Award Winning Books
Missouri Building Block Award Winners
2020 | ||
2019 | Can I Be Your Dog? | Try Cummings |
2018 | Pug Meets Pig | Sue Gallion |
2017 | 10 Little Ninjas | Miranda Paul |
2016 | Bunnies | Kevan Atteberry |
2015 | Naked! | Michael Ian Black |
2014 | Mustache Baby | Bridget Heos |
2013 | Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons | Eric Litwin |
2012 | Press Here | Herve Tulle |
2011 | Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes | Eric Litwin |
2010 | The Pout-Pout Fish | Deborah Diesen |
2021 Building Block Nominees
I Want a Dog | Jon Agee |
Stomp | Ian Aurora |
Bad Dog | Mike Boldt |
Crocodiles Need Kisses Too | Rebecca Colby |
Saturday | Oge Mora |
Bear Came Along | Richard T. Morris |
The Book Hog | Greg Pizzoli |
One Red Sock | Jennifer Sattler |
The Farm that Mac Built | Tammi Sauer |
The Pidgeon Has to Go to School | Mo Willems |
Show Me Award Winners
2020 | ||
2019 | The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors | Drew Daywalt |
2018 | The Magic Word | Mac Barnett |
2017 | Ketzel, the Cat Who Composed | Leslea Newman |
2016 | Trouper | Meg Kearney |
2015 | Jangles: a Big Fish Story | David Shannon |
2014 | Painter and Ugly | Robert Blake |
2013 | The Blue House | Deb Blumenthal |
2021-2022 Show Me Award Nominees
Ella McKeen Kickball Queen | Beth Mills |
If I Built A School | Chris Van Dusen |
Meet Miss Fancy | Irene Latham |
The Donkey Egg | Janet Stevens, Susan Crummel |
When Pencil Met Eraser | Karen Kilpatrick, Luis O. Ramos Jr. |
Madeline Finn and the Shelter Dog | Lisa Papp |
Sulwe | Lupita Nyong'o |
Hair Love | Matthew Cherry |
Snack Attack! | Terry Border |
Hey, Dog | Tony Johnston |
Mark Twain Award Winners
2020 | ||
2019 | One for Sorrow | Mary Downing Hahn |
2018 | Framed! A T.O.A.S.T Mystery | James Ponti |
2017 | The War That Saved My Life | Kim Bradley |
2016 | Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library | Chris Grabenstein |
2015 | Wonder | RJ Palacio |
2014 | The Unwanteds | Lisa McMann |
2013 | Out of My Mind | Sharen Draper |
2012 | Runaway Twin | Peg Kehret |
2011 | Stolen Children | Peg Kehret |
2021-2022 Mark Twain Award Nominees
Unsung Hero of Birdsong | Brenda Woods |
Pay Attention, Carter Jones | Gary Schmidt |
The Memory Keeper | Jennifer Camiccia |
New Kid | Jerry Craft |
Shine! | JJ and Chris Grabenstein |
Shouting at the Rain | Linda Mullaly Hunt |
Song for a Whale | Lynne Kelly |
Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen | Niki Lenz |
The Bridge Home | Pandma Ventkatraman |
White Bird: A Wonder Story | R.J. Palacio |
Charle Thorne & the Last Equation | Stuart Gibbs |
Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse | Susan Vaught |
Truman Award Winners
2020 | ||
2019 | To Catch a Killer | Sheryl Scarborough |
2018 | Projekt 1065 | Alan Gratz |
2017 | Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard |
2016 | Prisoner B-3087 | Alan Gratz |
2021-2022 Truman Award Nominees
Genesis Begins Again | Alicia D. Williams |
Tiger Queen | Annie Sullivan |
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise | Dan Gemeinhart |
The Bone Houses | Emily Jones-Lloyd |
The Unteachables | Gordon Kormon |
Other Words For Home | Jasmine Warga |
Verify | Joelle Charbonneau |
The Line Tender | Kate Allen |
The Crossover (Graphic Novel) | Kwame Alexander |
Right As Rain | Lindsey Stoddard |
It's The End of the World As I Know It | Matthew Landis |
Free Lunch | Rex Ogle |
Gateway Award Winners
2020 | ||
2019 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas |
2018 | Scythe | Neil Shusterman |
2017 | Everything, Everything | Nicola Yoon |
2016 | The Book of Ivy | Amy Engel |
2015 | The 5th Wave | Rick Yancey |
2014 | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green |
2021-2022 Gateway Award Nominees
The Field Guide To The North American Teenager | Ben Phillippe |
SLAY | Brittney Morris |
With The Fire On High | Elizabeth Acevedo |
The Escape of Light | Fred Venturini |
I Know You Remember | Jennifer Donaldson |
Field Notes On Love | Jennifer E. Smith |
The Lovely And The Lost | Jennifer Lynn Barnes |
The Grace Year | Kim Leggett |
Heroine | Mindy McGinnis |
The Speed of Falling Objects | Nancy Richardson |
Ordinary Hazards | Nikki Grimes |
Where I End And You Begin | Preston Norton |
Patron Saints of Nothing | Randy Ribay |
Fireborne | Rosaria Munda |
Internment | Samira Ahmed |