State Award Reading List
South Dakota State Reading List
2009-2010 Prairie Pasque Award Nominees
Miss Spitfire
Reaching Helen Keller
By: Sarah Miller
This edition: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publication date: July 10, 2007
Ages: 10 - 12
Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in 1887. Desperate for work, she'd taken on a seemingly impossible job -- teaching a child who was deaf, blind, and as...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
By: Elise Broach
Illustrated by: David Small
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 25, 2007
Ages: 3 - 7
Get a WHAT!?Free WHAT!?DINOSAURS?Just when a little boy thinks he's going to die of boredom from running errands with his mom, the most remarkable, the most stupendous thing happens. He discovers that on this day, and this day...
No Talking
By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick / 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...
South Dakota Winners List
Young Adult Reading Program Reading List Selection 2009-2010
I Heart You, You Haunt Me
By: Lisa Schroeder
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: January 8, 2008
Ages: above 14
Girl meets boy.Girl loses boy.Girl gets boy back......sort of.Ava can't see him or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear hisvoice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think she'scrazy, but she...
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....
Wake
(Part of Wake)
By: Lisa McMann
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 14
Not all dreams are sweet.For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen...
