Schneider Family Book Award winners (2026-2004)

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• Whale eyes : a memoir about seeing and being seen / Robinson, James
• Where only storms grow / Colman, Alyssa
• Wanda hears the stars : a blind astronomer listens to the universe / Hansen, Amy
• Chronically Dolores / Van Wagenen, Maya
• Popcorn : a novel / Harrell, Rob
• A Little Like Magic / Kurpiel, Sarah
• Forever is now / Lockington, Mariama
• The fire, the water, and Maudie McGinn / Pla, Sally J.
• Henry, like always / Bailey, Jenn
• The words we keep / Stewart, Erin
• Wildoak / Harrington, C. C.
• Listen : how Evelyn Glennie, a deaf girl, changed percussion / Stocker, Shannon
• The words in my hands / Asphyxia
• A bird will soar / Myers, Alison Green
• My city speaks / Lebeuf, Darren
• This is my brain in love / Gregorio, I. W.
• Show me a sign / LeZotte, Ann Clare
• I talk like a river / Scott, Jordan
• Song for a whale / Kelly, Lynne
• Just ask! : be different, be brave, be you / Sotomayor, Sonia
• Cursed / Silverstein, Karol Ruth
• Anger is a gift / Oshiro, Mark
• Rescue & Jessica : a life-changing friendship / Kensky, Jessica and Downes, Patrick
• The truth as told by Mason Buttle / Connor, Leslie
• You're welcome, universe / Gardner, Whitney
• Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess / Green, Shari
• Silent days, silent dreams / Say, Allen
• When we collided / Lord, Emery
• As brave as you / Reynolds, Jason
• Six dots : a story of young Louis Braille / Bryant, Jen
• Fish in a tree / Hunt, Lynda Mullaly
• The unlikely hero of room 13B / Toten, Teresa
• The war that saved my life / Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
• Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah / Thompson, Laurie Ann and Qualls, Sean
• Girls like us / Giles, Gail
• Rain reign / Martin, Ann M.
• A boy and a jaguar / Rabinowitz, Alan
• Rose under fire / Wein, Elizabeth
• Handbook for dragon slayers / Haskell, Merrie
• A splash of red : the life and art of Horace Pippin / Bryant, Jen and Sweet, Melissa
• Back to front and upside down! / Alexander, Claire
• A dog called Homeless / Lean, Sarah
• Somebody please tell me who I am / Mazer, Harry and Lerangis, Peter
• The running dream / Van Draanen, Wendelin
• Wonderstruck : a novel in words and pictures / Selznick, Brian
• Close to famous / Bauer, Joan
• Five flavors of Dumb / John, Antony
• After ever after / Sonnenblick, Jordan
• The pirate of kindergarten / Lyon, George Ella
• Marcelo in the real world / Stork, Francisco X.
• Anything but typical / Baskin, Nora Raleigh
• Django : the world's greatest jazz guitarist / Christensen, Bonnie
• Jerk, California / Friesen, Jonathan
• Waiting for normal / Connor, Leslie
• Piano starts here : the young Art Tatum / Parker, Robert Andrew
• Kami and the yaks / Stryer, Andrea Stenn and Dodson, Bert
• Reaching for sun / Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn
• Hurt go happy / Rorby, Ginny
• Rules / Lord, Cynthia
• The deaf musicians / Seeger, Pete, Jacobs, Paul DuBois and Christie, R. Gregory
• Small steps / Sachar, Louis
• Dad, Jackie, and me / Uhlberg, Myron and Bootman, Colin
• Tending to Grace / Fusco, Kimberly Newton
• Under the wolf, under the dog / Rapp, Adam (not available in LINKcat)
• My pal, Victor = Mi amigo, Victor / Bertrand, Diane Gonzales and Sweetland, Robert
• Becoming Naomi Leon / Ryan, Pam Muñoz
• My thirteenth winter : a memoir / Abeel, Samantha
• Looking out for Sarah / Lang, Glenna
• Things not seen / Clements, Andrew
• A mango-shaped space : a novel / Mass, Wendy

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