2012 Nerdy Book Awards
What began as a list of 154 nominated books in 7 categories has now been voted on to give us these chosen titles for the following categories. Please note that the category titles contain links to the announcement posts. (Categories that have not had winners announced yet will still have nominees listed.)
Boy and Bot by Ame Dyckman and Dan Yaccarino
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson and E. B. Lewis
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
This Is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team by Audrey Vernick and Steven Salerno
Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller by Doreen Rappaport and Matt Tavares
Here Come the Girl Scouts!: The Amazing All-True Story of Juliette ‘Daisy’ Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure by Shana Corey and Hadley Hooper
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr. and Kadir Nelson
Island: A Story of the Galápagos by Jason Chin
Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman
The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins
Bad Kitty for President by Nick Bruel
Bink and Gollie, Two for One by Kate DiCamillo, Alison McGhee and Tony Fucile
Let’s Go For A Drive! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) by Mo Willems
Listen to My Trumpet! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) by Mo Willems
Marty McGuire Digs Worms! by Kate Messner and Brian Floca
Babymouse #16: Babymouse for President by Jennifer L. Holm and Matt Holm
Cardboard by Doug TenNapel
Drama by Raina Telgemeier
Legends of Zita the Space Girl by Ben Hatke
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle and Hope Larson
Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems by Gail Carson Levine and Matthew Cordell
I’ve Lost My Hippopotamus by Jack Prelutsky and Jackie Urbanovic
National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar! by J. Patrick Lewis
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman
Step Gently Out by Helen Frost and Rick Lieder
UnBEElievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
Middle Grade and Young Adult Nonfiction
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman
Bomb: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Guy-Write: What Every Guy Writer Needs to Know by Ralph Fletcher
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery and Temple Grandin
Titanic: Voices From the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen
Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein
Every Day by David Levithan
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater
See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles
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