Here are just some of the books nominated for the North Carolina Children’s Book Award from the last few years:
Fourth-Grade Fuss
The Get Rich Quick Club
The Last Holiday Concert
The Legend of Spud Murphy
The World According to Humphrey
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
Jake Drake Teacher’s Pet
Gooney Bird Green
Crispin: the Cross of Lead
Love, Ruby Lavender
Suggested Reading for 4th Graders:
Meet Josefina
Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?
The House With a Clock In Its Walls
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Trail Mates
The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown
Frindle
Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library
Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple
The Hooded Hawk Mystery
Celou Sudden Shout
The Black Stallion
13th Floor: A Ghost Story
Lily’s Crossing
Class President
Secret of the Forgotten Cave
Earthquake Terror
Pigs Might Fly
Maddie and the Invisible Troublemaker
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Attaboy, Sam!
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Felita
The Boys Start the War; The Girls Get Even
Lucy’s Wish
The Borrowers
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Soup’s Hoop
How to Eat Fried Worms
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
The Cricket in Times Square
Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!
The Gold Cadillac
A Jar of Dreams