Georgia Children’s Book Award Nominees 2009-2010
Uprising (Haddix) The Wednesday Wars (Schmidt) The Puzzling World of Winston Breen (Berlin) The Rising Star of Rusty Nail (Blume, L.) Bearwalker (Bruchac) The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous (Crowley) Elijah of Buxton (Curtis) Hiroshima Dreams (Easton) The Entertainer and the Dybbuk (Fleishman) The Sorta Sisters (Fogelin) Football Genius (Green) Deep and Dark and Dangerous (Hahn) Do the Math: Secrets, Lies and Algebra (Lichtman) Greetings from Nowhere (O’Connor) Billy Creekmore (Porter) Leepike Ridge (Wilson) Someone Named Eva (Wolf) Feathers (Woodson) Trading Places (Mills) Saving the Griffin (Nitz)
Popular Series Alex Rider (Horowitz) Artemis Fowl (Colfer) Charlie Bone (Nimmo) Children of the Lamp (Kerr) Cirque du Freak series (Shan) The Clique series (Harrison) Dragon Lance (Weis) Guardians of Ga’hoole (Lasky) Hank Zipzer (Winkler) Maximum Ride (Patterson) Molly Moon (Byng) The Sisters Grimm (Buckley) Twilight series (Meyer) Warriors (Hunter) Popular Authors Jodi Lynn Anderson Hilari Bell Terry Brooks Meg Cabot Agatha Christie Caroline Cooney Jeanne DuPrau Cornelia Funke Margaret Haddix
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CH E R OK E E COUN TY S CH OO L DI S TR I CT
Madeline L’Engle Brian Jacques Anne McCaffrey Garth Nix Gary Paulsen Louise Rennison Jerry Spinelli J.R.R. Tolkien Scott Westerfeld
E. T. Booth Middle School
Georgia Peach Book Award Nominees 2009-2010 (High School)
City of Bones (Clare) Graceling (Cashore) Hunger Games (Collins) My Most Excellent Year (Kluger) Oh. My. Gods. (Childs) Ophelia (Klein) Three Little Words (Rhodes-Courter) Unwind (Shusterman) Wake (McMann)
SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST 2009
Express Yourself @ Your Library
Registration for Vacation Reading Club begins Friday, May 22. Teens going into at least the 7th grade are invited to pick up a free membership packet and earn cool, free stuff for reading all summer. Last day to redeem prizes is Friday, July 31, while supplies last.
Read ahead for information, enjoyment and positive practice
Mathematics Science A Brighter Garden (Dickinson) A Face First (Cummings) Albert Einstein: A Biography (Folsing) All Creatures Great and Small (Herriot) All Things Bright and Beautiful (Herriot) Amazing Bugs (Jordon) Animal Homes (Halton) Arctic Dreams (Lopez) Batteries, Bulbs and Wires: Science Facts and Experiments (Glover) Black Holes in Spacetime (Ferguson) Carnivorous Plants (Slack) Diane Fossey (Roberts) Earthquake (Martin) Encyclopedia of Planet Earth (Claybourne) Great Feuds in Science (Hellman) Jane Goodall (Decaire) Journey into the Center of the Earth (Verne) Koko’s Kitten (Patterson) Kotik: The Baby Seal (Bruemmer) Marie Curie: And the Science of Radioactivity (Pasachoff) Muir of the Mountains (Douglas) Nanook and Naoya: The Polar Bear Cubs (Shelton) Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science (Fleishman) Safari Beneath the Sea: the Wonder World of the North Pacific Coast (Swanson) Silent Spring (Carson) Solids and Liquids: Science Facts and Experiments (Glover) Technology (Bridgman) The Chemy Named Al: A Novel (Isdell) Weather: Focusing on Disasters (Martin) Year of Wonders (Brooks) A Gebra Named Al (Isdell) Algebra Unplugged (Amdahl) Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar (Anno) Counting on Frank (Clement) Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales (Pappas) G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book (Schwartz) How Much is a Million (Schwartz) If the World Were a Village (Smith) Incredible Comparisons (Ash) Math Curse (Scieszka) Math for Every Kid (Van Cleave) Math Mini-Mysteries (Markle) Mathemagics: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying (Benjamin) Mathematicians Are People Too: Stories From the Lives of Great Mathematicians (Reimer) Measuring America (Linklater) Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Rucker) One Grain of Rice (Demi) Quick and Easy Math (Asimov) Recent Revolutions in Mathematics (Stwertka) Sherlock Holmes (Doyle) Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi (Neuschwander) Sir Cumference and the First Round Table (Neuschwander) The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Case Letters (Juster) The Hands-on Marvelous Ball Book (Hansen-Smith) The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (Lasky) The Man Who Counted (Tahan) Visions of Symmetry: Notebooks, Periodic Drawings, and Related Work of M.C. Escher (Schattschneider) Women in Mathematics (Osen) English Language Arts: Fiction A Step from Heaven (Na) Among the Imposters (Haddix) And Then There Were None (Christie) Artemis Fowl (Colfer) Because of Winn-Dixie (DiCamillo) Coraline (Gaiman) Ender’s Game (Card) Esperanza Rising (Ryan) Fever 1793 (Anderson) Milkweed (Spinelli) Miracle’s Boys (Woodson) Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Staples) Soldier’s Heart (Paulsen) Stormbreaker (Horowitz) Tangerine (Bloor) The Ancient One (Barron) The Egypt Game (Snyder) The Face on the Milk Carton (Cooney) The Golden Compass (Pullman) The Merlin Effect (Barron) The Twisted Window (Duncan) The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 (Curtis) Time Machine (Wells) Touching Spirit Bear (Mikaelsen) War of the Worlds (Wells)
English Language Arts: Non-Fiction Basher Five-Two (O’Grady) Cheaper by the Dozen (Gilbreath) Chinese Cinderella: The Story of an Unwanted Daughter (Mah) Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps (Warren) The Acorn People (Jones) Woodsong (Paulsen)
See summaries of the books at http://www.cherokee.k12.ga.us/ centralservices/Curriculum/ Summer_Reading_List.pdf