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WA State Towner Award 2019-20 Nominees (2017 copyrights) - Book Set Lists in PDF

• Avalanche Dog Heroes: Piper and Friends Learn to Search the Snow by Elizabeth Rusch (Text Set Coming Soon!)
• The Bee Book by Charlotte Milner 
• Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker 
• The Hen Who Sailed Around the World: A True Story by Guirec Soudée 
• Highest Mountain, Smallest Star: A Visual Compendium of Wonders by Kate Baker, illustrated by Page Tsou 
• Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World by Susan Hood (Text Set Coming Soon!)
• Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story by Marc Tyler Nobleman, illustrated by Melissa Iwai 
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, I Know Exactly What You Are by Julia Kregenow, illustrated by Carmen Saldaña
• What Do They Do with All That Poo? by Jane Kurtz, illustrated by Allison Black
• What's on Your Plate?: Exploring the World of Food by Whitney Stewart, illustrated by Christiane Engel (Text Set Coming Soon!)

WA State Towner Award 2018-19 Nominees (2016 copyrights) - Book Set Lists in PDF

• Beauty and the Beak: How Science, Technology, and a 3D-Printed Beak Rescued a Bald Eagle by Deborah Lee Rose
• Book of Bones: 10 Record-Breaking Animals by Gabrielle Balkan
• Danza! Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years by Stacy McAnulty
• Not So Different: What You Really Want to Ask About Having a Disability by Shane Burcaw
• Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating
• The Hidden Life of a Toad by Doug Wechsler
• The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson
• This Book Isn't Safe by Colin Furze
• This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World by Matt Lamothe

WA State Towner Award 2017-18 Nominees (2015 copyrights) - Text Sets in PDF

• Alpha Bravo Charlie: the Complete Book of Nautical Codes by Sara Gillingham

• Animals by the Numbers: a Book of Animal Infographics by Steve Jenkins

• Best in Snow by April Pulley Sayre

• Circles by David Adler

• Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan

• The Great Monkey Rescue: Saving the Golden Lion Tamarins by Sandra Markle 
  

• I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy

• Pink is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals by Jess Keating 

• Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton

• Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk by Jane Sutcliffe

All 10 Text Sets in one file (PDF)

WA State Towner Award 2016-17 Nominees (2014 Copyrights) - Text Sets in PDF

• Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tontatiuh
• Mama Built a Nest by Jennifer Ward
• My Country 'Tis of Thee by Claire Rudolf Murphy
• Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle by Cheryl Bardoe
• Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey by Loree Griffin Burns
• Neighborhood Sharks by Katherine Roy
• Plastic Ahoy! Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Patricia Newman
• Underworld: Exploring the Secret World Beneath Your Feet by Jane Price
• Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Stephanie Roth Sisson
• Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart

Brochure_Towner_2016.pdf

WA State Towner Award 2015-16 Nominees (2013 copyrights) - Text Sets in PDF 

• The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest, and Most Surprising Animals on Earth by Steve Jenkins
• Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss and illustrated by Yuko Shimizu
• Best Foot Forward, Exploring Feet, Flippers and Claws by Ingo Arndt
• Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World by Elizabeth Rusch and Illustrated by Oliver Dominguez
• The Great American Dustbowl by Don Brown
• Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette LeBlanc Cate
• Meat Eating Plants: Toothless Wonders by Ellen Lawrence
• Shimmer and Splash by Jim Arnosky 
• Volcano Rising by Elizabeth Rusch and Illustrated by Susan Swan 
• When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kook Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop by Laban Carrick Hill and illustrated by Theodore Taylor III 

 WA State Towner Award 2014-15 Nominees (2012 copyrights) - Text Sets in PDF

• A Black Hole Is Not a Hole by Carolyn DeCristofano
• A Rock Is Lively by Dianna Hutts Aston
• Castle: How It works by David Macaulay and Sheila Keenan
• Eight Days Gone by Linda McReynolds
• Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster by Mary Cerullo
• Island: A Story of the Galápagos by Jason Chin
• Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
• Snakes by Nic Bishop
• The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery by Sandra Markle
• What We Wear by Maya Ajmera