State Award Reading List
Georgia State Reading List
2009-2010 Georgia Children's Book Award Nominees
Especially for Upper Grades (7–8)
Uprising
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: September 25, 2007
Ages: above 12
Around her the workers were screaming out prayers and curses.... She herself was sobbing tearlessly.... Her only prayer was still, "I don't want to die."Oh, please, God, don't let me die, she thought. I've never even had a...
2009-2010 Georgia Peach Award Nominees
Unwind
By: Neal Shusterman
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: November 6, 2007
Ages: above 14
Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family's strict religion....
Three Little Words
A Memoir
By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
Ages: above 14
"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those...
City of Bones
(Part of Mortal Instruments, The)
By: Cassandra Clare
Cover By: Cliff Nielsen
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 14
Their hidden world is about to be revealed.... When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers...
Wake
(Part of Wake)
By: Lisa McMann
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 14
Not all dreams are sweet.For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen...
2009-2010 Georgia Picture Story Book Award Nominees
Saving the Liberty Bell
By: Megan McDonald
Illustrated by: Marsha Gray Carrington
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: May 31, 2005
Ages: 5 - 8
Some tall tales are actually true. This is a grand one, told with rightful pride by a boy who was there in the city of Philadelphia in 1777 and was lucky enough to play a role in the American Revolution.John Jacob Mickley,...
Georgia Winners List
Georgia Picture Story Book Award 2008-2009
Sweet Tooth
By: Margie Palatini
Illustrated by: Jack E. Davis
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: August 10, 2004
Ages: 4 - 8
Lots of kids have a sweet tooth. But not like Stewart's. His very loud sweet tooth wants what it wants, when it wants it...and lets everyone know about it.Stewart's sweet tooth screams for cake at weddings, for candy during...
Georgia Peach Award 2008-2009
Impulse
By: Ellen Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publication date: January 23, 2007
Ages: above 14
Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the...
