Great Stone Face Books 20082009

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Great Stone Face Books2008-2009
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The Great Stone Face Book Award is sponsored by
the Children's Librarians of New Hampshire
(CHILIS) and is given each year to an author
whose book receives the most votes from fourth
through sixth graders throughout the state. Each
year a committee chooses 25 recently published
titles, which children then use as a guide for
voting. The vote takes place every April during
National Library Week, and the winner is
announced in May. The purpose of the award is to
promote reading enjoyment, to increase awareness
of contemporary writing, and to allow children to
honor their favorite author.
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• Introducing the..
• 25 new titles on the
• Great Stone Face
• book award list.

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My last best friend

• by Julie Bowe
• After her best friend moves away, fourth-grader
  Ida May is determined not to make another best
  friend, despite the efforts of a new girl in her
  class.

Listen!
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The Lacemaker and the princess  

• by Kimberly Bradley
• In 1788, eleven-year-old Isabelle, living
  with her lacemaker grandmother and mother near
  the palace of Versailles, becomes close friends
  with Marie Antoinette's daughter, Princess
  Therese, and finds their relationship complicated
  not only by their different social class but by
  the growing political unrest and resentment of
  the French people. 

Listen!
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The Bearwalker

• by Joseph Bruchac
• Although the littlest student in his class,
  thirteen-year-old Baron Braun calls upon the
  strength and wisdom of his Mohawk ancestors to
  face both man and beast when he tries to get help
  for his classmates, who are being terrorized
  during a school field trip in the Adirondacks.

Listen!
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No talking

• by Andrew Clements
• The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon
  Elementary School challenge the equally loud
• fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
  But the fun really begins when the teachers learn
  about their challenge!

Listen!
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Igraine the Brave

• by Cornelia Funke
• The daughter of two magicians,
  twelve-year-old Igraine wants nothing more than
  to be a knight, and when their castle is attacked
  by a treacherous neighbor bent on stealing their
  singing magic books, Igraine has an opportunity
  to demonstrate her bravery.

Listen!
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Virus on Orbis 1 Softwire

• by PJ Haarsma
• When twelve-year-old Johnny and his sister
  arrive to the planet Orbis in a space ship
• of orphans, he finds he has a unique ability
  to communicate with computers.

Listen!
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Black book of secrets

• by F.E. Higgins
• When Ludlow Fitch runs away from his thieving
  parents in the City, he meets up with the
  mysterious Joe Zabbidou, who calls himself a
  secret pawnbroker, and who takes Ludlow as an
  apprentice to record the confessions of the
  townspeople of Pagus Parvus, where resentments
  are many and trust is scarce.

Listen!
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Emmy and the incredible shrinking rat

• by Lynne Jonell
• When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly
  loving parents are being drugged by their evil
  nanny with rodent potions that can change people
  in frightening ways, she and some new friends
  must try everything possible to return things to
  normal.

Listen!
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Diary of wimpy kid

• by Jeff Kinney
• Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a
  middle school where he and his best friend,
  Rowley, are undersized weaklings amid boys who
  need to shave twice daily. They hope just to
  survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg
  must take drastic measures to save their
  friendship.

Listen!
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Schooled

• by Gordon Korman
• Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother,
  Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched
  television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a
  wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the
  hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a
  guidance counselor and attend the local middle
  school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing
  and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him
  for public school.

Listen!
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Skulduggery Pleasant

• by Derek Landy
• When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her
  weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with
  Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save
  the world from the Faceless Ones.

Listen!
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Nightmare Academy

• by Dean Lorey
• Rescued from a very sheltered life,
  thirteen-year-old Charlie learns that the
  monsters of his nightmares are real when he
  becomes a student at Nightmare Academy. There he
  begins training to harness his powers to fight
  terrible creatures and return them to the
  Netherworld.

Listen!
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The book of lies

• by James Moloney
• On the night he was brought to an orphanage,
  Marcel's memories were taken by a sorcerer and
  replaced with new ones by his Book of Lies, but
  Bea, a girl with the ability to make herself
  invisible, was watching and is determined to help
  him discover his true identity.

Listen!
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Lawn Boy

• by Gary Paulsen
• Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old
  boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his
  summer lawn mowing business.

Listen!
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On the wings of heroes

• by Richard Peck
• A boy in Illinois remembers the home-front
  years of World War II, and especially his two
  heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his
  father, who fought in the previous war.

Listen!
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The Big One-Oh

• by Dean Pitchford
• Determined not to be weird all his life like
  his neighbor, Charley Maplewood decides to throw
  himself a tenth birthday party, complete with a
  "house of horrors" theme, but first he will have
  to make some friends to invite.

Listen!
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Billy Creekmore

• by Tracey Porter
• In 1905, ten-year-old Billy is taken from an
  orphanage to live with an aunt and uncle he never
  knew he had. He enjoys his first taste of family
  life until his work in a coal mine and
  involvement with a union brings trouble. Then
  he joins a circus in hopes of finding his father.

Listen!
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Paint the wind

• by Pam Munoz Ryan
• After her overprotective grandmother has a
  stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely
  restricted life in California to stay with her
  mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch. There
  she discovers a love of horses and encounters a
  wild mare that her mother once rode.

Listen!
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White giraffe

• by Lauren St. John
• After a fire kills her parents,
  eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to
  live with her grandmother on a wildlife game
  reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a
  mythical white giraffe.

Listen!
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The Mailbox

• by Audrey Shafer
• When twelve-year-old Gabe tries to hide his
  uncle's death from the local authorities, he is
  not prepared for what happens when this secret is
  discovered.

Listen!
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Elephant Run

• by Roland Smith
• Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more
  after his British father's plantation in Burma is
  invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his
  father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is
  stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring
  escape on elephants, risking their lives to save
  Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese
  prisoner of war camp.

Listen!
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Dragons Egg

• by Sarah Thomson
• Mella, a young girl trained as a dragon
  keeper, learns that the legends of old are true
  when she is entrusted with carrying a dragon's
  egg to the fabled Hatching Grounds, a dangerous
  journey on which she is assisted by a knight's
  squire.

Listen!
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A crooked kind of perfect

• by Linda Urban
• Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the
  piano but must resign herself to learning the
  organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a
  positive impact on her workaholic mother, her
  jittery father, and her school social life.

Listen!
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The Shadow Thieves

• by Anne Ursu
• After her cousin Zee arrives from England,
  thirteen-year-old Charlotte and he must set out
  to save humankind from denizens of the
  underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really
  nasty guy named Phil.

Listen!
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Leepike Ridge

• by N. D. Wilson
• While his widowed mother continues to search
  for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after
  drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped
  in a series of underground caves with another
  survivor and a dog, and pursued by murderous
  treasure-hunters.

Listen!
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. and thats 25!now all you have to do is.
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Elementary Library Services Monadnock Regional
School District August 2008
Podcasts courtesy of Nancy Keane http//nancykean
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