These tales each start with a description of the famous person as a child and then use interesting art, pictures, and numerous facts to inspire readers to find similar greatness in themselves.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright October 1, 2007
ISBN# 9780439641166 (HB)
Pearl and her good friend James learn over the summer that good or bad, life is what happens when you are making other plans.
2015-2016 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.5
Published by Feiwel and Friends
Copyright October 2, 2012
ISBN# 0312642997 (PB, HB)
Sharon Robinson tells the story of her family’s move to Connecticut and the stories that her dad, Jackie Robinson, shared with her friends. Along, the way she also learned some facts about her dad that she didn’t know.
2012-2013 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 3.0
Published by Scholastic, Inc.
Copyright October 1, 2009
ISBN# 9780545052511 (HB)
Cookie arrives on the ranch ready to take over the herd. However, Hoss won’t allow that and tries to put this stubborn calf in his place.
2012-2013 Award
Reading Level: 3.0
Published by Holiday House, Inc.
Copyright November 27, 2009
ISBN# 9780823422289 (HB)
This version of The Three Little Pigs takes place in southern Africa, where three dassies—small native mammals also called rock hyraxes - set out across the Namib Desert “to find their own place.
2013-2014 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 3.7
Published by Putnam
Copyright September 21, 2010
ISBN# 9780399254994 (HB)
After his parents help him escape from slavery on a cotton plantation, thirteen-year-old Midnight finds freedom in Mexico and becomes a cowboy on a cattle drive to Kansas.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Henry Holt
Copyright October 15, 1997
ISBN# 0-8050-4714-X (HB)
Told in alternating viewpoints of Stands Straight and Samuel Russell, this is based on a historical meeting of Indians and Quakers during the Revolutionary War.
2000-2001 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Dial Press
Copyright February 28, 1998
ISBN# 0-8037-2078-5 (PB, HB)
Recently recovered All-Star pitcher House Jackson is desperate to play ball again, but he may have to reveal a secret about himself to restore harmony, and baseball, to Aurora County, Mississippi.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by HMH Books
Copyright January 31, 2009
ISBN# 152066268 (PB)
Young Aidan is surely meant for greater things than keeping sheep. After a series of adventures, Aidan joins his siblings, battles a giant, and leads a covert operation in this Christian fantasy.
2006-2007 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Broadman & Holman
Copyright September 1, 2004
ISBN# 080543131-4 (HB)
Ross is suspected of having set fire to a barn in 1933.
2002-2003 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Clarion
Copyright April 17, 2000
ISBN# 0-395-98409-2 (PB, HB)
Farmer Fred, various members of his family, and his neighbors each has a favorite time of day.
2007-2008 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 3.0
Published by Gulliver Books
Copyright October 1, 2005
ISBN# 0-15-205051-5 (HB)
Twelve-year old James has no interest in music in spite of the fact that both his parents are musicians, but when he discovers a portal to the seventeenth-century London, he finds that his great voice and the fact that he is biracial might serve him well.
2006-2007 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by McElderry Books
Copyright February 28, 2005
ISBN# 0-689-86478-7 (HB)
These poems celebrate the uniqueness of color in the world around us and within us.
2010-2011 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 2.0
Published by HarperCollins Publishers
Copyright July 1, 2008
ISBN# 9780060253752 (HB)
Teenager Prissie Promeroy’s faith is tested when she realizes that she can see Angels. She must rely on God to truly understand his plan for her newly discovered gift.
2014-2015 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.7
Published by Zonderkidz
Copyright September 25, 2012
ISBN# 9780310724193 (HB)
Four orphaned children run away and live in a boxcar until they are found by their grandfather.
2011-2012 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 3.0
Published by Sterling
Copyright September 15, 2009
ISBN# 9781435120938 (HB)
Beginning with Norman Borlaug who won the Noble Peace Prize in 1970 for improving a corn seed, the story goes back one person at a time to show how the world can be changed for generations through one act by one person.
2013-2014 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 4.3
Published by Tommy Nelson
Copyright August 31, 2010
ISBN# 9781400316052 (HB)
Philo Farnsworth was obsessed with machines and electricity. He spent eight years working on his idea of “making pictures fly through the air.” His idea became a reality when he transmitted the world’s first television image.
