# National Book Award for Young People's Literature reading list

**20** books referenced by National Book Award for Young People's Literature, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature is one of the most prestigious US literary awards, given annually by the National Book Foundation to a distinguished book for young readers. Winners span middle grade and young adult and are widely taught and assigned in US schools.

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## National Book Award for Young People's Literature reading list

- [1919 The Year That Changed America](https://readinglist.school/book/1919-the-year-that-changed-america) by Martin W. Sandler _(Grades 7–12)_
- [A First Time for Everything](https://readinglist.school/book/a-first-time-for-everything) by Dan Santat _(Grades 4–8)_
- [All My Rage](https://readinglist.school/book/all-my-rage) by Sabaa Tahir _(Grades 9–12)_
- [Brown Girl Dreaming](https://readinglist.school/book/brown-girl-dreaming) by Jacqueline Woodson _(990L · Grades 5–8)_
- [Challenger Deep](https://readinglist.school/book/challenger-deep) by Neal Shusterman _(Grades 9–12)_
- [Claudette Colvin](https://readinglist.school/book/claudette-colvin-twice-toward-justice) by Phillip Hoose _(Grades 6–10)_
- [Far From The Tree](https://readinglist.school/book/far-from-the-tree) by Robin Benway _(Grades 9–12)_
- [Goblin Secrets](https://readinglist.school/book/goblin-secrets) by William Alexander _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Inside Out & Back Again](https://readinglist.school/book/inside-out-and-back-again) by Thanhha Lai _(800L · Grades 4–8)_
- [Kareem Between](https://readinglist.school/book/kareem-between) by Shifa Saltagi Safadi _(Grades 4–7)_
- [King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)](https://readinglist.school/book/king-and-the-dragonflies) by Kacen Callender _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Last Night at the Telegraph Club](https://readinglist.school/book/last-night-at-the-telegraph-club) by Malinda Lo _(Grades 9–12)_
- [March Book Three](https://readinglist.school/book/march-book-three) by John Lewis _(Grades 9–12)_
- [Mockingbird](https://readinglist.school/book/mockingbird-erskine) by Kathryn Erskine _(Grades 5–8)_
- [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 Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I](https://readinglist.school/book/octavian-nothing-the-pox-party) by M. T. Anderson _(Grades 9–12)_
- [The Penderwicks](https://readinglist.school/book/the-penderwicks) by Jeanne Birdsall _(Grades 4–7)_
- [The Poet X](https://readinglist.school/book/the-poet-x) by Elizabeth Acevedo _(800L · Grades 8–12)_
- [The Thing About Luck](https://readinglist.school/book/the-thing-about-luck) by Cynthia Kadohata _(Grades 5–8)_
- [What I Saw and How I Lied](https://readinglist.school/book/what-i-saw-and-how-i-lied) by Judy Blundell _(Grades 9–12)_

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