As the school year winds down, kids are compiling their summer reading lists. The Amazon Books editorial team works hard all throughout the year to determine the Best Books of the Month, Best Books of the Year So Far and Best Books of the Year breaking the selections down into different genres. Today they released their lists comprised of titles published from the beginning of the year until now.
These are the editors’ selections of the Best Children’s Books of the Year So Far:
- Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- The Old Truck by Jerome Pumphrey
- InvestiGators by John Patrick Green
- The Little Dreamer: An Inspirational Primer by Joan Holub
- The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard
- The One and Only Bob (One and Only Ivan) by Katherine Applegate
- Ronan the Librarian by Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie
- A Book for Escargot by Dashka Slater
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
- Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
- How To Solve A Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion by Ashima Shiraishi
- Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson
- Race to the Sun (Rick Riordan Presents) by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Be You! By Peter Reynolds
- Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us by Lauren Castillo
- The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
- Play Outside! By Laurent Moreau
- Curse of the Night Witch (Emblem Island Book 1) by Alex Aster
- Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration by Samara Cole Doyon
- Madame Badobedah by Sophie Dahl
Here are the Best Young Adult Books of the Year So Far:
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds
- The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children) by Ransom Riggs
- Tweet Cute by Emma Lord
- One of Us Is Next: The Sequel to One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
- Burn by Patrick Ness
- I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee
- Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
- All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace
- Deathless Divide (Dream Nation) by Justina Ireland
- The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
- Crave by Tracy Wolff
- A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood
- The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
- Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
- The Night Country: A Hazel Wood Novel by Melissa Albert
- All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor
- The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
- The Kinder Poison by Natalie Mae
- All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
To learn more about Amazon’s books editorial team, read author interviews, book features and more, visit www.amazon.com/amazonbookreview.
See what books made Red Tricycle’s best children’s books list so far, too
—Jennifer Swartvagher
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