Iowa High School Book AwardNominee

Given by Iowa Association of School Librarians (IASL)

40 Works 67,199 Books 2,852 Reviews 4.1
Purpose of the Iowa High School Book Award

To encourage to read more and better books

To provide an avenue for positive dialogue between teachers, parents, and students about books and authors

To show more give recognition to those who write books for young adults.

To provide students an opportunity to choose a book to receive the award

To offer an avenue for students to suggest books for the yearly reading list

To promote leisure reading among Iowa high school students

To provide Iowa high school students with a diversified, quality reading list show less
Stages:
All, Winner (21), Nominee (40)
Years:
All, 2024 (12), 2023 (12), 2020 (12), 2014 (1), 2012 (2), 2011 (1)

Nominee 40

WorkYear
Indivisible by Daniel Aleman2024
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley2024
Kneel by Candace Buford2024
Bluebird by Sharon Cameron2024
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave2024
Billy Summers by Stephen King2024
You'll Be the Death of Me by Karen M. McManus2024
The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe2024
Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon2024
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir2024
That Weekend by Kara Thomas2024
We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez2024
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes2023
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo2023
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee2023
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna2023
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin2023
The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda2023
The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris2023
Burn by Patrick Ness2023
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone2023
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas2023
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang2023
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi2023
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas2020
The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron2020
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green2020
The End of Our Story by Meg Haston2020
When We Collided by Emery Lord2020
Warcross by Marie Lu2020
Renegades by Marissa Meyer2020
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore2020
Underwater by Marisa Reichardt2020
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds2020
Dear Martin by Nic Stone2020
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner2020
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo2014
The year we disappeared : a father-daughter memoir by Cylin Busby2012
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf2012
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult2011

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