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Maryland State Reading List

2009-2010 Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Nominees

High School

Shift By: Jennifer Bradbury
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: May 20, 2008
Ages: above 12
Imagine you and your best friend head off on a cross-country bike trek. Imagine that you get into a fight -- the cheap s.o.b. won't kick in any cash. Imagine you stop riding together. Imagine you reach Seattle then come home...
Other Formats: eBook
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....
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook

Grades 6-9

The Killing Sea By: Richard Lewis
This edition: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publication date: December 5, 2006
Ages: above 12
Aceh, Indonesia. December 2004 . Two teens find each other surrounded by the destruction left in the wake of the most devastating tsunami the world has ever seen: Ruslan, a native of Aceh, in search of his missing father,...

Maryland Winners List

Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award 2008-2009

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...