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HONOR BOOKS: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. |
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River. |
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The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party. |
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Notes From the Dog by Gary Paulsen When Johanna shows up at the beginning of summer to house-sit next door to Finn, he has no idea of the profound effect she will have on his life by the time summer vacation is over. |
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The Last Newspaper Boy in America by Sue Corbett Wil's paper route is canceled when a large newspaper stops delivery to Wil's small town, but with the help of his clueless brother, a neighborhood friend, and the basic principles of physics, Wil finds a way to save his route and help his customers. |
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All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past. |
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Also Known as Harper by Ann Haywood Leal Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman. |
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Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to become a writer, relates what his life is like as he tries to make sense of his world |
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Burn My Heart by Beverley Naidoo While the Mau Mau rebellion threatens the British settlers living in Kenya during the 1950s, Mathew and Mugo maintain their friendship, despite their different races, but during these tense times, a single act of betrayal could alter everything. |
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Carolina Harmony by Marilyn Taylor McDowell Carolina, having escaped from a foster home and living with Mr. Ray and Miss Latah on Harmony Farm, refuses to talk about the events surrounding the deaths of her parents and younger brother, and befriends a troubled runaway who she secretly feeds and takes the blame for his pranks. |
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The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America. |
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The Devil’s Paintbox by Victoria McKernan In 1866, fifteen-year-old Aidan and his thirteen-year-old sister Maddy, penniless orphans, leave drought-stricken Kansas on a wagon train hoping for a better life in Seattle, but find there are still many hardships to be faced. |
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery. |
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Faith, Hope, and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June and Catherine share their lives, homes, and communities, and find that although their lifestyles are total opposites they have a lot in common. |
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Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots. |
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The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life. |
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The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well. |
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Gone from These Woods by Donny Bailey Seagraves Feeling like a monstrous villain in one of his comic books, eleven-year-old Daniel tries to cope with the guilt after accidentally killing his beloved uncle while hunting in the woods of North Georgia. |
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Kaleidoscope Eyes by Jennifer Bryant In 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, thirteen-year-old Lyza inherits a project from her deceased grandfather, who had been using his knowledge of maps and the geography of Lyza's New Jersey hometown to locate the lost treasure of Captain Kidd. |
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The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day who tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures in an attempt to find her. |
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The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick Homer P. Figg escapes from his wretched foster home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army. |
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When the Whistle Blows by Fran Cannon Slayton Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers. |
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Wild Things by Clay Carmichael Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family. |
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The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice After her father is sent to jail, eleven-year-old Groovy Robinson must decide if she can forgive the failings of someone she loves. |
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| Total Number of voters: 12 Total Number of books read by all voters in this program: 32 Thanks to our 921 student readers who read 5135 books! Kudos to the students at Cass Junior High who averaged 12 books and Kennedy Junior High who averaged 14 books per reader! As usual, you did a fantastic job! It couldn’t have been done without the support of the teachers and librarians of our participating schools. Our sincere thanks! Cass SD 63: Cass Jr. High; Deerfield SD 109: Shepard Middle School; Downers Grove SD 58: Henry Puffer School, Herrick Middle School; Glen Ellyn SD 41: Monroe Middle School; Hinsdale SD 181: Clarendon Hills Middle School, Hinsdale Middle School; Indian Prairie SD 204: Crone Middle School, Scullen Middle School; IPSD 204: Fischer Middle School; Kaneland SD 302: Harter Middle School; Naperville SD 203: Jefferson Jr. High, Kennedy Jr. High, Lincoln Jr. High, Madison Jr. High, Washington Jr. High; Orland SD 135: Orland Junior High; Plainfield SD 202: Timber Ridge Middle School; Notre Dame School, Clarendon Hills . | |
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