Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth
About the Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth
Committed to providing a broad selection of outstanding books that mixes popular appeal with literary excellence, the Books for Youth editorial staff has chosen the titles below as best-of-the-year fiction, nonfiction, and picture books.
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| Name | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Z Is for Moose | Z Is for Moose | 2012 - Selection |
| The Children and the Wolves | The Children and the Wolves | 2012 - Selection |
| The Miseducation of Cameron Post | The Miseducation of Cameron Post | 2012 - Selection |
| Keeping the Castle | Keeping the Castle | 2012 - Selection |
| Grave Mercy | Grave Mercy | 2012 - Selection |
| The Girl with Borrowed Wings. | The Girl with Borrowed Wings | 2012 - Selection |
| Fire in the Streets | Fire in the Streets | 2012 - Selection |
| The Final Four | The Final Four | 2012 - Selection |
| The Fault in Our Stars | The Fault in Our Stars | 2012 - Selection |
| Every Day | Every Day | 2012 - Selection |
| Drama | Drama | 2012 - Selection |
| Dodger | Dodger | 2012 - Selection |
| Code Name Verity | Code Name Verity | 2012 - Selection |
| Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas | Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas. | 2012 - Selection |
| Never Fall Down | Never Fall Down | 2012 - Selection |
| Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle | Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle | 2012 - Selection |
| Just Ducks! | Just Ducks! | 2012 - Selection |
| Brothers at Bat | Brothers at Bat | 2012 - Selection |
| It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw | It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw. | 2012 - Selection |
| The Fairy Ring; or, Elsie and Frances Fool the World | The Fairy Ring; or, Elsie and Frances Fool the World. | 2012 - Selection |
| The Boston Tea Party | The Boston Tea Party | 2012 - Selection |
| Wild Horse Scientists | Wild Horse Scientists | 2012 - Selection |
| We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March | We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March | 2012 - Selection |
| Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different | Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different | 2012 - Selection |
| Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 | Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 | 2012 - Selection |
| Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years | Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years | 2012 - Selection |
| My Book of Life by Angel | My Book of Life by Angel | 2012 - Selection |
| Quarantine: The Loners | Quarantine: The Loners | 2012 - Selection |
| Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story behind an American Friendship. | Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story behind an American Friendship. | 2012 - Selection |
| And Then It’s Spring | And Then It’s Spring | 2012 - Selection |
| This Is Not My Hat | This Is Not My Hat | 2012 - Selection |
| Sleep like a Tiger | Sleep like a Tiger | 2012 - Selection |
| Penny and Her Song | Penny and Her Song | 2012 - Selection |
| Machines Go to Work in the City | Machines Go to Work in the City | 2012 - Selection |
| Jimmy the Greatest | Jimmy the Greatest | 2012 - Selection |
| Homer | Homer | 2012 - Selection |
| Green | Green | 2012 - Selection |
| Extra Yarn | Extra Yarn | 2012 - Selection |
| Cold Snap | Cold Snap | 2012 - Selection |
| Boot and Shoe | Boot and Shoe | 2012 - Selection |
| Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic | Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic | 2012 - Selection |
| Wonder | Wonder | 2012 - Selection |
| Railsea | Railsea | 2012 - Selection |
| Twelve Kinds of Ice | Twelve Kinds of Ice | 2012 - Selection |
| Three Times Lucky | Three Times Lucky | 2012 - Selection |
| Starry River of the Sky | Starry River of the Sky | 2012 - Selection |
| Splendors and Glooms | Splendors and Glooms | 2012 - Selection |
| Lulu and the Duck in the Park | Lulu and the Duck in the Park | 2012 - Selection |
| Jump into the Sky | Jump into the Sky | 2012 - Selection |
| The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict | The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict | 2012 - Selection |
| The Boy on Cinnamon Street | The Boy on Cinnamon Street | 2012 - Selection |
| A Boy Called Dickens | A Boy Called Dickens | 2012 - Selection |
