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Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
2009-2010

Division I (grades 3-5)

Winner

Flush

2009 (Division I)
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Annotation:
The Florida Keys. With their father jailed for sinking a gambling boat, Noah Underwood and his sister Abbey gather evidence that casino owner Dusty Muleman is illegally emptying sewage tanks into coastal waters. They receive help from a former card dealer, a pirate, and Dusty's ex-girlfriend. For grades 5-8. 2005.
Available Formats:

  • DB 60792 - Read by Erik Sandvold. Reading time: 7 hours, 23 minutes.
  • BR 17107 - 2 volumes.

Nominees


Division II (grades 6-8)

Winner

Lightning Thief

2009 (Division II)
Author: Rick Riordan
Upstate New York, 2005. Sixth-grader Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon and a mortal mother, attends a summer camp for demigods. After Percy angers Zeus, his friends Grover, a satyr, and Annabeth, daughter of Athena, join him to resolve the problem. For grades 5-8. 2005.
Available Formats:

  • DB 63443 - Read by Erik Sandvold. Reading time: 10 hours, 53 minutes.

Nominees

Champ

Author: Marcia Thornton Jones
Amazon link
NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT


Clementine

Author: Sara Pennypacker
Annotation:
Third-grader Clementine's disastrous week includes cutting her fourth-grade friend Margaret's long hair, chopping off her own hair, and frequenting the principal's office. Her little brother is the easy child, while Clementine, the difficult child, fears that her parents want to get rid of her. For grades 2-4. 2006.
Available Formats:

  • DB 65325 - Read by Kate Kiley. Reading time: 1 hour, 22 minutes.

Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam

Author: Cynthia Kadohata
Annotation:
Vietnam War. Seventeen-year-old Rick Hanski joins a dog-handler program when he enlists. He trains with Cracker, a purebred German shepherd who learns to sniff out bombs, camouflaged traps, and the enemy. Cracker's skills help save many lives–including Rick's. Some violence. For grades 6-9. 2007.
Available Formats:

  • DB 65144 - Read by Alec Volz. Reading time: 6 hours, 41 minutes.

Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat

Author: Lynne Jonell
Amazon link
NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT


Fire from the Rock

Author: Sharon M. Draper
Annotation:
Little Rock, Arkansas; 1957. Fifteen-year-old Sylvia Patterson's normal teenage life is disrupted when she is selected to be part of the first group of African American students to integrate an all-white high school. Everyone has an opinion about what she should do. For grades 6-9. 2007.
Available Formats:

  • DB 67232 - Read by Colleen Delany. Reading time: 6 hours, 52 minutes.

Home of the Brave

Author: Katherine Applegate
Amazon link
NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT


Homework Machine

Author: Dan Gutman
Annotation:
Fifth-grade class geek Brenton figures out how to get his computer to do his homework for him. His mistake is letting his seating group (the class clown, the teacher's pet, and a slacker) in on his secret. For grades 3-6. 2006.
Available Formats:


I’d Tell You I Love You, but then I’d Have to Kill You

Author: Ally Carter
Annotation:
Sophomore Cameron Morgan attends the Gallagher Academy–a girls' school for secret agents, where her mother is the headmistress. On a covert training mission in town, Cammie meets Josh, a cute and ordinary boy, and arranges to see him again. For junior and senior high readers. 2006.
Available Formats:

  • DB 66621 - Read by Erin Jones. Reading time: 6 hours, 25 minutes.

