Welcome to March Book Madness 2022!

This year's theme is Turning Points. Book lists will be announced on October 1, 2021. The Brackets will be announced on February 1, 2022. First round voting will start on March 2, 2022.

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2022 Book Lists

Picture Book
Middle Grade
Young Adult
Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Frank Morrison
The Cot In The Living Room by Hilda Eunice Burgos, illustrated by Gaby D'Alessandro
Change Sings by Amanda Gorman, illustrated by Loren Long
Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes A Congresswoman by Sharice Davids, illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley
Norman Didn't Do It!: (Yes, He Did) by Ryan T. Higgins
Every Night Is Pizza Night by J. Kenji Lopéz-Alt, illustrated by Gianna Ruggiero
Zonia’s Rain Forest by Juana Martinez-Neal
My First Day by Phùng Nguyên Quang, Huỳnh Kim Liên
Stollercoaster by Matt Ringler, illustrated by Raul The Third
This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth by Sean Rubin
Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer by Traci Sorell, illustrated by Natasha Donovan
Except Antarctica by Todd Sturgell
A Walk in the Words by Hudson Talbott
Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by Loren Long
Everything Naomi Loved by Katie Yamasaki

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Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds by Samira Ahmed
The In-Between by Rebecca K.S. Ansari
The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus
The Great Peach Experiment 1: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie by Erin Soderberg Downing
Long Distance by Whitney Gardner
Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
Ahmed Aziz’s Epic Year by Nina Hamza
The Lion Of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm
Linked by Gordon Korman
Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd
Millionaires For The Month by Stacey McAnulty
Chunky by Yehudi Mercado
Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson & Kwame Alexander
Miles Morales: Shock Waves by Justin A. Reynolds
All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat
Last Gamer Standing by Katie Zhao

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Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Diviners by Libba Bray
This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry
Walking in Two Worlds By Wab Kinew
Skyhunter by Marie Lu
More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood
Burn by Patrick Ness
Broken Things by Lauren Oliver
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
Want by Cindy Pon
Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Solomon
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson 
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
Frankly in Love by David Yoon

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