Coraline by Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe Bad Beginning by Lemony SnicketMatilda by Roald DahlThe Witches by Roald Dahl
Best Books for Morbid Kids
730 books — 524 voters
The Passport Project by Kellie McIntyreThe Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly BarnhillThe Last Mapmaker by Christina SoontornvatAin't Burned All the Bright by Jason ReynoldsThose Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly
2023 Mock Newbery List
154 books — 139 voters

Crank by Ellen HopkinsImpulse by Ellen HopkinsIdentical by Ellen HopkinsGlass by Ellen HopkinsBurned by Ellen Hopkins
Novels in Verse
427 books — 755 voters
Forget Me Not by Ellie TerryMoonrise by Sarah CrossanThe Firefly Letters by Margarita EngleShout by Laurie Halse AndersonOrdinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes
UnShushed Podcast
105 books — 3 voters

Into the Arms of Strangers by Mark Jonathan HarrisKindertransport by Olga Levy DruckerRescuing the Children by Deborah HodgeThe Children of Willesden Lane. Beyond the Kindertransport by Mona GolabekMy Family for the War by Anne C. Voorhoeve
Kindertransport
61 books — 20 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
868 books — 967 voters

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan AikenGone-Away Lake by Elizabeth EnrightEmily of New Moon by L.M. MontgomeryBallet Shoes by Noel StreatfeildJohnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Forgotten Kids Books of Quality
953 books — 343 voters
The Giver by Lois LowryHoles by Louis SacharA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Most Deserving Newbery
116 books — 3,000 voters

Girl on a Plane by Miriam MossOn Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongThink it. Pitch it. Sell it. by Pierre CoombesLittle House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
(Semi)Autobiographical Fiction
25 books — 3 voters
Number the Stars by Lois LowryThe War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyThe Hundred Dresses by Eleanor EstesSomeone Named Eva by Joan M. WolfLily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1940s
385 books — 80 voters


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