North Carolina State Reading Lists
Award Lists
North Carolina Children's Book Award
North Carolina Middle School Battle of the Books
American Association of University Women North Carolina Young People's Literature Award
2023 North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominee
It Fell from the Sky
From the creators of the critically acclaimed The Night Gardener and Ocean Meets Sky comes a whimsical and elegantly illustrated picture book about...
A Song of Frutas
From Pura Belpré Award–winning author Margarita Engle comes a lively, rhythmic picture book about a little girl visiting her grandfather who is a p...
2022 North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominee
Look Both Ways
A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
A National Book Award Finalist Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book UK Carnegie Medal winner An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 A New York Times Best Chi...
2021 - 2022 North Carolina Middle School Battle of the Books
Maybe He Just Likes You
A 2020 ALA Notable Children’s Book A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2019 Barbara Dee explores the subject of #MeToo for the middle grade a...
2020 American Association of University Women North Carolina Young People's Literature Award
The Trouble with Shooting Stars
“Brimming with hope and sparkling with magic…shines as bright as any shooting star.” —Cassie Beasley, author of Circus Mirandus “Loving, imaginativ...