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Red Dot Book Awards 2025-2026

The Red Dot student choice book awards is an annual event organised by the International School Libraries Network (ISLN) in Singapore. Shortlisted books are organised into four age-based categories, with eight titles in each. We look forward to this shortlist every year so please enjoy the wonderful selection! 

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  • Everything We Never Had

    $22.00

    Written by Randy Ribaypaperback From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving n...

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    $22.00
  • Sona and the Golden Beasts

    $29.00

    Written by Rajani LaRoccahardcoverThough music is outlawed in the land of Devia, Sona hears it everywhere. Sona is a Malech, a member of the ruling...

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    $29.00
  • Veena and the Red Roti

    $32.00

    Written by Namita Moolani Mehra  |  Illustrated by Beena MistryhardcoverVeena loves her home in Sindh. But on a terrible night in 1947 when the Par...

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    $32.00
  • A Better Best Friend

    $25.00

    Written and Illustrated by Olivier Tallechardcover In this funny picture book exploring a forever childhood question about friendship, squirrel and...

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    $25.00
  • Not Nothing

    $15.00

    Written by Gayle FormanpaperbackAlex is twelve, and he did something very, very bad. A judge sentences him to spend his summer volunteering at a re...

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    $15.00
  • Sona and the Golden Beasts

    $15.00

    Written by Rajani LaRoccapaperbackThough music is outlawed in the land of Devia, Sona hears it everywhere. Sona is a Malech, a member of the ruling...

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    $15.00