K: Roasted Peanuts, by Tim Egan
1st: Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears, by Emily Gravett; The Dark, by Lemony Snicket
2nd: The SOS Files, by Betsy Byars, Betsy Duffey, and Laurie Myers
3rd: Punished, by David Lubar
4th: Rumble--Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty, by Linda Glaser; I Was Dreaming to Come to America, selected and illustrated by Veronica Lawlor; section on Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in Coming to America: The Story of Immigration, by Betsy Maestro; Hart--Kid Blink Beats the World, by Don Brown
5th: A Long Way from Chicago, by Richard Peck (Warner); Lawn Boy, by Gary Paulsen (Curry)