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What is the Black-Eyed Susan Book Award?
The Black-Eyed Susan Book Award is a student choice award for the state of Maryland that has been awarded each year since 1992. The award seeks to promote literacy and lifelong reading habits by encouraging students to read quality, contemporary literature. Reading committees of school and public librarians, and other interested members of the Maryland Association of School Librarians (MASL) meet to determine which books will be nominated and placed on student reading lists.
2023-2024
And the winner is… Record of Recent/Past Winners & Nominees
The votes have been counted and 25,000 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:
High School
The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit by Colby Cedar Smith
Eat Your Heart Out by Kelly deVos
Golden Boys by Phil Stamper
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
Mamo by Sas Milledge
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride
Messy Roots: a graphic memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao
Grades 6-9
Attack of the Black Rectangles by A.S. King
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tola Okogwu
Pony by R.J. Palacio
Rivals by Tommy Greenwald
The Secret Battle of Evan Pao by Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Troublemaker by John Cho
Violets Are Blue by Barbara Dee
When the World Was Ours by Liz Kessler
Yonder by Ali Standish
Graphic Novels: Grades 6-9
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Book 1 by Kanehito Yamada, illustrated by Tsukasa Abe
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega, illustrated by Rose Bousamra
The Golden Hour by Niki Smith
Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein
Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos
Little Monarchs by Jonathan Case
M is for Monster by Talia Dutton
Treasure in the Lake by Jason Pamment
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith and Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
The Well by Jake Wyatt, illustrated by Choo