| Helen Ruffin
Reading Bowl Middle School Booklist |
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Georgia Children's
Book Award Nominees for 2009-2010
Middle School Level
All 20 titles of Georgia Book Award Nominees are used for
the Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Middle School Division
for 2009-2010 school term. |
Berlin,
Eric (2007). THE PUZZLING WORLD OF WINSTON BREEN.
Putnam
Winston Breen loves solving puzzles; and when his sister
uncovers a twenty-five-year-old scavenger hunt--which leads
to a ring worth thousands of dollars--he and his family jump
at the opportunity to solve it.
http://ericberlin.com/ |
Blume,Lesley
M. M. (2007THE RISING STAR OF RUSTY NAIL Knopf.
In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early
1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take
advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous
Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by
gossipy members of the community.
http://www.lesleymmblume.com/ |
Bruchac,
Jospeh (2007). BEARWALKER HarperCollins.
Although he is the littlest student in his class,
thirteen-year-old Baron Braun calls upon the strength and
wisdom of his Mohawk ancestors to face both man and beast
when he tries to get help for his classmates, who are being
terrorized during a school field trip in the Adirondacks
http://www.josephbruchac.com/ |
Crowley,
Suzanne (2007.THE VERY ORDERED EXISTENCE OF MERILEE
MARVELOUS.HarperCollins.
In the small town of Jumbo, Texas, thirteen-year-old
Merilee, who has Asperger's Syndrome, tries to live a "very
ordered existence," but disruptions begin when a boy and his
father arrive in town and the youngster makes himself a part
of the family.
http://www.suzannecrowley.com/ |
Curtis,
Christopher Paul (2007).ELIJAH OF BUXTON. Scholastic.
Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in
Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the
American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to
bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money
that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
http://http://www.randomhouse.com/features/christopherpaulcurtis/welcome.htm/
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Easton,
Kelly (2007). ). HIROSHIMA DREAMS. Penguin.
Lin O'Neil, a talented but shy girl growing up in
Providence, Rhode Island, develops a close relationship with
her Japanese grandmother, who shares Lin's gift of
precognition.
http://www.kellyeaston.com/ |
Fleishman,
Sid (2008). THE ENTERTAINER AND THE DYBBUK .
HarperCollins.
A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II
Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young
Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Includes author's note
which details the murder of over one million children by the
Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.
http://www.sidfleischman.com/ |
Fogelin,
Adrian (2007). THE SORTA SISTERS Peachtree .
In Florida, Anna Casey lives with what she hopes is the last
in a long line of foster mothers, and Mica Delano lives with
her father on their small boat, and when the two of them
begin corresponding, they discover they have a lot in
common.
http://www.adrianfogelin.com/ |
Green,
Tim (2007). FOOTBALL GENIUS. HarperCollins.
Troy, a sixth-grader with an unusual gift for predicting
football plays before they occur, attempts to use his
ability to help his favorite team, the Atlanta Falcons, but
he must first prove himself to the coach and players
http://www.timgreenbooks.com/
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Haddix,
Margaret P. (2007).UPRISING. Simon & Schuster
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs.
Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the
Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working
conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the
lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's
daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical
notes.
http://www.haddixbooks.com/
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Hahn,
Mary D. (2007 DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS Houghton
Mifflin.
When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt
and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon
a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over
thirty years
http://www.carr.org/authco/hahn.htm/
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Lichtman,
Wendy (2007). DO THE MATH: SECRETS, LIES AND ALGEBRA..
HarperCollins.
Tess has always loved math, and she uses mathematical
concepts to help her understand things in her life, so she
is dismayed to find out how much math--and life--can change
in eighth grade.
http://www.wendylichtman.com/
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Mills,
Claudia (2006).)TRADING PLACES. Farrar.
When fifth-grade twins, Amy and Todd, tackle a school
project, they also have to cope with issues of friendship at
school and problems at home, including their father's
unemployment.
http://www.claudiamillsauthor.com/
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Nitz,
Kristen W. (2007). SAVING THE GRIFFIN.Peachtree.
When eleven-year-old Kate and her younger brother Michael
encounter a baby griffin in an Italian garden, they vow to
help the creature find its way back home and to keep
Griffo's existence a secret.
http://www.kwnitz.com/
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O'Connor,
Barbara (2008).)GREETINGS FROM NOWHERE. . Farrar
In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy
and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and
his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the
run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and
are transformed by their shared experiences.
http://www.barboconnor.com/
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Porter,
Tracey (2007)BILLY CREEKMORE. HarperCollins.
One day a stranger comes to claim Billy Creekmore from the
Guardian Angels Home for Boys; and he embarks on a
cross-country journey in search of his past, his future, and
his own true self.
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/12608/Tracey_Porter/index.aspx/
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Schmidt,
Gary D (2007.THE WEDNESDAY WARS Clarion.
During the 1967 school year,on Wednesday afternoons when all
his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school,
seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's
classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare
and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives
in.
http://www.calvin.edu/publications/spark/2006/spring/schmidt.htm/
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Wilson,
N.D. (2007).LEEPIKE RIDGE.Random House.
While his widowed mother continues to search for him,
eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down
a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground
caves with another survivor and a dog, and pursued by
murderous treasure-hunters.
http://www.ndwilson.com/ |
Wolf,
Joan M. (2007).SOMEONE NAMED EVA . Houghton Mifflin.
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942,
eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed
children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper
Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while
she remembers her true name and history.
http://http://www.jmwolf.com/someonenamedeva.html/
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Woodson,
Jacqueline (2007).FEATHERS .Putnam.
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins
her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's
growing friendship with him makes her start to see some
things in a new light.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/tnc/mtai/woodson.html/
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