NOMINEES FOR THE YEAR 2007
Annotated by members of the Book Award
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Buttermilk Hill, by Ruth
White.
Grades 3-6
Ten year old Piper leads a happy, carefree life until her
parents’ arguing gets worse and they talk about divorce. She makes a new friend in Bucky, who has his
own hardships to get through.
Chicken Boy, by Frances
O’Roark Dowell.
Grades 4-6
Chickens! Aren’t
things bad enough for Tobin with family feuds, fights at school and his
grandmother arrested? Along comes this
new kid with his brother and his chickens saying you can learn a lot from a
chicken.
Each Little Bird that Sings, by Deborah Wiles.
Grades 3-6
No
one knows more about death than ten year old Comfort Snowberger! She has been to 247 funerals! That is because her family owns the town
funeral home. She can deal with
death. What she cannot deal with is her
obnoxious cousin Peach who throws temper himself into coffins and cries so hard
at funerals he throws up on other people’s shoes. Then Comfort’s world begins to
change…
Elephant in the Backyard, by Richard Sobol.
Grades 3-4
Have you ever wanted a large pet?
Well, in the
End of the Beginning, by Avi
Grades 3-6
Escape to
Grades 5-6
Set
in 1961
Forbidden Schoolhouse, by Suzanne
Jurmain.
Grades 5-6
How would you feel if you were told that you couldn’t go to
school? What would you do if you were
bullied and someone tried to burn down your school? Prudence Crandall knew what to do!
The Goat Lady, by Jane
Bregoli.
Grades 3-5
When the neighbors look at the farmhouse, all they see is a
rundown building with unruly animals and a messy yard. Two children discover the special person who
lives there and change their neighbors’ minds.
I Could Do That: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote, by Linda White.
Grades 3-4
So, you think tea parties are times when lady friends sit around
sipping tea and eating cookies! Well,
Esther invites men to her tea party to discuss a very important question. Esther’s “can do” attitude
helps her through many difficult times.
Last
Grades 4-6
Hart Evans doesn’t suspect when he shoots a rubber band at his
chorus teacher that he will be put in charge of the entire holiday
concert. Can he run a class? How will his classmates react? How will the concert turn out?
Liberation of Gabriel King, by K.L. Going.
Grades 4-6
Gabe and Frita are best friends, one white and one black, and
growing up in 1976 in
The Penderwicks, by Jeanne
Birdsall.
Grades 3-6
Lazy summer days drift by as four sisters explore the mansion next
to their rental cottage and try to rescue the curious boy inside.
Project Mulberry, Linda Sue
Park.
Grades 4-6
Julia just can’t convince the author to write this story the
way she wants it to go, so both she and best friend Patrick have secrets that
their silk worm project will bring out into the open.
Queen Sophie Hartley, by
Stephanie Greene.
Grades 5-6
Sophie has discovered what she can’t do, but what is she
good at? Her mom shows her she is kind,
even though it’s not easy being kind to a grouchy old lady, or the weird
new girl at school.
Right Dog for the Job, by Dorothy
Hinshaw Patent.
Grades 3-6
Ira was not born to just any dog.
To become a service dog, Ira must learn how to retrieve dropped keys,
press a wheelchair sign to open doors, turn on light switches with his nose,
sit quietly in loud distracting places, and do many other difficult tasks.
Shakespeare's Secret, by Elise
Broach.
Grades 5-6
Hero hates moving. Things become
intriguing when she learns a million dollar necklace may be hidden in her new
house and the most popular boy in school wants to solve the mystery of its
disappearance with her.
Space Station Rat, by Michael
Daley.
Grades 3-5
Rat escapes the lab only to find she has to run away onto a space
ship, and now must use her superior intelligence any way she can. Jeff, bored and tired of being cared for by a
robot, is pleased when he meets a new friend online, a pen-pal with a lavender
coat and a love of Swiss cheese…
Stink: the incredible shrinking kid, by Megan McDonald.
Grades 3-4
Stink, the younger brother of Judy Moody, is three feet eight
inches tall and shrinking. Life in grade
two is full of big adventures with a newt and President James Madison of all
things.
Tales from Gizzard's Grill, by Jeanne Steig.
Grades 3-5
Cowboys, horse thieves, divining rods and an old-fashioned duel,
this time with feet! Join the cast of
characters in Gizzard’s Grill as they rhyme through their daily
adventures.
Zen Shorts, by Jon J.
Muth.
Grades 2-6
Karl spots a bear with an umbrella in the
back yard and that is how he and his brother and sister are introduced to
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