La Linea

Ann Jaramillo NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT


Leepike Ridge

N. D. Wilson NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT


Liberation of Gabriel King

Life as We Knew It

Notes from the Midnight Driver

Sonnenblick


Peak

Smith


Princess Academy

Hale


Rules

Lord


Schooled

Korman


Stone Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard

Asch


Thing About Georgie

Graff


Year of the Dog

Lin


2008-2009
Abby Takes a Stand				McKissack
Day of Tears					Lester

Flush Hiaasen

Gossamer					Lowry
Jackie’s Wild Seattle				Hobbs
Heat						Lupica
Lightning Thief				Riordan
Lunch Money					Clements

Mirror’s Tale Catanese Monsoon Summer Perkins The Penderwicks Birdsall

Phineas L. MacGuire Erupts			Dowell
Princess for a Week				Wright
Project Mulberry				Park
Shackleton’s Stowaway			McKernan
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie			Lubar
*So B. It					Weeks
*  Soldier Boys					Hughes
Punished					Lubar
Three Good Deeds				Vande Velde
  • Titles for mature readers

Title Author 2007-2008

Al Capone Does my Shirts			Choldenko

Bear Named Trouble Bauer Blackwater Ben Durbin Code Talker Bruchac Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie Sonnenblick

  • Emako Blue Woods

Goose Girl Hale Halfway to the Sky Bradley

Ida B.						Hannigan
Last Dog on Earth				Ehrenhaft
Last Shot					Feinstein
Locomotion					Woodson
Made you Look				Roberts
Magician’s Boy				Cooper
Millicent Min, Girl Genius			Yee
Red Kayak					Cummings
Ruby Holler					Creech
Schwa Was Here				Shusterman
Shredderman: Secret Identity			Van Draanen

2006-2007

Airborn					Oppel, Kenneth

Becoming Naomi Leon Ryan, Pam Munoz

Blizzard’s Wake				Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

Boy Who Saved Baseball Ritter, John Bronx Masquerade Grimes, Nikki

  • Buddha Boy Koja, Kathe

Donuthead Stauffacher, Sue Escaping the Giant Wave Kehret, Peg

Gold-Threaded Dress				Marsden, Carolyn

Good Dog Avi Gregor the Overlander Collins, Suzanne Grover G. Graham and Me Quattlebaum, Mary Hawksong Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia Heir Apparent Vande Velde, Vivan Rising Water Peterson, P. J.

  • Soldier X Wulffson, Don

Things Not Seen Clements, Andrew

When the Circus Comes to Town		Yep, Laurence

Word Eater Amato, Mary

World According to Humphrey		Birney, Betty
  • Titles for mature readers

Title Author 2005-2006

Beloved Dearly				Cooney, Doug
Boy at War					Mazer, Harry
City of Ember					DuPrau, Jeanne
Full Tilt					Shusterman, Neal
Gooney Bird Greene				Lowry, Lois
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup			Creech, Sharon

Hoot Hiaasen, Carl

House of the Scorpion				Farmer, Nancy
How Tia Lola Came to Visit/Stay		Alvarez, Julia
Lumber Camp Library			Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie
Mississippi Trial, 1955			Crowe, Chris
Niagara Falls, or Does It?			Winkler, Henry
Once Upon a Marigold			Ferris, Jean	

Pictures of Hollis Wood Giff, Patricia Reilly

Runt						Bauer, Marion Dane
Skeleton Man					Bruchac, Joseph
Speak						Anderson, Laurie Halse
Summer of Riley				Bunting, Eve
Transmogrification of Roscoe Wizzle	Elliott, David
Tyler on Prime Time				Atinsky, Steve

2004-2005

Big Mouth and Ugly Girl			Oates, Joyce Carol
Birchbark House				Erdrich, Louise 

Crossing Jordan Fogelin, Adrian Doing Time Online Siebold, Jan Doll People Martin, Ann M.

Dork in Disguise				Gorman, Carol

Flipped Van Draanen, Wendelin Ghost in Tokaido Inn Hoobler, Dorothy Hope Was Here Bauer, Joan Hush Woodson, Jacqueline Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine Stanley, Diane Never Trust a Dead Man Vande Velde, Vivian No More Dead Dogs Korman, Gordon Nowhere to Call Home DeFelice, Cynthia

