
Festival Author Booklist
Children

Avi
Sophia’s War

Bob Balaban
The Creature from the Seventh Grade: Boy or Beast

Natalie Pope Boyce
Magic Tree House Fact Tracker No. 26: Pandas and Other Endangered Species: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House No. 48

Peter Brown
Creepy Carrots

James Dashner
Infinity Ring Book 1: A Mutiny in Time

Anna Dewdney
Llama Llama Time to Share

Michael Grant
BZRK

Jewel
That's What I'd Do

Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House No. 48: A Perfect Time for Pandas

Patricia Polacco
The Art of Miss Chew

Chris Raschka
A Ball for Daisy

Laura Amy Schlitz
Splendors and Glooms

Jerry Spinelli
Third Grade Angels

Erin E. Stead (illustrator)
Bear Has a Story to Tell

Philip C. Stead
Bear Has a Story to Tell

David Ezra Stein
Because Amelia Smiled
Teens & Children

Bryan Collier (illustrator)
I, Too, Am America

Sharon Flake
Pinned

John Green
The Fault in Our Stars

Jenny Han
Burn for Burn

Ellen Hopkins
Tilt

David Levithan
Every Day

Lois
Son

Mike Lupica
True Legend

Melissa Marr
Carnival of Souls

Walter Dean Myers
Autobiography of My Dead Brother

Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven Boys

R.L. Stine
Goosebumps Most Wanted #1: Planet of the Lawn Gnomes

Siobhan Vivian
Burn for Burn

Jacqueline Woodson
Beneath a Meth Moon
Children
- Mary Brigid Barrett — Shoebox Sam; Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Harry Bliss — Bailey
- Calef Brown — Boy Wonders; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Susan Cooper — The Dark is Rising Series (Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwich, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree); The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Carmen Agra Deedy — The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale
- Tomie de Paola — Strega Nona
- Chris Van Dusen — King Hugos Huge Ego; The Circus Ship Big Book; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Jack Gantos — Dead End in Norvelt; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Joe Hayes — The Coyote Under the Table
- William Joyce — The Man in the Moon
- Gregory Maguire — Out of Oz: The Final Volume in the Wicked Years; Wicked; Son of a Witch; A Lion Among Men; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Dorie McCullough Lawson — Tex; Posterity: Letters from Great Americans to Their Children
- John Bemelmans Marciano — Madeline at the White House; Madeline and Her Dog
- Sam McBratney — Guess How Much I Love You (pop-up edition)
- John McCutcheon — Christmas in the Trenches
- Julianne Moore — Freckleface Strawberry: Best Friends Forever
Teen
- Cassandra Clare — City of Fallen Angels (Mortal Instruments Series #4); City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
- Susan Cooper — The Dark is Rising Series (Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwich, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree); The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Sarah Dessen — What Happened to Goodbye
- Jack Gantos — Dead End in Norvelt; The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Uma Krishnaswami — The Grand Plan to Fix Everything
- Gordon Korman — Titanic No. 3: S.O.S.; The Medusa Plot (The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Series #1)
- Patricia McKissack — Cyborg (The Clone Codes #2); The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Shelia Moses — Joseph’s Grace
- Kadir Nelson — Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
- Katherine Paterson — The Flint Heart; Brother Sun, Sister Moon
- Gary Schmidt — Okay for Now
- Brian Selznick — Wonderstruck
- Rita Williams-Garcia — One Crazy Summer
Poster Artist
- John J. Muth — Zen Ghosts
Children
- Mary Brigid Barrett — Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Timothy Basil Ering — Snook Alone, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Jules Feiffer — The Odious Ogre
- Mem Fox — Let’s Count Goats
- Margaret Patterson Haddix — Claim to Fame
- Norman Juster — The Odious Ogre
- Pat Mora — Book Fiesta! Celebrate Children’s Day/Book Day
- Marilyn Nelson — Snook Alone
- Linda Sue Park — The 39 Clues: Book 9 - Storm Warning, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Jerry Pinkney — Three Little Kittens
- James Ransome — Gunner: Football Hero, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Judith Viorst — Lulu and the Brontosaurus
- Rosemary Wells — Max and Ruby’s Bedtime Book
Teen
- M.T. Anderson — The Suburb Beyond the Stars, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Michael Buckley — The Sisters Grimm Book Eight: The Inside Story; N.E.R.D.S. Book Two: M is for Mama’s Boy
- Suzanne Collins — The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
- Margarita Engle — The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba
