California Young Reader Medal Results – 2025-2026
Here are the results of the Humboldt County student voting for the 2025-2026 California Young Reader medal.
For more information about the program, including this year’s books and results, visit our main Young Reader Medal page.
Humboldt County 2025-2026 Winner – Primary Books (Grades K-3)
Votes as of April. 1, 2026
Humboldt County 2025-2026 Winner – Picture Books for Older Readers – 4th Grade and Up
Votes as of April 1, 2026
Humboldt County 2025-2026 Winner – Intermediate – Grades 3-6
Votes as of April 1, 2026
Letter from Dogtown author, Katherine Applegate
Our HCOE Library wrote to all the winning authors from the Humboldt County voting results. Katherine Applegate, the author of Dogtown (the Intermedaite novel winner), wrote us back! We wanted to share her inspiring words with the children of Humboldt County. See Letter below.
Primary Books (Grades K-3)
Endlessly Ever After, Laurel Snyder (author) & Dan Santat (illustrator), Chronicle Books, 2022.
Creepy Crayon!, Aaron Reynolds (author) & Peter Brown (illustrator), Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2022.
Eyebrows of Doom, Steve Smallman (author) & Miguel Ordóñez (illustrator), Tiger Tales (Penguin Random House), 2022.
A Letter for Bob, Kim Rogers (author) & Jonathan Nelson (illustrator), Heartdrum (Harper Collins) 2023.
Yefferson, Actually, Katherine Trejo and Scott Martin-Rowe (authors) & Karla Monterrosa (illustrator), Lil’ Libros, 2021.
Picture Books for Older Readers
The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London’s Poop Pollution Problem, Colleen Paeff (author) & Nancy Carpenter (illustrator), Margaret K. McElderry Books (Simon & Schuster), 2021.
Let Liberty Rise! How America’s Schoolchildren Helped Save the Statue of Liberty, Chana Stiefel (author) & Chuck Groenink (illustrator), Scholastic Press, 2021.
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion, Shannon Stocker (author) & Devon Holzwarth (illustrator), Dial Books (Penguin Random House), 2022.
Intermediate (Grades 3-6)
Coyote Lost and Found, Dan Gemeinhart, Henry Holt and Co, 2024.
Dogtown, Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko (authors); Wallace West (illustrator), Feiwel & Friends (MacMillian), 2023.
The Labors of Hercules Beal, Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion Books (Harper Collins), 2023.