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Eliot Rosewater Book List

Eliot Rosewater Indiana HS Winners

The Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Rosie Award) is chosen annually by students across Indiana in grades nine through twelve. Students at participating high schools and public libraries who read any of approximately 25 nominated books are eligible to rate each book they’ve read. Ballots are available on the Rosie website. The votes are tabulated each May, and the winner is announced.

The purpose of the Rosie Award is to encourage high school students to read for fun. It also promotes cooperation between school administrators, media specialists, teachers and public librarians in broadening reading programs. Rosie promotes reading across the curriculum.

2018-2019 Nominated Books

  • All We Have Left – Wendy Mills
  • Assassin Game – Kirsty McKay
  • Boy in the Black Suit – Jason Reynolds
  • Burn Baby Burn – Meg Medina
  • Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose – Gillian McCain, ed.
  • Death Coming Up the Hill – Chris Crowe
  • Denton Little’s Deathdate – Lance Rubin
  • Flawed – Cecelia Ahern
  • Girl in the Blue Coat – Monica Hesse
  • Highly Illogical Behavior – John Corey Whaley
  • I Will Always Write Back – Cairlin Alifirenka & Martin Ganda
  • List of Cages – A Robin Roe
  • Madness so Discreet – A Mindy McGinnis
  • One Paris Summer – Denise G. Swank
  • Riders – Veronica Rossi
  • Saving Red – Sonya Sones
  • Serpent King – Jeff Zentner
  • Starflight – Melissa Landers
  • Sun is Also a Star – Nicola Yoon
  • Superman: An American Alien – Max Landis
  • Sweet – Emmy Laybourne
  • Taking Flight – Michaela DePrince
  • Three Dark Crowns – Kendare Blake
  • The Way I Used to Be – Amber Smith
  • We’ll Never Be Apart – Emiko Jean

2017-2018 Nominated Books

  • All American Boys – Jason Reynolds
  • Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir – Stan Lee
  • Be-liev-a-rex-ic – J.J. Johnson
  • The Beast of Cretacea – Todd Strasser
  • The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club – Phillip Hoose
  • Call Me by My Name – John Ed Bradley
  • Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans – Don Brown
  • Dumplin’ – Julie Murphy
  • An Ember in the Ashes – Sabaa Tahir
  • Everything, Everything – Nicola Yoon
  • Guitar Notes – Mary Amato
  • Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Ha – Alie Brosh
  • Inherit Midnight – Kate Kae Myers
  • Kindness for Weakness – Shawn Goodman
  • Made You Up – Francesca Zappia
  • More Happy Than Not – Adam Silvera
  • Need – Joelle Charbonneau
  • One – Sarah Crossan
  • Paper Hearts – Meg Wiviott
  • Prayers for the Stolen – Jennifer Clement
  • Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard
  • Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys
  • Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli
  • Slasher Girls and Monster Boys – April Genevieve Tucholke
  • Vengeance Road – Erin Bowman

2016-2017 Nominated Books

  • All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
  • Avalon – Mindee Arnett
  • The Beginning of Everything – Schneider Robyn
  • Belzhar – Meg Wolitzer
  • Dear Killer – Katherine Ewell
  • Don’t Look Back –  Jennifer L. Armentrout
  • Fake ID – Lamar Giles
  • Faking Normal – Courtney C. Stevens
  • The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & The Fall of Imperial Russia – Candace Fleming
  • Gabi, a Girl in Pieces – Isabel Quintero
  • Half Bad – Sally Green
  • In Real Life – Cory Doctorow
  • The Kiss of Deception – Mary E. Pearson
  • NIL – Lynne Matson
  • The Naturals – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  • Next – Kevin Waltman
  • Noggin – John Corey Whaley
  • One Man Guy – Michael Barakiva
  • Positive: Surviving My Bullies, Finding Hope, and Living to Change the World: A Memoir – Paige Rawl
  • Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
  • Since You’ve Been Gone – Morgan Matson
  • Slated – Teri Terry
  • Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen – Arin Andrews
  • Through the Woods – Emily Carroll
  • A Time to Dance – Padma Venkatraman

2015-2016 Nominated Books

  • 45 Pounds (More of Less) – K.A. Barson
  • 5th Wave, The – Rick Yancey
  • Avery Shaw Experiment, The – Kelly Oram
  • Boy 21 – Matthew Quick
  • Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West – Blaine Harden
  • Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell
  • Forget Me Not – Carolee Dean
  • Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock – Matthew Quick
  • The Good Braider – Terry Fisher
  • I Am the Weapon (Previously Boy Nobody) – Allen Zadoff
  • If We Survive – Andrew Klavan
  • The Name of the Star – Maureen Johnson
  • Navy SEAL Dogs: My Tale of Training Cainines for Combat – Mike Ritland
  • The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies & Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi – Neal Bascomb
  • Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong – Prudence Shen & Faith Hicks
  • Pretty Girl 13 – Liz Coley
  • Prisoner B-307 – Alan Gratz
  • Shadows on the Moon – Zoe Marriott
  • Six Months Later – Natalie Richards
  • Swagger – Carl Deuker
  • Testing, The – Joelle Charbonneau
  • Throne of Glass – Sarah J. Maas
  • Waiting – Carol Lynch Williams
  • When I was the Greatest – Jason Reynolds
  • Yaqui Delgado Want to Kick You A… – Meg Medina
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