The William Allen White Children’s Book Awards

“bringing authors, books and children together”

Celebrating 60 years

2013-2014 Master lists

Grades 3 to 5

America is Under Attack:

September 11, 2011: The Day the Towers Fell

by Don Brown

Published by Flash Point, an imprint of Roaring Brook

Press and MacMillan Children’s Publishing Group

Balloons over Broadway: The

True Story of the Puppeteer of

Macy’s Parade

by Melissa Sweet

Art by Melissa SweetReproduced by permission

of Houghton Mifflin

Breaking Stalin’s Nose

by Eugene Yelchin

Published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers,

an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing

Group

Close to Famousby

Joan Bauer

Reprinted by permission of Viking

The Summer of Hammers and

Angelsby

Shannon Wiersbitzky

Reprinted by permission of namelos llc.

Tuesdays at the Castle

by JessicaGeorge

Reprinted by permission of Bloomsbury Books

True…Sort ofby

Katherine Hannigan

Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Wonderstruck:A Novel in Words and

Picturesby

Brian Selznick

Scholastic Press

Grades 6 to 8

Bluefishby

Pat Schmatz

Reproduced by permission of the publisher,

Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA

Dead End in Norvelt

by Jack Gantos

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young

Readers, in imprint of Macmillan Children’s

Publishing Group

Dragon Castleby

Joseph Bruchac

Reprinted by permission of Dial Books

Drawing from Memory

byAlan Say

Scholastic Press

Hiddenby

Helen Frost

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for

Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing

Group

Okay for Nowby

Gary Schmidt

Reprinted by permission of Clarion Books

The Running Dream

byWendelin Van

Draanen

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random

House Children’s Books

The Silver Bowlby

Diane Stanley

HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of

HarperCollins Publishers

Small as an Elephant

byJennifer Richard

Jacobson

Reproduced by permission of the publisher,

Candlewick Press,Somerville, MA

Take Me to the River

byWill Hobbs

HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of

HarperCollins Publishers

Input from the field…

How could the celebration be enhanced if more funding

were available?

How important is it to students that the authors be present at the celebration?

Other questions and/or comments…

Thank you!Your input is invaluable

to this program’s viability.

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