Award Books
Building Block (Preschool/Kindergarten)
Towed by Toad by Jashar Awan
Ploof by Ben Clanton
I Live in a Tree Trunk by Meg Fleming
Dig, Dig, Dinosaur by Anjali Goswami
Just One Flake by Travis Jonker
Mr. Fox's Game of No by David Larochelle
The Quiet Forest by Charlotte Offsay
Peg Gets Crackin' by Jo Renfro
Simon and the Better Bone by Corey Tabor
Bear's Lost Glasses by Leo Timmers
| Mark Twain 2025-2026 Readers Award Final Nominees | ||
| Title | Author | Publisher |
| The Cursed Moon | Angela Cervantes | Scholastic Press |
| Extra Normal | Kate Alice Marshal | Viking Books |
| Farther than the Moon | Lindsay Lackey | Roaring Books Press |
| Four Eyes | Rex Ogle and Dave Valeza | Graphic |
| Hidden Truths | Elly Swartz | Yearling |
| How to Stay Invisible | Maggie C. Rudd | Square Fish |
| Jawbreaker | Christina Wyman | Square Fish |
| Lasagna Means I Love You | Kate O'Shaughnessy | Knopf Books |
| The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle | Taryn Souders | Sourcebooks Young Readers |
| Nothing Else But Miracles | Kate Albus | Margaret Ferguson Books |
| When Sea Becomes Sky | Gillian McDunn | Bloomsbury Children's Books |
| We Don't Lose Our Class Goldfish | Jarrett Lerner | Aladdin |
| Show Me 2025-2026 MASL Final Nominees | |||
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
| Basketball Dreams | Chris Paul | Courtney Lovett | Roaring Brook Press |
| Building a Dream: How the Boys of Koh Panyee Became Champions | Darshana Khiani | Dow Phumiruk | Eerdmans Books for Young Readers |
| Cooler than Lemonade | Harshita Jerath | Chloe Burgett | Sourcebooks Jabberwocky |
| How This Book Got Red | Margaret Chiu Greanias | Melissa Iwai | Sourcebooks Jabberwocky |
| The Kitten Story: A Mostly True Tale | Emily Jenkins | Brittany Cicchese | Minerva |
| The Mighty McKraken | Izzy B | Ben Askew | IzzyB Books |
| Seals Are Jerks! | Jared Chapman | Jared Chapman | Orchard Books |
| The Three Little Guinea Pigs | Erica S. Perl | Amy Young | Farrar, Straus Giroux |
| The World's Best Class Plant | Audrey Vernick & Liz Garton Scanlon | Lynnor Bontigao | G.P. Putnam's Sons Books |
| Yetis are the Worst! | Ryan T. Higgins | Ryan T. Higgins | Disney Hyperion |