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2016 – 2017 SC Book Award Nominees

It’s that time of the year again! The South Carolina Association of School Librarians, or SCASL, has released the book award nominees for 2016-2017. Each year, since 1976, SCASL has nominated 20 books for 4 categories: Picture Book Award, Children’s Book Award, Junior Book Award and the Young Adult Book Award. Here are the nominees for the Junior and Young Adult Book Awards.

 

 

Junior Book Award Nominees:

1. All Fall Down by Ally Carter*
2. Being Sloane Jacob by Lauren Morrill*
3. The Bridge from Me to You by Lisa Schroeder
4. The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters*
5. Famous Last Words by Katie Alender*
6. Fantasy League by Mike Lupica*
7. Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt*
8. Girl on a Wire by Gwenda Bond*
9. The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart*
10. Hunt for the Bamboo Rat by Graham Salisbury*
11. If You’re Reading This by Trent Reedy
12. The Iron Trial by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare*
13. Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai*
14. Loot: How to Steal a Fortune by Jude Watson*
15. The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson*
16. Paper Things by Jennifer Richard Jacobson*
17. Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch*
18. The Swap by Megan Shull
19. Tell Me by Joan Bauer*
20. The Walk On by John Feinstein*

 

 

Young Adult Book Award Nominees:

1. All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven*
2. Beware the Wild by Natalie C. Parker*
3. The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds*
4. Can’t Look Away by Donna Cooner*
5. Chernobyl’s Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone by Rebecca L. Johnson
6. Death Coming up the Hill by Chris Crowe
7. Double Exposure by Bridget Birdsall
8. Firebug by Lish McBride*
9. Hunt for the Bamboo Rat by Graham Salisbury*
10. The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand*
11. My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga*
12. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard*
13. Some Boys by Patty Blount
14. Soulprint by Megan Miranda*
15. Sweet Unrest by Lisa Maxwell*
16. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince with Elaine DePrince*
17. Tunnel Vision by Susan Adrian*
18. The Walled City by Ryan Graudin
19. We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story by Josh Sundquist*
20. Wildflower by Alecia Whitaker*

 

*Stop by any Lexington County library or go online to www.lex.lib.sc.us to request these titles.

 

~Vanessa, Pelion Branch