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break		Namioka, Lensey

A Week in the Woods Clements, Andrew

Zach’s Lie					Smith, Roland

Title Author 2003-2004

Breadwinner					Ellis, Deborah
Esperanza Rising				Ryan Munoz, Pam
Fever 1793					Anderson, Laurie Halse
Graduation of Jake Moon			Park, Barbara
In the Stone Circle				Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody
King of the Dragons				Fenner, Carol
Kissing Doorknobs				Hesser, Terry
Last book in the Universe			Philbrock, Rodman
Memory Boy					Weaver, Will
Power of Un					Etchemendy, Nancy
Stargirl						Spinelli, Jerry
Touching Spirit Bear				Mikaelsen, Ben

2002-2003

Blackwater					Bunting, Eve
Cougar						Griffith, Helen
Dark Side of Nowhere			Shusterman, Neal
Dovey Cove					Dowell, Frances
Eye of the Great Bear				Wallace, Bell
Ghost of Fossil Glenn				DeFelice, Cynthia
The Girls					Koss, Amy Goldman
Give a Boy a Gun				Strasser, Todd
Homeless Bird					Whelan, Gloria
Jason’s Gold					Hobbs, Will
Rules of the Road				Bauer, Joan
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town	Holt, Kimberly Willis

2001-2002

Alias						Rya, Mary Elizabeth
Armageddon Summer				Yolen, Jane & Bruce Coville
The Door in the Lake				Butts, Nancy
The Kidnappers: A Mystery			Roberts, Wilo Davis
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt			De Young, C. Coco
P.S. Longer Letter Later			Danziger, Paula
Silverwing					Oppel, Kenneth
Slump: A Novel				Jarzyna, Dave
Stones in Water				Napoli, Donna Jo
Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun	Whitmore, Arvella
Whirligig					Fleischman, Paul
Williwaw!					Bodett, Tom

Title Author 2000-2001

Among the Hidden				Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker		DeFelice, Cynthia
Behind the Bedroom Wall			Williams, Laura
Fire Pony					Philbrick, Rodman
Flying Solo					Fletcher, Ralph
Glennis.  Before and After			Calvert, Patricia
Joey Pigza Swallowed a Key			Gantos, Jack
Lone Wolf					Franklin, Kristine
Maze						Hobbs, Will
Shadow Spinner				Fletcher, Susan
Virtual War					Skurzynski, Gloria
Yesterday’s Child				Levitin, Sonia

1999-2000

Alien Game					Dexter, Catherine
Belle Prater’s Boy				White, Ruth
The Chicken Doesn’t Skate			Korman, Gordon
Child of the Wolves				Hall, Elizabeth
Danger Zone					Klass, David
Dangerous Skies				Staples, Suzanne Fisher
Flight 116 is Down				Cooney, Caroline B.
Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd		Farrell, Mame
Music From a Place Called Half Moon	Oughton, Jerrie
Original Freddie Ackerman			Irwin, Hadley
Tangerine					Bloor, Edward
Thunder Cave					Smith, Rolan

1998-1999

Absolutely Normal Chaos			Creech, Sharon
Chevrolet Saturday				Boyd, Candy Dawson
Crash						Spinelli, Jerry
Far North					Hobbs, Will 
Freak the Mighty				Philbrick, W. R.
Frindle						Clements, Andrew
The Girl-Son					Neuberger, Anne E.
Light on Hogback Hill			De Felice, Cynthia
Moon Bridge					Savin, Marcia
Moose Tracks					Casanova, Mary
Stranded					Mikaelsen, Ben
The Watsons Go to Birmingham		Curtis, Christopher Paul

Title Author 1997-1998 Bigger Calvert, Patricia Boggart Cooper, Susan Chelsey and the Green Haired Monster Gorman, Carol Crossing the Starlight Bridge Mead, Alice Fear Place Naylor, Phyllis Frindle Clements, Andrew Magnificant Mummy Maker Woodruff, Elvira Mama, Let’s Dance Hermes, Patricia Mick Harte was Here Park, Barbara Quake! A Novel Cottonwooe, Joe Running Out of Time Haddix, Margeret When Heroes Die Durant, Penny When the Road Ends Thesman, Jean

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