Final Nominees
The final nominees for MASL’s 2018-2019 Readers Awards are listed below.
Congratulations to all authors, illustrators and publishers!
This Final List will be voted upon by students in March of 2019; the recipients of the awards will be announced at the 2019 MASL Spring Conference.
Gateway (Grades 9-12)
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| Symptoms of Being Human | Jeff Garvin | Balzer + Bray |
| When We Collided | Emery Lord | Bloomsbury |
| The Serpent King | Jeff Zentner | Crown |
| Tell Me Three Things | Julie Buxbaum | Delacorte Press |
| The Sun is Also a Star | Nicola Yoon | Delacorte Press |
| Heartless | Marissa Meyer | Feiwel and Friends |
| Nemesis | Anna Banks | Feiwel and Friends |
| Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee | Mary G Thompson | GP Putnmans Sons |
| The Memory Book | Lara Avery | Hachette Book Group |
| My Lady Jane | Cynthia Hand | Harper Teen |
| Three Dark Crowns | Kendare Blake | Harper Teen |
| Holding Up the Universe | Jennifer Niven | Knopf Books |
| Salt to the Sea | Ruta Sepetys | Philomel Books |
| Scythe | Neal Shusterman | Simon & Schuster |
| All the Gallant Men | Donald Stratton & Ken Gire | William Morrow |
Truman (Grades 6-8)
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| Ruined | Amy Tintera | HarperTeen |
| The Girl I Used to Be | April Henry | Henry Holt and Company |
| Zero Day | Jan Gangsei | Hyperion |
| Mayday | Karen Harrington | Little, Brown, and Company |
| Lily & Dunkin | Donna Gephart | Penguin Random House |
| Hour of the Bees | Lindsay Eagar | Penguin Random House |
| Wolf Hollow | Lauren Wolk | Penguin Random House |
| Falling Over Sideways | Jordan Sonnenblick | Scholastic Press Inc. |
| Projekt 1065 | Alan Gratz | Scholastic Press Inc. |
| The Forgetting | Sharon Cameron | Scholastic Press Inc. |
| The Impostor Queen | Sarah Fine | Simon & Schuster |
| Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry | Susan Vaught | Simon & Schuster |
Mark Twain (Grades 4-6)
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| Framed! A T.O.A.S.T. Mystery | James Ponti | Aladdin |
| The Seventh Wish | Kate Messner | Bloomsbury |
| Moo | Sharon Creech | Harper Collins |
| Counting Thyme | Melanie Conklin | Penguin Random House |
| Maxi’s Secrets | Lynn Plourde | Penguin Random House |
| When Friendship Followed Me Home | Paul Griffin | Penguin Random House |
| Soar | Joan Bauer | Penguin Young Readers Group |
| Ghosts | Raina Telgemeier | Scholastic |
| Save Me a Seat | Sarah Weeks & Gita Varadarajan | Scholastic |
| Unbound | Ann E Burg | Scholastic |
| Ghost | Jason Reynolds | Simon & Schuster |
| Nine, Ten: A September 11th Story | Nora Raleigh Baskin | Simon & Schuster |
Show Me (Grades 1-3)
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
| Good Night, Bat! Good Morning Squirrel! | Paul Meisel | Same | Boyds Mill Press |
| A Bike Like Sergio’s | Maribeth Boelts | Noah Jones | Candlewick Press |
| Quickest Kid in Clarksville | Pat Zietlow Miller | Frank Morrison | Chronicle Books |
| The Water Princess | Susan Verde & Georgie Badiel | Peter Reynolds | G P Putnam’s |
| The Magic Word | Mac Barnett | Elise Parsley | Harper Collins |
| Who Wants a Tortoise | Dave Keane | K. G. Campbell | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Madeline Finn and the Library Dog | Lisa Papp | same | Peachtree Publishers |
| Seven and a Half Tons of Steel | Janet Nolan | Thomas Gonzalez | Peachtree Publishers |
| Dear Dragon | Josh Funk | Rodolfo Montalvo | Viking |
| Diana’s White House Garden | Elisa Carbone | Jen Hill | Viking |
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