Surrey Book Awards 2024-2025

Surrey Schools’ Book of the Year

2024-2025 Nominees:

• Farther than the Moon by Lindsay Lackey
• Game Face by Shari Green
• Good Different by Meg Kuyatt
• Hoops by Matt Tavares
• The Lonely Book by Meg Grehan
• Medusa by Katherine Marsh
• Monster Camp by Sarah Henning
• Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi
• A Work in Progress by Jarrett Lerner
• You Are Here by Ellen Oh

Last Year’s Winner:

New Dragon City By Mari Mancusi

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Surrey Schools’ Picture Book of the Year

2024-2025 Nominees:

• Garden of Lost Socks by Esi Edugyan
• Lonely Bird by Ruth Whiting
• Mole Is Not Alone by Maya Tatsukawa
• My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott
• My Little Thief by Augusten Burroughs
• Otter Doesn't Know by Andrea Fritz
• Sari-Sari Summers by Lynnor Bontigao
• Stickler Loves the World by Lane Smith
• Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf by Davide Cali
• The Umbrella by Beth Ferry

Last Year’s Winner:

Knight Owl By Christopher Denise 

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Surrey Schools’ Narrative Nonfiction Book of the Year

2024-2025 Nominees:

• Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior by Carole Lindstrom
• Black Beach by Shaunna and John Stith
• A Dupatta Is... by Marzieh Abbas
• How to Eat in Space by Helen Taylor
• Jumper by Jessica Lanan
• Kaboom! A Volcano Erupts by Jessica Kulekjian
• Lion on the Inside by Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir
• Nobody Likes Frogs by Barbara Davis-Pyles
• What a Map Can Do by Gabrielle Balkan
• Wombats Are Pretty Weird by Abi Cushman

Last Year’s Winner:

Pizza! A Slice Of History By Greg Pizzoli 

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Surrey Teens Read 

2024-2025 Nominees:

• Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account[…] by Dashka Slater
• The Atlas of Us by Kristin Dwyer
• Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
• I'll Tell You No Lies by Amanda McCrina
• In the Ring by Sierra Isley
• Rez Ball by Byron Graves
• That's Not My Name by Megan Lally
• Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
• Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou
• The Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne by Shannon Takaoka

Last Year’s Winner:

Dark Room Etiquette By Robin Roe

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• À contresens by Jean-Yves Casterman
• Le croco qui vit chez papi by Élodie Duhameau
• Étiquettes by Joan Turu
• Fred sait tout sur la disparition des dinosaures by Frédérick
• Wolfe
• Je n'ai rien dit by Stéphanie Boyer
• Nutshimit: Un bain de forêt by Melissa Mollen Dupuis
• Pas de chevaux dans la maison! by Mireille Messier
• Tata by Iris Samartzi
• Le temps des cerises by Agnès de Lestrade
• Tout se transforme by Tony Durand

Le gagnant de l'année derinère / Last Year's Winner

La corde a linge par Orbie

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*These books are paid for by each French immersion school, and are not provided by the district.