Minnesota Student Choice Book Award 2005-2006

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Minnesota Student Choice Book Award 2005-2006
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Maud Hart Lovelace

• 1892 1980
• Grew up near Mankato, Minnesota
• Famous for Betsy- Tacy books

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Guidelines for Nominees

• Nominated by students, teachers, and librarians
• Author is living and resides in North America
• Available in paperback
• Published in the past 5 years
• Cannot be part of a series

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Guidelines for students

• Be in 3rd 8th grade
• Read at least 3 of the nominated books by March 21

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2005-2006 Maud Hart Lovelace Nominations
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• Ernie, 12 years old, is a business tycoon
• Starts a pet funeral business
• Hires friends to help Dusty decorates burial
  boxes Tony digs holes Swimming Pool cries
  on cue
• Humorous story with lesson on friendship

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• Lina and Doon 12 year olds who have finished
  school and now have been assigned jobs as a
  Messenger and a Pipeworker
• Feel their city is dying and seek to find a way
  out
• Mystery and adventure story which takes place in
  the year 241

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• Gooney Bird Greene, 2nd grader, loves to be
  center of attention
• New student at Watertower Elementary School
• Entertains her teacher and classmates with
  absolutely true stories about herself
• Very humorous

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• Rosie, 12 years old, needs help in working out
  problems with her best friend, Bailey
• Bailey is nearly blind and lives next door to
  Rosie
• Granny helps Rosie and Bailey make things right
  by telling stories and sharing family recipes

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• Miguel, 10 years old, has just moved to Vermont
  from New York City with his mother and younger
  sister
• Embarrassed when his aunt from the Dominican
  Republic, Tia Lola, moves in with them
• Tia Lola doesnt speak English dresses and acts
  in strange ways
• In time, she has way of winning his love through
  her special treats and influence to help him make
  the baseball team

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• Ruby, oldest of 10 children, wants to be teacher
• When her father dies in lumberjack accident, she
  must quit school and stay home to help with
  younger brothers and sisters
• Ruby struggles to accept her fathers death and
  her dream of being a teacher

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• Hank Zipzer, 4th grader, has learning disability
• Acts as class clown to hide his academic
  difficulties
• Hates to write, so decides instead of writing an
  essay on Niagara Falls, he will make a model
• Unfortunately things dont go quite as planned
  when he presents it and he finds himself in
  detention for a week

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• Hollis Woods is 12 year old orphan
• Has lived in many foster homes most were not
  good experiences
• Strongly desires to be adopted by one of her
  former foster families
• Finally placed in a foster home with a retired
  art teacher who needs Hollis as much as Hollis
  needs her
• Learns to give as well as receive

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• Runt smallest wolf cub in pack
• His father is embarrassed by him, so Runt
  continually tries to prove himself
• In doing so, always makes mistakes which only
  earn his fathers disapproval
• Can he finally do something worthy of his
  fathers love??

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• William, 11 years old, gets to adopt a dog, Riley
• Riley helps William get over his grandfathers
  death
• Riley is taken away to be killed because he
  chases and attacks neighbors horse
• Can William save Riley?

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• Roscoe, 10 years old, eats at same fast food
  restaurant every day for 10 days
• Begins to turn into giant bug
• Lots of humor and adventure as he tries to
  discover why

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• Tyler, 12 years old, wants to be TV star
• While visiting his uncle, a writer on the most
  popular TV show, he auditions for a part
• His dream just might come true, but he learns
  that the road to fame is full of surprises

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• Adam, living near Honolulu, is excited to be
  going fishing with his friends one Sunday morning
• While out on the boat, the boys witness Japanese
  planes flying overhead and attaching the U.S.
  Navy on 12/7/41
• Adam searches for answers about his friends and
  war as he searches for his father who was a Navy
  Lieutenant on the Arizona

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• Blake, 16 years old, afraid of roller coasters
• Quinn, Blakes fearless brother who sometimes
  goes too far
• Blake has to enter bizarre phantom carnival to
  save Quinn
• In order to escape, Blake must survive 7 deadly
  rides in one night
• Scary fantasy which moves along at a fast pace

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• Roy is new kid at middle school in Florida
• Joins up with teenage runaway, Mullet Fingers,
  and his sister, Beatrice, to protect nesting
  ground of burrowing owls
• Mystery/adventure story which includes greedy
  developers, corrupt politicians, clueless cops,
  and wacky middle-schoolers

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• Matt is young clone of El Patron, a 142 year old
  leader of a corrupt drug empire in Mexico
• Most clones are despised by humans, but Matt
  enjoys special status
• That status is because Matt is to be the heart
  donor when El Patron needs a new heart to
  continue living
• Can Matt avoid his own death?

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• Hiram, 16 years old, loves living in Mississippi
• Cant understand why his dad refuses to have a
  relationship with Hirams grandfather and wants
  to move his family out of the South
• During a summer visit back in Mississippi, Hiram
  finds himself disagreeing with his grandfather
  over the murder of a 14 year old African American
  boy
• Historical fiction

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• Christian, who loves to invent things, is being
  raised by a troll
• Observes beautiful princess from afar and falls
  in love
• Leaves home to try and meet the princess, but
  discovers plot against her and her father
• Can Christian outwit the evil Queen Olympia?

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• Mollys parents disappear one night
• She is turned over to the custody of a great
  uncle who tries to sedate and poison her
• She dreams an old Mohawk story of a Skeleton Man
• Through her dreams she finds a way to save her
  own life

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Voting

• Takes place March 21
• Rush Creek winner announced on March 23
• State-wide winner announced April 25th (Maud-Hart
  Lovelaces birthday)

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Previous Winners Include

• 2005 Doll People / Zachs Lie
• 2004 Touching Spirit Bear / In the Stone
  Circle
• 2003 Dovey Coe / Ghost of Fossil Glen
• 2002 - Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun /
  Silverwing
• 2001 - Among the Hidden / Million Dollar Shot
• 2000 Tangerine / Danger in the Desert
• 1999 Crash / Frindle
• 1998 - Mick Harte was Here
• 1997 - The Devils Arithmetic / Summer I Shrank
  My Grandmother