KY Bluegrass Nominees 09-10

OKH Middle School:

_Every Soul a Star_  Wendy Mass

_Game_ Walter Dean Myers

_The Great Wide Sea_  Madaline Herlong

_A Horse of Her Own_  Annie Wedekind

_Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka_  Jon Scieszka

_Savvy_  Ingrid Law

_Scat_  Carl Hiaasen

_The Trails of Kate Hope_  Warwick Downing

_Trouble_ Gary Schmidt

_Waiting for Normal_ Leslie Connor

_Ways to Live Forever_ Sally Nichols

Additions

_The Day of the Pelican_ by Katherine Paterson

_The Other Half of Life_ by Kim Whitney

_Road to Tater Hill_ 

New Candidates

A Season of Gifts, by Richard Peck

Carolina Harmony, by Marilyn Taylor McDowell

Heart of a Shepherd, by Rosanne Parry

The Year the Swallows Came Early, by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

Marcelo in the Real World, by Francisco X. Stork

Anything but Typical, by Nora Raleigh Baskin

When the Whistle Blows, by Fran Cannon Slayton 

Irene told her to add When You Reach Me and Calpurnia Tate.

I have read _The Year the Swallows Came Early_.

This list comprises another blog's list.

Any thoughts?

Rebekkah's Journey

_Rebekkah's Journey_

is a World War ll refugee's story.

900 men, women, and children

were housed in an army base

in Oswego, New York as the

war was drawing to a close.

A lovely picture book

this heart wrenching story

about Rebekkah journey

and stay at the camp is

a worthy read by Ann

Burg.

A Winner

_all the broken pieces_ is a winner.

Ann Burg wrings your heart.

Let's hear some chatter.

When the Whistle Blows

This the first selection for the 2009

Mock Newbery. It is a winner...

a good read for the Halloween season.

Please submit candidates for the

upcoming list. We will cull the

list down to 6 finalists.

Comments please.

Crossing Stones and WildGirl

Started Crossing Stones at Mom's house, ordered it from my own library system when I got home. Can't wait to get lost in it...want to finish WildGirl by Patricia Reilly Giff first. Wow, can she write children's POV! That frustration, not wanting to be treated like a baby---all that emotion is right there from the first page. I had to keep wiping my eyes to get on with the story---I gotta stop reading in public! Can you imagine that there are people in the world who don't cry over books? I'm not sure they're anyone I'd want to spend time with...

National Book Award for Young People's Literature: Finalists

National Book Award finalists.

Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith (Henry Holt)

Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

David Small, Stitches (W. W. Norton & Co.)

Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)

Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)

Anybody want to weigh in on these? I'm gonna guess my library has at least one of them.

The 2009 Very Good Sticker

After the votes were cast for the 2008 Very Good Sticker (Hunger Games winner, Diamond Willow honor), names were tossed on the pile for 2009 starting with When the Whistle Blows by Fran Cannon Slayton. 

Pat has a clear front-runner in All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg.