Quiz Bowl Books 2025-2026

2025-26 Big Island Heluhelu Quiz Bowl Titles

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​Highlight indicates title was also in 2024-25 Quiz Bowl

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Across So Many Seas, Ruth Behar (Gr. 5-6, 2025 Newbery Honor)

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Black Star, Kwame Alexander (Gr. 5 and up, Coretta Scott King Honor)
 

City Spies, James Ponti (Gr. 3-7, 2024 Nēnē Award)
 

Clairboyance, Kristiana Kahakauwila, (Gr. 3-7, 2025 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
(APALA) Honor Book)
 

Continental Drifter, Kathy MacLeod, (Gr. 3-4, graphic novel, 2025 Asian/Pacific American
Award for Literature (APALA) winner)
 

Eagle Drums, Nasugraq Rainey Hopson (Gr. 4-6, 2024 Newbery Honor)
 

Elf Dog and Owl Head, M.T. Anderson (Gr. 3-7, 2024 Newbery Honor)
 

Finding Junie Kim, Ellen Oh (Gr. 3-7, recommended by Christina Soontornvat)
 

Grounded, Aisha Saeed, Huda Al-Marashi, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, S.K. Ali, (Gr. 3-7,
recommended by Christina Soontornvat)
 

Invisible, Gonzalez, Epstein, & Pien, (Gr. 3-7, 2024 Nēnē Graphic Novel Award)
 

Kwame Crashes the Underworld, Craig Kofi Farmer (Gr. 4- 6, Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe
New Talent Author Award)
 

Lei and the Fire Goddess, Malia Maunakea (Gr. 3-7, School LIbrary Journal Best Book of the
Year)
 

Lola, Karla Arenas Valenti (Gr. 3-7, 2025 Pura Belpré Author Winner)
 

Mabuhay!, Zachary Sterling (Gr. 3-7, graphic novel, 2025 Asian/Pacific American Award for
Literature (APALA) Honor Book)
 

Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All, Chanel Miller (Gr. 2 - 6, 2025 Newbery Honor)
 

Mexikid, Pedro Martin (Gr. 5-9, graphic novel, 2024 Newbery Honor, 2024 Pura Belpre medal)
 

One Big Open Sky, Lesa Cline-Ransome (Gr. 3-7, 2025 Newbery Honor)

 

The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World
 

War II, Candace Fleming (Gr. 3-7, Robert F. Sibert Honor)
 

The Eyes and the Impossible, Dave Eggers (Gr. 3-7, 2024 Newbery Medal)
 

The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn, Sally J. Pla (Gr. 5-6, 2024 Schneider Family Book
Award)
 

The First State of Being, Erin Entrada Kelly, (Gr. 3-7, 2025 Newbery Medal)
 

The Liars Society, Alyson Gerber (Gr. 3-7, recommended by student)
 

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams, Daniel Nayeri (Gr. 3-7, 2024 Newbery
Honor)
 

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global
 

Celebrity, Nicholas Day with art by Brett Helquist (Gr. 5-9, 2024 Sibert Medal)
 

The Night War, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Gr. 4-7, from two time Newbery honor winner)
 

The Secret Language of Birds, Lynne Kelly (Gr. 3-7)
 

The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman, Gennifer Choldenko (Gr. 5-6, Best Book of 2024, per
several review publications - 2024 Golden Poppy Book Award, Middle Grades)
 

The Wrong Way Home, Kate OʻShaughnessy (Gr. 5 - 6, 2025 Newbery Honor)

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Legacy Titles - Newbery Medal winners that won earlier than five years ago
 

Holes, Louis Sachar (Gr. 5-6, 1999 Newbery Medal)
 

Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell (Gr. 3-7, 1961 Newbery Medal)

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