LibGuides: Best Books of 2015: Best Children's and Young Adult Titles of 2015

Fiction A - L

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .N6434 Al 2015
ISBN: 9780385755887
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Publishers Weekly, NPR
The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7.S242 Be 2015
ISBN: 9780375858604
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Washington Post, NPR
Beastly Verse by JooHee Yoon (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PN 6110 .A7 B38 2015
ISBN: 9781592701667
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
Booklist Top 10 Multicultural Books for Youth
Booklinks
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .R83138 Bon 2015
ISBN: 9780062317605
Publication Date: 2015-03-03
Publishers Weekly, Booklist
Winner - Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman; Brendan Shusterman (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PS 3569 .H8645 C43 2015
ISBN: 9780061134111
Publication Date: 2015-04-21
Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus
Winner - National Book Award- Young People's Literature
The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt; Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .D3388 Dat 2015
ISBN: 9780399172755
Publication Date: 2015-08-18
Publishers Weekly, Booklist
The Dog That Nino Didn't Have by Edward van de Vendel; Anton Van Hertbruggen (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .V556 Dog 2015
ISBN: 9780802854513
Publication Date: 2015-10-08
Publishers Weekly, Booklist
Don't Throw It to Mo! by David A. Adler; Sam Ricks (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .A2615 Dp 2015
ISBN: 9780670016310
Publication Date: 2015-05-05
Winner - Theodore Seuss Geisel Award for Most Distinguished Beginning Reader Book
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle; Rafael López (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .E7158 Dru 2015
ISBN: 9780544102293
Publication Date: 2015-03-31
Huffington Post, Kirkus
Winner - Pura Belpre Award for Illustration
Flutter and Hum: Animal Poems = Aleteo y Zumbido : Poemas de Animales by Julie Paschkis (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PS 3566 .A77284 F58 2015
ISBN: 9781627791038
Publication Date: 2015-08-18
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .B7825 Gam 2015
ISBN: 9780545668347
Publication Date: 2015-04-28
Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus
Finalist - Kirkus Prize
Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PS 3623 .I45 G66 2015
ISBN: 9780062215871
Publication Date: 2015-04-21
Washington Post, Kirkus
Winner - Coretta Scott King Award for Author of Children and Young Adult Books
Harriet the Invincible by Ursula Vernon
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .V5985 Har 2015
ISBN: 9780803739833
Publication Date: 2015-08-18
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .S347145 Hi 2015
ISBN: 9780763678180
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
Publishers Weekly, Booklist
Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .L5798 Hm 2015
ISBN: 9780525428848
Publication Date: 2015-03-17
Booklist - Top 10 Art Books for Youth, Grades 9-12
Hoodoo by Ronald L. Smith
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7.1 .S655 Hoo 2015
ISBN: 9780544445253
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Winner - Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator AWard
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .N433835 Ill 2015
ISBN: 9780142425763
Publication Date: 2015-10-27
Booklist - Top 10 Books for Youth
Winner - Michael L. Printz Award
It's Only Stanley by Jon Agee
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 8.3 .A2594 Its 2015
ISBN: 9780803739079
Publication Date: 2015-03-17
Washington Post, Booklist, Huffington Post
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De la Peña; Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .P3725 Las 2015
ISBN: 9780399257742
Publication Date: 2015-01-08
Publishers Weekly, NPR, Huffington Post, Kirkus,
Honor Book- Caldecott Medal
Winner - Newbury Medal
Honor Book - Coretta Scott King Award
Lenny and Lucy by Philip C. Stead; Erin E. Stead (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .S808566 Le 2015
ISBN: 9781596439320
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus

Fiction M - Z

The Marvels by Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .S4654 Mar 2015
ISBN: 9780545448680
Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Huffington Post, Booklink, Kirkus
Moletown by Torben Kuhlmann (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .K9490114 Mol 2015
ISBN: 9780735842083
Publication Date: 2015-10-01
Booklist
Mosquitoland by David Arnold
Call Number: North Circulating Books PZ 7 .A7349 Mos 2015
ISBN: 9780451470775
Publication Date: 2015-03-03
NPR, Booklist, Kirkus
The Nest by Kenneth Oppel; Jon Klassen (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .O614 Ne 2015
ISBN: 9781481432320
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Publishers Weekly, Booklist
The Night World by Mordicai Gerstein
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .G325 Nig 2015
ISBN: 9780316188227
Publication Date: 2015-06-16
Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus
The Only Child by Guojing
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7.7 .G9 On 2015
ISBN: 9780553497045
Publication Date: 2015-12-01
Publishers Weekly, Booklink, Kirkus
The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .K83518 Po 2015
ISBN: 9780545648936
Publication Date: 2015-05-26
Booklist
Winner - Stonewall Book Award for Exceptional Book for the LGBQT Community
The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7.1 .B434 Pr 2015
ISBN: 9780545637084
Publication Date: 2015-06-30
Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7.7 .J36 Ro 2015
ISBN: 9780803740167
Publication Date: 2015-03-10
Publishers Weekly, Huffington Post, Kirkus
Finalist - Newbury Medal
Rude Cakes by Rowboat Watkins
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7.1 .W4 Ru 2015
ISBN: 9781452138510
Publication Date: 2015-06-02
Booklist
The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .P3166 Se 2015
ISBN: 9780553497281
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
Booklist - Top 10 Art Books for Youth, Grades 5-8
The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .P8865 Sh 2015
ISBN: 9780062429971
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Publishers Weekly, NPRj
Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson; Sydney Smith
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7.7 .L395 Si 2015
ISBN: 9781554984312
Publication Date: 2015-03-17
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus
Thank You and Good Night by Patrick McDonnell
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .M1554 Th 2015
ISBN: 9780316338011
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus
The Thing about Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7.1 .B453 Th 2015
ISBN: 9780316380867
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
Publishers Weekly, Amazon, NPR, Booklist, Kirkus
Toys Meet Snow: : Being the Wintertime Adventures of A Curious Stuffed Buffalo, A Sensitive Plush Stingray, and A Book-loving Rubber Ball by Emily Jenkins; Paul O. Zelinsky (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .J4134 Tpm 2015
ISBN: 9780385373302
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
Publishers Weekly, NPR
Two Mice by Sergio Ruzzier
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .R9475 Two 2015
ISBN: 9780544302099
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Washington Post, Huffington Post, Kirkus
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .B7247 War 2015
ISBN: 9780803740815
Publication Date: 2015-01-08
Publishers Weekly, Kirkus
Finalist - Newbury Medal
Winner - Schneider Family Book Award
The Whisper by Pamela Zagarenski
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7.1 .Z33 Wh 2015
ISBN: 9780544416864
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
NPR, Kirkus
The Wonderful Fluffy Little Squishy by Beatrice Alemagna (Created by)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .A3744 Wo 2015
ISBN: 9781592701803
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Winner - Mildred Batchelder Award for Outstanding Children's Book Translation from a Foreign Language
Yard Sale by Eve Bunting; Lauren Castillo (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .B91527 Yar 2015
ISBN: 9780763665425
Publication Date: 2015-04-14
NPR, Kirkus

