Kentucky Bluegrass Award NominationsGrades 68

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Kentucky Bluegrass Award NominationsGrades 6-8

• 2008-2009

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Like MAGIC, ADVENTURE, NONSTOP ACTION??

• Are you . . . missing Harry Potter?
• Ready for something new?
• Wanting a new series to read?

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The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
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Like Realistic Fiction?

• Have you ever felt like your life is a total
  mess?
• Do you like to laugh while reading a book?
• Do you like stories with characters you can
  believe in get to know like a friend?

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BEAUTY SHOP FOR RENTby Laura Bowers
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Ever wish you were part of another family?

• Your parents ever yell at you for no real reason
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• Ever put you down call you names
• Unknowingly take out their frustrations on you?

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CALL ME HOPEby Gretchen Olson
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Like war stories?

• Adventure?
• Realistic stories about dogs?
• Are you interested in the Vietnam War?

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CRACKER THE BEST DOG IN VIETNAMby Cynthia
Kadohata
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Like suspense . . . mystery?

• Want a book that will keep you up
• at night . . .
• One you cant put down until you figure out
  whats really going to happen?
• Have you read other Caroline Cooney books?

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DIAMONDS IN THE SHADOWby Caroline Cooney
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Like Historical Fiction?

• Interested in the Civil War?
• Like Christopher Paul Curtis books
• BUD NOT BUDDY
• WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM
• BUCKING THE SARGE?

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ELIJAH OF BUXTONby Christopher Paul Curtis
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Are you a sports fan?

• Like football?
• Have one sports celebrity you think of as your
  hero?
• Want to read a young adult novel actually written
  by a former NFL defensive end?

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FOOTBALL GENIUSby Tim Green
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Ever lose someone you love?

• Lose a parent through death or divorce?
• Miss their crazy sense of humor the little
  things you did together?
• Want a book that will make you laugh AND cry at
  the same time?

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FRANNIE IN PIECESby Delia Ephron
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Ever have premonitions that come true?

• Do you wonder why you feel like youre different
  from everyone else in your family?
• Do you ever wonder about secrets from your
  familys past?
• Do you have an older sibling you drives you
  insane?

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HIROSHIMA DREAMSby Kelly Easton
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Like Gary Paulsen books?

• If you liked these humorous stories
• HOW ANGEL PETERSON GOT HIS NAME
• HARRIS AND ME
• MOLLY McGINTY HAS A REALLY GOOD DAY
• Then youll love his new book . . .

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LAWN BOYby Gary Paulsen
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Did you like ALABAMA MOON?

• Want another great adventure . . .
• Survival . . . near-death experiences . . .
• A book you cannot put down?

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LEEPIKE RIDGEby N.D. Wilson
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Want to know what it feels like to

• Survive a 7.2 magnitude earthquake?
• Live through a tsunami?
• Become an adult overnight?
• (And. . . this book is based on a TRUE story!)

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NIGHT OF THE HOWLING DOGSby Graham Salisbury
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Imagine being the youngest person to climb Mt.
Everest!

• 29,000 frozen, rocky feet to the top
• Temperatures that drop so low your fingers will
  frost bite in less than two seconds
• The possibility of suffering from HAPE (mountain
  sickness) where your lungs fill with fluid, you
  cant breathe, you go into a coma, and then you
  die!

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PEAKby Roland Smith
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Ever take the time to look at whats going on in
the BACKGROUND of a picture?

• Ever have a family member leave you to fight in a
  war?
• Ever discover that things youve believe in your
  entire life arent really as they seem?

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SHOOTING THE MOONby Frances ORoark Dowell
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Do you throw trash out the window of a car or
from a moving boat?

• Ever wonder what happens to all of that trash
• Youd be amazed to really find out!

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TRACKING TRASH FLOTSAM, JETSAM, AND THE
SCIENCE OF OCEAN MOTIONby Loree Griffin Burns