Mark Twain Award

Mark Twain Award Intro

This annual award honors one book selected by Missouri students in grades four through six.

For more information about the Mark Twain Award, please see the MASL Mark Twain page.

Mark Twain Award Nominees

  • The Hidden Knife

    Melissa Marr

    After a tragedy, Vicky bands together with new friends to seek justice in dangerous Glass City, where the magical gargoyles are always watching.

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  • Tangled Up in Luck

    Merill Wyatt

    Seventh-graders Sloane and Amelia are devastated to be paired for a research project about long-lost jewels, but soon they are finding clues hidden for nearly a century--and realize they are being

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  • Six Feet Below Zero

    Ena Jones

    Rosie and Baker need to keep up the illusion that their Great Grammy is alive before the Grim Hesper takes away the only home they have ever known.

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  • Pony

    R. J. Palacio

    Twelve-year-old Silas is awoken in the dead of night by three menacing horsemen who take his father away.

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  • One Kid's Trash

    Jamie Summer

    When his father moves them halfway across Colorado, eleven-year-old Hugo O'Donnell is surprised that his remarkable talent for garbology makes him popular for the first time in his life.

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  • Worst-case Collin

    Rebecca Caprara

    In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Colin has been anticipating further disasters, writing down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the H

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  • Nightingale

    Deva Fagan

    After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.

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  • A Place to Hang the Moon

    Kate Albus

    In World War II England, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt

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