# Awkward

**Author:** Svetlana Chmakova
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 2015
**Page count:** 210
**Genre:** Graphic Novel
**ISBN-13:** `9780316381307`
**ISBN-10:** `0316381306`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/awkward
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- basic reader
- middle schools
- comics & graphic novels
- popularity

## Where this book is assigned

### Louisiana Readers' Choice Awards

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Louisiana — [source: Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Louisiana Readers' Choice Awards), Grades 3-5 & Grades 6-8 divisions — Louisiana's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-56-83-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winne...](https://slol.libguides.com/c.php?g=1291511&p=9482444)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Louisiana — [source: Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Louisiana Readers' Choice Awards), Grades 3-5 & Grades 6-8 divisions — Louisiana's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-56-83-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winne...](https://slol.libguides.com/c.php?g=1291511&p=9482444)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Louisiana — [source: Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Louisiana Readers' Choice Awards), Grades 3-5 & Grades 6-8 divisions — Louisiana's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 3-56-83-): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winne...](https://slol.libguides.com/c.php?g=1291511&p=9482444)

### Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania)

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2017-2018 winner (6-8)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2017-2018 winner (6-8)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Pennsylvania — [source: Mountain Laurel Book Award / Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award — PSLA past winners list, 2017-2018 winner (6-8)](https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca/past-titles-and-winners)

## Banned / challenged record

Documented removals or formal challenges in at least one school district in 1 state: TX. Source: [PEN America's Index of School Book Bans](https://pen.org/banned-book-list/) 2022-2024.

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