Nonfiction

Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark; April Chu (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature QA 29 .L72 W35 2015
ISBN: 9781939547200
Publication Date: 2015-10-13
Booklist Top 10 Multicultural Books for Youth
Booklinks
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books D 802 .D4 H645 2015
ISBN: 9780374300227
Publication Date: 2015-05-12
Washington Post, Booklist, Kirkus
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books HV 636 2005 .N4 B75 2015
ISBN: 9780544157774
Publication Date: 2015-08-04
Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus
Finalist - Robert F.Sibert Informational Book Award
Finalist - LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson; Sean Qualls (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature HV 3013 .Y43 T56 2015
ISBN: 9780449817445
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Winner - Schneider Family Book Award for Artistic Expression of the Disability Experience for Ages 0-10
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings : A Memoir by Margarita Engle; Edel Rodriguez (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PS 3555 .N4254 Z46 2015
ISBN: 9781481435222
Publication Date: 2015-08-04
Winner - Pura Belpre Award for Illustration
Finalist - YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Enormous SMALLNESS: A Story of E. E. Cummings by Matthew Burgess; Kris Di Giacomo (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PS 3505 .U334 Z5635 2015
ISBN: 9781592701711
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
Booklink (Top 10), Washington Post, Huffington Post
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: 20 Chilling Tales from the Wilderness by Hal Johnson; Tom Mead (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books GR 825 .J55 2015
ISBN: 9780761184614
Publication Date: 2015-09-08
Booklink (Top 10)
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick; Sophie Blackall (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7.1 .M38 Fin 2015
ISBN: 9780316324908
Publication Date: 2015-10-20
Publishers Weekly, Booklink
Winner - Caldecott Medal - Most Distinguished Picture Book for Children
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras by Duncan Tonatiuh
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books NE 546 .P6 T65 2015
ISBN: 9781419716478
Publication Date: 2015-08-25
Washington Post, Booklist, Book Links, Kirkus
Booklist Top 10 Art Books for Youth
Booklist Top 10 Multicultural Nonfiction for Youth
Pura Belpre Award - Illustration
Winner - Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
Finalist - Kirkus Prize
Human Body Theater by Maris Wicks
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books QP 37 .W478 2015
ISBN: 9781626722774
Publication Date: 2015-10-06
Booklist, Booklink
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century by Carole Boston Weatherford; Raúl Colón (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature ML 3930 .P745 W43 2014
ISBN: 9780375856068
Publication Date: 2014-12-23
Booklist - Top 10 Art Books, K-Gr 3
March: Book Two by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Artist)
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books E 840.8 .L43 L485 2015
ISBN: 9781603094009
Publication Date: 2015-01-20
Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Kirkus
Winner - Ignatz Award
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books CT 275 .E38518 S54 2015
ISBN: 9781596439528
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus
Finalist - National Book Award - Young People's Literature
Winner - YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Finalist - LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books ML 3792 .M67 P32 2015
ISBN: 9781596439733
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
Booklist - Top 10 Art Books for Youth, Grades 5-8
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M. T. Anderson
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books ML 3930 .S4995 A53 2015
ISBN: 9780763668181
Publication Date: 2015-09-22
Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus
Finalist - National Book Award - Young People's Literature
Finalist - YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books RA 644 .T8 B37 2015
ISBN: 9780544313675
Publication Date: 2015-08-04
Washington Post, Booklist
Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews; Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature ML 3930 .A53 A3 2015
ISBN: 9781419714658
Publication Date: 2015-04-14
Honor Book - Caldecott Medal
Winner - Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustration
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford; Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books E 185.97 .H35 W43 2015
ISBN: 9780763665319
Publication Date: 2015-08-04
Booklist, Huffington Post
Finalist - Caldecott Medal
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for Children