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2008-2009South Carolina Junior Book Award
Nominees
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Bella at Midnightby Diane Stanley
  • Bella's peasant life is changed when her real
    father, a knight who abandoned her when she was a
    baby, comes and reclaims her, moving her to his
    home where she lives with a resentful stepmother
    and two horrible stepsisters and learns about a
    plot to kill her friend, Prince Julian.

3
Black Duckby Janet Taylor Lisle
  • Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of
    how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family
    and his best friend's family were caught up in
    the violent competition among groups trying to
    control the local rum-smuggling trade.

4
Blood on the River Jamestown, 1607by Elisa
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.

5
Blueby Joyce Moyer Hostetter
  • Ann Fay Honeycutt becomes the man of the house at
    age thirteen after her father leaves to fight in
    World War II, forcing Ann to give up her
    childhood and tend to her family, but when a
    polio epidemic strikes, Ann faces the most
    devastating challenge of her life.

6
Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnamby Cynthia
Kadohata
  • A young soldier in Vietnam bonds with his
    bomb-sniffing dog.

7
Crossing the Wireby Will Hobbs
  • Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in
    a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border
    and find work in the United States to support his
    family in central Mexico.

8
Dragons Keepby Janet Lee Carey
  • In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin,
    fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the
    twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has
    much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while
    hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was
    born with that reflects only one of her mother's
    dark secrets.

9
Escape!The Story of the Great Houdiniby Sid
Fleischman
  • A biography of the magician, ghost chaser,
    aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing
    feats are remembered long after his death in
    1926.

10
Green Glass Seaby Ellen Klages
  • While her father works on the Manhattan Project,
    eleven-year-old gadget lover and outcast Dewey
    Kerrigan lives in Los Alamos Camp, and becomes
    friends with Suze, another young girl who is
    shunned by her peers.

11
Hard Hitby Ann Turner
  • A rising high school baseball star faces his most
    difficult challenge when his father is diagnosed
    with pancreatic cancer.

12
Heatby Mike Lupica
  • Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run
    from social services after being banned from
    playing Little League baseball because rival
    coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he
    has no parents to offer them proof.

13
Jumping the Scratchby Sarah Weeks
  • After moving with his mother to a trailer park to
    care for an injured aunt, eleven-year-old Jamie
    Reardon struggles to cope with a deeply buried
    secret.

14
The Mailboxby Audrey Shafer
  • When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his
    uncle's death from the local authorities, he is
    not prepared for what happens when this secret is
    discovered.

15
Oh Rats!The Story of Rats and Peopleby Albert
Marrin
  • Describes rat behavior and survival skills and
    aspects of their relationship with humans,
    including disease, rats as food, rats as pests,
    and the training of rats as rescuers.

16
Sand Dollar Summerby Kimberly Jones
  • When twelve-year-old Lise spends the summer on an
    island in Maine with her self-reliant mother and
    bright--but oddly mute--younger brother, her
    formerly safe world is complicated by an aged
    Indian neighbor, her mother's childhood friend,
    and a hurricane.

17
The Softwire Virus on Orbis 1by PJ Haarsma
  • After being orphaned on the seed ship
    "Renaissance", thirteen-year-old Johnny Turnbull
    and his sister, Ketheria, are forced to work on
    the Rings of Orbis, where Johnny learns he is the
    first human Softwire, with a gift to enter any
    computer via his mind.

18
The Trapby John Smelcer
  • In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old
    Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for
    brains than brawn, worries about his missing
    grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert
    Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his
    own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.

19
Victoryby Susan Cooper
  • Molly, upset by her family's move from London to
    the U.S., is strangely drawn to an old book about
    the life of Admiral Lord Nelson, and soon finds
    her life intertwined with that of Sam, a boy her
    age who served with Nelson aboard the HMS
    "Victory" a century earlier.

20
The Wright 3by Blue Balliett
  • In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents
    and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders
    Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in
    an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous
    Robie House from being demolished.

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Worldweavers Gift of Unmageby Alma Alexander
  • While attending a school for children without
    magical powers, fourteen-year-old Thea, with the
    guidance of the mage Cheveyo, tries to strengthen
    her abilities and discovers her true identity.
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