- Phillip M. Hoose — Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
- Brad Meltzer — Heroes for My Son
- Katherine Paterson — The Day of the Pelican, The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
- Jane Smiley — The Georges and the Jewels
- Jeff Smith — Bone: Tall Tales
- Rebecca Stead — When You Reach Me
Children
- Holly Black — The Wyrm King
- Kate DiCamillo — The Magician’s Elephant
- Tony DiTerlizzi — The Wyrm King, Kenny and the Dragon
- Nikki Grimes — Rich: A Dyamonde Daniel Book, Voices of Christmas and Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
- Shannon Hale — Forest Born
- Craig Hatkoff — Winter’s Tale: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim
- Steven Kellogg — Pied Piper’s Magic
- Lois Lowry — Crow Call
- Megan McDonald — The Sisters Club: The Rule of Three
- Charles Santore — The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Little Mermaid: From the Story by Hans Christian Andersen
- Jon Scieszka — Robot Zot!
- David Shannon — Robot Zot!
- Mo Willems — Pigs Make Me Sneeze! (An Elephant & Piggie Book) and Big Frog Can’t Fit In
Teens & Children
- Judy Blume — Friend or Fiend? With the Pain & the Great One
- Patrick Carman — 39 Clues: The Black Circle, Skeleton Creek, Ghost in the Machine
- Sharon Creech — The Unfinished Angel
- Carmen Agra Deedy — 14 Cows for America
- Paula Deen — Paula Deen’s Cookbook for the Lunchbox Set, Paula Deen’s My First Cookbook, The Deen Family Cookbook
- Shannon Hale — Forest Born
- Liz Kessler — Emily Windsnap’s Friendship Book, Philippa Fisher and the Dreammaker’s Daughter
- Jeff Kinney — Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
- Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah — 14 Cows for America
- Kadir Nelson — Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
- James Patterson — Daniel X: Watch the Skies
- Jerry Pinkney — The Lion and the Mouse
- Rick Riordan — The Last Olympian
- Sharon Robinson — Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson
- James L. Swanson — Chasing Lincoln's Killer
- Jacqueline Woodson — Peace, Locomotion
Children
- Tiki Barber — Kickoff!!, Go Long!
- Jan Brett — Gingerbread Friends, Night Before Christmas (10th anniversary edition)
- Marc Brown — Born to Read, Wild About Books
- David A. Carter — The Big Bug Book: A Pop-up Celebration, Yellow Square
- Doreen Cronin — Thump, Quack, Moo: A Wacky Adventure; Duck for President
- Bob Lanier (NBA/WNBA program) — Hey L’il D! series
- Betsy Lewin — Thump, Quack, Moo: A Wacky Adventure; Duck for President
- Kadir Nelson — Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, We Are the Ship: The Story of the Negro League Baseball
- Doreen Rappaport — Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
- David Shannon — Too Many Toys
- Judy Sierra — Born to Read, Wild About Books
- Dionne Warwick — Say a Little Prayer
Teens & Children
- Mary Brigid Barrett — Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
- Joseph Bruchac — March Toward the Thunder
- Sharon M. Draper — November Blues, Copper Sun
- Neil Gaiman — The Graveyard Book, The Dangerous Alphabet
- Steven Kellogg — Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
- Katherine Paterson — Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
- Andrea Davis Pinkney — Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation
- Matthew Reinhart — Fairies and Other Mythological Creatures (from the Encyclopedia Mythological series)
- Robert Sabuda — Fairies and Other Mythological Creatures (from the Encyclopedia Mythological series)
- Jon Scieszka — Jon Scieszka's Trucktown series, Alice in Wonderland
- Charles R. Smith, Jr. — Chameleon, Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
- R. L. Stine — The Scream of the Haunted Mask and Dr. Maniac v. Robby Schwartz (from the Horrorland series)
- Judith Viorst — Nobody Here but Me
Children
- María Celeste Arrarás — The Magic Cane
- Ashley Bryan and Jan Spivey Gilchrist — My America
- Carmen Agra Deedy — Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
- Mercer Mayer — The Bravest Knight and There's a Nightmare in My Closet
- Megan McDonald — Judy Moody & Stink: The Holly Joliday
- Judy Schachner — Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones
- Rosemary Wells — Red Moon at Sharpsburg and Max's ABCs
- David Wiesner — Flotsam
- Jacqueline Wilson — Candyfloss
Teens & Children
- M.T. Anderson — The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1
- Holly Black — Ironside
- Jennifer L. Holm — Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf
- Gail Carson Levine — Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand
- Patricia MacLachlan — Edward's Eyes
- Patricia McCormick — Sold
- Shelia P. Moses — The Baptism
- Cynthia Leitich Smith — Tantalize
- Gene Luen Yang — American Born Chinese
