# William Allen White Children's Book Award reading list

**51** books referenced by William Allen White Children's Book Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The William Allen White Children's Book Award is Kansas's statewide children's-choice book award, administered by Emporia State University Libraries since 1952 — one of the oldest state reader's-choice programs in the United States. Each year a committee selects nominees (in grades 3-5 and 6-8 divisions); students across Kansas read from the list and vote for their favorite. Its decades-long winner list is read in Kansas classrooms and libraries statewide and features widely loved reading such as Old Yeller, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Hatchet, The Giver, Holes, Because of Winn-Dixie, Frindle, and Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library.

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## William Allen White Children's Book Award reading list

- [11 Birthdays](https://readinglist.school/book/11-birthdays) by Wendy Mass _(Grades 3–5)_
- [A Million Ways Home](https://readinglist.school/book/a-million-ways-home) by Dianna Dorisi-Winget _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Amos Fortune, Free Man](https://readinglist.school/book/amos-fortune-free-man) by Elizabeth Yates _(Grades 3–7)_
- [Because of Winn-Dixie](https://readinglist.school/book/because-of-winn-dixie) by Kate DiCamillo _(610L · Grades 3–5)_
- [Bud, Not Buddy](https://readinglist.school/book/bud-not-buddy) by Christopher Paul Curtis _(950L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Clementine](https://readinglist.school/book/clementine) by Sara Pennypacker _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Confetti Girl](https://readinglist.school/book/confetti-girl) by Diana López _(Grades 6–8)_
- [Eleven](https://readinglist.school/book/eleven) by Patricia Reilly Giff _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library](https://readinglist.school/book/escape-from-mr-lemoncellos-library) by Chris Grabenstein _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Fish in a Tree](https://readinglist.school/book/fish-in-a-tree) by Lynda Mullaly Hunt _(550L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Frindle](https://readinglist.school/book/frindle) by Andrew Clements _(830L · Grades 3–7)_
- [From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler](https://readinglist.school/book/from-the-mixed-up-files-of-mrs-basil-e-frankweiler) by E.L. Konigsburg _(700L · Grades 4–6)_
- [Ghost](https://readinglist.school/book/ghost) by Jason Reynolds _(730L · Grades 5–8)_
- [Ghost Boys](https://readinglist.school/book/ghost-boys) by Jewell Parker Rhodes _(360L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Ghost Dog Secrets](https://readinglist.school/book/ghost-dog-secrets) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 6–8)_
- [Ground Zero](https://readinglist.school/book/ground-zero) by Alan Gratz _(Grades 6–8)_
- [Guinea Dog](https://readinglist.school/book/guinea-dog) by Patrick Jennings _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Hatchet](https://readinglist.school/book/hatchet) by Gary Paulsen _(1020L · Grades 5–8)_
- [Hidden](https://readinglist.school/book/hidden) by Helen Frost _(Grades 6–8)_
- [Holes](https://readinglist.school/book/holes) by Louis Sachar _(660L · Grades 4–7)_
- [How to Steal a Dog](https://readinglist.school/book/how-to-steal-a-dog) by Barbara O'Connor _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus](https://readinglist.school/book/insignificant-events-in-the-life-of-a-cactus) by Dusti Bowling _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Island of the Blue Dolphins](https://readinglist.school/book/island-of-the-blue-dolphins) by Scott O'Dell _(1000L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Life on Mars](https://readinglist.school/book/life-on-mars) by Jennifer Brown _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Malcolm at Midnight](https://readinglist.school/book/malcolm-at-midnight) by W. H. Beck _(Grades 3–5)_
- [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)_
- [Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH](https://readinglist.school/book/mrs-frisby-and-the-rats-of-nimh) by Robert C. O'Brien _(790L · Grades 4–6)_
- [Odder](https://readinglist.school/book/odder) by Katherine Applegate _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Old Yeller](https://readinglist.school/book/old-yeller) by Fred Gipson _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Pax](https://readinglist.school/book/pax) by Sara Pennypacker _(760L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Rascal](https://readinglist.school/book/rascal) by Sterling North _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Restart](https://readinglist.school/book/restart) by Gordon Korman _(730L · Grades 5–8)_
- [Scritch Scratch](https://readinglist.school/book/scritch-scratch) by Lindsay Currie _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Shiloh](https://readinglist.school/book/shiloh) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(890L · Grades 3–6)_
- [Small Spaces](https://readinglist.school/book/small-spaces) by Katherine Arden _(Grades 3–5)_
- [So B. It](https://readinglist.school/book/so-b-it) by Sarah Weeks _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Stella](https://readinglist.school/book/stella) by McCall Hoyle _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Summer of the Monkeys](https://readinglist.school/book/summer-of-the-monkeys) by Wilson Rawls _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Surviving the Applewhites](https://readinglist.school/book/surviving-the-applewhites) by Stephanie S. Tolan _(Grades 5–8)_
- [The Boy Who Dared](https://readinglist.school/book/the-boy-who-dared) by Susan Campbell Bartoletti _(Grades 6–8)_
- [The Boy on the Porch](https://readinglist.school/book/the-boy-on-the-porch) by Sharon Creech _(Grades 3–5)_
- [The City of Ember](https://readinglist.school/book/the-city-of-ember) by Jeanne DuPrau _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Fort](https://readinglist.school/book/the-fort) by Gordon Korman _(Grades 6–8)_
- [The Giver](https://readinglist.school/book/the-giver) by Lois Lowry _(760L · Grades 6–8)_
- [The Great Gilly Hopkins](https://readinglist.school/book/the-great-gilly-hopkins) by Katherine Paterson _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Mouse and the Motorcycle](https://readinglist.school/book/the-mouse-and-the-motorcycle) by Beverly Cleary _(860L · Grades 2–4)_
- [The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise](https://readinglist.school/book/the-remarkable-journey-of-coyote-sunrise) by Dan Gemeinhart _(Grades 5–8)_
- [The Trumpet of the Swan](https://readinglist.school/book/the-trumpet-of-the-swan) by E.B. White _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Took](https://readinglist.school/book/took) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 6–8)_
- [Wildfire](https://readinglist.school/book/wildfire) by Rodman Philbrick _(Grades 3–5)_

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