# Land of Enchantment Book Award reading list

**14** books referenced by Land of Enchantment Book Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Land of Enchantment Book Award is New Mexico's statewide children's-choice book award, administered by the New Mexico State Library and New Mexico Library Association since 1981. Each cycle, students across New Mexico read from official picture-book, children's, and young-adult nominee lists and vote for their favorite titles. Its lists are read in New Mexico classrooms and libraries statewide and include widely loved middle-grade reading such as The Giver, Wonder, Out of My Mind, The Tale of Despereaux, The City of Ember, Maniac Magee, and Shiloh.

**Framework type:** reading-program
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**Primary source:** https://nmstatelibrary.org/land-of-enchantment-book-awards-40th-anniversary/ (nmstatelibrary.org/land-of-enchantment-book-awards-40th-anniversary/)
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## Land of Enchantment Book Award reading list

- [Deep and Dark and Dangerous](https://readinglist.school/book/deep-and-dark-and-dangerous) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Divergent](https://readinglist.school/book/divergent) by Veronica Roth _(Grades 8–12)_
- [Maniac Magee](https://readinglist.school/book/maniac-magee) by Jerry Spinelli _(820L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Out of My Mind](https://readinglist.school/book/out-of-my-mind) by Sharon M. Draper _(700L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Ruby Holler](https://readinglist.school/book/ruby-holler) by Sharon Creech _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Shiloh](https://readinglist.school/book/shiloh) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(890L · Grades 3–6)_
- [So B. It](https://readinglist.school/book/so-b-it) by Sarah Weeks _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Stolen Children](https://readinglist.school/book/stolen-children) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The City of Ember](https://readinglist.school/book/the-city-of-ember) by Jeanne DuPrau _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Giver](https://readinglist.school/book/the-giver) by Lois Lowry _(760L · Grades 6–8)_
- [The Hunger Games](https://readinglist.school/book/the-hunger-games) by Suzanne Collins _(810L · Grades 6–9)_
- [The Tale of Despereaux](https://readinglist.school/book/the-tale-of-despereaux) by Kate DiCamillo _(670L · Grades 3–6)_
- [There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom](https://readinglist.school/book/theres-a-boy-in-the-girls-bathroom) by Louis Sachar _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Wonder](https://readinglist.school/book/wonder) by R.J. Palacio _(790L · Grades 3–7)_

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