2019-2020 MASL Readers Awards Final Nominees
The final nominees for MASL’s 2019-2020 Readers Awards are listed below.
Congratulations to all authors, illustrators and publishers!
The titles on this Final List will be voted on by students in March of 2020, and the award recipients will be announced at the 2020 MASL Spring Conference.
Gateway (Grades 9-12)
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| A List of Cages | Robin Roe | Disney-Hyperion |
| A Short History of the Girl Next Door | Jared Reck | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Dear Martin | Nic Stone | Crown Books for Young Readers |
| Defy the Stars | Claudia Gray | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Dreamland Burning | Jennifer Latham | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Eliza and Her Monsters | Francesca Zappia | Greenwillow Books |
| Far From the Tree | Robin Benway | HarperTeen |
| Goodbye Days: A Novel | Jeff Zentner | Ember |
| Invictus | Ryan Graudin | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Moxie | Jennifer Mathieu | Roaring Brook Press |
| Nyxia | Scott Reintgen | Crown Books for Young Readers |
| One of Us is Lying | Karen M McManus | Delacorte Press |
| Soldier Boy | Keely Hutton | Square Fish |
| The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | Balzer + Bray |
| The Names They Gave Us | Emery Lord | Bloomsbury YA |
Truman (Grades 6-8)
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| Click’d | Tamara Ireland Stone | Disney-Hyperion |
| Forget Me Not | Ellie Terry | Square Fish |
| Greetings from Witness Protection | Jake Burt | Feiwel & Friends |
| Hideout | Watt Key | Square Fish |
| Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books |
| Lost Boys | Darcey Rosenblatt | Henry Holt and Co. |
| Piecing Me Together | Renee Watson | Bloomsbury YA |
| Refugee | Alan Gratz | Scholastic Press |
| Renegades | Marissa Meyer | Feiwel & Friends |
| Rosemarked | Livia Blackburne | Disney-Hyperion |
| The Trail | Meika Hashimoto | Scholastic Press |
| To Catch a Killer | Sheryl Scarborough | Tor Teen |
Mark Twain (Grades 4-6)
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| Halfway Normal | Barbara Dee | Simon & Schuster |
| Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus | Dusti Bowling | Sterling Children’s |
| Joplin, Wishing | Diane Stanley | Harper Collins |
| Mustaches for Maddie | Shelly Brown & Chad Morris | Shadow Mountain |
| One for Sorrow | Mary Downing Hahn | HMH Books for Young Readers |
| Real Friends | Shannon Hale | Macmillan |
| Restart | Gordon Korman | Scholastic |
| Saving Marty | Paul Griffin | Penguin |
| The Loser’s Club | Andrew Clements | Penguin – Random House |
| The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street | Lindsay Currie | Simon & Schuster |
| Walking with Miss Millie | Tamara Bundy | Penguin |
| Wishtree | Katherine Applegate | Feiwel & Friends |
Show Me (Grades 1-3)
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
| After the Fall How Humpty Dumpty Got Back up Again | Dan Santat | Dan Santat | Roaring Book Press |
| Be Quiet | Ryan T. Higgins | Ryan T. Higgins | Disney Books |
| Bob, Not Bob | Liz Garton Scanlon & Audrey Vernick | Matthew Cordell | Disney Books |
| Bruce’s Big Move | Ryan T. Higgins | Ryan T. Higgins | Disney |
| Dogosaurus Rex | Anna Staniszewski | Kevin Hawkes | Henry Holt & Company |
| Philomena’s New Glasses | Brenna Maloney | Brenna Maloney | Viking |
| Prudence the Part-Time Cow | Jody Jensen Shaffer | Stephanie Laberis | Macmillan |
| Shawn Loves Sharks | Curtis Manley | Tracy Subisak | Macmillan |
| The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors | Drew Daywalt | Adam Rex | Harper Collins |
| Tyrannosaurus Rex Vs. Edna The Very First Chicken | Douglas Rees | Jed Henry | Macmillan |
Downloadable list of all the 2019-2020 MASL Readers Awards Final Nominees