State Award Reading List
North Carolina State Reading Lists
North Carolina Children
2012 North Carolina Children
Picture Books
Mr. Duck Means Business
By: Tammi Sauer
Illustrated by: Jeff Mack
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: January 25, 2011
Ages: 4 - 8
All Duck wants in the world is a little bit of peace and quiet, but the other animals on the farm just don't understand. Can Duck make friends with his fellow barnyard animals and still get the peace and quiet he wants?
Other Formats: eBook
Junior Books
Keeper
By: Kathi Appelt
Illustrated by: August Hall
This edition: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publication date: May 18, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
Keeper was born in the ocean, and she believes she is part mermaid. So as a ten-year-old she goes out looking for her mother—an unpredictable and uncommonly gorgeous woman who swam away when Keeper was three—and...
SPHDZ Book #1!
(Part of Spaceheadz)
By: Jon Scieszka
Illustrated by: Shane Prigmore / with: Francesco Sedita
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: June 22, 2010
Ages: 7 - 10
The perfect combination of the age old experience of holding and poring over a physical book with newest media technology that kids love! Michael K. just started fifth grade at a new school. As if that wasn't hard enough, the...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
North Carolina Young Adult Book Award
2011 - 2012 North Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee
Middle School
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...
Pathfinder
By: Orson Scott Card
This edition: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publication date: November 23, 2010
Ages: above 12
A powerful secret. A dangerous path. Rigg is well trained at keeping secrets. Only his father knows the truth about Rigg's strange talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. But when his father dies, Rigg is stunned to...
High School
Clockwork Angel
(Part of Infernal Devices, The)
By: Cassandra Clare
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: August 31, 2010
Ages: above 14
Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013.Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to...
Wither
(Part of Chemical Garden Trilogy, The)
By: Lauren DeStefano
This edition: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publication date: March 22, 2011
Ages: above 14
By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a...
