Transcript Young Hoosier Book Awards 2012

RAH 5/12
YOUNG HOOSIER BOOK AWARDS
Each year Indiana teachers, librarians,
and students select 20 books that they
consider some of the best new reading
for students in each age group.
These titles are promoted to young
people throughout the state of Indiana.
Students are encouraged to read as
many of the selected books as possible.
Students who read 5 or more YHBA titles
can vote for their favorites.
Ballots are collected throughout the
state each April to determine the
winning title in each age group.
YHBA PROGRAM
 Each year our students participate in the
YHBA program.
 Lists of YHBA titles are posted in the media
center, in your English classrooms, and on the
media center website.
 You can find the YHBA books at the media
center, public library, classrooms, or
bookstores.
THE COMPETITION
At the media center, we keep track of
who reads YHBA books by monitoring AR
Tests.
When you pass the AR Test on a YHBA
book, your name is added to the list.
BUT WHY SHOULD I READ YHBA BOOKS?
 They’re some of the best new books out there.
Odds are that you’ll like most of them.
 Many language arts teachers require their
students to read a number of YHBA titles.
 You’ll get a chance to vote on the book you
liked best.
 Students who read the most YHBA books are
eligible for special rewards!
A TALE DARK AND GRIM BY ADAM GIDWITZ
Follow Hansel and Gretel
as they walk out of their
own story and into eight
more tales, encountering
witches, devils, warlocks,
kindly strangers, and other
helpful folk as they take
charge of their own happily
ever after.
RL 4.6 Pts. 4.6
BAMBOO PEOPLE BY MITALI PERKINS
Two Burmese boys,
one a Karenni
refugee and the
other the son of an
imprisoned Burmese
doctor, meet in the
jungle and in order
to survive they must
learn to trust each
other.
RL 4.4 Pts. 7
AFTER EVER AFTER BY JORDON SONNENBLICK
Although Jeff and Tad
make a deal to help one
another overcome
aftereffects of their
cancer treatments in
preparation for eighthgrade graduation, Jeff
still craves advice from
his brother Steven, who
is studying drums in
Africa.
RL 5.2 Pts. 7
BORROWED NAMES : POEMS ABOUT LAURA
INGALLS WILDER, MADAM C.J., WALKER, MARIE,
CURIE, AND THEIR DAUGHTERS BY JEANNINE
ATKINS
This collection of poems
retells the histories of
author Laura Ingalls
Wilder, cosmetics
entrepreneur Madam C.J.
Walker, and Nobel Prizewinning scientist Marie
Curie and their
daughters.
RL 5.5 Pts. 3
THE CROSSING : HOW GEORGE WASHINGTON SAVED
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY JIM MURPHY
This book
describes the
pivotal
transformation of
George
Washington from
an inexperienced
leader to a brilliant
general.
RL 7.8 Pts. 2
CRUNCH BY LESLIE CONNOR
Fourteen-year-old Dewey
juggles the management
of the family's bicycle
repair business while
sharing the household
and farm duties with his
siblings after a sudden
energy crisis strands their
parents far from home.
RL 3.3 Pts. 7
THE DREAMER BY PAM MUNOZ RYAN
A fictionalized
biography of the
Nobel Prize-winning
Chilean poet Pablo
Neruda, who grew
up a painfully shy
child, ridiculed by
his overbearing
father, but who
became one of the
most widely-read
poets in the world.
RL 4.6 Pts. 4
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.
RL 4.3 Pts. 11
FORGE BY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Separated from his
friend Isabel after their
daring escape from
slavery, fifteen-year-old
Curzon serves as a free
man in the Continental
Army at Valley Forge
until he and Isabel are
thrown together again,
as slaves once more.
RL 5.4 Pts. 10
GHOSTOPOLIS BY DOUG TENNAPEL
Imagine Garth's
surprise when he's
accidentally zapped to
the spirit world by
Frank Gallows, a
washed-out ghost
wrangler. Suddenly,
Garth has powers the
ghosts don't have, but
he' stuck in a world
run by the evil ruler of
Ghostopolis.
RL 2.4 Pts. 1
HAPPENSTANCE FOUND BY P.W. CATANESE
Twelve-year-old
Happenstance wakes
up in a cave with no
idea how he got there
or who he is, but
merchant and royal
advisor Lord Umber
and his two friends
help Hop escape from
the caverns.
RL 4.9 Pts. 10
THE HIVE DETECTIVES: CHRONICLE OF A HONEY
BEE CATASTROPHE BY LOREE GRIFFIN BURNS
In this book,
readers explore
the lives of the
fuzzy, buzzy
insects and learn
what might
happen to us if
they were gone.
RL 7.5 Pts. 2
A LONG WALK TO WATER: BASED ON A TRUE
STORY BY LINDA SUE PARK
Eleven-year-old Salva
becomes separated
from his family when
the Sudanese civil war
reaches his village in
1985, and he must
walk with other Dinka
tribe members in
search of a safe haven.
RL 5.0 Pts. 3
THE MOSTLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF HOMER P.
FIGG BY RODMAN PHILBRICK
Homer P. Figg escapes
from his ruthless
guardian's home in
Pine Swamp, Maine,
and sets out to find his
beloved older brother,
Harold, who has been
illegally sold into the
Union Army.
RL 5.6 Pts. 7
OUT OF MY MIND BY SHARON DRAPER
Considered by many to
be mentally retarded, a
brilliant, impatient fifthgrader with cerebral
palsy discovers a
technological device
that will allow her to
speak for the first time.
RL 4.3 Pts. 8
SEARCH FOR WONDLA BY TONY DITERLIZZI
Living in isolation with
a robot on what
appears to be an alien
world populated with
bizarre life forms, a
twelve-year-old human
girl called Eva Nine
sets out on a journey to
find others like herself.
RL 5.2 Pts. 11
SLOB BY ELLEN POTTER
Picked on, overweight
genius Owen tries to
invent a television that
can see the past to
find out what
happened the day his
parents were killed.
RL 5.0 Pts. 7
SOURCES OF LIGHT BY MARGARET MCMULLAN
In 1962 after her father is
killed in Vietnam, Samantha
moves with her mother to
Jackson, Mississippi. During
the year they spend there,
Sam encounters both love
and hate as she witnesses
the prejudice and violence
of the segregationists of the
South.
RL 5.2 Pts. 8
SURVIVING THE ANGEL OF DEATH: THE STORY
OF A MENGELE TWIN IN AUSCHWITZ
BY EVA MOSES KOR AND LISA BUCCIERI
Eva Mozes Kor details
experiences she shared
with her twin sister,
Miriam, when they were
sent to Auschwitz as
children and forced to
endure medical
experiments and other
horrors under the care of
Josef Mengele.
RL 5.6 Pts. 4
VIRALS BY KATHY REICHS
Tory, the niece of
Temperance
Brennan, the world
famous
anthropologist of
the BONES series,
is exposed to a
strain of canine
parvovirus that
changes her life.
RL 3.5 Pts. 11
Many YHBA titles are also available as eBooks from
the PTS Digital Download Library.
SO LET’S GET
READING!