Books in Junior Library Guild - History 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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In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones | Andrea Chalupa | Selection | Log In To Like |
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When the Mapou Sings | Nadine Pinede | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Song of a Blackbird | Maria van Lieshout | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between | L.M. Elliott | Selection | Log In To Like |
2024
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Bridge Across the Sky | Freeman Ng | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Ida, in Love and in Trouble | Veronica Chambers | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992 | Paula Yoo | Selection | Log In To Like |
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To the Bone | Alena Bruzas | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Red Harvest: A Graphic Novel of the Terror Famine in Soviet Ukraine | Michael Cherkas | Selection | Log In To Like |
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A Suffragist's Guide to the Antarctic | Yi Shun Lai | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Trajectory | Cambria Gordon | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Eyes Open | Lyn Miller-Lachmann | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Color of a Lie | Kim Johnson | Selection | Log In To Like |
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We Are Not Strangers | Josh Tuininga | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Prince and the Coyote | David Bowles | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South | Jaha Nailah Avery | Selection | Log In To Like |
2023
2022
2021
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Luck of the Titanic | Stacey Lee | Selection | Log In To Like |
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In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race | Amy Cherrix | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Separate No More: The Long Road to Brown V. Board of Education | Lawrence Goldstone | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Conspiracy: Nixon, Watergate, and Democracy's Defenders | P. O'Connell Pearson | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Angel of Greenwood | Randi Pink | Selection | Log In To Like |
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A Sitting in St. James | Rita Williams-Garcia | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Violet and Daisy: The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins | Sarah Miller | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Bluebird | Bob Staake | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Enduring Freedom | Trent Reedy | Selection | Log In To Like |
2020
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Open Fire | Amber Lough | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights | Lawrence Goldstone | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Marie Curie: A Life of Discovery | Alice Milani | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Fountains of Silence | Ruta Sepetys | Selection | Log In To Like |
| Viral: The Fight Against AIDS in America | Ann Bausum | Selection | Log In To Like | |
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Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment | Larry Dane Brimner | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Downstairs Girl | Stacey Lee | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia | Marc Favreau | Selection | Log In To Like |
2019
2018
2017
2016
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America | Gail Jarrow | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story | Caren Stelson | Selection | Log In To Like |
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High Dive | Jonathan Lee | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Caravaggio: Painter on the Run | Marissa Moss | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Shame the Stars | Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Selection | Log In To Like |
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These Shallow Graves | Jennifer Donnelly | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Outrun the Moon | Stacey Lee | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The World Beneath | Janice Warman | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Muralist | B.A. Shapiro | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Aluta | Adwoa Badoe | Selection | Log In To Like |
2015
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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The World Within: A Novel of Emily Bronte | Jane Eagland | Selection | Log In To Like |
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X: A Novel | Ilyasah Shabazz | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp | James M. Deem | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Juba! | Walter Dean Myers | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Noah Webster: Man of Many Words | Catherine Reef | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army | Georg Rauch | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Anastasia and Her Sisters | Carolyn Meyer | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Tommy: The Gun That Changed America | Karen Blumenthal | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights | Ann Bausum | Selection | Log In To Like |
2014
2013
| Book | Author | Award Level | Completed | |
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Out of the Easy | Ruta Sepetys | Selection | Log In To Like |
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A Moment Comes | Jennifer Bradbury | Selection | Log In To Like |
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VIII | H.M. Castor | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Prisoner B-3087 | Alan Gratz | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Belle Epoque | Elizabeth Ross | Selection | Log In To Like |
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Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers | Tanya Lee Stone | Selection | Log In To Like |
| Rose Under Fire | Elizabeth Wein | Selection | Log In To Like | |
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Jepp, Who Defied the Stars | Katherine Marsh | Selection | Log In To Like |
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The Extra | Kathryn Lasky | Selection | Log In To Like |
