State Award Reading List
Indiana State Reading List
2008-2009 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Book List
Copper Sun
By: Sharon M. Draper
Cover By: Kamil Vojnar and Polly Kanevsky
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: January 3, 2006
Ages: above 14
Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder,fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own -- hope.Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
The Glass Castle
A Memoir
By: Jeannette Walls
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2005
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among...
Godless
By: Pete Hautman
Cover By: Burton Pritzker
This edition: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2004
Ages: above 12
"Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion?"Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god -- the town's water tower. He recruits an...
2008-2009 Young Hoosier Book Award Master List
Middle Grades
Weedflower
By: Cynthia Kadohata
Cover By: Kamil Vojnar
This edition: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publication date: March 28, 2006
Ages: above 11
Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in...
Intermediate
Room One
A Mystery or Two
By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick / Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: June 27, 2006
Ages: 8 - 12
Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out...
The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
By: Betty G. Birney
Illustrated by: Matt Phelan
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: June 21, 2005
Ages: 8 - 12
Life in Sassafras Springs has always been predictable, boring even, but one afternoon that changes when Eben McAllister's pa challenges him to find Seven Wonders in Sassafras that rival the real Seven Wonders of the World. The...
Return of the Homework Machine
By: Dan Gutman
Cover By: Dan Santat
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: June 2, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
Snik, Brenton, Judy, and Kelsey haven't stayed in the best touch since last year's big homework-machine scandal. But they are all pulled back together again when Brenton realizes that the most powerful part of the machine --...
Other Formats: eBook
Picture Book
A Million Dots
By: Andrew Clements
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: June 27, 2006
Ages: 4 - 8
It's a long way to a million, right?Of course it is.But do you really know what a million looks like?If you'd like to see -- actually see, right now, with your own eyes -- what a million looks like, just open this book.Be...
