Show Me Readers Award

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Show Me Readers Award

• 2014-2015 Nominees
• Get Ready to Vote!

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Helens Big World The Life of Helen Keller

• Author Doreen Rappaport

A biography about the life of Helen Keller who
lost her ability to see and hear at an early age
due to an illness. Annie Sullivan became Helens
teacher and taught her how to speak using her
hands, write using a special board and read using
braille.
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Creepy Carrots!

• Author Aaron Reynolds

Jasper Rabbit loves carrotsespecially
Crackenhopper Field carrots. He eats them on the
way to school. He eats them going to Little
League. He eats them walking home. Until the
day the carrots start following him...or are they?
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Some Cat!

• Author Mary Casanova

SLIDESHOW
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I Need My Own Country

• Author Rick Walton

This story follows a girl who decides she wants
to live on her own in her room so she creates her
own country. As the story progresses you see her
realizing that having others around is not so bad.
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One Cool Friend

• Author Toni Buzzeo

BOOK TRAILER
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The Quiet Place

• Author Sarah Stewart

When Isabel and her family move to the United
States, Isabel misses all the things she left
behind in Mexico, especially her Aunt Lupita and
hearing people speak Spanish. But she also
experiences some wonderful new things--her first
snow storm and a teacher who does not speak
Spanish but has a big smile. Even better, Papa
and her brother Chavo help her turn a big box
into her own quiet place, where she keeps her
books and toys and writes letters to Aunt Lupita.
As she decorates and adds more and more on to her
quiet place, it is here that Isabel feels the
most at home in her new country while she learns
to adjust to the changes in her life.
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Each Kindness
Author Jacqueline Woodson
Chloe and her friends won't play with the new
girl, Maya. Every time Maya tries to join Chloe
and her friends, they reject her. Eventually Maya
stops coming to school. When Chloe's teacher
gives a lesson about how even small acts of
kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by
the lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks
about how much better it could have been if she'd
shown a little kindness toward Maya.
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The House on Dirty-Third Street

• Author Jo S. Kittinger

A mother and child move into an old house and are
overwhelmed by the repairs necessary. They both
learn that when you reach out, you can find help
for yourself and others as well as a real sense
of home.
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Lost and Found

• Author Bill Harley

When Justin loses the special hat his grandmother
made for him, he looks everywhere he can think of
to find it. Everywhere, that is, except the lost
and found. Mr. Rumkowsky, the old school
custodian, is the keeper of all the lost and
found items, and everyone is afraid of him.
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Jangles a Big Fish Story

• Author David Shannon

BOOK TRAILER
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V O T E

• Circle the book you think should win the 2014-15
  Show Me Award.
• Only one!
• The GBE winner will be announced soon!
• The official Show Me Award winner will be
  announced in April.