Young Hoosier Book Award Nominees 2011-2012
PICTURE BOOKS
NOTE: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library,
Fort Wayne, Indiana
| CALL # |
AUTHOR |
TITLE |
DATE |
| JER WILLE |
Willems, Mo |
Are You Ready to Play Outside?
Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do. |
2008 |
| JE AYLES |
Aylesworth, Jim |
The Mitten
A retelling of the traditional tale of how a boy's lost mitten becomes a refuge from the cold for an increasing number of animals. |
2009 |
| JE BROWN |
Brown, Peter |
The Curious Garden
Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city. |
2009 |
| JE BRUEL |
Bruel, Nick |
Little Red Bird
After escaping from her cage to see the world, a little red bird finds it difficult to decide whether to stay free or to go home and never fly again. |
2008 |
| JE COCCA |
Cocca-Leffler, Maryann |
Princess K.I.M. and the Lie that Grew
After new girl Kim tells her classmates she is from a royal family, her lie grows and grows. |
2009 |
| JE CRISP |
Crisp, Marty |
Titanicat
A boy who has signed on as cabin boy aboard the Titanic helps ready the ship for its maiden voyage, but when it is time to set sail and he cannot find the ship's cat on board, he leaves the vessel to search for her. |
2008 |
| JE FUCIL |
Fucile, Tony |
Let's Do Nothing!
Frankie and Sal have run out of things to do: "We've played every sport ever invented" and "baked enough cookies to feed a small country--" Then Sal hits upon a solution: "Let's do nothing!" How hard could that be? |
2009 |
| JE HARPE |
Harper, Jamie |
Miss Mingo and the First Day of School
Miss Mingo helps all of the animal students in her class overcome their shyness on the first day of school by encouraging them to share something special about themselves. Includes facts about animals. |
2006 |
| JE HEIDE |
Heide, Florence Parry |
Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated)
Princess Hyacinth is bored and unhappy sitting in her palace every day because, unless she is weighed down by specially-made clothes, she will float away, but her days are made brighter when kite-flying Boy stops to say hello. |
2009 |
| JE HELAK |
Helakoski, Leslie |
Big Chickens Fly the Coop
"Finding the farmhouse is no picnic for this pack of panicky poultry! The four big chickens are all cooped up when their dream is to see the farmhouse--so they set out in search of it..."--publisher. |
2008 |
| JE LIES |
Lies, Brian |
Bats at the Library
Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do. |
2008 |
| JE PALAT |
Palatini, Margie |
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes
Retells the fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway. |
2009 |
| JE PAUL |
Paul, Chris |
Long Shot: Never Too Small to Dream Big
Although he is shorter than most of his classmates and everyone discourages him from trying out for the basketball team, eight-year-old Chris just works harder than everyone else so his size will not matter. |
2009 |
| JE ROSEN |
Rosenthal, Amy Krouse |
Duck! Rabbit!
Is it a duck or a rabbit? Depends on how you look at it! |
2009 |
| JE SPINE |
Spinelli, Eileen |
Peace Week in Miss Fox's Class
For "Peace Week," the animals in Miss Fox's class find ways to be peaceful instead of squabbling with each other. |
2009 |
| JE VANDU |
Van Dusen, Chris |
Circus Ship
When a circus ship runs aground off the coast of Maine, the poor animals are left on their own to swim the chilly waters. Staggering onto a nearby island, they soon win over the wary townspeople with their kind, courageous ways. |
2009 |
| JE WRIGH |
Wright, Maureen |
Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep!
As winter comes and Big Bear prepares to hibernate, he keeps thinking he hears Old Man Winter giving him exhausting orders that prevent him from sleeping. |
2009 |
| J591.43 |
Stewart, Melissa |
Under the Snow
A journey through the fields, forests, ponds and wetlands to see how animals survive in the snowy winter months, and when the sun's rays grow stronger, join all the animals as they get ready for springtime. |
2009 |
| J811.54 LEWIS |
Lewis, J. Patrick |
Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles
|
2009 |
| JB C835YA |
Yaccarino, Dan |
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau
A picture book biography of the famous under-sea explorer. |
2009 |
INTERMEDIATE BOOKS
| CALL # |
AUTHOR |
TITLE |
DATE |
| J COMICS GRAPHICS SECRE-SC |
Davis, Eleanor |
Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook
Eleven-year-old Julian Calendar thought changing schools would mean leaving his "nerdy" persona behind, but instead he forms an alliance with fellow inventors Greta and Ben and works with them to prevent an adult from using one of their gadgets for nefarious purposes. |
2010 |
| J BIRNE |
Birney, Betty G. |
Surprises According to Humphrey
While continuing to help his classmates solve their problems, Humphrey, pet hamster of Longfellow School's Room 26, faces many surprises, like rolling in a hamster ball, a substitute janitor who might be an alien, and the possibility of Mrs. Brisbane retiring. |
2008 |
| J CLEME |
Clements, Andrew |
Lost and Found
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one. |
2008 |
| J LINN |
Linn, Grace |
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River. |
2009 |
| J LUPIC |
Lupica, Mike |
Two-Minute Drill
Brainy Scott, a great kicker who otherwise struggles with football, and star quarterback Chris, who has dyslexia, team up to help each other succeed in both football and school. |
2007 |
| J MARTI |
Martin, Ann M. |
Everything for a Dog
In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own. |
2009 |
| J MASS |
Mass, Wendy |
11 Birthdays
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again. |
2009 |
| J NAYLO |
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
Faith, Hope and Ivy June
During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June and Catherine share their lives, homes, and communities, and find that although their lifestyles are total opposites they have a lot in common. |
2009 |
| J PAULS |
Paulsen, Gary |
Mudshark
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark. |
2009 |
| J PRINE |
Prineas, Sarah |
The Magic Thief
A young thief is drawn into a life of magic and adventure after picking the pocket of the powerful wizard Nevery Flinglas, who has returned from exile to attempt to reverse the troubling decline of magic in Wellmet City. |
2008 |
| J SALIS |
Salisbury, Graham |
Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet
