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The Finalists for the 2018 Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards!



The five finalists in each of the 3 categories for the 11th Annual Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards, the only national books awards voted on solely by children and teens, are:

K - 2ND GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS

BILLY BLOO IS STUCK IN GOO by Jennifer Hamburg

BOOKS THAT DRIVE KIDS CRAZY: Did You Take the B from My _ook? by Beck and Matt Stanton

PETE WITH NO PANTS by Rowboat Watkins

POOR LOUIE  by Tony Fucile

THIS BOOK WILL NOT BE FUN by Cirocco Dunlap

3RD - 4TH GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS 

50 WACKY THINGS ANIMALS DO by Tricia Martineau Wagner

FREDERICK DOUGLASS: The Lion Who Wrote History by Walter Dean Myers

MANJHI MOVES A MOUNTAIN by Nancy Churnin

OUT OF WONDER: Poems Celebrating Poets, by Kwame Alexander

THUNDER UNDERGROUND by Jane Yolen

5TH - 6TH GRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALISTS 

DISASTER DIARIES: Spiders! by R. McGeddon

FINDING MIGHTY by Sheela Chari

THE LOSERS CLUB by Andrew Clements

MALALA, by Raphaelle Frier

THIS IS JUST A TEST, by Wendy Wan-Long Shang

Check out the teen blog for the Teen Book of the Year finalists!

The children’s award finalists were chosen in pre-voting by thousands of children from different regions of the U.S., with supervision by the International Literacy Association. Teens nominated their favorite books of the year at TeenReads.com, and their top picks are the Teen Choice Book Award finalists. Voting for the awards will be open online at EveryChildaReader.net/vote from March 1 - May 6, 2018. Teachers, librarians, and booksellers can also collect group or classroom votes to enter online. The winning authors and illustrators will be announced on May 30 at a special ceremony at BookExpo.

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