The 2022 Bluestem Award Nominees

• Does It Fart?: A Kid's Guide to the Gas Animals Pass by Nick Caruso, Dani Rabaiotti, Alex G. Griffiths
  
• Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat by Emily Chenoweth, Johnny Marciano, Robb Mommaerts
  
• One-Third Nerd by Gennifer Choldenko, Eglantine Ceulemans
  
• Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson, Frank Morrison
  
• The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan: Inventor, Entrepreneur, Hero by Joan DiCicco, Ebony Glenn
  
• Blended by Sharon M. Draper
  
• What a Waste: Trash, Recycling, and Protecting Our Planet by Jess French
  
• Unicorn Rescue Society: The Creature of the Pines by Adam Gidwitz, Hatem Aly
  
• The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser
  
• Project Z: A Zombie Ate My Homework by Tommy Greenwald, Dave Bardin
  
• The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned To Read by Rita Lorraine Hubbard, Oge Mora
  
• Pie in the Sky by Remi Lai
  
• Hana's Suitcase: A True Story OR Hana's Suitcase: The Quest To Solve the Holocaust Mystery by Karen Levine
  
• Handimals: Animals in Art and Nature by Silvia Lopez, Guido Daniele
  
• Because of the Rabbit by Cynthia Lord
  
• Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet by Zanib Mian, Nasaya Mafaridik
  
• Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
  
• Framed! by James Ponti
  
• Roll With It by Jamie Sumner
  
• Other Words For Home by Jasmine Warga