Quiz Bowl Books 2025-2026

2025-26 Big Island Heluhelu Quiz Bowl Titles

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​Highlight indicates title was also in 2025-26 Quiz Bowl

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

 

All the Blues in the Sky, Renée Watson (Gr. 4-8, 2026 Newbery Medal)

 

A Sea of Lemon Trees: the Corrido of Roberto Alvarez, Mária Dolores Águila (Gr. 3-7, 2026 Newbery Honor)

 

At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom, Erin Entrada

 

Kelly (Gr. 3-7, 2026 Siebert Honor)

 

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

 

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)

 

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)

 

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

 

Lion Dancers, Cai Tse (Gr.3-7, 2026 Nēnē Award for Graphic Novel)

 

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)

 

Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli, Karina Yan Glaser (Gr. 3-7, 2026 Newbery Honor)

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

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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)

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

 

The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze, Derrick Barnes (Gr. 4-7, 2026 Coretta Scott King Honor)

 

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

 

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

 

The Pecan Sheller, Lupe Ruiz-Flores (Gr. 4-8, 2026 Pura Belpré Medal)

 

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

 

The Teacher of Nomad Land: a World War II story, Daniel Nayeri (Gr. 4-7, 2026 Newbery Honor,
2025 National Book Award winner)

 

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 Trouble with Heroes, Kate Messner (Gr. 4-6, Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year | School

 

Library Journal Best Book of the Year | Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: Middle Grade)

 

The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest, Aubrey Hartman (Gr. 3-up, 2026 Newbery Honor)

 

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

 

Where Only Storms Grow, Alyssa Colman (Gr. 3-7, 2026 Schneider Family Book Award)

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

Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo (Gr. 3-up, 2001 Newbery Honor)

 

Bud Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis (Gr. 4-6, 2000 Newbery Medal)

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