Book Awards Oklahoma

Sequoyah List

2024 Masterlists

The Sequoyah Book Lists are for students grades 3 through 12. These encourage students in Oklahoma to read books of literary quality. The books on the lists are selected based on criteria such as originality, quality, interest, and appeal. The books must also have a publishing date three years before the award date and the author must live in the United States.

The Sequoyah Lists are released each spring to schools and libraries.

Children's

Anybody Here Seen Frenchie?
by Leslie Connor

Concrete: From the Ground Up
by Larissa Thuele & Steve Light

Cookies and Milk
by Shawn Amos

A Duet for Home
by Karina Yan Glaser

Falling Short
by Ernesto Cisneros

Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book
by Tanya Bolden and Eric Velasquez

High Score
by Destiny Howell

The Last Mapmaker
by Christina Soontornvat

**Lifeling
by Kirsty Applebaum

Not Starring Zadie Louise
by Joy McCullough

The Ogress and the Orphans
by Kelly Barnhill

Seed
by Caryl Lewis

The Pear Affair
by Judith Eagle

Trex
by Christyne Morrell

We Are Wolves
by Katrina Nannestad

**Note: Lifeling was published in the UK under the title The Life and Time of Lonny Quicke. If a child reads this version this is acceptable and counts towards the three books required to read to vote.

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Intermediate

Agent Most Wanted: The Never-Before-Told Story of the Most Dangerous Spy of World War II
by Sonia Purnell

African Town
by Charles Waters & Irene Latham

Attack of the Black Rectangles
by A. S. King

Freewater
by Amina Luqman-Dawson

Gallant
by V. E. Schwab

Hummingbird
by Natalie Lloyd

Isla to Island
by Alexis Castellanos

In Harm’s Way (Young Readers Edition): The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Story of Its Survivors
by Michael J. Tougias and Doug Stanton

The Last Mapmaker
by Christina Soontornvat

Lines of Courage
by Jennifer A. Nielsen

The Name She Gave Me
by Betty Culley

The Peach Rebellion
by Wendelin Van Draanen

The Secret Battle of Evan Pao
by Wendy Wan-Long Shang

The Summer of June
by Jamie Sumner

Thirst
by Varsha Bajaj

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