2017 Hub Reading Challenge Eligible Titles Organized by Award

Note: There are a few discrepancies between the two lists on the Hub Challenge site and the award sites.   This is my best guess of the qualifying books and their award categories.

Alex Awards:

  • Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst
  •  The Regional Office is Under Attack! By Manuel Gonzales
  •  In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
  •  Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded by Hannah Hart
  •  Arena by Holly Jennings
  •  Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
  •  Romeo and/or Juliet: A Choosable-Path Adventure by Ryan North
  •  Die Young with Me: A Memoir by Rob Rufus
  •  The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
  • The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach

 

Award for Excellence in Nonfiction:

  • March: Book Three by John Lewis
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History by Karen Blumenthal
  • In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives by Kenneth C. Davis
  • Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela Turner
  • This Land is Our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne

 

Margaret A. Edwards Award:

Sarah Dessen:

  • Dreamland
  • Keeping the Moon
  • Just Listen
  • The Truth about Forever
  • Along for the Ride
  • What Happened to Goodbye
  • This Lullaby

 

Michael L. Printz Award:

  • March: Book Three by John Lewis
  • Asking for it by Louise O’Neill
  • The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
  • Scythe by Neal Shusterman
  • The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

 

Odyssey Award:

  • Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
  • Ghost by Jason Reynolds
  • Dream On, Amber by Emma Shevah
  • Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

 

William C. Morris Award:

  • The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
  • Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
  • Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel
  • The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
  • Tell Me Something Real by Calla Devlin

 

2017 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults:

  • The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
  • The Reader by Traci Chee
  • The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
  • The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
  • Ghost by Jason Reynolds
  • Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
  • Scythe by Neal Shusterman
  • The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
  • The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
  • Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina

 

2017 Top Ten Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults:

  • Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
  • Beast by Brie Spangler
  • Gemina by Amie Kaufman
  • Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky
  • Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
  • Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
  • Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
  • Star Wars Ahsoka by E. K. Johnston
  • Traffick by Ellen Hopkins
  • Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke

 

2017 Great Graphic Novels for Teens:

  • Giant Days Volume 1 & 2 by John Allison and Lissa Treiman
  • Black Panther Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke
  • Plutona by Jeff Lemire
  • March: Book Three by John Lewis
  • Filmish: A Graphic Journey through Film by Edward Ross
  • Orange: The Complete Collection 1 by Ichigo Takano
  • Paper Girls 1 by Brian Vaughan
  • We Stand On Guard by Brian Vaughan
  • Prez, Volume 1: Corndog in Chief by Mark Russel Ben Caldwell

 

2017 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults:

  • Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
  • The Distance between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande
  • Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
  • The Diviners by Libba Bray
  • The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
  • The Good Braider by Terry Farish
  • Just One Day by Gayle Forman
  • All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
  • Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
  • Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel

2017 Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults:

  • Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word by Nadia Higgins
  • Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
  • Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
  • Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
  • Plutona by Jeff Lemire
  • Daughters unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
  • This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
  • All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
  • The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash

 

Schneider Family Book Award:

  • When We Collided by Emery Lord
  • As brave as you by Jason Reynolds

 

Stonewall Book Award:

  • Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan
  • If I was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
  • Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
  • When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
  • Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Community by Robin Stevenson

 

Top 10 of the YA Rainbow List:

  • How Many Letters are in Goodbye by Yvonne Cassidy
  • We are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
  • Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
  • When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
  • This Song is (Not) for You by Laura Nowlin
  • The Root by Na’amen Gobert Tilahun
  • And I Darken by Kiesten White
  • Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Community by Robin Stevenson
  • Dryland by Sara Jaffe
  • You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Leviathan

 

The Amelia Bloomer Project Top Ten:

  • Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer by Diane Stanley
  • Balcony on the Moon by Ibtisam Barakat
  • Becoming Unbecoming by Una
  • Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
  • Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
  • The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
  • Take It as a Compliment by Maria Stoian
  • Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear…and Why by Sady Doyle
  • We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out by Annie Clark
  • I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes her Mark by Debbie Levy

 

Pura Belpre Award:

  • Lowriders to the Center of the Earth by Paul Gonzalez

 

Coretta Scott King Book Awards:

  • March: Book Three by John Lewis
  • The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
  • As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds