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2010 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List
Shooting the Moon
By: Frances O'Roark Dowell
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: January 29, 2008
Ages: above 10
JAMIE THINKS HER FATHER CAN DO ANYTHING....
UNTIL THE ONE TIME HE CAN DO NOTHING.
When twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter's brother joins the Army and is sent to
Vietnam, Jamie is plum thrilled. She can't wait to get letters...
2011 Bluestem Book Award Master List
Kenny & the Dragon
By: Tony DiTerlizzi
Illustrated by: Tony DiTerlizzi
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: August 5, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Kenneth is a little rabbit with a very big problem. His two best friends are heading for a battle of legendary proportions - with each other!
In one corner there's Graeme, a well-read and cultured dragon, with...
No Talking
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: June 26, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
"You have the right to remain silent." However...
The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's...
2011 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book 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....
Boot Camp
By: Todd Strasser
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: May 22, 2007
Ages: above 12
In the middle of the night Garrett is taken from his home to Harmony Lake, a boot camp for troubled teens. Maybe some kids deserve to be sent there, but Garrett knows he doesn't. Subjected to brutal physical and psychological...
Other Formats: Mass Market Paperback
Wake
(Part of Wake)
By: Lisa McMann
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 14
The New York Times paranormal teen bestseller Cassandra Clare called "lyrical" and "haunting".
2010 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award Nominees
City of Bones
(Part of Mortal Instruments, The)
By: Cassandra Clare
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 14
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 covered with strange tattoos and brandishing...
Aftershock
By: Kelly Easton
This edition: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publication date: November 6, 2007
Ages: above 12
Seventeen-year-old Adam and his parents are driving home to Rhode Island
from a peace rally in Seattle when the accident happens. In a single,
horrible moment, his parents are gone. And Adam is alone.
In a speechless...
Other Formats: eBook
Inexcusable
By: Chris Lynch
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: October 25, 2005
Ages: above 13
"I am a good guy.
Good guys don't do bad things.
Good guys understand that no means no,
and so I could not have done this because
I understand."
Keir Sarafian knows many things about himself. He is a talented...
Nineteen Minutes
A novel
By: Jodi Picoult
This edition: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publication date: March 5, 2007
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth
Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story
about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.
Sterling is an...
2010 Monarch Award Master List
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
By: Lenore Look
Illustrated by: Anne Wilsdorf
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: April 11, 2006
Ages: 6 - 10
When Ruby's cousin Flying Duck emigrates from China to live with her, Ruby decides the best thing about Flying Duck is that she is a great new friend. BUT the worst thing about Flying Duck is that now, no one speaks English...
Other Formats: eBook
Illinois Winners List
2010 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award
City of Bones
(Part of Mortal Instruments, The)
By: Cassandra Clare
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 14
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 covered with strange tattoos and brandishing...