Volunteer State Book Award Nominations

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Volunteer State Book Award Nominations 2009-2010 G
rades 7-12

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• Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled
  school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to
  attend an all-white farm town school where the
  only other Indian is the school mascot.

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• After a shark attack causes the amputation of
  her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring
  artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss
  and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life
  and her plans for the future.

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• Raised by a great-grandmother and a bunch of
  beauty shop buddies, fourteen-year-old Abbey
  resolves to overcome her unhappy childhood and
  disillusionment with the mother who deserted her.

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• 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 dragons claw she was
  born with that reflects only one of her mothers
  dark secrets.

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• Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live,
  high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill
  his greatest fantasies, ponders his lifes
  purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams
  with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."

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• Fisher Brown, a sixteen-year-old over-achiever,
  is on the verge of academic burnout when he
  impulsively decides to stop cramming for the SATs
  for one weekend and accompany his neer-do-well
  neighbor to an out-of-town job repairing a roof.

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• After spending over four years in a mental
  institution for murdering a friend in Alaska,
  fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new
  life in Indiana with his father and stepmother
  under a different name, but not only has trouble
  fitting in, he finds there are still problems to
  deal with from his childhood.

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• In Manhattan in 1899, five teens of different
  social classes lead dangerously scandalous lives,
  despite the strict rules of society and the
  best-laid plans of parents and others.

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• 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 bosss
  daughter, was only five years old.

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• While salvaging and rebuilding in the aftermath
  of the Galveston flood of 1900, sixteen-year-old
  Seth proves himself in a way that his previous
  efforts never could, but he still must face his
  father man-to-man.

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• Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her
  sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares
  Sarens years of punishment locked in a tower,
  then brings her safely to the lands of her true
  love, where both must hide who they are as they
  work as kitchen maids.

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• As a new sophomore at an exclusive boarding
  school, a young black man is witness to the
  persecution of another student with bad acne.

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• In 1950s Tennessee, ten-year-old Davids racist
  father refuses to let him associate with his best
  friend Malcolm, an African American boy.

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• After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon
  leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to
  an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the
  outside world he has never known and making good
  friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new
  life.

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• While working on a bee project for her advanced
  biology class, quiet high school senior Dana
  reflects on her relationship with gorgeous best
  friend Avra and Avras boyfriend Emil, whom Dana
  secretly loves.

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• Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda
  describes her familys struggle to survive after
  a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide
  tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

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• In 1975, eleven Boy Scouts, their leaders, and
  some new friends camping at Halape, Hawaii, find
  their survival skills put to the test when a
  massive earthquake strikes, followed by a
  tsunami.

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• During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday
  afternoons when all his classmates go to either
  Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader
  Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Bakers classroom
  where they read the plays of William Shakespeare
  and Holling learns much of value about the world
  he lives in.

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• A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the
  youngest person to reach the top of Mount
  Everest.

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• After being assigned to perform community
  service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex
  befriends a cantankerous old man who has some
  lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing,
  love, and forgiveness.

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• In his senior year, high school star linebacker
  Hampton Greene finally begins to think for
  himself and discovers that he might be interested
  in more than just football.

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• Grady, a transgendered high school student,
  yearns for acceptance by his classmates and
  family as he struggles to adjust to his new
  identity as a male.

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• From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in
  1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other
  blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland
  to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by
  German families, but all the while she remembers
  her true name and history.

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• In the three years since her father caught her
  in the back seat of a car with an older boy,
  sixteen-year-old Deannas life at home and school
  has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of
  escaping with her brother and his family, she
  discovers the power of forgiveness.

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• After a nasty fall, Naomi realizes that she has
  no memory of the last four years and finds
  herself reassessing every aspect of her life.

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