Patriot Picks 2019-2020 Newberry winners are listed; the Beehive winners from any year qualify; & nominees from years honor books are not, but they qualify also 2016-2020 Spotlighted authors: Pam Munoz Ryan 2020: Sharon Creech Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Aru Shah and the End of Time by Barnhill Roshani Chokshi Insignificant Events in the Life of a The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Ashes by Kathryn Lasky Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo Cactus by Dusti Bowling Black Star, Bright Dawn by Scott The One and Only Ivan by Katherine The Mad Wolf's Daughter (4th-grade only) by Diane Magras O’Dell Applegate Frank Einstein by Jon Scieszka Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani Focused by Alyson Gerber Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool Rebound by Kwame Alexander Wishtree by Katherine Applegate Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Letters from Rifka by Karen Hess The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly Like a River Glorious by Rae Carson Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter 2019: Marley Dias Gets it Done by Marley Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz Dias (Biography) The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan Martin Rising: Requiem for a King by Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk Overboard! (Survivor Diaries) by Terry Andrea Davis Pickney & Brian Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata Pickney (Poetry) The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Lynn Johnson Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool Refugee by Alan Gratz Restart by Gordon Korman Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell of Thread by Kate DiCamillo (Informative/Non-fiction) Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park Meets World by Shannon Hale Wedgie & Gizmo (4th grade only) by Rain/Reign by Ann M. Martin A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck Someone Like Eva by Joan m. Wolf Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Suzanne Selfors Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Holes by Louis Sachar Word of Mouse by James Patterson Rawls Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Ever the Hunted by Erin Summerill The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg Exo by Fonda Lee The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry Lewis Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kremmerer The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen The Giver by Lois Lowry Scythe (Arc of a Scythe) by Neal Shusterman The Endless Steppe: Growing up Missing May by Cynthia Rylant in Siberia by Ester Hautzig Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor A Taste for Monsters by Matthew Kirby The Epic Fail of arturo zamora by Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli Warcross by Marie Lu 2018: Pablo Cartaya Number the Stars by Lois Lowry The Guardians of Ga’Hoole: The Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Adventures with Waffles by Maria Parr Capture by Kathryn Lasky Fleischman A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket by The Help by Kathryn Stockett Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell The Keeper of Lost Cities by Freedman Deborah Hopkinson Shannon Messenger The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman The Lord of the Rings part one: The Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley Ghost by Jason Reynolds Tolkien Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary The Girl in the Tower by Lisa Schroeder Secrets of the Dragon Tomb by Patrick Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt by Lynda Blackmon Lowery A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Samphire, Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Shadow Magic by Joshua Khan Garcia McCall Willard Some Kind of Courage by Dan Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson Gemeinhart A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk Journal by Joan Blos Booked by Kwame Alexander The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson The Novice by Taran Matharu Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Railhead by Philip Reeve Taylor Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys The Grey King by Susan Cooper Walk On Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton Zero Day by Jan Gangsei The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox 2017: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead Appleblossom the Possum by Holly George Sloan Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. Beast Keeper (4 th-grade only) by Lucy O'Brien Coats Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands Sounder by William H. Armstrong Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon The High King by Lloyd Alexander Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg My Brother is a Superhero by David Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt Solomons I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Burton de Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson Treviño The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska It's Brubaker Bardley Like This, Cat by Emily Neville Zane and the Hurricane by Rodman A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Philbrick The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Island A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth I am Princess X by Cherie Priest George Speare Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine Jackaby by William Ritter The Leveller by Julie Durango Nimona by Noelle Stevenson The Six by Mark Alpert Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee 2016: The Blood by Carter Roy El Deafo by Cece Bell The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm Frostborn by Lou Anders The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson Loot: How to Steal a Fortune by Jude Watson The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier Spell Robbers by Matthew J. Kirby Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald All the Truth That’s In Me by Julie Berry Buzz Kill by Beth Fantaskey Counting by 7s by Holly Sloan Grandmaster by David Klass If We Survive by Andrew Klavan The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes One Came Home by Amy Timberlake The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson Tesla’s Attic by Neal Shusterman and Eric Elfman The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan