Books in Junior Library Guild - City Selection
JLG is a commercial book club devoted to juvenile literature. Selection of a children's book by the editors of the Junior Literary Guild (or latterly the Junior Library Guild) is a distinction used for publicity by publishers and authors of children's books. At present, 492 books are selected each year.
2025
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Bingsu for Two | Sujin Witherspoon | Selection | Log In To Like |
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To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities | Patricia Morris Buckley | Selection | Log In To Like |
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I Was Told There Would Be Romance | Marie Arnold | Selection | Log In To Like |
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A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe | Mahogany L. Browne | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Big Bertha: How a Massive Tunnel Boring Machine Dug a Highway Under Seattle | Amanda Abler | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Whales in the City | Nancy F. Castaldo | Selection | Log In To Like |
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(S)Kin | Ibi Zoboi | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Birds on the Brain | Uma Krishnaswami | Selection | Log In To Like |
2024
2023
2022
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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When You Get the Chance | Emma Lord | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Mr. Watson's Chickens | Jarrett Dapier | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Here's to Us | Becky Albertalli | Selection | Log In To Like |
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I Am the Ghost in Your House | Mar Romasco-Moore | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Sway with Me | Syed M. Masood | Selection | Log In To Like |
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We Light Up the Sky | Lilliam Rivera | Selection | Log In To Like |
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No Filter and Other Lies | Crystal Maldonado | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats: Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities | Cylita Guy | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Dad Bakes | Katie Yamasaki | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Simon B. Rhymin' Takes a Stand | Dwayne Reed | Selection | Log In To Like |
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A Duet for Home | Karina Yan Glaser | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge | Gary Golio | Selection | Log In To Like |
2021
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Everything Naomi Loved | Katie Yamasaki | Selection | Log In To Like |
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In the City | Chris Raschka | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Simon B. Rhymin' | Dwayne Reed | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Smelly Kelly and His Super Senses: How James Kelly's Nose Saved the New York City Subway | Beth Anderson | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Dear Justyce | Nic Stone | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Between Perfect and Real | Ray Stoeve | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Sasha Masha | Agnes Borinsky | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Vanderbeekers Lost and Found | Karina Yan Glaser | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Lala's Words: A Story of Planting Kindness | Gracey Zhang | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Indivisible | Daniel Aleman | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Like Home | Louisa Onome | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Life I'm In | Sharon G. Flake | Selection | Log In To Like |
2020
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Full Disclosure | Camryn Garrett | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Cursed | Karol Ruth Silverstein | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Small in the City | Sydney Smith | Selection | Log In To Like |
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My Winter City | James Gladstone | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Bolivar Eats New York | Sean Rubin | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Sick Kids in Love | Hannah Moskowitz | Selection | Log In To Like |
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No Room for a Pup! | Elizabeth Suneby | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue | Karina Yan Glaser | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island | Jennifer Thermes | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Tell Me How You Really Feel | Aminah Mae Safi | Selection | Log In To Like |
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Buddy | MH Herlong | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Fire in the Streets | Kekla Magoon | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School | Kim Baker | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Me and Momma and Big John | Mara Rockliff | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Discovering Wes Moore | Wes Moore | Selection | Log In To Like |