(Nominee)
Julie Mata

The Night Gardener
(Nominee)
Jonathan Auxier

Absolutely Almost
(Nominee)
Lisa Graff

Little Green Men at the Mercury Inn
(Nominee)
Greg Leitich Smith

Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
(Nominee)
Jude Watson

The Swift Boys & Me
(Nominee)
Kody Keplinger

The Map Trap
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Death by Toilet Paper
(Nominee)
Donna Gephart

El Deafo
(Nominee)
Cece Bell

Kinda Like Brothers
(Nominee)
Coe Booth

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

The Trouble with Weasels
(Nominee)
Rob Harrell

Rain Reign
(Nominee)
Ann M. Martin

2015

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
(Winner)
Chris Grabenstein

The Mighty Miss Malone
(Nominee)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Legend of the Ghost Dog
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Navigating Early
(Nominee)
Clare Vanderpool

Athlete vs. Mathlete
(Nominee)
W.C. Mack

Gone Fishing
(Nominee)
Tamera Will Wissinger

Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace
(Nominee)
Nan Marino

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

Doll Bones
(Nominee)
Holly Black

Odessa Again
(Nominee)
Dana Reinhardt

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
(Nominee)
Chris Grabenstein

Third-Grade Reading Queen
(Nominee)
Claudia Mills

Gaby, Lost and Found
(Nominee)
Angela Cervantes

Mountain Dog
(Nominee)
Margarita Engle

The 14 Fibs of Gregory K.
(Nominee)
Greg Pincus

The Blessing Cup
(Nominee)
Patricia Polacco

Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year
(Nominee)
Bill Harley

Wild Born
(Nominee)
Brandon Mull

2014

Wonder
(Winner)
R.J. Palacio

Tuesdays at the Castle
(Nominee)
Jessica Day George

The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Evil Penguin Plan
(Nominee)
Maxwell Eaton III

The One and Only Ivan
(Nominee)
Katherine Applegate

King of the Mound
(Nominee)
Wes Tooke

Double Dog Dare
(Nominee)
Lisa Graff

The False Prince
(Nominee)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Brother from a Box
(Nominee)
Evan Kuhlman

Jake and Lily
(Nominee)
Jerry Spinelli

Three Times Lucky
(Nominee)
Sheila Turnage

The Year of the Book
(Nominee)
Andrea Cheng

Liar & Spy
(Nominee)
Rebecca Stead

The Templeton Twins Have an Idea
(Nominee)
Ellis Weiner

Ungifted
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

2013

Sidekicks
(Winner)
Dan Santat

Small as an Elephant
(Nominee)
Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Tortilla Sun
(Nominee)
Jennifer Cervantes

Because of Mr. Terupt
(Nominee)
Rob Buyea

The PS Brothers
(Nominee)
Maribeth Boelts

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

Won Ton
(Nominee)
Lee Wardlaw

Inside Out and Back Again
(Nominee)
Thanhha Lai

When Life Gives You O.J.
(Nominee)
Erica S. Perl

Fractions = Trouble!
(Nominee)
Claudia Mills

Wonderstruck
(Nominee)
Brian Selznick

The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
(Nominee)
Carmen Agra Deedy

My Life As a Stuntboy
(Nominee)
Janet Tashjian

Pie
(Nominee)
Sarah Weeks

2012

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
(Winner)
Tom Angleberger

Anything But Typical
(Nominee)
Nora Raleigh Baskin

One Crazy Summer
(Nominee)
Rita Williams-Garcia

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

Gator on the Loose!
(Nominee)
Sue Stauffacher

Fish
(Nominee)
Gregory Mone

Junkyard Wonders
(Nominee)
Patricia Polacco

Touch Blue
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

Bink and Gollie
(Nominee)
Kate DiCamillo; Alison McGhee

Lulu and the Brontosaurus
(Nominee)
Judith Viorst

What Happened on Fox Street
(Nominee)
Tricia Springstubb

2011

Donavan's Double Trouble
(Nominee)
Monalisa DeGross

The Magic Thief
(Nominee)
Sarah Prineas

Kenny & the Dragon
(Nominee)
Tony DiTerlizzi

11 Birthdays
(Nominee)
Wendy Mass

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

Redwoods
(Nominee)
Jason Chin

Dying to Meet You
(Nominee)
Kate Klise

How Oliver Olson Changed the World
(Nominee)
Claudia Mills

Umbrella Summer
(Nominee)
Lisa Graff

Wishworks, Inc.
(Nominee)
Stephanie S. Tolan

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
(Nominee)
Grace Lin

Odd and the Frost Giants
(Nominee)
Neil Gaiman

Adventures in Cartooning
(Nominee)
Author Unknown

2010

Stonekeeper
(Winner)
Kazu Kibuishi

Along Came a Spider
(Nominee)
James Patterson

Dexter the Tough
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Someone Named Eva
(Nominee)
Joan M. Wolf

Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It
(Nominee)
Sundee T. Frazier

Shooting the Moon
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Puppy Power
(Nominee)
Judy Cox

The Seer of Shadows
(Nominee)
Avi

Savvy
(Nominee)
Ingrid Law

Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
(Nominee)
Lenore Look

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

The Leanin' Dog
(Nominee)
K.A. Nuzum

The Magic Half
(Nominee)
Annie Barrows

2009

Deep and Dark and Dangerous
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

Being Teddy Roosevelt
(Nominee)
Claudia Mills

The Lemonade War
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Davies

Leepike Ridge
(Nominee)
N.D. Wilson

The Klipfish Code
(Nominee)
Mary Casanova

Dragon's Egg
(Nominee)
Sarah L. Thomson

Home of the Brave
(Nominee)
Katherine Applegate

The White Elephant
(Nominee)
Sid Fleischman

2008

Clementine
(Winner)
Sara Pennypacker

The Naked Mole-Rat Letters
(Nominee)
Mary Amato

The Ghost's Grave
(Nominee)
Peg Kehret

The Coastwatcher
(Nominee)
Elise Weston

Rules
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

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

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

Toys Go Out
(Nominee)
Emily Jenkins

The Sloppy Copy Slipup
(Nominee)
Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan

2007

Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid
(Winner)
Megan McDonald

The Last Holiday Concert
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Zen Shorts
(Nominee)
Jon J. Muth

Chicken Boy
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

2006

The World According To Humphrey
(Winner)
Betty G. Birney

Boxes for Katje
(Nominee)
Candace Fleming

Quake!
(Nominee)
Gail Langer Karwoski

The Old Willis Place
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

Science Verse
(Nominee)
Jon Scieszka

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
(Nominee)
E.L. Konigsburg

2005

Jackie's Wild Seattle
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

The Tale of Despereaux
(Nominee)
Kate DiCamillo

2004

Gooney Bird Greene
(Winner)
Lois Lowry

The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient Egypt
(Nominee)
Claudia Logan

Pictures of Hollis Woods
(Nominee)
Patricia Reilly Giff

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Grades 3-6

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