*** 2021 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book Series ***Merry Christmas and Happy Ice Queen!Fourteen-year-old Josey and her ten-year-old, video-game-obsessed brother, Mason, live in Baudette, Minnesota, the Walleye Capital of the World. Their family owns and operates Baxter’s Bait Shop, a town landmark.Every year before Christmas, Baudette hosts an ice-fishing tournament called the Ice Queen that draws thousands of anglers and generates a l...

*** 2014 Winner Bronze Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book Series ***Blair Thomas lives in the friendly, lakeside town of Lainey, Michigan, on the beautiful shores of Lake Huron. Lainey boasts superb hunting opportunities and offers visitors miles of sandy shoreline and weekend tours of the historic Tesla Lighthouse. It's the beginning of the fall, duck hunting season, and Blair and her dad are busy preparing for her very first duck hunt. The forecast is calling for ...

*** 2021 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book Series ***Three days of camping and fishing with best friends — what could possibly go wrong?Bobby thought a trip down the Cass River with his three best friends sounded like a great idea. They had a four-day fall break and were looking for an exciting adventure during the Halloween weekend. Just weeks earlier, their science teacher, Mr. Hill, had shown them pictures of a giant northern pike. These huge...

*** 2014 Winner Bronze Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book Series ***Tucker Thompson is just an ordinary 8th grader from Detroit, Michigan. He loves school and baseball. Everything seems great for the left-handed pitcher with a big, breaking curveball.That is, until one dreadful event changes his life. Tucker learns that his parents are getting divorced. If that wasn’t bad enough, his mom is making a move. He will be forced to attend a new school, across town...

It's finally here: the year of the Golden Puck tournament—eighth-grade hockey's Super Bowl. Superstar Caleb Geiger has one goal in mind: bringing the Golden Puck back to Huron County for the first time ever. With Caleb and his friends—the Frozen Five—leading the way, the Barn Burners have a real shot at the trophy.But there's a catch…Bobby "Bladebreaker" Hall, Caleb's number one rival, is joining their school and traveling hockey team. Although Caleb knows Bobby improves their chan...

*** 2021 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book Series ***Rock Conrad was set to begin the best and final year of his high school education. He could hardly wait. This was his year!Rock and Eddie, best friends and teammates, were poised to make history as the first ever bass fishing state champions at Polk High School. Last year they finished in the top ten, but this year their eyes were on first place. During the summer, the pair spent many...

*** 2021 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book Series ***Casey James, a fishing obsessed 14-year-old, loved any time he got to spend aboard the Orca II, his dad’s charter fishing boat. The beautiful coastal waters just south of San Francisco provided great fishing and adventure on every trip, especially when venturing to the Farallon Islands.Each fall, the waters surrounding the Farallon Islands become populated with one of the most powerful and lar...

2024 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book SeriesIt was fourth and goal…Jacoby Howard was the star quarterback, and I was the middle linebacker who was going to stop him from scoring. I glanced up at the scoreboard; it read :03; 21-17. Jacoby had to go through me to win the game. My teeth clenched as I crouched, ready to surge forward.As soon as the center moved the ball, I blitzed. I stayed low and dropped my shoulder pads just in time to m...

2024 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book SeriesColt, a skilled junior golfer, has one huge problem…he falls apart when playing in front of a crowd.He thinks he might have found the solution to his golfing issues when a mysterious man moves into his Palm Springs neighborhood. Colt sets out with his two best friends to convince the man to be Colt’s new golf coach. Once they meet Pro Kitchen, they find out there is something special about this new ne...

2024 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book SeriesAce basketball player, T.D. Lake, is about to break the school record for the all-time highest scoring player. He is good-really good. But with untamed talent comes arrogance.With plenty of games left in the season, T.D. knows breaking the record will be easy for him to do. However, T.D.'s life takes several unexpected twists and turns before he approaches the final game of his middle school career.

2024 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book SeriesSummer is around the corner, and Little League first baseman, Billy Kramer, is looking forward to playing another year with the LA Southgate Sharks. His plans are uprooted when his mother announces an unexpected move to rural Bennington, Nebraska. Billy's world is turned upside down.Billy hoped to find a new team that could compete at the same level as his former team. He soon finds that Bennington's l...

*** 2021 Winner Gold Moonbeam Award: Best Chapter Book Series ***Who doesn’t look forward to summer camp? Two weeks of sun and fun were just what Presley’s parents thought she needed. Too bad she didn’t feel the same way. . .Growing up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was all fourteen-year-old Presley Walton knew. In fact, the teen had never ventured far beyond the city limits. Her world revolved around chilling in her bedroom, using her cell phone, an...