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2024-2025 And the winner is… The votes have been counted and 20,000 students from across the state have selected their favorite books as part of the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award program. The student selections are: Picture Book – Yoshi and the Ocean: A Sea Turtle's Incredible Journey Home by Lindsay Moore Grades 3-5 -- Dogtown by Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko, illustrated by Wallace West Graphic Novels Grades 3-5 –Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi, illustrated by Shazleen Khan Grades 6-8 – Two Degrees by Alan Gratz Graphic Novels Grades 6-8 –Eerie Tales from the School of Screams by Graham Annable High School – Lore by Alexandra Bracken AND Promise Boys by Nick Brooks Graphic Novels High School --The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
Congratulations to our winning authors, illustrators, and publishers and to the students, teachers, and librarians who every year make the program such a resounding success.
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The Results Wondering how your favorite book did in student voting? The following charts list the books in descending order beginning with the top vote-getter. In deference to our authors, publishers, and especially the student voters whose books did not capture top honors, we do not publish numbers of votes.
Picture Books
Yoshi and the Ocean: A Sea Turtle’s Incredible Journey Home A New Day I Want 100 Dogs I am a Tornado Acorn was a Little Wild I Can’t Draw The Sweetest Scoop: Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Revolution What Happened to You? Beneath The Witness Trees Love in the Library Her Name was Mary Katharine: The Only Woman Whose Name is on The Declaration of Independence Once Upon a Book When the Stars Came Home Counting in Dog Years and Other Sassy Math Poems Grades 3-5 Dogtown Finally Seen The Lost Library The Superteacher Project The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby Minerva Keen’s Detective Club Home Away From Home You are Here: Connecting Flights The Way I Say It Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key Graphic Novels Grades 3-5 Saving Sunshine Paws: Gabby Gets It Together, Book 1 Batcat Things in the Basement Killer Underwear Invasion: How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Lies Meesh the Bad Demon, Book 1 The Dog Knight Prunella and the Cursed Skull Ring Squire & Knight, Book 1 Enlighten Me Grades 6-8
Two Degrees What Happened to Rachel Riley? Hunters of the Lost City AND The Midnight Children Concealed The Probability of Everything Simon Sort of Says Harboring Hope: The True Story of How Henry Sinding Helped Denmark’s Jews Escape the Nazis The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Vampire Hunting Graphic Novels Grades 6-8
Eerie Tales from the School of Screams Play Like a Girl: a graphic memoir Buzzing AND Sunshine: How One Camp Taught Me about Life, Death, and Hope The Faint of Heart Pearl of the Sea Stars in Their Eyes Twig, Book 1 Lost in Taiwan AND Santiago! Santiago Ramon y Cajal – Artist, Scientist, and Troublemaker High School
Lore AND Promise Boys Goth Girl, Queen of the Universe We Deserve Monuments Four for the Road Hollow Fires Love in English Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives it Changed The Honeys Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses Graphic Novels High School
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich Kaiju No 8, Book 1 Over My Dead Body Northranger Project Nought The Cursed Princess Club, Book 1 AND Twelfth Grade Night – Arden High, Book 1 Danger and Other Unknown Risks Hollow Knee Deep, Book 1
Full List of All Nominees (All Years)
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