State Award Reading List
Maryland State Reading List
2009-2010 Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Nominees
High School
Shift
By: Jennifer Bradbury
Cover By: Greg Stadnyk
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...
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....
November Blues
By: Sharon M. Draper
Cover By: Howard Pyle
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 23, 2007
Ages: above 12
When November Nelson loses her boyfriend, Josh, to a pledge stunt gone horribly wrong, she thinks her life can't possibly get any worse. But Josh left something behind that will change November's life forever, and now she's...
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, whom...
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 why the...
