# Rhode Island Children's Book Award reading list

**16** books referenced by Rhode Island Children's Book Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Rhode Island Children's Book Award (RICBA) is Rhode Island's statewide children's-choice book award for grades 3-5, coordinated by the Rhode Island Office of Library & Information Services (OLIS) with the RI Library Association, the RI State Council of the International Reading Association, and the RI Educational Media Association since 1990. Each year a committee selects about twenty nominees; students across Rhode Island read from the list and vote for their favorite. Its nominee lists are read in Rhode Island classrooms and libraries statewide and feature widely loved middle-grade reading such as Clean Getaway, The List of Things That Will Not Change, From the Desk of Zoe Washington, A Rover's Story, and The Guardian Test.

**Framework type:** reading-program
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**Primary source:** https://olis.ri.gov/programs-and-support/reading-programs/rhode-island-childrens-book-award (olis.ri.gov/programs-and-support/reading-programs/rhode-island-childrens-book-award)
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## Rhode Island Children's Book Award reading list

- [A Rover's Story](https://readinglist.school/book/a-rovers-story) by Jasmine Warga _(Grades 4–5)_
- [Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos](https://readinglist.school/book/call-me-roberto) by Nathalie Alonso _(Grades 2–5)_
- [Front Desk](https://readinglist.school/book/front-desk) by Kelly Yang _(640L · Grades 3–7)_
- [Invisible Isabel](https://readinglist.school/book/invisible-isabel) by Sally J. Pla _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Legendarios: Wrath of the Rain God](https://readinglist.school/book/legendarios-wrath-of-the-rain-god) by Karla Arenas Valenti _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All](https://readinglist.school/book/magnolia-wu-unfolds-it-all) by Chanel Miller _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Max and the Midknights](https://readinglist.school/book/max-and-the-midknights) by Lincoln Peirce _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Pie in the Sky](https://readinglist.school/book/pie-in-the-sky) by Remy Lai _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Something Like Home](https://readinglist.school/book/something-like-home) by Andrea Beatriz Arango _(Grades 6–8)_
- [Swim Team](https://readinglist.school/book/swim-team) by Johnnie Christmas _(Grades 3–7)_
- [The Boy at the Back of the Class](https://readinglist.school/book/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class) by Onjali Q. Raúf _(Grades 3–6)_
- [The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island #1)](https://readinglist.school/book/the-guardian-test) by Christina Soontornvat _(Grades 2–5)_
- [The People's Painter](https://readinglist.school/book/the-peoples-painter) by Cynthia Levinson _(Grades 2–5)_
- [The Season of Styx Malone](https://readinglist.school/book/the-season-of-styx-malone) by Kekla Magoon _(510L · Grades 3–7)_
- [Unspeakable](https://readinglist.school/book/unspeakable-the-tulsa-race-massacre) by Carole Boston Weatherford _(Grades 3–7)_
- [Wildfire](https://readinglist.school/book/wildfire) by Rodman Philbrick _(Grades 3–5)_

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