2024 Winners

Grades K–2: Stinkbird Has a Superpower by Jill Esbaum

Grades 3-5: The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown

Grades 6-8: The Girl in the Lake by India Hill

Teen: Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards

Don’t forget to make your nominations for the 2025 Buckeye Children’s and Teen Book Awards!

The Buckeyes are one of the few state reader’s choice awards in which students get to nominate the titles as well as vote on the final winners. The only adults who may submit nominations or votes are teachers and librarians who are representing a group of students from their school or library. This allows the Buckeyes to be truly a student-chosen award in all aspects.


Ohio teachers and librarians! For ONE WEEK ONLY! Enter to win a free set of four Buckeye books! You can win either a set of all four 2024 winners, or, a set of four copies of one of the 2024 age category winners. Enter here, one entry per person only. Entry deadline is Sunday December 8 at midnight EST. Good luck!