Each year the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, selects the best children’s books. Here are the selected lists for Older Readers, grades 6-8, ages 11-14, and All Ages:

OLDER READERS

  

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport

Drama by Raina Telgemeier

  

A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return by Zeina Abirached

Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure by Jim Murphy and Alison Blank

My Family for the War by Anne C. Voorhoeve

  

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher

The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

  

Son by Lois Lowry

Son of a Gun by Anne de Graaf

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal

 

Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery

We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson

 

ALL AGES

 

Little Bird by Germano Zullo

National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry by J. Patrick Lewis

 

Step Gently Out by Helen Frost, illustrated by Rick Lieder

Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems by Kate Coombs, illustrated by Meilo So

The Year Comes Round: Haiku through the Seasons by Sid Farrar, illustrated by Ilse Plume