# Boston Globe–Horn Book Award reading list

**145** books referenced by Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, presented annually since 1967 by The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine, honor excellence in children's and young adult literature across Fiction & Poetry, Nonfiction, and Picture Book categories. Among the most respected American children's book prizes, its winners span picture books through young adult novels and are staples of school and library collections.

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## Boston Globe–Horn Book Award reading list

- ["Let's Get a Pup!", Said Kate](https://readinglist.school/book/lets-get-a-pup-said-kate) by Bob Graham _(Grades K–5)_
- [A Chair for My Mother](https://readinglist.school/book/a-chair-for-my-mother) by Vera B. Williams _(Grades K–5)_
- [A Racecourse for Andy](https://readinglist.school/book/a-little-fear) by Patricia Wrightson _(Grades 4–9)_
- [A Ray of Light](https://readinglist.school/book/a-drop-of-water-a-book-of-science-and-wonder) by Walter Wick _(Grades 4–10)_
- [A Scar like a River](https://readinglist.school/book/a-scar-like-a-river) by Lisa Graff _(Grades 4–9)_
- [A Sitting in St. James](https://readinglist.school/book/a-sitting-in-st-james) by Rita Williams-Garcia _(Grades 4–9)_
- [A Visit to William Blake's Inn](https://readinglist.school/book/a-visit-to-william-blakes-inn) by Nancy Willard _(Grades K–5)_
- [A Wizard of Earthsea](https://readinglist.school/book/a-wizard-of-earthsea) by Ursula K. Le Guin _(Grades 4–9)_
- [A World Without Summer](https://readinglist.school/book/a-world-without-summer-a-volcano-erupts-a-creature-awakens-and-the-sun-goes-out) by Nicholas Day _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Abigail Adams](https://readinglist.school/book/abigail-adams-witness-to-a-revolution) by Natalie S. Bober _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Ajeemah and His Son](https://readinglist.school/book/ajeemah-and-his-son) by James Berry _(Grades 4–9)_
- [All My Rage](https://readinglist.school/book/all-my-rage) by Sabaa Tahir _(Grades 9–12)_
- [An American Plague](https://readinglist.school/book/an-american-plague-the-true-and-terrifying-story-of-the-yellow-fever-epidemic-of) by Jim Murphy _(Grades 4–10)_
- [And If the Moon Could Talk](https://readinglist.school/book/and-if-the-moon-could-talk) by Kate Banks _(Grades K–5)_
- [Anno's Counting Book](https://readinglist.school/book/annos-alphabet) by Mitsumasa Anno _(Grades K–5)_
- [Anno's Medieval World](https://readinglist.school/book/annos-journey) by Mitsumasa Anno _(Grades K–5)_
- [Anthony Burns](https://readinglist.school/book/anthony-burns-the-defeat-and-triumph-of-a-fugitive-slave) by Virginia Hamilton _(Grades 4–10)_
- [At Night](https://readinglist.school/book/at-night) by Jonathan Bean _(Grades K–5)_
- [Behind Barbed Wire](https://readinglist.school/book/behind-barbed-wire) by Daniel S. Davis _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Big Mama Makes the World](https://readinglist.school/book/big-momma-makes-the-world) by Phyllis Root _(Grades K–5)_
- [Black Enough](https://readinglist.school/book/black-birds-in-the-sky-the-story-and-legacy-of-the-1921-tulsa-race-massacre) by Ibi Zoboi _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Blink and Caution](https://readinglist.school/book/blink-caution) by Tim Wynne-Jones _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Bubble Trouble](https://readinglist.school/book/bubble-trouble) by Margaret Mahy _(Grades K–5)_
- [Building Our House](https://readinglist.school/book/building-our-house) by Jonathan Bean _(Grades K–5)_
- [Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms](https://readinglist.school/book/cartwheeling-in-thunderstorms) by Katherine Rundell _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Carver](https://readinglist.school/book/carver-a-life-in-poems) by Marilyn Nelson _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Child of the Owl](https://readinglist.school/book/child-of-the-owl) by Laurence Yep _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Cold Feet](https://readinglist.school/book/cold-feet) by Cynthia C. DeFelice _(Grades K–5)_
- [Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun](https://readinglist.school/book/commodore-perry-in-the-land-of-the-shogun) by Rhoda Blumberg _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Conrad's War](https://readinglist.school/book/conrads-war) by Andrew Davies _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Death in the Jungle](https://readinglist.school/book/death-in-the-jungle-murder-betrayal-and-the-lost-dream-of-jonestown) by Candace Fleming _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories](https://readinglist.school/book/dog-and-bear-two-friends-three-stories) by Laura Vaccaro Seeger _(Grades K–5)_
- [Eleanor & Park](https://readinglist.school/book/eleanor-park) by Rainbow Rowell _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Electric Ben](https://readinglist.school/book/electric-ben-the-amazing-life-and-times-of-benjamin-franklin) by Robert Byrd _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Everything We Never Had](https://readinglist.school/book/everything-we-never-had) by Randy Ribay _(Grades 7–12)_
