2009-2010

Maud Hart Lovelace

Book Nominees

Riley struggles to make

his father proud,

despite his poor athletic

abilities, but when he

meets Champ, a three-

legged former show

dog, Riley learns that

winning doesn't always

have to mean coming in

first.

Frustrated at her

seeming lack of talent

for anything, a young

Taiwanese American

girl sets out to apply the

lessons of the Chinese

Year of the Dog, those

of making best friends

and finding oneself, to

her own life.

While sorting through

difficulties in her

friendship with her

neighbor Margaret,

eight-year-old

Clementine gains

several unique

hairstyles while also

helping her father in his

efforts to banish

pigeons from the front

of their apartment

building.

Georgie's dwarfism

causes problems, but

he could always rely on

his parents, his best

friend, and classmate

Jeanie the Meanie's

teasing, until a

surprising

announcement, a new

boy in school, and a

class project shake

things up.

Kek, an African

refugee, is confronted

by many strange things

at the Minneapolis

home of his aunt and

cousin, as well as in his

fifth-grade classroom,

and longs for his

missing mother, but

finds comfort in the

company of a cow and

her owner.

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.

Gabriel, a white boy

who is being bullied,

and Frita, an African-

American girl facing

prejudice, decide to

overcome their many

fears together as they

enter fifth grade in

Georgia in 1976.

Four fifth-grade

students--a geek, a

class clown, a teacher's

pet, and a slacker--as

well as their teacher

and mothers, each

relate events

surrounding a computer

programmed to

complete homework

assignments.

Self-proclaimed genius

inventor Alex decides to

build a cardboard spaceship

to escape his annoying little

brother.

Frustrated at life with

an autistic brother,

twelve-year-old

Catherine longs for a

normal existence but

her world is further

complicated by a

friendship with an

young paraplegic.

While attending a strict

academy for potential

princesses with the other

girls from her mountain

village, fourteen-year-old

Miri discovers unexpected

talents and connections to

her homeland.

When Emmy discovers

that she and her

formerly loving parents

are being drugged by

their evil nanny with

rodent potions that can

change people in

frightening ways, she

and some new friends

must try everything

possible to return things

to normal.

Text and Images found at:

http://www.flr.follett.com/

on Sept. 14, 2009