NH Ladybug Picture Book Award
The Ladybug Picture Book Award is designed to promote early literacy and honor the best in recent children's picture books.
Learn more about the NH Ladybug Picture Book Award at the NH State Library website!
New Hampshire children have chosen 100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle and Lian Cho as the winner of the 2024 Ladybug Picture Book Award.There were 19,116 votes cast this year at 149 sites throughout the state. The winning book received 4,885 votes.
WINNER!
LaRochelle, David and Lian Cho. 100 Mighty Dragons All Named Broccoli.
2024-2025 Nominees
Macorol, Catherine. A is for Axolotl.
Holub, Joan and Laurie Keller. Bears Are Best!
Harrison, Vashti. Big.
Doerrfeld, Cori. Beneath.
Vo, Young. Gibberish.
Beckmeyer, Drew. I Am a Tornado.
Long, Jessica and Airin O'Callaghan. The Mermaid with No Tail.
Lin, Grace and Kate Messner. Once Upon a Book.
NH Great Stone Face Book Award
2024-25 Nominees
15 Secrets to Survival
By Natalie D. Richards
Adventure, Gr. 5 & 6
Four squabbling kids are sent to the Montana wilderness to learn survival skills and teamwork, but when their instructor disappears with a storm on its way, they must pull together to find him and survive the bitter cold. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
Duel
by Jessixa and Aaron Bagley
Graphic Novel, Gr. 4-6
Sibling rivalry comes to a head when Lucy's older sister humiliates her on her first day of middle school, causing her to challenge Gigi to a fencing duel. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
Good Different
By Meg Eden Kuyatt
Verse, Gr. 4
Selah knows she needs to be "normal" at school, but when her feelings burst out one day like a dragon, she must learn to share her true self and find the tools she needs to truly shine. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
Grounded For All Eternity
by Darcy Marks
Fantasy/Scary, Gr. 6
Malachi and his friends are kids from Hell. (The suburbs, not the fiery pit part). But when they accidentally let a soul escape, they have one night to find it and save the world. How hard can it be to find one evil soul? On Halloween? In Salem? Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
The Labors of Hercules Beal
by Gary D. Schmidt
Realistic, Gr. 4 & 5
Hercules Beal is the opposite of his namesake. He's even the smallest kid in his Cape Cod class. But when his new teacher assigns him to perform his own version of Hercules' famed 12 Labors, he'll have to find his own path to becoming a hero. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
Heroes
by Alan Gratz
Historical, Gr. 5
Best friends Frank and Stanley feel pretty lucky to get an invite to tour one of the battleships stationed in Pearl Harbor. But their luck changes when the Japanese planes attack... Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
Hoops
by Matt Tavares
Graphic Novel, Gr. 5
The first girls' basketball team in Wilkins IN has zero support. Even their uniforms are just white t-shirts with numbers made of tape. But these girls have drive and are headed for a historical season! Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
The Jake Show
by Joshua S. Levy
Realistic, Gr. 5 & 6
Jake is sick of having to be a different version of himself for each of his parents. When a summer at camp promises a break to just be him, he's willing to go to elaborate lengths to get there. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
The Guardian Test: Legends of Lotus Island
by Christina Soontornvat
Fantasy, Gr. 4
Plum finds friends and adventure at Guardian Academy, where students learn to shapeshift and use other powers to protect the natural balance. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
Mascot
by Charles Waters & Traci Sorell
Verse, Gr. 6
What if your school's mascot was considered racist, but not by everyone? A class assignment to debate the issue draws six middle school students into an increasingly ugly fight throughout town. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
by Sally Pia
Realistic, Gr. 5
Maudie always loves summers with Dad. This year, though, wildfire forces them to stay in her dad's seaside hometown, and a secret about Maudie's new stepdad overshadows everything. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
Mexikid
by Pedro Martin
Graphic Novel, Gr. 5
Pedro is excited for the big Mexican road trip with his family - all 8 siblings and his parents, squished into a camper and a pickup truck. He's NOT excited to meet his legendary crime-fighting abuelito, or to bring him back to live in their already-cramped US home. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
The Mona Lisa Vanishes
by Nicholas Day
Non-Fiction, Gr. 5-6
100 years ago, the Mona Lisa wasn't that well-known...until she was solen! Follow the heist, and the global hunt for DaVinci's masterpiece! Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
Penny Draws a Best Friend
by Sara Shepard
Realistic, Gr. 4
Penny has a lot of anxieties, and now that includes why her best friend Violet is acting weird, telling her Art Club is for babies, and hanging out with the meanest girl in school. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
Simon Sort of Says
by Erin Bow
Realistic, Gr. 4+
Simon has just moved to the National Quiet Zone, where the internet is banned! As he adjusts to life, his new friends, and the attack peacock that came with his house, the tragedy that sent his family to this town is just waiting to be revealed. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
Slugfest
by Gordon Korman
Realistic, Gr. 5 & 6
Yash is a local sports legend, but a mistake in his credits means he has to attend summer school for, of all things, PE! Trapped for the summer with the other "slugs", Yash winds up building a new kind of team. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
The Winterton Deception: Final Word
by Janet Summer Johnson
Mystery, Gr. 5
Twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a wild bid to escape financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to reveal a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they've never known. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
A Work in Progress
by Jarrett Lerner
Realistic, Gr. 4 & 5
Will is the only round kid in the school full of thin ones. He tries to hide in baggy clothes, and makes anything to lose weight. When his attempts fail, Will gets more desperate, until a new friend shows him how to embrace himself fully. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
World Made of Glass
by Ami Polonsky
Historical, Gr. 5
Iris's dad isn't just sick, he's dying. But she can't talk about it, because it's 1987, and nobody is talking about AIDS, even when it hits close to home. Filled with grief and rage, Iris decides it's finally time to speak out. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
You Are Here
ed. by Ellen Oh
Realistic, gr. 4-6
An incident at a TSA checkpoint snarls airport traffic, affecting 12 different Asian American kids traveling lone, with families, or with friends. Paths cross and collide as each kid finds the right spot to belong. Click here to reserve at the library with your library card!
