Awards search:Nerdy Book Award

Queen of the Falls

by Chris Van Allsburg
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
Niagara Falls, biography, bravery, courage, women's history
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Press here

by Herv Tullet
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
interactive
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

by Kadir Nelson
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Black history, civil rights, social justice, slavery
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The One and Only Ivan

by Katherine Applegate
Paperback, 2015
Tags
friendship, Newbery, elephants, gorillas, zoo
Collection
chapter books
Series
The One and Only Ivan (1)
Status
Available

Extra Yarn

by Mac Barnett
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
creativity, knitting, kindness, generosity, sharing, Caldecott
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

by William Joyce
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
fantasy, reading, library
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The day the crayons quit

by Drew Daywalt
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
crayons, writing, feelings
Collection
Picture books
Series
The Crayons (1)
Status
Available

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

by Kate DiCamillo
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Newbery, animals, squirrels, friendship, divorce, fantasy
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

Counting by 7s

by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Paperback, 2014
Tags
neurodivergence, orphans
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

The adventures of Beekle : the unimaginary friend

by Dan Santat
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
imagination, friends, imaginary friends, adventure, belonging
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The most magnificent thing

by Ashley Spires
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
STEM, persistence, creativity, inventions
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Irma S and James H Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature (Awards))

by Mac Barnett
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
nature, digging, friends, dogs, observation
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Poetry, memoir, Ohio, Newbery, autobiography, Black central character, Black history, BIPOC central character(s)
Collections
YA, Favorites
Status
Available

The Red Pencil

by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Black central character, refugees, refugee story
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

The book with no pictures

by B. J. Novak
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
silly, imagination
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

March : Book two

by John Lewis
Paperback, 2015
Tags
graphic novel, John Lewis, civil rights
Collections
graphic novels, YA
Series
March (2)
Status
Available

Dory Fantasmagory

by Abby Hanlon
Paperback, 2015
Tags
imagination, siblings, silly, fantasy, chapter book
Collection
chapter books
Series
Dory Fantasmagory (1)
Status
Available

If You Plant a Seed

by Kadir Nelson
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
kindness, sharing, selfishness, animals, planting, vegetables
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Available

Last stop on Market Street

by Matt de la Peña
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
bus, poverty, socioeconomics, community, neighbors, Newbery, Caldecott
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

by Julia Sarcone-Roach
Paperback, 2018
Tags
bears, animals, unreliable narrators
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

This Is Sadie

by Sara O'Leary
Board book, 2015
Tags
adventure, nature, imagination
Collection
Board books
Status
Available

The day the crayons came home

by Drew Daywalt
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
crayons, feelings, writing
Collection
Picture books
Series
The Crayons (2)
Status
Available

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement

by Carole Boston Weatherford
Paperback, 2018
Tags
Caldecott, civil rights, Black central character, Black history
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Pax

by Sara Pennypacker
Paperback, 2019
Tags
war, peace, adventure, foxes
Collection
chapter books
Series
Pax (1)
Status
Available

Mother Bruce

by Ryan T. Higgins
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
bears, birds, migration, silly
Collection
Picture books
Series
Bruce the Bear (1)
Status
Available

Freedom in Congo Square

by Carole Boston Weatherford
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Black history, slavery, US history, freedom
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The Night Gardener

by Terry Fan
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
night, imagination, gardening
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Ida, Always

by Caron Levis
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
death, grief, illness, bears, polar bears, friends
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Ada Twist, scientist

by Andrea Beaty
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
curiosity, STEM, BIPOC central character(s), questions
Collection
Picture books
Series
The Questioneers, Questioneers Picture Books
Status
Available

School's First Day of School

by Adam Rex
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
feelings, perspective, POV, school, first day of school, starting school, nervous
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal)

by Kelly Barnhill
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Newbery, fantasy, magic, friendship, dragons, girls
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

March : Book three

by John Lewis
Paperback, 2016
Tags
graphic novel, John Lewis, civil rights
Collections
graphic novels, YA
Series
March (3)
Status
Available

They all saw a cat

by Brendan Wenzel
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
perspective, cats, nature, Caldecott
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg made her mark

by Debbie Levy
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
biography, non-fiction, Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, law, women, history, feminism, women's rights, civil rights, social justice
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

A Boy Called Bat (The Bat Series, 1)

by Elana K. Arnold
Paperback, 2018
Tags
neurodivergence, animals, pets, siblings, divorce, AAPI central character, multi-racial family, skunks, autism
Collection
chapter books
Series
Boy called Bat (1)
Status
Available

Hello, Universe

by Erin Entrada Kelly
Paperback, 2020
Tags
Newbery, AAPI central character, Filipino central character, deaf, deafness
Collection
chapter books
Status
Available

After the fall (how Humpty Dumpty got back up again)

by Dan Santat
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Humpty Dumpty, courage, nursery rhymes, fear, bravery, determination, perseverance, anxiety
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

Over and Under the Pond: (Environment and Ecology Books for Kids, Nature Books, Children's Oceanography Books, Animal Books for Kids)

by Kate Messner
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
mothers, nature, water, BIPOC central character(s), turtles, fish, frogs, birds
Collection
Picture books
Series
Over and Under
Status
Available

The book of mistakes

by Corinna Luyken
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
mistakes, art, imagination, creativity, drawing, acceptance
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

by Karina Yan Glaser
Paperback, 2017
Tags
siblings, community, neighbors, biracial, mystery, romance, BIPOC central character(s)
Collection
YA
Series
Vanderbeekers (1)
Status
Available

The wolf, the duck & the mouse

by Mac Barnett
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
adventure, birds, mice, wolf
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books)

by Bao Phi
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
refugees, immigration, fishing, parents, fathers, AAPI central character, Caldecott
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Available

The antlered ship

by Dashka Slater
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
animals, adventure, ocean, pirates
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

The Marrow Thieves

by Cherie Dimaline
Paperback, 2017
Tags
dystopia, Indigenous, dreams
Collection
YA
Series
The Marrow Thieves (1)
Status
Available

The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science

by Joyce Sidman
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Germany, non-fiction, butterflies, nature, biography
Collection
YA
Status
Available

Let the children march

by Monica Clark-Robinson
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
civil rights
Collection
Picture books
Status
Available

They Say Blue

by Jillian Tamaki
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
seasons, nature, trees, AAPI central character
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Available

Julian is a mermaid

by Jessica Love
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
grandparents, gender nonconforming, BIPOC central character(s), LGBTQIA2S+
Collection
Picture books
Series
Julián (1)
Status
Checked out

The day you begin

by Jacqueline Woodson
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
school, fitting in, self-esteem, self-acceptance
Collections
Picture books, Favorites
Status
Available

Merci Suárez Changes Gears

by Meg Medina
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Newbery, Cuba, middle school, school, Alzheimer's, Latinx central character, Latinx
Collection
chapter books
Series
Merci Suárez (1)
Status
Available
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