2008-2009 Virginia Reader’s Choice for

Middle School

and new National Media Award Books Overview

Virginia Reader’s Choicefor 2008-2009

H A T T I E B I G S K Y by Kirby Larson

2007 Children’s Book of the Year 2007 Newbery Honor 2007 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for

Young People Montana Book Award Homesteading Act of 1910 Orphans Montana History WWI Journalism / Newspapers Spanish Influenza Anti-German bigotry & discrimination Small Town USA Genealogy / Ancestors Missing Adult Household Head Death

The Mailbox by Audrey Shafer

2007 Children’s Book of the Year Draydon, Virginia Foster home care Death Extended Families Traditional / Nontraditional Families Small Town USA Vietnam War Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Letter Writing Genealogy / Ancestry Missing Adult Household Head

BL UE by Joyce Hostetter

Polio Epidemic Racial Discrimination North Carolina Hickory’s Camp WWII Victory Gardens Youth as household head FDR Death The color / symbolism of

Blue

The Loud Silence of FRANCINE FRANCINE GREENGREEN by Karen Cushman

Conformity Catholic School Experience Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Stars of Yesteryears:

Montgomery Clift, Hopalong Cassidy,

Joseph McCarthy The Red Scare / Blacklisting Freedom of Speech Five and Dime Stores Malt Shops The Cold War

SURVIVING SURVIVING ANTARCTICAANTARCTICA by Andrea White

2007 Young Adult Choices Public School Systems / DOE School Choice School Funding Issues Robert F. Scott’s Antarctica

Exploration Survival 21st Century Learner Reality TV New World Orders Environmental Disasters Overpopulation Couch Potatoes / power of TV Distant Learning Ecology Eskimo Tribal Groups Wizard of Ozisms

ADAM CANFIELD of the

SLASH by Michael Winerip

2008 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award

Journalism Public School Funding &

misuse Freedom of Speech Morality: Social/Ethical Qs Rights/Responsibility Rules Deception Standardized Testing Socio-Economic Groupings Magnet Schools

HitleR’S CANAR by

Sandi Toksvig

Danish Resistance Movement 1943 Exodus

WWII Concentration Camps Racism Nonviolent vs. Violent

Resistance Jewish Holidays

Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur

Y

BLACK DUCK by Janet Taylor Lisle

2007 Best Book for Young Adults 2007 Notable Social Studies Trade

Books for Young People 2007 Rhode Island Children’s Book of

the Year 2007 Julie Ward Howe Young Readers

Award America’s Privilege Class Gangster Prohibition

Rumrunners Journalism Economics

Overspending Stock market Crash

AIRBORN by Kenneth Oppel

Canada’s Governor General Award School Library Journal Best Book ALA Notable Children's Book NY Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2005 Michal L. Printz Honor Award Bulletin Blue Ribbon ALA Best Books for Young Adults Airships / Blimps

The Hindenburg The Goodyear Blimp

Hot Air Balloons Trade winds

Altitude (600 feet / 75 miles per hour) Pirates Fairies Darwinism

Theory of Evolution Unknown Species

Geographic Regions Victorian-like etiquette, mannerisms, and

references Feature length film, under the direction of

Stephen Sommers, slated for 2008 release (3/16/08)

LA LÍNEA by Ann Jaramillo

2007 America’s Honor Award for Children’s YA Literature

2007 Children’s Books of the Year

2007 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

Immigration Illegal Aliens Mexican/American Border Issues

North American Economics

2008-2009 ALA National Media

Awards

John Newbery Award Medal Most Distinguished Young Adult Book

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval

Village

by Laura Amy Schlitz

Thirteenth-century England 21 dramatic individual narratives

that introduce young inhabitants of medieval village and manor

Uses monologues and dialogues to tell the story

Theatrical-like presentation

Newbery Honor Awards

The Wednesday Wars by

Gary Schmidt

7th Grader Hollin Hoodhood

Thinks his teachers hate him

Wednesday Shakespeare Sessions – “To thine own self be true.”

Elijah of Buxton by Paul Curtis

1860 1st free-born

child in Buxton, Canada

Hero

Feathers by Jacqueline

Woodson 6th Grade Breaking down

the barriers that separate people

The Caldecott Award for Distinguished illustration in Children’s Fiction

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

By Brian Selznick A story in words and

pictures Paris, 1931 Orphan Paris Underground Secret Invention

The Batchelder Award for outstanding foreign books translated to English

Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe

Graphic Novel format Main character falls

into electronic game world

Experiences causes him to change his real world

Belpré Award for outstanding Latino story by Latino

writer /illustrator The Poet Slave of Cuba: A

Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle, illustrated

by Sean Qualls   a collection of haunting

poems illuminates the daily terror

and hypocrisy of the slave system Punishment for reading and

writing

Schneider Family Award for the most outstanding book that expresses the disability experience of a child/adolescent

Reaching for Sun by Tracie Vaughn

Zimmer Written in lyrical free

verse Josie’s thirteenth

year Cerebral palsy Interpersonal

relationships

Printz Award for outstanding portrayal of diversity in race, culture, socio-economics, and religion

The White Darkness by

Geraldine McCaughrean Shy fourteen-year-old Sym misfit weirdo Imaginary friend Peer Bullying Survival Thriller a love story unsentimental portrait of present

day Antarctica society Orphan Polar Exploration

Printz Honor Awards

Dreamquake(Frances Foster) by Elizabeth Knox

Government involvement in manipulation of dreams for control and/or brainwashing

Your Own,Sylvia:

A Verse Portrait of

Sylvia Plath (Knopf) by

Stephanie Hemphill

Poetry based on the life of the poet Sylvia Plath

One Whole and

Perfect Day

(Front Street) by Judith Clarke

Family relations Prejudices Aussie culture

Repossessed (HarperCollins)

by A. M. Jenkins

Fallen angel leaves Hades

Possesses 17 year old

Coretta Scott King Award for outstanding books by African American authors and illustrators

Elijah of Buxton by Paul Curtis

1860 Slavery The Underground Railroad Blacks in Canada 1st free-born child in

Buxton (Ontario), Canada Hero Genealogy

Coretta Scott King Honor Awards

November Bluesby Sharon M. Draper Sequel to “The Battle of Jericho” Teen Pregnancy Hazing in fraternity and gang

initiation High School graduation Quest for college scholarships

Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Aliwritten by Charles R. Smith Jr.illustrated by Bryan Collier

The life of Muhammad Ali told in rhyme

Includes direct Ali quotes

These books are not yet available for use in the Marie Holland Library…but all titles have been ordered.