South Carolina Childrens Book Award Nominees

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South Carolina Childrens Book Award Nominees

• 2006-2007

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American Moments Scenes From American History

• By Robert Burleigh
• Explore 18 significant events in American History
  from the first Thanksgiving in 1621 to the Twin
  Towers disaster in 2001.

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Becoming Naomi León

• By Pam Muñoz Ryan
• When Naomis absent mother resurfaces to reclaim
  her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her
  great-grandmother and younger brother in search
  of her father.

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Buttermilk Hill

• By Ruth White
• When her parents start talking about DIVORCE, it
  is Pipers growing interest in and talent for
  poetry that helps her find a voice to say the
  things that are the hardest, and to make an
  important decision about following her own
  dreams.

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Circle Unbroken

• By Margot Thieis Raven
• Now you asked me child, how I come to sew and
  thus begins the story of the sweet grass baskets
  from the Gullah culture of South Carolina. As
  the grandmother tells the story of the baskets
  history, she shares with her granddaughter the
  proud history of the people who brought the
  basket weaving tradition from their native Africa.

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The Ghost of Cutler Creek

• By Cynthia C. DeFelice
• When Allie is contacted by the ghost of a dog,
  she and Dub investigate the surly new boy at
  school and his father, who may be running a puppy
  mill, to see if they are involved.

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The Great Sockathon

• M.C. Delanye
• When 6th grader Sabrina receives an eerie message
  from Eliza Baker, an eleven-year-old girl who
  died in a fall from the big tree on the town
  green more than seventy years before, Sabrina and
  her friends dream up a plan to save the ghosts
  soon-to-be cut down haunt.

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Heartbeat

• By Sharon Creech
• Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of
  life the year that her mother becomes pregnant,
  her grandfather begins faltering, and her best
  friend (and running partner) becomes distant.

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Honeysuckle house

• By Andrea Cheng
• An All-American girl with Chinese ancestors and a
  new immigrant from China find little in common
  when they meet in their fourth grade classroom,
  but they are both missing their best friends and
  soon discover other connections.

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Ida B.

• By Katherine Hannigan
• Home-schooled Ida B likes to have a plan. One
  day, her plan to maximize fun falls apart and not
  only is she sent back to public school, but she
  suffers through many changes and hardships at
  home.

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Knockin On Wood Starring Peg Leg Bates

• By Lynn Barasch
• A picture book biography of Clayton Bates, an
  African-American, born in South Carolina, who
  lost his leg in a factory accident at the age of
  twelve and then went on to become a world famous
  tap dancer.

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Mighty Jackie The Strikeout Queen

• By Marissa Moss
• Jackie Mitchell was a seventeen-year-old pitcher
  for the Chattanooga Lookouts back in 1931. On
  April 2nd of that year, this young lady made
  baseball history by striking out Babe Ruth and
  Lou Gehrig by relying on her famous fathers
  advice to practice hard and win.

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Niagara Falls, or Does It?

• By Henry Winkler
• Fourth-graders Hank, Ashley, and Frankie are
  excitedly preparing for a magic show at the Rock
  'N Bowl when Hank's creative alternative to an
  English essay lands him in detention and grounded
  the week of the show.

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Operation Clean Sweep

• By Darleen Bailey Beard
• In 1916, just four years after getting the right
  to vote, the women of Umatilla, Oregon plan to
  throw the mayor out of office and replace him
  with his wife. When the mayors son Corn
  overhears these plans, he has some serious
  decisions to make.

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Promise to Keep How Jackie Robinson Changed
America

• By Sharon Robinson
• Jackie Robinsons daughter shares her personal
  accounts of her legendary fathers life and work
  on and off the baseball field.

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Rainbow Soup Adventures in Poetry

• By Brian P. Cleary
• An introduction to poetry that uses humorous
  poems, illustrations, and annotations to clarify
  terms and explain different types of poems, such
  as macaronic verse, concrete poems, and
  limericks.

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The Report Card

• By Andrew Clements
• Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the
  fact that she is a genius from everyone because
  all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes
  up with a plan to prove that grades are not
  important, things begin to get out of control.

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Seaward Born

• By Lea Wait
• Thirteen-year-old Michael works on the docks and
  ships in the Charleston Harbor. He longs to sail
  the seas but he knows slaves never have that
  experience. His friend Jim encourages him to run
  away after his mistress dies. Does he dare risk
  everything for a chance for freedom?

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Up the Learning Tree

• By Marcia K. Vaughn
• Share the hopes of a young slave boy named Henry
  Bell who wants to learn more than anything else.
  It was Henrys curiosity that sparked his desire
  to learn to read and nothing would stand in his
  way. With the help of a northern school teacher
  and a beautifully aged sycamore tree, Henry
  realizes his dream.

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The World According to Humphrey

• By Betty G. Birney
• You can learn a lot about life by observing
  another species. Thats what Humphrey was told
  when he was first brought to room 26. And boy, is
  it true!

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The Young Man and the Sea

• By W.R. Philbrick
• After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff
  Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money
  to take care of himself and his father, so he
  undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the
  ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a
  hugh bluefin tuna.