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What Mrs. Ganahl is reading......
I'm working my way through the 2009 - 2010 South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominees this summer. These are the titles I've read so far... (for the full list see the Book Award link to the left)
The Big Field
Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems
The Boy Who Dared
Elephant Run
Fire From the Rock
Leepike Ridge
Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff
Schooled
When I Crossed No-Bob
Peak by Roland Smith
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
The angel experiment by James Patterson
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix.
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.
Reincarnation by Suzanne Weyn
When a young couple dies in prehistoric times, their love--and link to various green stones--endures through the ages as they are reborn into new bodies and somehow find a way to connect.
Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.
Reaching for sun by Tracie Vaugh Zimmer
Josie, who lives with her mother and grandmother and has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind her old farmhouse.
Breaking dawn by Stephenie Meyer
"The twilight saga"--Continues the story of the human Bella and the vampire Edward whose love is threatened by their difference, a werewolf named Jacob, and other outside influences.
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman
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.
Blood on the river : James Town 1607 by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.