Final Nominees
The final nominees for MASL’s 2017-2018 Readers Awards are listed below.
Congratulations to all authors, illustrators and publishers!
This Final List will be voted upon by students in March of 2018; the recipients of the awards will be announced at the 2018 MASL Spring Conference.
Gateway
| TITLE | AUTHOR | PUBLISHER |
| All the Bright Places | Jennifer Niven | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Inherit Midnight | Kate Kae Myers | Bloomsbury |
| Everything Everything | Nicola Yoon | Delacourte |
| Losers Take All | David Klass | Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
| Zeroboxer | Fonda Lee | Flux |
| Under a Painted Sky | Stacey Lee | GP Putnam’s Sons |
| Made You Up | Francesca Zappia | Greenwillow Books |
| Emmy and Oliver | Robin Benway | Harper Teen |
| Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo | Henry Holt & Co |
| This Raging Light | Estelle Laure | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| A Madness So Discreet | Mindy McGinnis | Katherine Tegan Books |
| Extraordinary Means | Robyn Schneider | Katherine Tegan Books |
| The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak | Brian Katcher | Katherine Tegen Books |
| An Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir | Razorbill |
| Ruthless | Carolyn Lee Adams | Simon Pulse |
Mark Twain
| TITLE | AUTHOR | PUBLISHER |
| Webster: Tale of an Outlaw | Ellen Emerson White | Aladdin |
| The Doublecross (And Other Skills I Learned as a Superspy) | Jackson Pearce | Bloomsbury Children’s Books |
| All the Answers | Kate Messner | Bloomsbury Children’s Books |
| House Arrest | K. A. Holt | Chronicle Books |
| Took | Mary Downing Hahn | Clarion Books |
| The War that Saved my Life | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley | Dial Books |
| The Worst Class Trip Ever | Dave Barry | Disney/Hyperion |
| Book Scavenger | Jennifer Chambliss Bertman | Henry Holt and Co |
| Fish in a Tree | Lynda Mullaly Hunt | Nancy Paulsen Books |
| Beneath | Roland Smith | Scholastic Press |
| Echo | Pam Munoz Ryan | Scholastic Press |
| The Only Game | Mike Lupica | Simon & Schuster Books for Young People |
Show Me
| TITLE | AUTHOR | ILLUSTRATOR | PUBLISHER |
| Mother Bruce | Ryan T Higgins | Ryan T Higgins | Disney-Hyperion |
| Winnie | Sally Walker | Johnathan D Voss | Henry Holt & Co |
| The Day the Crayons Came Home | Drew Daywalt | Oliver Jeffers | Philomel Books |
| Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Abraham Dee Bartlett and the Invention of the Modern Zoo | Cassandre Maxwell | Cassandre Maxwell | Eerdmans Books for Young Readers |
| Ketzel, The Cat Who Composed | Leslea Newman | Amy June Bates | Candlewick Press |
| Marilyn’s Monster | Michelle Knudsen | Matt Phelan | Candlewick Press |
| I Am Trying To Love Spiders | Bethany Barton | Bethany Barton | Viking Press |
| If You Ever Want To Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t! | Elise Parsley | Elise Parsley | Little, Brown and Company |
| Trombone Shorty | Troy Andrews | Bryan Collier | Abrams Books for Young Readers |
| Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story | Emily Arnold McCully | Emily Arnold McCully | Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
Truman
| TITLE | AUTHOR | PUBLISHER |
| The Fixer | Jennifer Barnes | Bloomsbury USA |
| Forget Tomorrow | Pintip Dunn | Entangled Publishing, LLC |
| The Leveller | Julia Durango | Harper Collins |
| Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard | Harper Collins |
| Orbiting Jupiter | Gary Schmidt | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| I am Princess X | Cherie Priest and Kali Ciesemier | Scholastic, Inc. |
| A Night Divided | Jennifer A Nielsen | Scholastic, Inc. |
| The Honest Truth | Dan Gemeinhart | Scholastic, Inc. |
| Code of Honor | Alan Gratz | Scholastic, Inc. |
| All Fall Down | Ally Carter | Scholastic, Inc. |
| What Waits in the Woods | Kieran Scott | Scholastic, Inc. |
| Rebel Mechanics | Shanna Swendson | Square Fish |
Recent & Past Winners and Nominees
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