Charlotte Award

Given by New York State Reading Association

141 Works 383,101 Books 13,928 Reviews 4.2
Named for the main character in E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, the purpose of the Charlotte Award is to encourage students to read outstanding literature and ultimately become lifelong readers. show more NYSRA presented the first Charlotte Awards in 1990. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (60), Nominee (93)
Categories:
All, Finalist (1), High School (21), Intermediate (21), Middle School (21), Primary (29), No Category (48)
Years:
All, 2023 (40), 2021 (13), 2018 (4), 2016 (39), 2014 (4), 2012 (4), 2010 (3), 2008 (3), 2006 (4), 2004 (3), 2002 (3), 2000 (3), 1998 (3), 1996 (4), 1994 (4), 1992 (4), 1990 (3)

Winner 60

WorkCategoryYear
Hood by Jenny MokeHigh School2023
Dear Earth…From Your Friends in Room 5 by Erin DealeyIntermediate2023
Blood and germs : the civil war battle against wounds and disease by Gail JarrowMiddle School2023
Dinosaurs Are Not Extinct: Real Facts About Real Dinosaurs by Drew ShenemanPrimary2023
The Walls Have Ears: A Black Spy in the Confederate White House by Hope MarstonHigh School2021
Write On, Irving Berlin! by Leslie KimmelmanIntermediate2021
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame AlexanderMiddle School2021
Can I Be Your Dog? by Troy CummingsPrimary2021
Fort by Cynthia DeFelice2018
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman2018
New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer2018
Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh by Sally M. Walker2018
The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April HenryHigh School2016
Rags: Hero Dog of WWI: A True Story by Margot Theis RavenIntermediate2016
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. HolmMiddle School2016
The Book with No Pictures by B. J. NovakPrimary2016
Cinder by Marissa Meyer2014
Wonder by R. J. Palacio2014
Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent2014
Penguin and Pinecone by Salina Yoon2014
The Maze Runner by James Dashner2012
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz2012
Memoirs of a Goldfish by Devin Scillian2012
The Can Man by Laura E. Williams2012
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins2010
Stolen Children by Peg Kehret2010
There Is a Bird on Your Head! by Mo Willems2010
Heat by Mike Lupica2008
The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens2008
A Horse Named Funny Cide by Funny Cide Team2008
The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer2006
Old Granny and the Bean Thief by Cynthia DeFelice2006
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly2006
The Skull Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta2004
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli2004
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague2004
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin2002
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo2002
Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser2002
I Was a Third Grade Science Grade Project by Mary Jane Auch2000
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling2000
Rotten Teeth by Laura Simms2000
When I Was Five by Arthur Howard1998
Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park1998
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick1998
Tell Them We Remember by Susan D. Bachrach1996
Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse1996
First Apple by Ching Yeung Russell1996
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell1996
Nothing but the Truth by Avi1994
Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh1994
The Rag Coat by Lauren A. Mills1994
There's a Girl in My Hammerlock by Jerry Spinelli1994
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry1992
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry1992
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers1992
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli1992
The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole1990
The Way Things Work by David Macaulay1990
Piggins by Jane Yolen1990

