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Monarch Award Nominees

Great choices for kids in grades K-3

Monarch 2025

Image for "Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius"

Image for "Who's Afraid of the Light?"

Image for "We Are Definitely Human"

Image for "Time to Make Art"

Image for "Friends Do Not Eat Friends"

Image for "The World's Best Class Plant"

Image for "The Red Jacket"

Image for "The Flower Garden"

Image for "Sydney and Taylor Explore the Whole Wide World"

Image for "Negative Cat"

Image for "Mr. S"

Image for "Knight Owl"

Image for "Just SNOW Already!"

Image for "Homegrown"

Image for "Home Is Calling"

Bluestem Award Nominees

Great choices for kids in grades 3-5

Bluestem 2025

Image for "A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits)"

Image for "The Lost Library"

"The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island #1)"

Image for "The Double Life of Danny Day"

"The Deep!"

Image for "The Area 51 Files"

Image for "Swim Team"

Image for "Squished: a Graphic Novel"

Image for "Rumaysa: A Fairytale"

Image for "Nell of Gumbling: My Extremely Normal Fairy-Tale Life"

Image for "Millionaires for the Month"

Image for "Good Different"

Image for "Fighting for Yes!"

Unsolved Case Files Escape at 10,000 Feet

Image for "Dogtown"

Caudill Award Nominees

Great choices for kids in grades 5-8

Caudill 2025

Image for "World Made of Glass"

"What Happened to Rachel Riley?"

Image for "Warrior Girl"

"The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels"

"The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn"

"The Bellwoods Game"

Image for "Simon Sort of Says"

"Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel"

"Mexikid"

"Medusa"

"Impossible Escape"

"Hands"

"Greenwild"

"Ghost Book"

"Final Season"

RMS Red Carpet Reads

Image for "Uprooted"

Image for "Uglies"

"The Truth about Triangles"

Image for "The Right Call"

Image for "The First State of Being"

Image for "The Family Romanov"

Image for "The Bletchley Riddle"

Image for "Something Like Home"

Image for "Powerless"

"One Wrong Step"

Youth Nonfiction Books

Image for "Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans"

Image for "Astrologica"

Image for "Art: an Interactive Guide"

Image for "Wrecked"

Image for "Oh, Carrots!"

Image for "The Big Book of Climbing"

Image for "History Smashers: Ancient Egypt"

Image for "The Nazi Conspiracy: the Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill (Young Reader's Edition)"

Image for "The Atlas of Languages"

Image for "Guinness World Records 2025"

Youth Fantasy Books

Image for "Benny Ramírez and the Nearly Departed"

Image for "Jupiter Nettle and the Seven Schools of Magic: A Graphic Novel"

Image for "Kwame Crashes the Underworld"

Image for "The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto"

Image for "Tamarind & the Star of Ishta"

Image for "Snow"

Image for "Nightbooks"

Image for "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest"

Image for "Vanya and the Wild Hunt"

Image for "Isle of Ever"