Transcript Down the Rabbit Hole Abrahams, Peter

Young Hoosier Book
Awards
20011 –2012 Nominated Books
RAH 9/11
Young Hoosier Book Awards
• Each year Indiana teachers, librarians, and
students select 20 new books that they
consider some 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
books can vote for their favorites.
• Ballots are collected throughout the state
each April to determine the winning title
in each age group.
YHBA at Willowcreek
• Each year Willowcreek students participate
in the YHBA program.
• Lists are posted in the media center, in your
English classrooms, and on the
Willowcreek 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 our list.
But why read YHBA books?
• They’re some of the best new books out
there. You’ll probably like most of them.
• You’ll impress your English teacher!
• You get to vote! Just like a REAL
American!
• But wait - Willowcreek students who read
the most YHBA books...
... Get FREE STUFF!
• Top readers are invited to Reading
Celebrations.
• Award lunches
• Games, prizes & gift certificates
• Free books
This Year’s YHBA
Titles
Ain’t Nothing But a Man
by Scott Reynolds Nelson
Historian Scott
Reynolds Nelson
recounts how he came
to discover the real
John Henry, an
African-American
railroad worker who
became a legend in the
famous song.
RL 6.6 PTS 2.0
All The Broken Pieces: A Novel
in Verse 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.
RL 4.1 PTS 2.0
Beef Princess of Practical County
by Michelle Houts
Twelve-year-old Libby,
the daughter of an Indiana
cattle farmer, raises two
calves in hopes of winning
the annual steer
competition at the county
fair, but fails to follow her
father's warning about
developing a bond with
animals that are destined
to be sold at auction.
RL 5.2 PTS 8.0
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491
by Charles Mann
This study of Native
American societies turns
conventional wisdom on
its head. The book argues
that the people of North
and South America lived
in enormous cities, raised
pyramids hundreds of
years before the Egyptians
did, engineered corn, and
farmed the rainforests.
RL 8.1 PTS 5.0
Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine
Innings by Alan Gratz
This story follows the
fortunes of a German
immigrant family
through nine
generations, beginning
in 1845, as they
experience American
life and play baseball.
RL 5.0 PTS 9.0
Bull Rider by Suzanne Williams
When his older brother, a bullriding champion, returns from
the Iraq War partially
paralyzed, fourteen-year-old
Cam takes a break from
skateboarding to enter a bullriding contest, in hopes of
winning the $15,000 prize and
motivating his depressed
brother to continue with his
rehabilitation.
RL 4.1 PTS 9.0
Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards
Justice by Phillip Hoose
Based on extensive interviews
with Claudette Colvin and
many others, Phillip Hoose
presents the first in-depth
account of an important yet
largely unknown civil rights
figure, skillfully weaving her
dramatic story into the fabric of
the historic Montgomery bus
boycott and court case that
would change the course of
American history.
RL 6.8 PTS 5.0
The Compound
by Stephanie A. Bodeen
After his parents, two sisters,
and he have spent six years in a
vast underground compound
built by his wealthy father to
protect them from a nuclear
holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli,
whose twin brother and
grandmother were left behind,
discovers that his father has
perpetrated a monstrous hoax
on them all.
RL 4.1 PTS 8.0
Crossing Stones
by Helen Frost
In their own voices, four
young people, Muriel,
Frank, Emma, and Ollie,
tell of their experiences
during the first World
War, as the boys enlist and
are sent overseas, Emma
finishes school, and
Muriel fights for peace
and women's suffrage.
RL 5.3 PTS 4.0
Found
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When thirteen-year-olds
Jonah and Chip, who are
both adopted, learn they
were discovered on a plane
that appeared out of
nowhere, full of babies with
no adults on board, they
realize that they have
uncovered a mystery
involving time travel and
two opposing forces, each
trying to repair the fabric of
time.
RL 5.0 PTS 9.0
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.
RL 5.1 PTS 7.0
Gym Candy by Carl Dueker
Groomed by his father to be
a star player, football is the
only thing that has ever
really mattered to Mick
Johnson, who works hard for
a spot on the varsity team his
freshman year, then tries to
hold onto his edge by using
steroids, despite the
consequences to his health
and social life.
RL 4.6 PTS 9.0
The Mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart
After passing a series of
mind-bending tests, four
children are selected for a
secret mission that
requires them to go
undercover at the
Learning Institute for the
Very Enlightened, where
the only rule is that there
are no rules.
RL 5.6 PTS 18.0
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.
RL 4.7 PTS 4.0
Runaway Twin by Peg Kehret
Thirteen-year-old Sunny,
accompanied by a stray
dog, takes advantage of a
windfall to travel from her
Nebraska foster home to
Enumclaw, Washington,
to find the twin sister from
whom she was separated
at age three.
RL 4.7 PTS 6.0
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
Nick and his friend
Marta decide to
investigate when a
mysterious fire starts
near a Florida wildlife
preserve and an
unpopular teacher
goes missing.
RL 5.5 PTS 12.0
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Homeschooled by his hippie
grandmother, Capricorn (Cap)
Anderson has never watched
television, tasted a pizza, or even
heard of a wedgie. But when his
grandmother lands in the hospital,
Cap is forced to move in with a
guidance counselor and attend the
local middle school. While Cap
knows a lot about tie-dyeing and
Zen Buddhism, no education could
prepare him for the politics of
public school.
RL 4.9 PTS 6.0
A Thousand Never Evers
by Shana Burg
As the civil rights movement
in the South gains
momentum in 1963--and
violence against African
Americans intensifies--the
black residents, including
seventh-grader Addie Ann
Pickett, in the small town of
Kuckachoo, Mississippi,
begin their own courageous
struggle for racial justice.
RL 5.1 PTS 11.0
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.
RL 4.9 PTS 6.0
Year of the Bomb by Ronald Kidd
In 1955 California, as
"Invasion of the Body
Snatchers" is filmed in
their hometown, thirteenyear-old Arnie discovers a
real enemy when he and
three friends go against a
young government agent
determined to find
communists at a nearby
university or on the movie
set.
RL 3.7 PTS 5.0
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