State Award Reading List
Maine State Reading Lists
Maine Chickadee Award
2011 - 2012 Maine Chickadee Award Nominee
Picture Books
A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea
By: Michael Ian Black
Illustrated by: Kevin Hawkes
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 7, 2010
Ages: 4 - 8
Could anything possibly be more fun than a pig parade!? You wouldn't think so. But you'd be wrong. A pig parade is a terrible idea. Pigs hate to march, refuse to wear the uniforms, don't care about floats, and insist on...
Other Formats: eBook
Maine Student Book Award
2011 - 2012 Maine Student Book Award Reading List
We the Children
(Part of Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School)
By: Andrew Clements
Illustrated by: Adam Stower
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: April 6, 2010
Ages: 7 - 10
Benjamin Pratt’s school is about to become the site of a new amusement park. It sounds like a dream come true! But lately, Ben has been wonder if he’s going to like an amusement park in the middle of his...
The Search for WondLa
(Part of Search for WondLa, The)
By: Tony DiTerlizzi
Illustrated by: Tony DiTerlizzi
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: September 21, 2010
Ages: above 10
When a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary that Eva Nine was raised in by the robot Muthr, the twelve-year-year-old girl is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her, for she knows that...
Out of My Mind
By: Sharon M. Draper
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: above 10
Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school—but no one knows it. Most...
SPHDZ Book #1!
(Part of Spaceheadz)
By: Jon Scieszka
Illustrated by: Shane Prigmore / with: Francesco Sedita
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: June 22, 2010
Ages: 7 - 10
The perfect combination of the age old experience of holding and poring over a physical book with newest media technology that kids love! Michael K. just started fifth grade at a new school. As if that wasn't hard enough, the...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Milo
Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
By: Alan Silberberg
Illustrated by: Alan Silberberg
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: September 14, 2010
Ages: 9 - 13
MILO is the funny and poignant story, told through text and cartoons, of a 13-year-old boy’s struggle to come to terms with the loss that hit the reset button on his life. Loveable geek Milo Cruikshank finds reasons for...
