Grade 1
• The Best-Loved Doll by Rebecca Caudill (Henry Holt & Co.)
Grade 2
• The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden and illustrated by Barbara Cooney (Viking’s Children)
• Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin (Orchard Books)
Grade 3
• Clementine by Sara Pennypacker (Hyperion Books)
• Evangeline Mudd and the Goldern-Haired Apes of The Ikkinasti Jungle by David Elliot and Andrea Wesson (Candlewick)
• Lucy Willow by Sally Gardner (McArthur & Company)
• Beware, Pirates! by Frieda Wishinsky (Maple Tree Press )
Grade 4
• The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods by Ann Cameron (Puffin USA)
• Somebody Else’s Summer by Jean Little (Viking Canada)
• Lunch Money by Andrew Clements (Aladdin)
• Escape Under the Forever Sky by Eve Yohalem (Chronicle)
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