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2010-2011 Great Lakes Book Award Nominee

Dinothesaurus
Dinothesaurus Prehistoric Poems and Paintings By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: above 6
This book is full of dinosaurs, Both carnivores and herbivores. You'll find a big Iguanodon, As well as a clever Tro-o-don. There's Spinosaurus and T. rex, Plus plesiosaurs with giant necks, And others from...

2009 Thumbs Up! Award Nominees

Chains By: Laurie Halse Anderson
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: above 10
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Venomous
Venomous By: Christopher Krovatin
This edition: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: September 2, 2008
Ages: above 14
Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted and more than a little hostile. In fact, for years he's had a lousy social life because of a problem he has with his anger--a force he calls "the venom." Ever since he was...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
Living Dead Girl By: Elizabeth Scott
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: September 2, 2008
Ages: above 16
Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook

2010 Thumbs Up! Award Honor Book

The Monstrumologist (Part of Monstrumologist, The) By: Rick Yancey
This edition: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publication date: September 22, 2009
Ages: above 14
These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . ....
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback