State Award Reading List
Georgia State Reading Lists
Georgia Children's Book Award
2011 - 2012 Georgia Children's Book Award Nominees
Picture Books
Ivan the Terrier
By: Peter Catalanotto
Illustrated by: Peter Catalanotto
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: September 18, 2007
Ages: 2 - 5
Ivan loves a good story. Like that one about the three bears or those three gruff billy goats. Where else can a dog find such playmates action fun... or a cookie? Ivan's own good story lands him just where he...
Grades 4-6
Extra Credit
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publication date: June 23, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
It isn’t that Abby Carson can’t do her schoolwork. She just doesn’t like doing it. And in February a warning letter arrives at her home. Abby will have to repeat sixth grade—unless she meets some...
Grades 4-8
Anything But Typical
By: Nora Raleigh Baskin
This edition: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publication date: March 24, 2009
Ages: 10 - 14
Jason Blake is an autistic 12-year-old living in a neurotypical world. Most days it's just a matter of time before something goes wrong. But Jason finds a glimmer of understanding when he comes across PhoenixBird, who posts...
Out of My Mind
By: Sharon M. Draper
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: above 10
Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school—but no one knows it. Most...
Grades 6-8
Chains
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: 10 - 14
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister,...
Georgia Peach Award
2011-2012 Georgia Peach Award Nominee
Teen
Shift
By: Jennifer Bradbury
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: May 20, 2008
Ages: above 12
Some friends fade away....Others disappear. Imagine you and your best friend head out West on a cross-country bike trek. Imagine that the two of you get into a fight -- and stop riding together. Imagine you reach...
