Show Me Readers Award Nominees 2020 - 2021
A Place for Pluto
by Stef Wade Pluto got the shock of his life when he was kicked out of the famous nine. His planet status was stripped away, leaving him lost and confused. Poor Pluto! Pluto goes on a quest to find his place in the universe. DOLL-E 1.0 by Shanda McCloskey Charlotte's world is fully charged! With her dog at her side, she's always tinkering, coding, clicking, and downloading. She's got a knack for anything technological--especially gadgets that her parents don't know how to fix! Then, she receives a new toy that is quite a puzzle: a doll! What's she supposed to do with that? Once she discovers the doll's hidden battery pack, things start to get interesting. Friends Stick Together by Hannah E Harrison Rupert is a rhinoceros of refined sensibilities. Levi, the new tickbird in class, is NOT. He burps the alphabet, tells corny jokes, and does really embarrassing air guitar solos. Worse, he lands right on Rupert and is determined to be Rupert's symbiotic best pal! Rupert wants him gone. Giraffe Problems by Jory John Edward the giraffe can't understand why his neck is as long and bendy and, well, ridiculous as it is. No other animal has a neck this absurd. He's tried disguising it, dressing it up, strategically hiding it--honestly, anything you can think of, he's tried. Love, Z by Jessie Sima A little robot named Z finds a message in a bottle signed, Love, Beatrice and, unable to learn what love is from other robots, sets out on a quest to find the answer. Max Explains Everything : Grocery Store Expert by Stacy McAnulty Max knows everything about trips to the grocery store because his parents make him go ALL. THE. TIME. Even when they run out of little things . . . like toilet paper. So he's pretty much an expert. Whether it's choosing the perfect cart to navigating the produce section or finding the right breakfast cereal, Max is here to help. Natsumi! by Susan Lendroth The festival of traditional Japanese arts is coming up, and little Natsumi's big personality is too much for her family's quieter traditions, until her grandfather introduces her to taiko drumming. The Epic Adventures of Huggie & Stick by Drew Daywalt Huggie, a blue stuffed animal, and Stick, a wooden stick with a face, arms, and legs, fall out of their boy owner’s backpack into the ocean. They take turns documenting their larger-than-life adventures all around the world, experiencing one crazy adventure after another. This story is told through a series of letters or journal entries, with Stick giving an overly optimistic view of their day's escapades, followed by Huggie's less glowing take on of what really happened. The Remember Balloons by Jessie Oliveros Illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte James has a bunch of balloons, each of which holds a special memory, but as his grandfather ages and loses his own balloons, James discovers that he is gaining new ones. We Don't Eat Our Classmates! by Ryan T Higgins When the class pet bites the finger of Penelope, a tyrannosaurus rex, she finally understands why she should not eat her classmates, no matter how tasty they are. |