NOMINEES 2010-2011

CURRENT NOMINEES 2009-2010 
Winners announced May 1, 2010
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PRIMARY (Grades K-3)
A Frog Thing by Eric Drachman Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners by Laurie Keller My Life as a Chicken by Ellen Kelley Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier
A Frog Thing by Eric Drachman. Kidwick, 2006.
Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners by Laurie Keller. Holt, 2007.

My Life as a Chicken by Ellen Kelley. Illustrated by Michael Slack. Harcourt, 2007.

Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison. Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. Schwartz & Wade, 2007.

Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier. Walker, 2007.  WINNER

 

INTERMEDIATE (Grades 3-6)
No Talking by Andrew Clements A Friendship for Today by Patricia C. McKissack Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda A. Urban
No Talking by Andrew Clements. Simon & Schuster, 2007.  WINNER
A Friendship for Today by Patricia C. McKissack. Scholastic, 2007.
Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda A. Urban. Random House, 2007.

 

MIDDLE SCHOOL/JR. HIGH (Grades 6-9)
Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 by Elisa Carbone Alabama Moon by Watt Key The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 by Elisa Carbone.  Viking, 2006.
Alabama Moon by Watt Key.  Straus & Giroux, 2006  WINNER
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. 

 

YOUNG ADULT (Grades 9-12)
The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Saint Iggy by R.L. Going Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.  Little Brown and Co., 2007.  WINNER
Saint Iggy by R.L. Going.  Harcourt, 2006.
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr.  Brown, 2007.

 

PICTURE BOOK FOR OLDER READERS (Grades 4 and up)
Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine and Judith Pinkerton Josephson Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch by Mona Kerby Willy & Max: A Holocaust Story by Amy Littlesugar
Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine and Judith Pinkerton Josephson. Illustrated by Hernan Sosa.  Lee & Low, 2007.
Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch by Mona Kerby.  Illustrated by Lynne Barasch.  Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.  WINNER

Willy & Max: A Holocaust Story by Amy Littlesugar.  Illustrated by William Low. Philomel/Penguin, 2006.

 

 

NOMINEES 2010-2011
Announced February 1, 2010
Ballots must be postmarked by April 1, 2011
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PRIMARY (Grades K-3)
A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker Pete & Pickles by Berkeley Breathed Duck by Randy Cecil Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale by Carmen Agra Deedy Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra
A Visitor for Bear by Bonnie Becker. Candlewick Press, 2008.
Pete and Pickles by Berkeley Breathed. Philomel, 2008.

Duck by Randy Cecil. Candlewick Press, 2008.

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale by Carmen Agra Deedy. Illustrated by Michael Austin. Peachtree Publications, 2008.

Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra.  Illustrated by Edward Koren. Knopf, 2006.

 

INTERMEDIATE (Grades 3-6)
Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke Greetings from Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston
Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke.  The Chicken House, 2007.
Greetings from Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley. Scholastic Press, 2007.
Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston. Razorbill, 2008.

 

MIDDLE SCHOOL/JR. HIGH (Grades 6-9)
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis Cracker: the Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohota Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients, Book 1 by Derek Landy
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis. Scholastic, 2007.
Cracker: the Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohota. Atheneum, 2007.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients, Book 1 by Derek Landy. The Bowen Press, 2007.

 

YOUNG ADULT (Grades 9-12)
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.  Scholastic Press, 2008.
Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson. Henry Holt & Co., 2008.
Unwind by Neal Shusterman. Simon & Schuster, 2007.

 

PICTURE BOOK FOR OLDER READERS (Grades 4 and up)
Moon Over Star by Diana Aston John Paul George & Ben by Lane Smith Four Feet, Two Sandals by by Karen Williams
Moon Over Star by Diana Aston. Dial, 2008.
John Paul George & Ben by Lane Smith. Hyperion Books, 2006.

Four Feet, Two Sandals by by Karen Williams. Eerdmans Books for young Readers, 2007.


For a list of past nominees, please see the WINNERS page.
   

 

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