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2008-2009 South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominees. Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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2008-2009South Carolina
Junior Book Award Nominees
Bella at Midnightby Diane Stanley
Bella's peasant life is changed when her real
father, a knight who abandoned her when
she was a baby, comes and reclaims
her, moving her to his home where she lives
with a resentful stepmother and two horrible stepsisters and learns about a
plot to kill her friend, Prince Julian.
Black Duckby Janet Taylor Lisle
Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the
story of how, in 1929 Newport,
Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were
caught up in the violent competition
among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling
trade.
Blood on the River: Jamestown, 1607
by Elisa Carbone
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must
quickly learn to distinguish between
friend and foe.
Blueby Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Ann Fay Honeycutt becomes the man of
the house at age thirteen after her
father leaves to fight in World War II,
forcing Ann to give up her childhood and tend to her family, but when a polio
epidemic strikes, Ann faces the most
devastating challenge of her life.
Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam
by Cynthia Kadohata
A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-
sniffing dog.
Crossing the Wireby Will Hobbs
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores
journeys north in a desperate
attempt to cross the Arizona
border and find work in the
United States to support his
family in central Mexico.
Dragon’s Keepby Janet Lee Carey
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-
year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of
Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born
with that reflects only one of her mother's
dark secrets.
Escape!:The Story of the Great
Houdiniby Sid Fleischman
A biography of the magician, ghost
chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long
after his death in 1926.
Green Glass Seaby Ellen Klages
While her father works on the Manhattan
Project, eleven-year-old gadget lover and
outcast Dewey Kerrigan lives in Los Alamos Camp, and
becomes friends with Suze, another young
girl who is shunned by her peers.
Hard Hitby Ann Turner
A rising high school baseball star faces his
most difficult challenge when his father is diagnosed
with pancreatic cancer.
Heatby Mike Lupica
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball
because rival coaches doubt he is only
twelve years old and he has no parents to
offer them proof.
Jumping the Scratchby Sarah Weeks
After moving with his mother to a trailer park to care for an
injured aunt, eleven-year-old Jamie
Reardon struggles to cope with a deeply
buried secret.
The Mailboxby Audrey Shafer
When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his uncle's death
from the local authorities, he is not
prepared for what happens when this
secret is discovered.
Oh Rats!:The Story of Rats and People
by Albert Marrin
Describes rat behavior and
survival skills and aspects of their relationship with
humans, including disease, rats as
food, rats as pests, and the
training of rats as rescuers.
Sand Dollar Summerby Kimberly Jones
When twelve-year-old Lise spends the
summer on an island in Maine with her self-
reliant mother and bright--but oddly mute--younger
brother, her formerly safe world is
complicated by an aged Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood
friend, and a hurricane.
The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1
by PJ Haarsma
After being orphaned on the seed ship
"Renaissance", thirteen-year-old
Johnny Turnbull and his sister, Ketheria, are forced to work on the Rings of Orbis, where
Johnny learns he is the first human Softwire,
with a gift to enter any computer via his mind.
The Trapby John Smelcer
In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old
Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known
for brains than brawn, worries about his
missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive,
caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan
winter.
Victoryby Susan Cooper
Molly, upset by her family's move from
London to the U.S., is strangely drawn to an old book about the life
of Admiral Lord Nelson, and soon finds
her life intertwined with that of Sam, a boy her age who
served with Nelson aboard the HMS
"Victory" a century earlier.
The Wright 3by Blue Balliett
In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and
mysterious coincidences, sixth-
graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their
classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous
Robie House from being demolished.
Worldweavers: Gift of Unmage
by Alma Alexander
While attending a school for children without
magical powers, fourteen-year-old
Thea, with the guidance of the mage
Cheveyo, tries to strengthen her
abilities and discovers her true identity.
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