NH Isinglass Book Award
2024-25 Nominees
Attack of the Black Rectangles
by A.S. King
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
Don't Want to Be Your Monster
by Deke Moulton
Adam and Victor are brothers who have the usual fights over the remote, which movie to watch and whether or not it's morally acceptable to eat people. Well, not so much eat...just drink a little blood. They're vammpires, hiding in plain sight with their eclectic yet loving family.
The Dos and Donuts of Love
by Adiba Jaigirdar
Competing on a televised baking competition in the hope of bringing much-needed attention to her parents' beloved donut shop, Shireen Malik finds things heating up when her fellow contestants include her ex-girlfriend and her new crush, as well as a saboteur.
Royal Blood
by Aimee Carter
When her identity as the illegitimate daughter of the King of England is mysteriously revealed, 17-year-old Evan Bright finds herself at the center of a murder investigation and fights to uncover the truth, revealing royal secrets that could change the monarchy forever.
Stateless
by Elizabeth Wein
Stella North is one of twelve young pilots competing in a 1937 air race meant to promote peace in Europe, but when one of her competitors is sabotaged, Stella races to determine who is capable of murder, and who might be the next victim.
The Sunbearer Trials
by Adien Thomas
Transgender demigod Teo is unexpectedly selected for the Sunbearer Trials, a fierce competition among demigod heroes where the winner sacrifices the loser to Sol, their blood fueling the Sun Stones that protect Reino del Sol.
Sunshine
by Jarrett Krosoczka
When Jarrett was in high school, he was a counseoor at a camp for ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried. But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else: the hope and determination that gets people through the most troubled of times.
Zhara
by S. Jae-Jones
Forbidden from practicing magic and burdened by her responsibilities, Jin Zhara's life takes an unexpected turn when she becomes involved with the Guardians of Dawn, a group dedicated to fighting a demonic plague that is corrupting magicians.
NH Flume Book Award
2024-25 Nominees
Blood Debts
by Terry J. Benton-Walker
Sixteen-year-old twins Clement and Cristina feel lost after their father's death, but find a new sense of purpose as they work to quell the rising tensions between New Orleans magic and non-magic communities and find out who cursed their mother.
The Confession of Hemingway Jones
by Kathleen Hannon
After a deadly accident, Hemingway Jones takes his father's body to a cryogenic lab and does what no doctor has been able to do: revive someone from the dead. While Bill Jones isn't entirely human after he is resurrected, the billionaire owner of the Research Center will stop at nothing to force Hemingway to repeat the experiment.
The Door of No Return
by Kwame Alexander
In his village in Upper Kwanta, Kofi loves his family, playing oware with his grandfather and swimming in the river Offin. He's warned to never go to the river at night. One fateful night, the unthinkable happens, and in a flash, Kohi's world turns upside down. Kofi soon ends up in a fight for his life and what happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves.
Imogen, Obviously
by Becky Albertalli
Imogen Scott may be hopelessly heterosexual, but she's got the World's Greatest Ally title locked down. When she finds out one of her friends dropped a tiny queer bombshell, she starts to wonder if her truth was ever all that straight to begin with.
Into the Light
by Mark Oshiro
Seventeen-year-old Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominon, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
The Last Saxon King
by Andrew Varga
When sixteen-year-old Dan Renfrew accidentally transports himself to England in the year 1-66, he lears he is a time jumper, descended from a long line of secret heroes who protect the present by traveling to the past to fix breaks and glitches in the time stream.
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich
by Deya Muniz
Lady Camembert wants to live life on her own terms, without marrying a man. So when her father passes away, she disguises herself as a man and moves to the capital city of the Kingdom of Fromage to start over. But it's hard to keep a low profile when the beautiful Princess Brie catches her attention.
She Is a Haunting
by Trang Thanh Tran
Seventeen-year-old Jade Nguyen is spending the summer in Vietnam at her French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
Warrior Girl Unearthed
by Angeline Boulley
With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her ow hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
We Deserve Monuments
by Jas Hammond
When Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.