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Blue Hen Book Award: 2024 Winners and Nominees

The Blue Hen Book Award is a children’s choice award sponsored by the Youth Services Division of the Delaware Library Association. The award encourages literacy and library use by children and teens.

Ten Blocks to the Big Wok

Ten Blocks to the Big Wok

For Young Readers

Your Place in the Universe

Your Place in the Universe

For Middle Readers

The Secret Garden on 81st Street

The Secret Garden on 81st Street

Middle Reader Graphic Novel

Hotel Magnifique

Hotel Magnifique

Teen Readers

ExtraOrdinary

Teen Reader Graphic Novel

For Young Readers

Little Witch Hazel by Phoebe Wahl
ISBN: 9780735264892
The Me I Choose to Be by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley; Regis and Kahran Bethencourt (Artist)
ISBN: 9780316461542
Mr. Watson's Chickens by Jarrett Dapier; Andrea Tsurumi (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781452177144
Ten Blocks to the Big Wok by Ying-Hwa Hu (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781643790688
Would You Come Too? by Liz Garton Scanlon; Diana Sudyka (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781534452060

For Middle Readers

Dog Squad by Chris Grabenstein
ISBN: 9780593301739
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
ISBN: 9780316056618
The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant
ISBN: 9781324016038
Wink by Rob Harrell
ISBN: 9781984815149
Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin
ISBN: 9780823446230

Graphic Novels for
Middle Readers

Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781728420202
The Leak by Kate Reed Petty; Andrea Bell (Illustrator, Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781250217950
Living with Viola by Rosena Fung
ISBN: 9781773215488
The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Ivy Noelle Weir; Amber Padilla (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780316459655
Wingbearer by Marjorie Liu; Teny Issakhanian (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780062741165

For Teen Readers

Hotel Magnifique by Emily J. Taylor
ISBN: 9780593404515
If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur
ISBN: 9780062912640

Publication Date: 2021-01-19
Kiss and Repeat by Heather Truett
ISBN: 9781250262929
The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy
ISBN: 9780310767657
A Universe of Wishes by Dhonielle Clayton (Editor)
ISBN: 9781984896209

Graphic Novels for
Teen Readers

ExtraOrdinary by V. E. Schwab; Enid Balám (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781785865886
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
ISBN: 9781338540581
The Montague Twins: the Witch's Hand by Nathan Page; Drew Shannon (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780525646761
Spy X Family, Vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo
ISBN: 9781974715466
Squire by Sara Alfageeh (Illustrator); Nadia Shammas
ISBN: 9780062945846