2025 Children's Choice Awards
This year’s winner is Max in the House of Spies by Adam Gidwitz!
Congratulations to the winner and all nominees of this year’s Allegheny County Children’s Choice Awards!
Nina often feels out of place at school and in her large family. At summer camp, she discovers two birds nesting in a marsh behind an old infirmary. They seem to be whooping cranes, but experts can’t identify the female.
Eleven-year-old Simon is ready to make the Tangerine Pines his forever home, but when a robbery occurs in the apartment building, he and his new friend set out to solve the case and keep his family from moving again.
Two siblings uncover a new world, featuring Night Librarians and characters literally bursting from their favorite books, in this thrilling graphic novel about the magic that libraries hold.
WINNER
To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible–become a British spy.
Princess Marigold is eleven when her long-lost sister, Princess Rosalind, escapes captivity and returns home. As everyone celebrates, Marigold wonders: if Rosalind is good, does that make her wicked—and is she too wicked to make things right?
Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka “Slugfest,” in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he’ll never forget.
Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost–one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.