Mark Twain Award

Mark Twain Award Intro

This annual award honors one book selected by Missouri students in grades four through six.

For more information about the Mark Twain Award, please see the MASL Mark Twain page.

Mark Twain Award Nominees

  • Thirst

    Varsha Bajaj

    A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone

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  • The Two Wrong Halves of Ruby Taylor

    Amanda Panitch

    Of her two granddaughters, Grandma Yvette clearly prefers Ruby Taylor's perfect--and perfectly Jewish--cousin, Sarah.

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  • The Midnight Children

    Dan Gemeinhart

    When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood

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  • The Girl in the Lake

    India Hill Brown

    Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not.

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  • The Daredevils

    Rob Buyea

    Loretta and her twin brother, Waylon, are headed to middle school. Loretta has always been quick with her fists and her wits.

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  • The Curious League of Detectives & Thieves - Egypt's Fire

    Tom Phillips

    After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothin

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  • Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting

    Roseanne A. Brown

     

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  • Maizy Chen's Last Chance

    Lisa Yee

    Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her fami

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  • Hummingbird

    Natalie Lloyd

    When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she

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  • Freestyle

    Gale Galligan

    While preparing for the last major dance competition before they graduate from eighth grade and go to separate high schools in NYC, Cory must balance the expectations of his parents, school, crew a

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