MIDDLE GRADE BOOK YHBA AWARD NOMINEES 2009—2010
Middle Grades 09-10 Order Form
 

PLACE FOR BUTTERFLIES
by Melissa Stewart
A pictorial introduction to the idea that various butterflies rely on specialized habitats for survival, and that humans can affect the balance of these delicate environments.
ISBN: 1561453579, $16.95


BELLA AT MIDNIGHT
by Diane Stanley
Bella is born to a mother who dies in childbirth. She is befriended by Julian, a prince. When they are both teenagers, he is sent away to a warring kingdom as a hostage for peace.
ISBN: 0060775750, $ 6.99 (pb)


CONFESSIONS FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S CHAIR
by Anna Myers
Robin (a.ka. Bird) is in with the cool clique. But when her Mom hears about a cruel prank against a less popular girl, she isn’t going to tolerate the Queen Bee behavior.
ISBN: 0802795609, $16.95


CRYPTID HUNTERS
by Roland Smith
When twins Marty and Grace O'Hara discover that their adventurous parents have gone missing, they leave their Swiss boarding school and join their mysterious uncle, Travis Wolfe, on his island in Washington State.
ISBN: 0786851627, $5.99


DARK WATER RISING
by Marian Hale
In early September 1900, the booming town of Galveston, Texas, was nearly obliterated by a storm that is now credited with killing nearly 8,000 inhabitants.
ISBN: 0805075852, $16.95


 


DOUBLE IDENTITY
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
After her mother suffers a nervous breakdown, 12-year-old Bethany Cole is deposited with Myrlie Wilker, an aunt of whom she has never heard of.
ISBN: 0689873794, $6.99


FIREGIRL
by Tony Abbott
Tom Bender reflects, "On the outside it doesn't look like very much happened. A burned girl was in my class for a while. Then she was gone." The remainder of Firegirl considers the way outside appearances fail to portray the real story.
ISBN: 0316011711, $15.95


GIVING UP THE GHOST
by Sheri Sinykin
Davia and her parents are staying in Louisiana to help take care of her great Aunt Mara who is slowly dying. Everything about the spooky-looking mansion that Aunt Mara owns scares Davia.
ISBN: 1561454230, $ 15.95


HOME OF THE BRAVE
by Katherine Applegate
Kek, a young Sudanese refugee, is haunted by guilt that he survived. Applegate gets across the immigrant child's dislocation and loss as he steps off the plane in the snow.
ISBN: 0312535635, $6.99


HURT GO HAPPY
by Ginny Rorby
Joey Willis is deaf, and her mother won't allow her to learn American Sign Language. Her isolated existence is turned upside down when she meets her elderly neighbor, Dr. Charles Mansell, and his sign-language-using chimpanzee, Sukari.
ISBN: 0765353040, $ 5.99

 

IF A TREE FALLS AT LUNCH PERIOD
by Gennifer Choldenko
Kirsten's parents are barely speaking to each other, and her best friend has fallen under the spell of the school's queen bee, Brianna. It seems like only Kirsten's younger sister is on her side.
ISBN: 0152057536, $17.00 (hc) ISBN: 0152066446, $6.99 (pb)


LAWN BOY
by Gary Paulson
This short and hilarious tale pitches an ordinary pre-teen with an old riding lawn mower into a dizzying ascent up the financial ladder.
ISBN: 0385746865, $12.99 (hc) ISBN: 0553494651, $ 6.50 (pb)


LISTEN
by Stephanie S. Tolan
Charley, who is recovering from a recent car accident, is frustrated with the long hikes she must take to strengthen her injured leg. But on one such walk she meets Coyote, a shy, intelligent stray.
ISBN: 0060579374, $5.99


MAILBOX
by Audrey Shafer
Gabe had been shuffled around the foster-care system for years. Until he is taken to Virginia to an uncle he had never met. Now, two years later, he comes home after the first day of sixth grade to find Uncle Vernon dead.
ISBN: 0440421349, $6.50


MIDDLE SCHOOL IS WORSE THAN MEATLOAF
by Jennifer L. Holm
Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them include accidentally turning her hair pink. But it looks like it's shaping up to be that kind of a year!
ISBN: 0689852819, $12.99

 

NIGHT OF THE HOWLING DOGS
by Graham Salisbury
Senior patrol leader of his Hawaii scout troop, Dylan looks forward to camping on the coast in the shadow of a volcano. When he hears that Louie, a troubled kid, will be joining the scouts , his anticipation turns to dread.
ISBN: 0385731221, $16.99 (hc) ISBN: 0440238390, $6.50 (pb)


ONE HANDED CATCH
by M.J. Auch
Norm, while helping his dad in the store, gets his hand caught in the meat grinder and loses it. He then faces the challenges of one-handed shoe tying, and his dream of being a baseball player.
ISBN: 0805079009, $17.95 (hc) ISBN: 0312535759, $6.99 (pb)


THIS IS JUST TO SAY:POEMS OF APOLOGY AND FORGIVENESS
by Joyce Sidman
Mrs. Merz assigns her sixth-grade students to write poems of apology, and what emerges is a surprising array of emotions, poetic forms, and subjects from dead pets and biting hamsters to angry siblings and betrayal of trust.
ISBN: 0618616802, $ 16.00


THROWING STONES
by Kristi Collier
Andy enters high school in 1923 and joins the varsity team. A rivalry with another boy prompts Andy to take a reckless dare. Sidelined, Andy finds a new outlet for his knowledge of basketball: reporting on his team's games for the local newspaper.
ISBN: 080507614X, $ 16.95


ULTIMATE WEAPON: THE RACE TO DEVELOP THE ATOM BOMB
by Edward T. Sullivan
When the first atomic bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy," was dropped from the Enola Gay onto Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world changed forever.
ISBN: 0823418553, $24.95