2024 Minnesota Book Award Finalists Challenge - hosted by heidisreads

Read a title from the Children's Literature, Middle Grade Literature or Young Adult Literature Categories
You can find a list of the finalists here.
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The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Ecology For Kids: Science Experiments and Activities Inspired by Awesome Ecologists, Past and Present; with 25 illustrated biographies of amazing scientists from around the world by Liz Lee Heinecke

The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Ecology For Kids: Science Experiments and Activities Inspired by Awesome Ecologists, Past and Present; with 25 illustrated biographies of amazing scientists from around the world

Liz Lee Heinecke

128 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction childrens
The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be

Shannon Gibney

256 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

memoir speculative fiction challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Reimagining Police: The Future of Public Safety by Artika R. Tyner

Reimagining Police: The Future of Public Safety

Artika R. Tyner

168 pages • missing pub info (editions)

challenging informative medium-paced
Just Do This One Thing for Me by Laura Zimmermann

Just Do This One Thing for Me

Laura Zimmermann

320 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction mystery young adult challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Looking for Happy by Ty Chapman

Looking for Happy

Ty Chapman

40 pages • missing pub info (editions)

Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons by Laura Purdie Salas

Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons

Laura Purdie Salas

32 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced
Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? by Junauda Petrus

Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?

Junauda Petrus

32 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction childrens emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced
Shannon in the Spotlight by Kalena Miller

Shannon in the Spotlight

Kalena Miller

272 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction childrens middle grade emotional lighthearted medium-paced
Beneath by Cori Doerrfeld

Beneath

Cori Doerrfeld

40 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction childrens medium-paced
The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo

The Puppets of Spelhorst

Kate DiCamillo

160 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction childrens middle grade adventurous hopeful reflective fast-paced