2012-2013 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Random House Children's Books
Copyright February 10, 2014
ISBN# 9780385755573 (PB)
Melvin visits the public library every day in his quest for information and discovers kindred, guiding spirits in the form of three librarians who help nurture his thirst for knowledge right up to adulthood.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Peachtree Publishers, Ltd.
Copyright March 28, 2007
ISBN# 9781561453917 (HB)
This unusual memoir pays tribute to the devoted adults who helped the children of Terezin, and tells the story of a girl flowering against all odds.
2008-2009 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Holiday House
Copyright February 28, 2006
ISBN# 0-8234-1831-6 (PB, HB)
Mike, a fourteen-year-old foster boy, is not allowed to have a pet. He aides a young tiger striped cat fighting to survive after being thrown into a river.
2011-2012 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Copyright May 27, 2010
ISBN# 9780142415665 (PB)
Armed with tricks, the charlatan and his boy set out to create another Great Feechie Scare. The hope is they will be able to swindle the people out of more money, but Grady is tired of the lies.
2012-2013 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Copyright October 5, 2010
ISBN# 9780307458223 (PB)
In 1930, when a snowstorm destroys their home in the Appalachian Mountains, Roxie and her family move into the barn and celebrate Christmas there.
2003-2004 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by American Girl
Copyright September 1, 2001
ISBN# 1-58485-414-6 (HB)
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a messenger to run to new places in her beloved but decaying city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
2005-2006 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Random House
Copyright May 13, 2003
ISBN# 0-375-82273-9 (HB)
Daniel, a Midwestern farm boy, finds a battered dog in a ditch. He nursed the dog back to health, but is disappointed that the dog doesn’t immediately respond to his affection.
2011-2012 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 3.0
Published by Random House Children's Books
Copyright December 17, 1995
ISBN# 978-0440412984 (PB)
A fourth grade entrepreneur competes with his classmates to win a contest and writes a book about the experience.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Holiday House
Copyright December 31, 2001
ISBN# 0-8234-1642-9 (HB)
The story, written in verse, of a young girl growing up in Saskatchewan in the 1960’s recovering, both physically and emotionally, from a farming accident, with the help of some unusual people – a stern teacher, a shy classmate, and a patient from the local mental hospital.
2007-2008 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.3
Published by Groundwood Books
Copyright August 9, 2005
ISBN# 0-88899-694-2 (HB)
A little boy exchanges Morse code messages with the cricket that lives in his house and together they trap the rat that has been plaguing the boy’s father and the cricket’s friends.
2008-2009 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.8
Published by Design Press
Copyright September 1, 2006
ISBN# 0-8028-5289-0 (PB, HB)
Bindi’s life has changed with a new apartment, new friends, and the opening of The Dancing Pancake Restaurant. With all the changes, Bindi is worried about her family.
2012-2013 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.0
Published by Random House Children's Books
Copyright May 10, 2011
ISBN# 9780375853487 (PB)
Alexa is spending another summer in Bridewell with her father. She’s eager to solve the mystery that lurks in the forests and The Dark Hills which townspeople fear.
2006-2007 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Orchard Books
Copyright May 1, 2010
ISBN# 0-439-75843-2 (PB, HB)
Bob and Joe Switzer are the two brothers that invented a whole new kind of color. Through years of experimenting, the two brothers developed fluorescent colors after many trials and errors.
2011-2012 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.
Copyright July 28, 2009
ISBN# 9781570916731 (HB)
This alphabet book follows the citizens of the Thirteen Colonies and their fight for representation. It begins with the Boston Tea Party in 1773 and takes us through the first reading of the Declaration of Independence.
2012-2013 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Pelican Publishing Company, Incorporated
Copyright January 20, 2010
ISBN# 9781589806764 (HB)
The Breeze family is going into debt trying to sell fans even though their village is covered in snow. Greedy Tullock is trying to take their house while Madeline and her father set off to sell fans in a warmer region.
2010-2011 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Copyright October 16, 2008
ISBN# 9780399251856 (HB)
Charlotte who is 11 years old is the only one who remembers to take care of the St. Bernard her father brought home. Not being a dog person she spends time trying to find the dog a home, but during the year becomes a dog lover and discovers new friends.
2011-2012 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by HarperCollins Publishers
Copyright March 6, 2009
ISBN# 9780061452413 (HB)
Don and his bloodhound, Frank, take turns telling the story of how Frank tried to save Christmas for Don and his sister in 1957 when coal mine problems threatened to ruin everything.
