Featured New Titles in the Youth Services Department
Monarch Award Nominees 2010 | Rebecca Caudill Nominees 2010
The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2010 Master List
Monarch Nominee titles are on the Monarch Shelf in the Batavia Public Library, Youth Services Department.
Recess at 20 Below
by Cindy Lou Ailland
Max’s Words
by Kate Banks
I Lost My Tooth In Africa
by Penda Diakite
The Gingerbread Girl
by Lisa Campbell Ernst
The Little Red Hen
by Jerry Pinkney
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly
by Alan Madison
Once I Ate a Pie
by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest
The Cheese
by Margie Palatini
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal:
A Worldwide Cinderella
by Paul Fleishman
My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks: And Other Funny Family Portraits
by Haznoch Piven
The Perfect Nest
by Catherine Friend
Chicken and Salsa
by Aaron Reynolds
Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle
by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
A Day with No Crayons
by Elizabeth Rusch
What to Do About Alice
by Barbara Kerley
Scaredy Squirrel
by Melanie Watt
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
by Lenore Look
Baa-Choo!
by Sarah Weeks
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2010 Master List
Caudill Nominee titles are on the Caudill Shelf in the Batavia Public Library, Youth Services Department
The Naked Mole Rat Letters by Mary Amato When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship. (Grades 4-6)
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as his fifth grade classroom. He longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner. (Grades 4-8)
Shark Girl by Kelly L. Bingham After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future. (Grades 7-8)
Shooting the Moon by Frances O’Roark Dowell When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in once she develops film her brother has sent home to her from the war zone. (Grades 5-8)
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, events were set in motion that led to nonviolent boycotts, marches, and walks -- resulting in the civil rights movement and major social changes throughout the nation. (Grades 4-8)
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly acquires an object that has the power to either save or destroy her kingdom. (Grades 5-8)
The Thing About Georgie: A Novel by Lisa Graff At just three-and-a-half feet tall, Georgie’s dwarfism causes problems at home and school, that’s for sure. But a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project come together to really shake things up. (Grades 4-6)
All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn While spending the summer at their grandmother’s Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn’s distant past that refuse to “rest in peace.” (Grades 4-8)
Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads north in an attempt to “cross the wire” from Mexico into the United States so he can find work and send money home. (Grades 5-8)
Kimchi & Calamari by Rose Kent Adopted from Korea by Italian parents, fourteen-year-old Joseph Calderaro begins to make important self-discoveries about race and family after his social studies teacher assigns an essay on cultural heritage and tracing the past. (Grades 4-8)
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless, locked box, set aside by his father before his death five years earlier, that supposedly contains the meaning of life. (Grades 5-8)
The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo A young journalist goes to Venice, Italy to interview a famous violinist, who tells the story of his parents’ incarceration by the Nazis, and explains why his family can no longer listen to the music of Mozart. (Grades 5-8)
A Small White Scar by K.A. Nuzum Fifteen-year-old Will Bennon rides away from the responsibility of his father’s ranch to try his hand at rodeo riding, but his mentally-disabled twin brother unexpectedly follows him on his journey. (Grades 5-8)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt On Wednesday afternoons when all of his Catholic and Jewish classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker’s classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the mid-1960s world he lives in. (Grades 5-8)
Elephant Run by Roland Smith After his father’s teak plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941 and his father is taken prisoner, Nick is forced to work on the plantation as a servant. As the danger escalates, Nick and his friend Mya plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick’s father and Mya’s brother from a Japanese POW camp. (Grades 4-8)
The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave her home in England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe. (Grade 4-6)
First Light by Rebecca Stead When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father’s scientific research, Peter stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagined possible. (Grades 5-8)
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren TarshisA quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers. (Grades 4-7)
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 nervous father, and her school social life. (Grades 4-7)
Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with the other blond, blue-eyed children from her town to a school in Poland to be trained as “proper Germans” for adoption by German families. (Grades 5-8)
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