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There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom 
El Deafo​

ALA Winners

The One One and Only Ivan 
The Girl Who Drank the Moon 
Finding Langston 
Elijah of Buxton
The Tale of Despereaux
The Whipping Boy 
The Season of Styx Malone
Brown 
We’re Not From Here ​

Fiction

Because of Winn Dixie 
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library 
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe 
Resistance
Elliot and the Goblin War 
Wing and Claw: Forest of Wonders 
Pax 
Towers Falling 
Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy 
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground ​

Non-Fiction

​All In a Drop 

Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of WWI’s Bravest Dog 

Older than Dirt: A Wild but True History of Earth

The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer

Gifts from the Gods: Ancient Words & Wisdom from Greek & Roman Mythology

My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States 

Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII 

Blizzard!

The Elephant Scientist

This Side of Wild