# Charlotte Award reading list

**15** books referenced by Charlotte Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Charlotte Award is New York's statewide student-choice reading award, presented by the New York State Reading Association (NYSRA) since 1990 and named for the main character in E. B. White's Charlotte's Web. New York students read the ballot titles and vote for winners across grade divisions from picture book through high school; the award's purpose is to encourage students to read outstanding literature and become lifelong readers. Winners run from Number the Stars, Maniac Magee, Nothing but the Truth, Freak the Mighty, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone through Because of Winn-Dixie, Stargirl, A Northern Light, The Hunger Games, A Tale Dark and Grimm, The Maze Runner, Wonder, Cinder, The Fourteenth Goldfish, and A First Time for Everything.

**Framework type:** reading-program
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/curriculum/charlotte-award
**Primary source:** https://nysreading.org/Charlotte-Awards (nysreading.org/Charlotte-Awards)
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## Charlotte Award reading list

- [A First Time for Everything](https://readinglist.school/book/a-first-time-for-everything) by Dan Santat _(Grades 4–8)_
- [A Tale Dark and Grimm](https://readinglist.school/book/a-tale-dark-and-grimm) by Adam Gidwitz _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Because of Winn-Dixie](https://readinglist.school/book/because-of-winn-dixie) by Kate DiCamillo _(610L · Grades 3–5)_
- [Fallen Angels](https://readinglist.school/book/fallen-angels) by Walter Dean Myers _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone](https://readinglist.school/book/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone) by J.K. Rowling _(880L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Maniac Magee](https://readinglist.school/book/maniac-magee) by Jerry Spinelli _(820L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Mick Harte Was Here](https://readinglist.school/book/mick-harte-was-here) by Barbara Park _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Number the Stars](https://readinglist.school/book/number-the-stars) by Lois Lowry _(670L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Out of Wonder](https://readinglist.school/book/out-of-wonder) by Kwame Alexander _(Grades K–3)_
- [Stargirl](https://readinglist.school/book/stargirl) by Jerry Spinelli _(Grades 6–9)_
- [Stolen Children](https://readinglist.school/book/stolen-children) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Hunger Games](https://readinglist.school/book/the-hunger-games) by Suzanne Collins _(810L · Grades 6–9)_
- [The Maze Runner](https://readinglist.school/book/the-maze-runner) by James Dashner _(Grades 7–12)_
- [We Will Not Be Silent](https://readinglist.school/book/we-will-not-be-silent) by Russell Freedman _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Wonder](https://readinglist.school/book/wonder) by R.J. Palacio _(790L · Grades 3–7)_

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