State Award Reading List
Virginia State Reading List
2009-2010 Virginia Readers' Choices
High School
The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
By: Deb Caletti
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: March 25, 2008
Ages: above 12
I suddenly see where I'm standing, and that's at the edge of change - really, really big change.Eighteen-year-old Indigo Skye feels like she has it all - a waitress job she loves, an adorable refrigerator-delivery-guy...
Middle
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
Uprising
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: September 25, 2007
Ages: above 12
The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the disaster, which brought...
High
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....
Primary
Meerkat Mail
By: Emily Gravett
Illustrated by: Emily Gravett
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: September 25, 2007
Ages: 4 - 8
Sunny Meerkat lives in the Kalahari desert with his family. Under the hot sun, Sunny and his brothers and sisters work together, play together, eat together, learn together, and sleep together. Sunny needs a break, so he...
Once Upon a Banana
By: Jennifer Armstrong
Illustrated by: David Small
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: October 24, 2006
Ages: 4 - 8
Such a little banana causing such a big pile of trouble! How could it be? First the grocer, then the painter, next the bicycle messenger, and then -- oh, no -- not the baby in the carriage! An entire town turned upside down,...
Elementary
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...