Nominee 93

WorkCategoryYear
Hood by Jenny MokeHigh School2023
The Black Flamingo by Dean AttaHigh School2023
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki GrimesHigh School2023
The Forest of Stolen Girls by June HurHigh School2023
Year of the Reaper by Makiia LucierHigh School2023
Like Other Girls by Britta LundinHigh School2023
It's Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren MorrillHigh School2023
Angel of Greenwood by Randi PinkHigh School2023
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot SchreferHigh School2023
Permanent Record (Young Readers Edition): How One Man Exposed the Truth about Government Spying and Digital Security by Edward SnowdenHigh School2023
Dear Earth…From Your Friends in Room 5 by Erin DealeyIntermediate2023
Lizzie Demands a Seat!: Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights by Beth AndersonIntermediate2023
Saving Lady Liberty: Joseph Pulitzer's Fight for the Statue of Liberty by Claudia FriddellIntermediate2023
Bartali's Bicycle: The True Story of Gino Bartali, Italy's Secret Hero by Megan HoytIntermediate2023
Why Longfellow Lied: The Truth About Paul Revere's Midnight Ride by Jeff LantosIntermediate2023
Seven Golden Rings: A Tale of Music and Math by Rajani LaRoccaIntermediate2023
This Poem Is a Nest by Irene LathamIntermediate2023
No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History by Lindsay H. MetcalfIntermediate2023
Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge by Ray Anthony ShepardIntermediate2023
Write! Write! Write! by Amy Ludwig VanDerwaterIntermediate2023
Blood and germs : the civil war battle against wounds and disease by Gail JarrowMiddle School2023
In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks by Don BrownMiddle School2023
The Seventh Raven by David ElliottMiddle School2023
The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas by Kimberly Willis HoltMiddle School2023
A Soft Place to Land by Janae MarksMiddle School2023
The Leak by Kate Reed PettyMiddle School2023
Root Magic by Eden RoyceMiddle School2023
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids by Cynthia Leitich SmithMiddle School2023
We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know by Traci SorellMiddle School2023
Escape at 10,000 Feet: D. B. Cooper and the Missing Money (Unsolved Case Files, #1) by Tom SullivanMiddle School2023
Dinosaurs Are Not Extinct: Real Facts About Real Dinosaurs by Drew ShenemanPrimary2023
Ten Beautiful Things by Molly GriffinPrimary2023
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna HoPrimary2023
I Wish You Knew by Jackie Azua KramerPrimary2023
How to Apologize by David LaRochellePrimary2023
What's in Your Pocket?: Collecting Nature's Treasures by Heather L. MontgomeryPrimary2023
Home Is in Between by Mitali PerkinsPrimary2023
The Reason for the Seasons (A Joulia Copernicus Book) by Ellie PetersonPrimary2023
Lions & Cheetahs & Rhinos OH MY!: Animal Artwork by Children in Sub-Saharan Africa by John PlattPrimary2023
Malina's Jam: Walt Disney Animation Studios Artist Showcase by Svetla RadivoevaPrimary2023
Windows by Julia DenosPrimary2021
Crunch, The Shy Dinosaur by Cirocco DunlapPrimary2021
Elmore by Holly HobbiePrimary2021
Fruit Bowl by Mark HoffmannPrimary2021
Imagine That! by Yasmeen IsmailPrimary2021
Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne LangPrimary2021
No More Noisy Nights by Holly L. NinerPrimary2021
Moon: A Peek-Through Picture Book by Britta TeckentrupPrimary2021
What Will Grow? by Jennifer WardPrimary2021
Fort by Cynthia DeFelice2018
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman2018
New Shoes by Susan Lynn Meyer2018
Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh by Sally M. Walker2018
The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April HenryHigh School2016
The Lake and the Library by S. M. BeikoHigh School2016
The Time Fetch by Amy HerrickHigh School2016
Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat by Gail JarrowHigh School2016
The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh JohnsonHigh School2016
Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge by David LubarHigh School2016
Far Far Away by Tom McNealHigh School2016
Expiration Day by William Campbell PowellHigh School2016
The Rithmatist by Brandon SandersonHigh School2016
Remember Dippy by Shirley Reva VernickHigh School2016
Rags: Hero Dog of WWI: A True Story by Margot Theis RavenIntermediate2016
El Deafo by Cece BellIntermediate2016
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen BryantIntermediate2016
Cartboy and the Time Capsule by L.A. CampbellIntermediate2016
The Legend of the Jersey Devil by Trinka Hakes NobleIntermediate2016
Rump: The True Story of Rumplestiltskin by Liesl ShurtliffIntermediate2016
Like Carrot Juice on a Cupcake (Eleanor) by Julie SternbergIntermediate2016
Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell (Christy Ottaviano Books) by Tanya Lee StoneIntermediate2016
As Fast as Words Could Fly by Pamela M. TuckIntermediate2016
Grumbles from the Forest: Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist by Jane YolenIntermediate2016
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. HolmMiddle School2016
Soldier Dog by Sam AngusMiddle School2016
The Night Gardener by Jonathan AuxierMiddle School2016
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal BascombMiddle School2016
Stubby the war dog : the true story of world war I 's bravest dog by Ann BausumMiddle School2016
Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery by Winifred ConklingMiddle School2016
Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War by Helen FrostMiddle School2016
There Will Be Bears by Ryan GebhartMiddle School2016
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris GrabensteinMiddle School2016
Paperboy by Vince VawterMiddle School2016
The Book with No Pictures by B. J. NovakPrimary2016
Dirty Gert by Tedd ArnoldPrimary2016
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas by Lynne CoxPrimary2016
The Snatchabook by Helen DochertyPrimary2016
Too Much Glue by Jason LefebvrePrimary2016
On My Way to School by Sarah MaizesPrimary2016
Are the Dinosaurs Dead, Dad? by Julie MiddletonPrimary2016
Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg by Lori MortensenPrimary2016
Nugget and Fang Friends Forever - or Snack Time? by Tammi SauerPrimary2016
My Little Book of River Otters (My Little Book Series) by Hope Irvin MarstonFinalist2006

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