Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival
Magnolia Award Past Recipients
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The 2010 Magnolia Award: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The 2011 Magnolia Award: Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka
The 2012 Magnolia Award: 43 Cemetery Road: Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise, Illustrated by Sara Klise
The 2013 Magnolia Awards:
- Grades K-2 – Hot Rod Hamster by Cynthia Lord, Illustrated by Derek Anderson
- Grades 3-5 – Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to NOT Reading – Tommy Greenwald
- Grades 6-8 – Countdown – by Deborah Wiles
The 2014 Magnolia Awards:
- Grades K-2- Big Mean Mike by Michelle Knudsen, Illustrated by Scott Magoon
- Grades 3-5- The Book of Blood by H.P Newquist
- Grades 6-8- Divergent by Veronica Roth
The 2015 Magnolia Awards:
- K-2: The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
- 3-5: Tales from a Not-so-happy Heartbreaker by Rachel Renee Russell
- 6-8: Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves, & Other Female Villains by Jane Yolen & Heidi Stemple
- 9-12: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
The 2016 Magnolia Awards:
- K-2 Winner: The Princess and the Presents by Caryl Hart
Runner-up: What to Do When You’re Sent to Your Room by Ann Stott - 3-5 Winner: Wolf by Valerie Hobbs
Runner-up: Hot Dog! Eleanor Roosevelt throws a Picnic by Leslie Kimmelman - 6-8 Winner: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
Runner-up: The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm - 9-12 Winner: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Runner-up: All the Truth that’s In Me by Judith Berry
The 2017 Magnolia Awards
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Pre-K-2 Winner: The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak
Runner-up: Ninja Baby by David Zeltser -
3-5 Winner:Jars of Hope: How One Woman Saved 2,500 Children During the Holocaust by Jennifer Roy
Runner-up: The Boy who Fell Off the Mayflower, or, John Howland's Good Fortune by Patrick J. Lynch -
6-8 Winner: House Arrest by K.A. Holt
Runner-up: Just a Drop of Water by Kerry O'Malley Cerra -
9-12 Winner: Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
Runner-up: The Truth about Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
