Students in grades 3-12 who read at least 4 titles from their respective list will be eligible to take part in the Missouri voting in March! Those who read all of their list will be treated to pizza and dessert at the Readers' Award Celebration at the end of the year!

Show Me Award Books (Grades 1-3)

2023-2024 Winners:

1st Place - I Eat Poop, 17,370 votes
2nd Place - Hugo and the Impossible Thing, 13,994 votes
3rd Place - Invasion of the Unicorns, 11,256 votes

2024-2025 Nominees:

TITLE	AUTHOR	ILLUSTRATOR
Acorn was a Little Wild	Jen Arena	Jessica Gibson
Creepy Crayon	Aaron Reynolds	Peter Brown
Every Dog in the Neighborhood	Philip C. Stead	Matthew Cordell
Hamsters Make Terrible Roommates	Cheryl B. Klein	Abhi Alwar
Little Red and the Big Bad Editor	Rebecca Kraft Rector	Shanda McCloskey
Marvelous Mabel	Crystal Hubbard	Alleanna Harris
Pink is Not a Color	Lindsay Ward	Lindsay Ward
Rick the Rock of Room 214	Julie Falatko	Ruth Chan
The Library Fish	Alyssa Satin Capucilli	Gladys Jose
Yetis are the Worst!	Alex Willan	Alex Willan

Mark Twain Award Books (Grades 3-6)

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2023-2024 Winners:

1st Place – Six Feel Below Zero, 808 votes

2nd Place – Linked, 742 votes

3rd Place – The Lion of Mars, 732 votes

2024-2025 Nominees:

TITLE	AUTHOR
A Rover's Story	Jasmine Warga
Field Guide to the Supernatural Universe	Alyson Noel
Freestyle	Gale Galligan
Hummingbird	Natalie Lloyd
Maizy Chen's Last Chance	Lisa Yee
Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting	Roseanne A. Brown
The Curious League of Detectives & Thieves-Egypt's Fire	Tom Phillips
The Daredevils	Rob Buyea
The Girl in the Lake	India Hill Brown
The Midnight Children	Dan Gemeinhart
The Two Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor	Amanda Panitch
Thirst	Varsha Bajaj

Truman Award Books (Grades 6-8)

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2023-2024 Winners:

1st Place – Ground Zero, 371 votes

2nd Place – Alone, 284 votes

3rd Place – Starfish, 208 votes

2024-2025 Nominees:

2023-2024 Winners:

1st Place – You'd Be Home Now, 256 votes

2nd Place – Concrete Rose, 236 votes

3rd Place – Blade of Secrets, 153 votes

2024-2025 Nominees:

Missouri Readers' Awards