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| Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Middle School Booklist |
| Georga Children's Book Award Nominees for 2009-2010 |
| Georgia Children's Book Award Nominees for 2009-2010Middle 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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