Booklists
The Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl 2020-21 Booklist is now available. Elementary schools will read the 10 books marked for Grades 4-5 that are nominees for the 2020-21 GCBA Award. Middle Schools will only read the 10 books marked for Grades 6-8 that are nominees for the 2020-21 GCBA Award. The High Schools will read the 20 books that are nominees for the 2020-21 Georgia Peach Award.
The following list is for elementary schools.
- Creech, Sharon. (2018). Saving Winslow. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
- DiCamillo, Kate. (2018). Louisiana’s Way Here. Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press.
- Kelly, Lynne. (2019). Song for a Whale. New York, NY: Delacorte Press.
- Korman, Gordon. (2019). The Unteachables. New York, NY: Balzer + Bray.
- Magoon, Kekla. (2018). Season of Styx Malone. New York, NY: Wendy Lamb Books.
- McDunn, Gillian. (2019). Caterpillar Summer. New York, NY: Bloomsbury.
- Raúf, Onjali Q. (2019). The Boy at the Back of the Class. New York, NY: Delacorte Press.
- Savage, Melissa. (2017). Lemons. New York, NY: Crown Books for Young Readers.
- Swender, Jennifer. (2019). Solving for M. New York, NY: Crown Books for Young Readers.
- Watson, Renée. (2019). Some Places More than Others. New York, NY: Bloomsbury.
The following list is for middle schools.
- Cartaya, Pablo. (2019). Each Tiny Spark. New York, NY: Kokila.
- Draper, Sharon M. (2018). Blended. New York, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
- Gemeinhart, Dan. (2019). The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co.
- Lackey, Lindsay. (2019). All the Impossible Things. New York, NY: Roaring Brook Press.
- Panteleakos, Nicole. (2019). Planet Earth is Blue. New York, NY: Wendy Lamb Books.
- Roberts, Barbara Carroll. (2019). Nikki on the Line. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.
- Sloan, Holly Goldberg, & Wolitzer, Meg. (2019). To Night Owl From Dogfish. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers.
- Takei, George, Eisinger, Justin, & Scott, Steven. (2019). They Called Us Enemy. (Illus. Harmony Becker). Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions.
- Venkatraman, Padma. (2019). The Bridge Home. New York, NY: Nancy Paulsen Books.
- Williams, Alicia D. (2019). Genesis Begins Again. New York, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
The following list is for high schools.
- American Road Trip by Patrick Flores-Scott
- Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
- Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez
- The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
- Dry by Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman
- Have a Little Faith in Me by Sonia Hartl
- Here to Stay by Sara Farizan
- House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
- I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds
- Pride by Ibi Zoboi
- Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner
- Serious Moonlight by Jenn Bennett
- Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
- Sorry For Your Loss by Jessie Ann Foley
- Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo