2025 Children's Choice Awards
The Children’s Choice Awards is hosted annually by ACLA and the Allegheny Intermediate Unit to celebrate reading.
Students are encouraged to read these books and vote below for their favorite one.
Nina often feels out of place at school and in her large family. While at summer camp, she discovers two birds nesting in a marsh behind an old infirmary. They seem to be whooping cranes, but Nina knows they haven’t nested in Texas for over a century. When she reports it, experts can’t identify the female bird. With the help of fellow campers, Nina embarks on a journey to solve the mystery—and maybe find where she truly belongs.
Princess Marigold–who hadn’t yet been born when the remarkable Princess Rosalind was kidnapped–is eleven when the unthinkable happens: her older sister escapes her captivity and comes home. Marigold has always known she’s not as good, sweet, or kind as the sister everyone adores, but amid the celebration of Rosalind’s return, Marigold realizes something new: if Princess Rosalind is good, then Princess Marigold must be wicked. Is Marigold too wicked to make things right?
Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka “Slugfest,” in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he’ll never forget.
Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost–one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