- [Extra Yarn](https://readinglist.school/book/extra-yarn) by Mac Barnett _(Grades K–5)_
- [FIREBOAT](https://readinglist.school/book/fireboat-the-heroic-adventures-of-the-john-j-harvey) by Maira Kalman _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Franklin Delano Roosevelt](https://readinglist.school/book/eleanor-roosevelt-a-life-of-discovery) by Russell Freedman _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Freedom Over Me](https://readinglist.school/book/freedom-over-me-eleven-slaves-their-lives-and-dreams-brought-to-life) by Ashley Bryan _(Grades K–5)_
- [From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry](https://readinglist.school/book/from-a-whisper-to-a-rallying-cry-the-killing-of-vincent-chin-and-the-trial-that-) by Paula Yoo _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Goldengrove ; Unleaving](https://readinglist.school/book/unleaving) by Jill Paton Walsh _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Grandfather's Journey (Read-aloud)](https://readinglist.school/book/grandfathers-journey) by Allen Say _(Grades K–5)_
- [Grasshopper Jungle](https://readinglist.school/book/grasshopper-jungle) by Andrew Smith _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Henry Hikes to Fitchburg](https://readinglist.school/book/henry-hikes-to-fitchburg) by D.B. Johnson _(Grades K–5)_
- [Holes](https://readinglist.school/book/holes) by Louis Sachar _(660L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Humbug Mountain](https://readinglist.school/book/humbug-mountain) by Sid Fleischman _(Grades 4–9)_
- [I Know Here](https://readinglist.school/book/i-know-here) by Laurel Croza _(Grades K–5)_
- [I Know How to Draw an Owl](https://readinglist.school/book/i-know-how-to-draw-an-owl) by Hilary Horder Hippely _(Grades K–5)_
- [I Talk Like a River](https://readinglist.school/book/i-talk-like-a-river) by Jordan Scott _(Grades K–5)_
- [Infinite Hope](https://readinglist.school/book/infinite-hope) by Ashley Bryan _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Jambo Means Hello](https://readinglist.school/book/jambo-means-hello) by Muriel Feelings _(Grades K–5)_
- [Jazz Day](https://readinglist.school/book/jazz-day-the-making-of-a-famous-photograph) by Roxane Orgill _(Grades K–5)_
- [John Henry](https://readinglist.school/book/john-henry) by Julius Lester _(Grades K–5)_
- [Kin](https://readinglist.school/book/kin-rooted-in-hope) by Carole Boston Weatherford _(Grades 4–9)_
- [King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)](https://readinglist.school/book/king-and-the-dragonflies) by Kacen Callender _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Leaf Man Board Book](https://readinglist.school/book/leaf-man) by Lois Ehlert _(Grades K–5)_
- [Leon's Story](https://readinglist.school/book/leons-story) by Leon Walter Tillage _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Lon Po Po](https://readinglist.school/book/lon-po-po-a-red-riding-hood-story-from-china) by Ed Young _(Grades K–5)_
- [Lord of the Deep](https://readinglist.school/book/lord-of-the-deep) by Graham Salisbury _(Grades 4–9)_
- [M.C. Higgins, the Great](https://readinglist.school/book/m-c-higgins-the-great) by Virginia Hamilton _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Mama Don't Allow 25th Anniversary Edition](https://readinglist.school/book/mama-dont-allow) by Thacher Hurd _(Grades K–5)_
- [Maniac Magee](https://readinglist.school/book/maniac-magee) by Jerry Spinelli _(820L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Marching For Freedom](https://readinglist.school/book/marching-for-freedom-walk-together-children-and-dont-you-grow-weary) by Elizabeth Partridge _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Missing May](https://readinglist.school/book/missing-may) by Cynthia Rylant _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Most Dangerous](https://readinglist.school/book/most-dangerous-daniel-ellsberg-and-the-secret-history-of-the-vietnam-war) by Steve Sheinkin _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Mr Gumpy's Outing](https://readinglist.school/book/mr-gumpys-outing) by John Burningham _(Grades K–5)_
- [Mr Tiger Goes Wild](https://readinglist.school/book/mr-tiger-goes-wild) by Peter Brown _(Grades K–5)_
- [Nation](https://readinglist.school/book/nation) by Terry Pratchett _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Navigating Night](https://readinglist.school/book/navigating-night) by Julie Leung _(Grades K–5)_
- [No Crystal Stair](https://readinglist.school/book/no-crystal-stair-a-documentary-novel-of-the-life-and-work-of-lewis-michaux-harle) by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Off to School, Baby Duck!](https://readinglist.school/book/in-the-rain-with-baby-duck) by Amy Hest _(Grades K–5)_
- [On the Ball](https://readinglist.school/book/the-adventures-of-sparrowboy) by Brian Pinkney _(Grades K–5)_
