Publisher’s Weekly has selected their picks for the top 50 books for children and teens this year.  Here are the books that made that list:

PICTURE BOOKS

 

Battle Bunny by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett, illustrated by Matthew Myers

Bluebird by Bob Staake

  

Fog Island by Tomi Ungerer

The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen

If You Want to See a Whale by Julie Fogliano, illustrated by Erin E. Stead

 

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown

Mr. Wuffles by David Wiesner

 

Rosie’s Magic Horse by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Quentin Blake

This Is the Rope by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by James Ransome

 

The Tortoise and the Hare by Jerry Pinkney

The Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins, illustrated by James Proimos

 

FICTION

  

Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle

Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang

  

The Case of Team Spirit by John Allison

Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff

  

Doll Bones by Holly Black

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

  

Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by KG Campbell

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

From Norvelt to Nowhere by Jack Gantos

  

Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper

The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky

Hostage Three by Nick Lake

  

How to Catch a Bogle by Catherine Jinks, illustrated by Sarah Watts

Infinite Moment of Us by Lauren Myracle

The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal

  

The Lucy Variations by Sara Zarr

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

Midwinter Blood by Marcus Sedgwick

  

P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia

Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff

Reality Boy by AS King

  

Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

Sex and Violence by Carrie Mesrobian

The Thing about Luck by Cynthia Kadohata, illustrated by Julia Kuo

 

The Truth of Me by Patricia MacLachlan

The War Within These Walls by Aline Sax

 

Whistle in the Dark by Susan Hill Long

Winger by Andrew Smith

 

NONFICTION

 

Courage Has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone

Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin

 

Locomotive by Brian Floca

My Brother’s Book by Maurice Sendak

  

Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson

Parrots over Puerto Rico by Susan L. Roth and Cathy Trumbore

Poems to Learn by Heart edited by Caroline Kennedy

  

The President Has Been Shot! by James L. Swanson

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

Stardines Swim High across the Sky and Other Poems by Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Carin Berger