Young Hoosier Book Award

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Young Hoosier Book Award

• 2006-07

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Winter Peopleby Joseph Bruchac
As the French and Indian War rages in October
of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy,
pursues the English rangers who have attacked his
village and taken his mother and sisters hostage.
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Red Kayakby Priscilla Cummings

• Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern
  Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best
  friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a
  tragedy which tests their friendship and their
  ideas about right and wrong.

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High Heatby Carl Deuker

• When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested
  for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the
  star pitcher's life of affluence and private
  school begins to fall apart.

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The Sea of Trollsby Nancy Farmer

• After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard,
  he and his little sister Lucy are captured by
  Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King
  Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen,
  leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to
  Jotunheim, home of the trolls.

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The Big Nothingby Adrian Fogelin

• A middle-schooler struggles to cope with major
  family problems, including a brother who might be
  heading for the Persian Gulf, but finds an escape
  in piano lessons and the dream of a romance with
  a popular girl.

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Technically, Its Not My Fault Concrete
Poemsby John Grandits

• This graphically inventive sequence of concrete
  poems, printed in red and black on white, mimes
  an 11-year-old's sarcastic perspective.

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Abduction!by Peg Kehret

• Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of
  foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old
  brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted,
  and she becomes involved in a major search effort
  as well as a frightening adventure. Matt is
  missing. Bonnie's brother left his classroom to
  use the bathroom --and disappeared. A police dog
  traces his scent to the curb, where he apparently
  got into a vehicle. But why would Matt go
  anywhere with a stranger? Overwhelmed with fear,
  Bonnie discovers that her dog is gone, too. Was
  Pookie used as a lure for Matt? Bonnie makes one
  big mistake in her attempt to find her brother.
  In a chilling climax on a Washington State ferry,
  Bonnie and Matt must outsmart their abductor or
  pay with their lives.

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Here Todayby Ann M. Martin

• In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the
  family to pursue her dream of becoming an
  actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes
  charge of her younger siblings, while also trying
  to deal with her outcast status in school and
  frightening acts of prejudice toward the
  "misfits" that live on her street.

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How I found the Strong by Margaret McMullan

• Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could
  have gone with his father and brother to fight
  for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his
  experiences with the war and his changing
  relationship with the family slave, Buck, change
  his thinking.

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An American Plagueby Jim Murphy

• No one noticed -- "All was not right" -- Church
  bells tolling -- Confusion, distress, and utter
  desolation -- "It was our duty" -- The prince of
  bleeders -- "By twelve only" -- "This unmerciful
  enemy" -- "A delicate situation" -- Improvements
  and the public gratitude -- "A modern-day time
  bomb."

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The Teachers Funeralby Richard Peck

• In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old
  Russell's dream of quitting school and joining a
  wheat threshing crew is disrupted when his older
  sister takes over the teaching at his one-room
  schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls
  off and dies."

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Young Man and the Seaby Rodman 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
  huge bluefin tuna.

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Ghost Girl A Blue Ridge Mountain Storyby
Delia Ray

• Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President
  and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison
  County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty,
  grief over the accidental death of her brother,
  and other problems may mean that April can never
  learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss
  Vest.

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Boy Who Saved Baseballby John H. Ritter

• The fate of a small California town rests on the
  outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher
  hopes to lead his team to victory with the
  secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del
  Gato

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Promises to Keepby Sharon Robinson

• A biography of baseball legend Jackie Robinson,
  the first African American to play in the major
  leagues, as told by his daughter. Sharon Robinson
  shares memories of her famous father in this
  loving biography of the man who made history by
  breaking the color barrier in baseball -- and
  taught his children that the only measure of life
  is the impact you have on others' lives. Promises
  To Keep is the story of Jackie Robinson's
  hard-won victories in baseball, business,
  politics, and civil rights. It looks at the
  inspiring effect the legendary Brooklyn Dodger
  had on his family, his community ... his country.
  Told from the unique perspective of Robinson's
  only daughter, this intimate and uplifting book
  includes photos from the Robinson family archives
  and family letters never before published. Jackie
  Robinson is one of our great national heroes.
  Promises To Keep reminds us what

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Becoming Naomi Leonby Pam Munoz Ryan

• When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim
  her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-
  grandmother and younger brother in search of her
  father.

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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boyby Gary
Schmidt

• In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of
  Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he
  meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor,
  nearby island community founded by former slaves
  that the town fathers--and Turner's

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Cabin on Trouble Creekby Jean Van Leeuwen

• In 1803 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to
  finish the log cabin and guard the land while
  their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch
  their mother and younger siblings. Annotation.
  Wolves, bears, and a heavy snowstorm are just
  some of the dangers that Daniel and Will must
  face-alone. It's 1803, and the boys and their
  father have recently arrived in Ohio , following
  the promise of rich farmland.nbsp After clearing
  enough forest to build a log cabin, Pa sets off
  for Pennsylvania to fetch the rest of the family,
  while eleven-year-old Daniel and nine-year-old
  Will stay behind to watch the land. Pa had
  planned to return within five or six weeks - but
  something must have gone terribly wrong. Now the
  boys must survive the winter with only an axe,
  two knives, a sack of cornmeal, and-most
  important of all-their ability to invent and
  improvise. But are they truly alone in the woods?
  

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Chu Jus Houseby Gloria Whelan
In order to save her baby sister,
fourteen-year- old Chu Ju leaves her rural home
in modern China and earns food and shelter by
working on a sampan, tending silk worms, and
planting rice seedlings, while wondering if she
will ever see her family again.

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Blue Fingers A Ninjas Taleby Cheryl Whitesel

• Having failed apprenticeship as a dye maker, Koji
  is captured and forced to train as a ninja, where
  he remains disloyal until he discovers samurai
  have burned his former village.

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Credits

• Reviews were taken  Carmel Clay Public Library
  Children's Dept.
• Book covers are from the
• Barnes and Noble
• website.