- [Open This Little Book](https://readinglist.school/book/open-this-little-book) by Jesse Klausmeier _(Grades K–5)_
- [Orphan Train Rider](https://readinglist.school/book/orphan-train-rider-one-boys-true-story) by Andrea Warren _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Outside Over There](https://readinglist.school/book/outside-over-there) by Maurice Sendak _(Grades K–5)_
- [Photographic](https://readinglist.school/book/photographic-the-life-of-graciela-iturbide) by Isabel Quintero _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Playing Beatie Bow](https://readinglist.school/book/playing-beatie-bow) by Ruth Park _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Pocketful of Posies](https://readinglist.school/book/pocketful-of-posies-a-treasury-of-nursery-rhymes) by Salley Mavor _(Grades K–5)_
- [Poppy](https://readinglist.school/book/poppy) by Avi _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Red-eyed Tree Frog](https://readinglist.school/book/red-eyed-tree-frog) by Joy Cowley _(Grades K–5)_
- [Remember Us](https://readinglist.school/book/remember-us) by Jacqueline Woodson _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Seven Blind Mice](https://readinglist.school/book/seven-blind-mice) by Ed Young _(Grades K–5)_
- [Shy Charles](https://readinglist.school/book/shy-charles) by Rosemary Wells _(Grades K–5)_
- [Sojourner Truth](https://readinglist.school/book/sojourner-truth-aint-i-a-woman) by Pat McKissack _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Some of the Kinder Planets](https://readinglist.school/book/some-of-the-kinder-planets) by Tim Wynne-Jones _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Sunshine: A Graphic Novel](https://readinglist.school/book/sunshine) by Jarrett J. Krosoczka _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush](https://readinglist.school/book/sweet-whispers-brother-rush) by Virginia Hamilton _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian](https://readinglist.school/book/the-absolutely-true-diary-of-a-part-time-indian) by Sherman Alexie _(600L · Grades 7–10)_
- [The Adventures of Paddy Pork](https://readinglist.school/book/the-adventures-of-paddy-pork) by John S. Goodall _(Grades K–5)_
- [The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I](https://readinglist.school/book/the-astonishing-life-of-octavian-nothing-traitor-to-the-nation-volume-1-the-pox-) by M. T. Anderson _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Bird House](https://readinglist.school/book/appalachia-the-voices-of-sleeping-birds) by Cynthia Rylant _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Black Cauldron](https://readinglist.school/book/the-fortune-tellers) by Lloyd Alexander _(Grades K–5)_
- [The Boy and the Samurai](https://readinglist.school/book/the-little-fishes) by Erik Christian Haugaard _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Circuit Graphic Novel](https://readinglist.school/book/the-circuit-stories-from-the-life-of-a-migrant-child) by Francisco Jiménez _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Dark Is Rising](https://readinglist.school/book/the-dark-is-rising) by Susan Cooper _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Devil Walks](https://readinglist.school/book/the-jamie-and-angus-stories) by Anne Fine _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Double Life of Pocahontas](https://readinglist.school/book/the-double-life-of-pocahontas) by Jean Fritz _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia](https://readinglist.school/book/the-family-romanov-murder-rebellion-and-the-fall-of-imperial-russia) by Candace Fleming _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Farmer and the Clown](https://readinglist.school/book/the-farmer-and-the-clown) by Marla Frazee _(Grades K–5)_
- [The Fire Eaters](https://readinglist.school/book/the-fire-eaters) by David Almond _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Folk Keeper](https://readinglist.school/book/the-folk-keeper) by Franny Billingsley _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Friends](https://readinglist.school/book/the-friends) by Kazumi Yumoto _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Friendship](https://readinglist.school/book/the-friendship) by Mildred D. Taylor _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Garden of Abdul Gasazi](https://readinglist.school/book/the-garden-of-abdul-gasazi) by Chris Van Allsburg _(Grades K–5)_
- [The Great Little Madison](https://readinglist.school/book/the-great-little-madison) by Jean Fritz _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Hate U Give](https://readinglist.school/book/the-hate-u-give) by Angie Thomas _(590L · Grades 9–12)_
- [The Intruder](https://readinglist.school/book/the-intruder) by John Rowe Townsend _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Lie Tree](https://readinglist.school/book/the-lie-tree) by Frances Hardinge _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Lincolns](https://readinglist.school/book/the-lincolns-a-scrapbook-look-at-abraham-and-mary) by Candace Fleming _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Longitude Prize](https://readinglist.school/book/the-longitude-prize) by Joan Dash _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Man Who Walked Between the Towers](https://readinglist.school/book/the-man-who-walked-between-the-towers) by Mordicai Gerstein _(Grades K–5)_