Nine-year-old. Calvin catches the attention of the school bully on the day before he starts fourth grade, while at home, the unfriendly, fifteen-year-old daughter of his mother's best friend has taken over his room. |
2009 |
| J SANTO |
Santopolo, Jill |
The Nina, the Pinta, and the Vanishing Treasure
When the entire Christopher Columbus exhibit disappears from the local museum, fourth-grade sleuth-in-training Alec Flint investigates, aided by his new classmate and potential partner, Gina, who wants his help looking into the disappearance of a teacher. |
2008 |
| J SNYDE |
Snyder, Laurel |
Any Which Wall
In the middle of an Iowa cornfield, four children find a magic wall that enables them to travel through time and space. |
2009 |
| J535.3 BARTO |
Barton, Chris |
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand New Colors
|
2009 |
| J741.51 STURM |
Sturm, James |
Adventures in Cartooning
|
2009 |
| J811 HARRI |
Harrison, David L. |
Pirates: Poems
|
2008 |
| J973.3115 WINTE |
Winters, Kay |
Colonial Voices: Hear them Speak
|
2007 |
| J974.71 RAPPA |
Rappaport, Doreen |
Lady Liberty: A Biography
|
2008 |
| JB R2594NE |
Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux |
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshall
|
2009 |
| JB F237KR |
Krull, Kathleen |
The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
This picture-book biography explains how Farnsworth held on to his dream to develop television and the scientific concepts behind it. |
2009 |
MIDDLE GRADE BOOKS
| CALL # |
AUTHOR |
TITLE |
DATE |
| J BURG |
Burg, Ann E. |
All the Broken Pieces
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past. Written in verse. |
2009 |
| J BURG |
Burg, Shana |
A Thousand Never Evers
As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963--and violence against African Americans intensifies--the black residents, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, in the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice. |
2008 |
| J COCHR |
Cochrane, Mick |
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team,
which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps
in other aspects of her life, as well. |
2009 |
| J GRATZ |
Gratz, Alan |
The Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings
Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845,
as they experience American life and play baseball. |
2009 |
| J HADDI |
Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
Found
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a
plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have
uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric
of time. |
2008 |
| J HIAAS |
Hiaasen, Carl |
Scat
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a
Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing. |
2009 |
| J KEHRET |
Kehret, Peg |
Runaway Twin
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall
to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from
whom she was separated at age three. |
2009 |
| J KIDD |
Kidd, Ronald |
Year of the Bomb
In 1955 California, as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Paul discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent determined to find communists at a nearby university or on the movie set. |
2009 |
| J KORMA |
Korman, Gordon |
Schooled
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television,
tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap
is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. |
2007 |
| J SLAYT |
Slayton, Fran Cannon |
When the Whistle Blows
Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers. |
2009 |
| J STEWA |
Stewart, Trenton Lee |
The Mysterious Benedict Society
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission
that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where
the only rule is that there are no rules. |
2007 |
| J WILLI |
Williams, Suzanne |
Bull Rider
When his older brother, a bull-riding champion, returns from the Iraq War partially paralyzed,
fourteen-year-old Cam takes a break from skateboarding to enter a bull-riding contest, in hopes of
winning the $15,000 prize and motivating his depressed brother to continue with his rehabilitation. |
2009 |
| YA FICTION BODEE |
Bodeen, S. A. |
The Compound
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built
by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother
and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all. |
2008 |
| YA FICTION DEUKE |
Deuker, Carl |
Gym Candy
Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the only thing that has ever really
mattered to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries
to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life. |
2007 |
| YA FICTION FROST |
Frost, Helen |
Crossing Stones
In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences
during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school,
and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage. |
2009 |
| YA FICTION HOUTS |
Houts, Michelle |
The Beef Princess of Practical County
Twelve-year-old Libby, the daughter of an Indiana cattle farmer, raises two calves
in hopes of winning the annual steer competition at the county fair, but fails to follow her
father's warning about developing a bond with animals that are destined to be sold at auction. |
2009 |
| YA FICTION PAULS |
Paulsen, Gary |
Notes from the Dog
When Johanna shows up at the beginning of summer to house-sit next door to Finn, he has no idea of the profound effect she will have on his life by the time summer vacation is over. |
2007 |
| J970.01 MANN |
Mann, Charles C. |
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491
This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's
best-selling 1491. |
2009 |
| J973.0496 NELSO |
Nelson, Scott Reynolds |
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry
|
2008 |
| JB C726H |
Hoose, Phillip M. |
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Contents: First cry -- Jim Crow and the Detested Number Ten -- Coot --
"We seemed to hate ourselves" -- "It's my constitutional right!" --
"There's the girl who got arrested" -- "Crazy" Times -- "Another Negro woman has been arrested"
-- Second front, second chance -- Playing for Keeps -- Browder v. Gayle -- Rage in Montgomery --
History's Door. |
2009 |
WEB RESOURCES
Indiana Library Federation's Young Hoosier Book Award Website
http://www.ilfonline.org/index.php?submenu=About_YHBA&src=gendocs&ref=AboutYHBA&category=YHBA
Young Hoosier Book Award Winners
http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/children/yhbawinners.html
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