Here it is, the moment you've been waiting for -- the official announcement of the Kid Zone's favorite books of 2012!  Please hold your applause till the end.  Let's start with the best fiction.
1. Anyway*: * A Story About Me with 138 Footnotes, 27 Exaggerations, and 1 Plate of Spaghetti by Arthur Salm
2. Applewhites at Wit's End by Stephanie S. Tolan
3. Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood
4. The Boy on Cinnamon Street by Phoebe Stone
5. Capture the Flag by Kate Messner
6. Castle of Shadows by Ellen Renner
7. Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Extra Credit by Tommy Greenwald
8. The Classroom: The Epic Documentary of a Not-Yet-Epic Kid by Robin Mellom
9. Cold Cereal by Adam Rex
10. Dear Know-It-All: Read All About It! by Rachel Wise
11. Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger
12. Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood
13. The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy
14. Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms by Lissa Evans
15. Iron Hearted Violet by Kelly Barnhill
16. Jake and Lily by Jerry Spinelli
17. Katerina's Wish by Jeannie Mobley
18. Laugh with the Moon by Shana Burg
19. Letters to Leo by Amy Hest
20. Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
21. The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
22. Lula Bell on Geekdom, Freakdom, and the Challenges of Bad Hair by C. C. Payne
23. Madhattan Mystery by John J. Bonk
24. Malcolm at Midnight by W. H. Beck
25. Nikki and Deja: Wedding Drama by Karen English
26. On the Road to Mr. Mineo's by Barbara O'Connor
27. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
28. One Year in Coal Harbor by Polly Horvath
29. The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann
30. Pickle: The (Formerly) Anonymous Prank Club of Fountain Point Middle School by Kim Baker
31. Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers by Chris Grabenstein
32. Same Sun Here by Silas House & Neela Vaswani
33. The Secret Tree by Natalie Standiford
34. Seeing Cinderella by Jenny Lundquist
35. Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin
36. The Storm Makers by Jennifer E. Smith
37. Storybound by Marissa Burt
38. Sway by Amber McRee Turner
39. Ungifted by Gordon Korman
40. Vietnam: I Pledge Allegiance by Chris Lynch
41. Whatever After: Fairest of All by Sarah Mlynowski
42. Wonder by R. J. Palacio