The nominated titles for the 2025-2026 Wyoming Book Awards have been selected!
Here are the nominees for each category:
Soaring Eagle Nominees
The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming
Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth
The Hope of Elephants by Amanda Rawson Hill
That’s Not My Name by Megan Lally
The Kill Factor by Ben Factor
Garden of the Cursed (#1) by Katy Rose Pool
To Kill the Shadow (Mistlands #1) by Katherine Quinn
The Last Dragon on Mars (The Dragonships #1) by Scott Reintgen
Louder Than Hunger by John Schu
Gallant by V. E. Schwab
Indian Paintbrush Nominees
- The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
- Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
- Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
- Wishkeeper’s Apprentice by
Rachel Chivers Khoo - Legend of the Last Library by Frank L. Cole
- Two Degrees by Alan Gratz
- Firefly Summer by Morgan Matson
- Wild River by Rodman Philbrick
- Many Points of Me by Caroline Gerter
- Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart
Buckaroo Nominees
- Enough Is…by Jessica Whipple
- Roar- Choo by Charlotte Cheng
- Almost Underwear by Jonathon Roth
- Flamingos Are Pretty Funky by Abi Cushman
- Luigi the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten by Michelle Knudsen
- The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston
- The Yellow Bus by Loren Long
- The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker
- Cranky by Phuc Tran
- The Wrong Book by Drew Daywalt