| Sophia’s War: A Tale of Revolution | Sophia’s War: A Tale of Revolution | 2012 - Selection |
| Seraphina | Seraphina | 2012 - Selection |
| Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust | Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust | 2012 - Selection |
| Mouse & Lion | Mouse & Lion | 2011 - Selection |
| Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans | Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans | 2011 - Selection |
| Leverage | Leverage | 2011 - Selection |
| Drawing from Memory | Drawing from Memory | 2011 - Selection |
| Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoops on the Map | Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoops on the Map | 2011 - Selection |
| You Killed Wesley Payne | You Killed Wesley Payne | 2011 - Selection |
| Why We Broke Up | Why We Broke Up | 2011 - Selection |
| The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic | The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic | 2011 - Selection |
| Paper Covers Rock | Paper Covers Rock | 2011 - Selection |
| Okay for Now | Okay for Now | 2011 - Selection |
| Now Playing: Stoner & Spaz II | Now Playing: Stoner & Spaz II. | 2011 - Selection |
| A Monster Calls | A Monster Calls | 2011 - Selection |
| Life: An Exploded Diagram | Life: An Exploded Diagram. | 2011 - Selection |
| Karma | Karma | 2011 - Selection |
| The House Baba Built: An Artist’s Childhood in China | The House Baba Built: An Artist’s Childhood in China | 2011 - Selection |
| Island’s End | Island’s End | 2011 - Selection |
| Guantanamo Boy | Guantanamo Boy | 2011 - Selection |
| Chime | Chime | 2011 - Selection |
| The Big Crunch | The Big Crunch | 2011 - Selection |
| Between Shades of Gray. | Between Shades of Gray | 2011 - Selection |
| Anya’s Ghost | Anya’s Ghost | 2011 - Selection |
| The Great Migration: Journey to the North | The Great Migration: Journey to the North. | 2011 - Selection |
| Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration. | Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration | 2011 - Selection |
| I. M. Pei: Architect of Time, Place, and Purpose | I. M. Pei: Architect of Time, Place, and Purpose | 2011 - Selection |
| Gangs | Gangs | 2011 - Selection |
| Stars | Stars | 2011 - Selection |
| 9780823422517 | Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto. | 2011 - Selection |
| Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition | Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition | 2011 - Selection |
| A Storm Called Katrina | A Storm Called Katrina | 2011 - Selection |
| No Two Alike | No Two Alike | 2011 - Selection |
| Mudkin | Mudkin | 2011 - Selection |
| Lola’s Fandango | Lola’s Fandango | 2011 - Selection |
| 999 Tadpoles | 999 Tadpoles | 2011 - Selection |
| Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature. | Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature | 2011 - Selection |
| A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis | A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis | 2011 - Selection |
| Me . . . Jane | Me . . . Jane | 2011 - Selection |
| Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade | Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade. | 2011 - Selection |
| Wonderstruck | Wonderstruck | 2011 - Selection |
| The Wikkeling | The Wikkeling | 2011 - Selection |
| Sparrow Road | Sparrow Road | 2011 - Selection |
| Roots and Blues: A Celebration | Roots and Blues: A Celebration | 2011 - Selection |
| The Silver Bowl | The Silver Bowl | 2011 - Selection |
| No Ordinary Day | No Ordinary Day | 2011 - Selection |
| Never Forgotten | Never Forgotten | 2011 - Selection |
| My Name Is Mina | My Name Is Mina | 2011 - Selection |
| Mo Wren, Lost and Found. | Mo Wren, Lost and Found | 2011 - Selection |
| Lost & Found | Lost & Found | 2011 - Selection |
| Inside Out and Back Again | Inside Out and Back Again | 2011 - Selection |
| The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making | 2011 - Selection |
| Brother Sun, Sister Moon | Brother Sun, Sister Moon | 2011 - Selection |
| Around the World | Around the World | 2011 - Selection |
| The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps | The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps | 2011 - Selection |
| Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy | Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy | 2011 - Selection |
| 2008 booklist editors choice youth | 2008 - Selection | |
| 2007 booklist editors choice youth | 2007 - Selection | |
| 2006 booklist editors choice youth | 2006 - Selection | |
| 2005 booklist editors choice youth | 2005 - Selection |
