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2010-2011 Gateway Readers Award Nominee
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
Three Little Words
A Memoir
By: Ashley Rhodes-Courter
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
Ages: above 14
"Sunshine, you're my baby and I'm your only mother. You must mind the one taking care of you, but she's not your mama." Ashley Rhodes-Courter spent nine years of her life in fourteen different foster homes, living by those...
Wake
(Part of Wake)
By: Lisa McMann
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 14
The New York Times paranormal teen bestseller Cassandra Clare called "lyrical" and "haunting".
2009-2010 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominees
Grades 3-5
Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Erupts!
The First Experiment (Part of From the Highly Scientific Notebooks of Phineas L. MacGuire)
By: Frances O'Roark Dowell
Illustrated by: Preston McDaniels
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: May 9, 2006
Ages: 8 - 12
Here's what you need to know about Phineas L. MacGuire, boy-scientist
extraordinaire, aka Mac:
1. He's allergic to purple, telephone calls, and girls, and can prove
it.
2. He's probably the world's expert on mold,...
Return of the Homework Machine
By: Dan Gutman
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
Grades 6-8
Cracker!
The Best Dog in Vietnam
By: Cynthia Kadohata
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: February 6, 2007
Ages: above 10
CRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS:
a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She's a Big Deal, and she...
2009-2010 Gateway Readers Award Nominees
Billie Standish Was Here
By: Nancy Crocker
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: June 5, 2007
Ages: above 14
CAN ONE UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP SAVE A LIFE?
Billie Standish has pretty much no one. Her parents are too caught up in their own lives, and the only two girls in town her age want nothing to do with her. When it looks like a...
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....
Boot Camp
By: Todd Strasser
This edition: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publication date: May 22, 2007
Ages: above 12
In the middle of the night Garrett is taken from his home to Harmony Lake, a boot camp for troubled teens. Maybe some kids deserve to be sent there, but Garrett knows he doesn't. Subjected to brutal physical and psychological...
Other Formats: Mass Market Paperback
2010-2011 Truman Readers Award Masrer List Selection
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
2009-2010 Truman Readers Award Master List Selection
Cracker!
The Best Dog in Vietnam
By: Cynthia Kadohata
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: February 6, 2007
Ages: above 10
CRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS:
a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She's a Big Deal, and she...
2010-2011 Mark Twain Readers Award Master List Selection
Found
(Part of Missing, The)
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: April 22, 2008
Ages: 8 - 12
Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adoped, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, "You are one...
2009-2010 Mark Twain Readers Award Master List Selection
Blown Away!
By: Joan Hiatt Harlow
This edition: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publication date: July 10, 2007
Ages: 9 - 12
It's the summer of 1935, and in the sleepy Florida Keys, thirteen-year-old Jake Pitney's life is quiet and easy. But all of this changes once Jake begins helping out the town's eccentric fisherman, Sharkey, with work.
On...