2009-2010 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Holiday House
Copyright October 28, 2007
ISBN# 9780823421145 (HB)
Three ancient scrolls beckon high school student Aidan Thomas to enter a realm of knights, kings, and unusual creatures, but he must rely on instinct and his latent athletic ability to deal with the terror, tempest, and treason offered by this new world.
2007-2008 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.8
Published by Tommy Nelson
Copyright August 30, 2005
ISBN# 1-4003-0659-0 (HB)
Twin baby brothers are abandoned on their uncle’s doorstep in early twentieth-century England with nothing but a silver-stringed dulcimer.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright June 3, 2003
ISBN# 0-06623609-6 (PB, HB)
In 1946, while her emotionally distant father is in occupied Japan, a twelve-year-old girl spends a year with her mother’s relatives in a Tlingit Indian village in Alaska and begins to love and respect her heritage as she confronts the secret of her mother’s disappearance.
2000-2001 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright September 1, 1997
ISBN# 0-590-36087-6 (PB)
12 year old Wilder embarks on an outdoor journey with a mentor from his church as he tries to understand what it means to grow up.
2015-2016 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.6
Published by Paul Dry Books
Copyright August 27, 2013
ISBN# 9781589880870 (PB)
This is a true story about Susy Clemens writing a biography about her father, Mark Twain, in her journal.
2012-2013 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic, Inc.
Copyright December 31, 2009
ISBN# 9780545125086 (HB)
Four orphans are chosen to compete for the role of impersonating the prince after the royal family in the medieval kingdom of Carthya are believed to have all been killed.
2013-2014 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.1
Published by Scholastic Press
Copyright January 31, 2013
ISBN# 9780545284141 (PB)
Ariel and Zeke, two twelve-year-olds, find a mysterious artifact which leads them on a long journey to find their true identities.
2011-2012 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Bloomsbury USA
Copyright February 16, 2009
ISBN# 9781599902722 (HB)
Oona is teaching her little brother, Fred, to read by making rebuses (included as the story goes along) about their beloved cat, Zook, just like her dad did with her when he was still alive. The plot thickens when a man comes into the life of their mom and, of course, Oona does not like this intrusion into their loving family.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Abrams
Copyright April 2, 2013
ISBN# 9781419705250 (PB)
Tyrone and his students study the effects of pesticides on frogs. Readers will be taken step by step through the scientific process.
2011-2012 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Copyright September 13, 2011
ISBN# 9780547576985 (PB)
Abby Lovitt grows up on her family’s California horse ranch in the 1960’s. The horses that have been her refuge from the stress at school and home no longer are her escape.
2011-2012 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Random House Children's Books
Copyright September 14, 2010
ISBN# 9780375862281 (PB)
Molly’s father recently passed away, but she feels a connection with him once she makes the baseball team. The team also helps in other aspects as well.
2011-2012 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Random House Children's Books
Copyright February 8, 2010
ISBN# 9780375846106 (PB)
During a severe drought in Mesopotamia in 2600 B.C., Jomar and his sister Zefa are sent to the city of Ur, where Jomar is apprenticed to a goldsmith and Zefa must try to find a way to keep from becoming a slave.
2010-2011 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.
Copyright January 31, 2012
ISBN# 9781580891820 (PB)
McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of a wolf named Lupin, as he tries to increase his wolf pack.
2003-2004 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Atheneum
Copyright October 1, 2001
ISBN# 0-689-83824-7 (PB, HB)
This is based on a true story in Honduras of how a new teacher changes the lives of families who can barely feed themselves. They learn new ways of planting, growing, and harvesting food, not only for their families, but discover how to sell the excess without the often deceptive middleman.
2013-2014 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Kids Can
Copyright September 1, 2010
ISBN# 9781554534883 (HB)
Twelve-year-olddetectives Slate and Daphne are in Montana’s capital when the governor’s dog, Cat, goes missing. They assemble a list of suspects and get to work. This is the first title in the Slate Stephens Mysteries.
2013-2014 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Bucking Horse
Copyright February 27, 2011
ISBN# 9780984446018 (HB)
A young boy is horrified by his father’s grave robbing exploits in Philadelphia in the 1800’s, but is fascinated by what goes on in the medical school where his father sells the cadavers.