- [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane](https://readinglist.school/book/the-miraculous-journey-of-edward-tulane) by Kate DiCamillo _(Grades 3–6)_
- [The Mona Lisa Vanishes](https://readinglist.school/book/the-mona-lisa-vanishes-a-legendary-painter-a-shocking-heist-and-the-birth-of-a-g) by Nicholas Day _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Notorious Benedict Arnold](https://readinglist.school/book/the-notorious-benedict-arnold-a-true-story-of-adventure-heroism-treachery) by Steve Sheinkin _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Patchwork Bike](https://readinglist.school/book/the-patchwork-bike) by Maxine Beneba Clarke _(Grades K–5)_
- [The Pilgrims of Plimoth](https://readinglist.school/book/the-pilgrims-of-plimoth) by Marcia Sewall _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Poet X](https://readinglist.school/book/the-poet-x) by Elizabeth Acevedo _(800L · Grades 8–12)_
- [The Port Chicago 50](https://readinglist.school/book/the-port-chicago-50-disaster-mutiny-and-the-fight-for-civil-rights) by Steve Sheinkin _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Race to Save the Lord God Bird](https://readinglist.school/book/the-race-to-save-the-lord-god-bird) by Phillip Hoose _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Road from Home](https://readinglist.school/book/the-road-from-home) by David Kherdian _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Schwa was Here](https://readinglist.school/book/the-schwa-was-here) by Neal Shusterman _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Season of Styx Malone](https://readinglist.school/book/the-season-of-styx-malone) by Kekla Magoon _(510L · Grades 3–7)_
- [The Snowman: The Book of the Classic Film](https://readinglist.school/book/the-snowman) by Raymond Briggs _(Grades K–5)_
- [The Spring Rider](https://readinglist.school/book/the-spring-rider) by John Shults Lawson _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Strongest Man in the World](https://readinglist.school/book/the-strongest-man-in-the-world-louis-cyr) by Nicolas Debon _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks](https://readinglist.school/book/the-tale-of-the-mandarin-ducks) by Katherine Paterson _(Grades K–5)_
- [The Top of the World](https://readinglist.school/book/the-top-of-the-world-climbing-mount-everest) by Steve Jenkins _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle](https://readinglist.school/book/the-true-confessions-of-charlotte-doyle) by Avi _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Village by the Sea](https://readinglist.school/book/the-village-by-the-sea) by Paula Fox _(Grades 4–9)_
- [The Wall](https://readinglist.school/book/the-wall-growing-up-behind-the-iron-curtain) by Peter Sís _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Way Things Work Now](https://readinglist.school/book/the-way-things-work) by David Macaulay _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Weaver's Gift](https://readinglist.school/book/the-weavers-gift) by Kathryn Lasky _(Grades 4–10)_
- [The Westing Game](https://readinglist.school/book/the-westing-game) by Ellen Raskin _(750L · Grades 5–7)_
- [They Say Blue](https://readinglist.school/book/they-say-blue) by Jillian Tamaki _(Grades K–5)_
- [This Promise of Change](https://readinglist.school/book/this-promise-of-change-one-girls-story-in-the-fight-for-school-equality) by Jo Ann Allen Boyce _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Those who Love the Game](https://readinglist.school/book/the-moves-make-the-man) by Glenn Rivers _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Tikki Tikki Tembo](https://readinglist.school/book/tikki-tikki-tembo) by Arlene Mosel _(Grades K–5)_
- [Traction Man Is Here!](https://readinglist.school/book/traction-man-is-here) by Mini Grey _(Grades K–5)_
- [Tristan And Iseult](https://readinglist.school/book/tristan-and-iseult) by Rosemary Sutcliff _(Grades 4–9)_
- [Upon the Head of the Goat](https://readinglist.school/book/upon-the-head-of-the-goat) by Aranka Siegal _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Vincent and Theo](https://readinglist.school/book/vincent-and-theo-the-van-gogh-brothers) by Deborah Heiligman _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Voyaging to Cathay](https://readinglist.school/book/voyaging-to-cathay) by Alfred H. Tamarin _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Warrior Girl Unearthed](https://readinglist.school/book/warrior-girl-unearthed) by Angeline Boulley _(Grades 9–12)_
- [When You Can Swim](https://readinglist.school/book/when-you-can-swim) by Jack Wong _(Grades K–5)_
- [When You Reach Me](https://readinglist.school/book/when-you-reach-me) by Rebecca Stead _(750L · Grades 4–8)_

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