The Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader have announced the finalists for the 2015 Children’s Choice Book Awards.  The awards are given in seven categories and youth across the nation vote on the winners.  Finalists are chosen by votes from thousands of children and teens.  The winners will be announced during Children’s Book Week, May 4-10.

Here are the finalists in each category:

 

KINDERGARTEN to 2ND GRADE

 

Duck, Duck, Moose! by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones

Eva and Sadie and the Worst Haircut EVER! by Jeff Cohen, illustrated by Ellana Allen

 

How to Babysit a Grandma by Jean Reagan, illustrated by Lee Wildish

A Pet for Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold

 

3RD to 4TH GRADE

 

Claude at the Beach by Alex T. Smith

The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza by James Kochalka

 

Happy Birthday, Babymouse by Jennifer L. Holm, illustrated by Matt Holm

Kali’s Story: An Orphaned Polar Bear Rescue by Jennifer Keats Curtis, illustrated by John Gomes

Sisters by Raina Telgemeier

 

5TH to 6TH GRADE

 

The Dumbest Idea Ever! by Jimmy Gownley

Ice Dogs by Terry Lynn Johnson

 

Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan, illustrated by John Rocco

The Return of Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke

Temple Run: Race Through Time to Unlock Secrets of Ancient Worlds by Tracey West

 

TEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR

 

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

Cress by Marissa Meyer

 

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai, co-written by Patricia McCormick

The One by Kiera Cass

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

 

CHILDREN’S CHOICE DEBUT AUTHOR

 

Cece Bell for El Deafo

J.A. White for The Thickety: A Path Begins

 

Katherine Roy for Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands

Natalie Lloyd for A Snicker of Magic

Piers Torday for The Last Wild

 

TEEN CHOICE DEBUT AUTHOR

 

Don Mitchell for The Freedom Summer Murders

Jason Reynolds for When I Was the Greatest

 

Jennifer Mathieu for The Truth About Alice

Leslye Walton for The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender