2. Voting
In order to vote, children must have read
vote
or listened to at least three titles.
Voting is in March
March.
Online voting is available and
recommended. d d
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promotional materials and vote reporting.
4. The 100 Year Old Secret
by T
b Tracy Barrett
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Upon arriving in London with
their
th i parents, 12-year-old
t 12-year- ld
Xena and her younger
brother Xander discover that
they are related to Sherlock
Holmes and are heirs to his
unsolved cases. They set out
to solve a case of a missing
portrait with the help of
Watson’s great-great-great
great-great-
grandson.
grandson
5. The Trouble with Rules
by Leslie Bulion
With the help of her best
h h h l fh b
friend, Nick, and the new
girl,
girl Summer Crawford,
Crawford
fourth grader Nadine
Rostraver learns there are
some “rules” that need to
be broken, especially one
that says girls and boys
can’t be best friends.
6. Women Daredevils: Thrills, Chills
and Frills
by Julia Cummins
Short chapters and bright,
lively illustrations tell of ten
amazingly courageous and
daring women at the turn
of the 20th century who did
stunts on airplanes, were
shot from cannons, tamed
tigers, and leaped from
amazing heights.
7. Obi, Gerbil on the Loose
by Michael Delaney
Adventures begin when Obi
d b h b
Wan Kenobi, a gerbil named
after the Jedi knight in Star
Wars, has to break out of her
"apartment" cage to find food
apartment
after her owner Rachel and her
family leave on vacation and
Tad, the pet sitter, does not
know she's there in the house
with three cats a snake a
cats, snake,
tarantula, a dog and a parrot.
8. Kenny and the Dragon
by Tony DiTerlizzi
Kenny, an oddball in his
town, finds a best friend
in a Dragon. When news
Dragon
reaches townspeople that
a dragon is loose, they
g , y
want him killed. Kenny
must find a way to save
the Dragon while making
the townspeople believe
he has been killed.
9. The Gollywhopper Games
by Jody Feldman
Life has been hard since Gil
Goodson’s father lost his job
at the Golly Toy and Game
Company after being falsely
accused of embezzlement, so
Gil trains for the Gollywhopper
games, a multi-task contest of
trivia, puzzles and physical
,p p y
challenges, in hopes of
winning enough money for the
family t
f il to get a new start.
t t t
10. Eleven
by Patricia Giff
Eleven-year-
Eleven-year-old,
dyslexic Sam, who often
suffers f
ff from fl hb k
flashbacks
and the fear of the
number 11, enlists
11
Caroline, a good reader,
to help him obtain and
p
read an old newspaper
clipping to discover his
mysterious past.
11. All the Lovely Bad Ones:
A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Banned from their summer
camp, twelve year old Travis
and his younger sister Corey
spend their summer at their
g
grandmother’s bed and
breakfast. After Corey reads
an article about the inn that
says it i haunted, the two of
is h t d th t f
them set out to scare up
more business for their
grandmother.
12. Swindle
by Gordon Korman
Eleven year old Griffin
Bing is “The Man with
the Plan” and when he
is cheated out of a Babe
Ruth baseball card it will
take Griffin’s greatest
plan ever and a specially
chosen team of kids to
get it back.
13. Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School
and Other Scary Things
d Oth S Thi
by Lisa Schlitz
Alvin Ho, who has no
trouble talking at
home, is unable to
say a single word at
school and must
figure out how to
make friends, survive
school, and act like a
gentleman.
tl
14. Too Much Flapdoodle
p
by Amy MacDonald
Parker, twelve-year-
Parker a twelve-year-old city
kid who lives for his cell
phone, internet and video
games, fi d himself fly-
finds hi lf fly-
fl
fishing, splitting wood,
feeding animals, dealing with
bullies and all the other
“flapdoodle” at his eccentric
Great
G t-aunt M tti ’ and
Great- t Mattie’s d
Great-
Great-uncle Philbert’s funny
farm while his o e -
a e s over
over-
protective parents are on
vacation.
15. Boys Are Dogs
by
b Leslie Ma golis
Margolis
Annabelle is starting sixth-
sixth-
grade at a new co-ed school
co-
because her mother has
moved them in with her
boyfriend. F h
b f i d For her cooperation i
with the move, Annabelle is
given an unruly puppy, which
she now has to train. Not
knowing how to deal with the
teasing f
t i from b boys, AAnnabelle
b ll
starts using a firm voice and
simple commands on boys at
school-
school- and it works!
16. When the Wolves Returned: Restoring
Nature s
Nature’s Balance in Yellowstone
by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
The wolves have returned to
Yellowstone and with their
return have brought a restored
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ecosystem which was severely
damaged when, beginning in
1872,
1872 hunters were allowed to
kill off the wolf population.
Color photos highlight the
natural splendor and healthy
wildlife that has reemerged in
our first national park with the
reintroduction of the wolves.
17. The Mysterious Case of the
Allbright Academy
by Diane Stanley
Eighth-
Eighth-grader Franny
and her friends probe
dh fi d b
why most of the
students at their elite
boarding school are
b a t, beaut u ,
brilliant, beautiful,
and perfectly
behaved.
18. Nurk:
Nurk: The Strange, Surprising Adventures
of a (Somewhat) Brave Shrew
by Ursula Vernon
A letter addressed to his
adventuresome grandmother
brings out the curiosity and
bravery of Nurk, a quiet little
y Nurk, q
shrew, and sends him on a
quest to rescue the
dragonfly prince from the
terrible Grizzlemole.
Grizzlemole.
19. The Floating Circus
g
by Tracie Zimmer
Twelve-year-
Twelve-year-old Owen declines
an orphan train that’s headed
west only to find himself falling
in with a completely surprising
group of eccentrics—circus
eccentrics—
performers on th River Palace.
f the Ri P l
As this floating circus makes its
way down the Mississippi
Mississippi,
Owen slowly discovers that his
fellow workers aren’t freaks, ,
but loners, like he is.