2013-2014 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 4.4
Published by Walker
Copyright February 14, 2011
ISBN# 9780802721839 (HB)
A young Precious Ramotswe learns that someone is stealing treats from her school friends and her solving the “case” becomes the precursor to her becoming the owner of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency as a grownup.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Anchor
Copyright April 3, 2012
ISBN# 9780307743893 (PB)
A dogsled team is the only way to save an Alaskan community from a diphtheria epidemic by transporting medicine across 1,000 miles of snow and ice.
2004-2005 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Walker
Copyright December 31, 2002
ISBN# 0-8027-8812-2 (PB, HB)
A teenage boy keeps a diary of events during the devastating hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900, and of the rescue operations that followed.
2004-2005 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Texas Tech Press
Copyright March 14, 2002
ISBN# 0-89672-478-6 (PB, HB)
While digging a hole in his back yard, a Kansas boy finds the fossilized remains of a huge prehistoric animal, bringing fame and controversy.
2003-2004 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Houghton Mifflin
Copyright September 24, 2001
ISBN# 0-618-10228-0 (PB, HB)
During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year old boy’s dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice-skating past German soldiers and other enemies.
2006-2007 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by McElderry Books
Copyright October 1, 2004
ISBN# 978-0689845024 (HB)
During the summer before fifth grade, Suzanne, a daydreaming loner who likes to fish and walk through the woods, acquires a canine companion. It is based on Ms. Staple’s childhood in PA.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Copyright September 8, 2003
ISBN# 0-374-32779-3 (PB, HB)
A blind boy tells of his warm relationship with his grandmother and the gift she left him after her death.
2003-2004 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Arthur Levine
Copyright January 31, 2001
ISBN# 0-590-52248-5 (PB, HB)
Life is beginning to change again now that teenager Prissie Promeroy’s understands that she sees angels. She is challenged by the dangers of Adin who is not what he seems to be.
2015-2016 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.4
Published by Zonderkidz
Copyright April 23, 2013
ISBN# 9780310724896 (HB)
A fascinating historical look about money and how it has changed throughout the years and how it differs from country to country.
2015-2016 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Candlewick Press
Copyright August 5, 2014
ISBN# 9780763667634 (HB)
Scientists and bee wranglers across the country are working to understand what is killing the honeybees. A mysterious plague is affecting the honeybee populations.
2012-2013 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Copyright April 16, 2013
ISBN# 9780544003262 (PB)
A mother and child move into an old house and are overwhelmed by the repairs necessary. They learn that when you reach out, you can find help for yourself and others as well as a real sense of home.
2014-2015 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 3.2
Published by Peachtree
Copyright February 29, 2012
ISBN# 9781561456192 (HB)
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
2005-2006 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright October 6, 2009
ISBN# 0-06-623811-0 (HB)
Drawing on her own life story Virginia Shin-Mui Loh joins Carolyn Marsden to poignantly capture a young girl’s dilemma as she navigates between her culture and her friendship.
2008-2009 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.8
Published by Candlewick Press
Copyright October 10, 2006
ISBN# 0-7636-3012-8 (PB, HB)
Wong travels from China to join his uncle during the Gold Rush era.
2002-2003 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright March 31, 2000
ISBN# 0-590-38607-7 (HB)
By the time English came to resemble the language we speak today, the British empire had established colonies on so many continents that the world had become filled with English speakers who now number more than a billion.
2000-2001 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Clarion
Copyright April 20, 1998
ISBN# 0-395-71211-4 (HB)
The true story of the many journeys, by horseback, sailing vessel, mail truck, railroad car, and military tank of one of America’s most important documents.
2007-2008 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.4
Published by Philomel Books
Copyright May 19, 2005
ISBN# 0-399-23738-0 (PB, HB)
The true story of the harrowing escape of the authors of the Curious George books from Paris, during the Nazi invasion in 1940.
2007-2008 Crown Award
Reading Level: 6.1
Published by Houghton Mifflin
Copyright September 26, 2005
ISBN# 0-618-33924-8 (HB)
Young Trisha finds out her new school class is called “the junkyard.” She is devastated until she discovers the true meaning of genius with the oddly brilliant group of students.
2012-2013 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Copyright July 8, 2010
ISBN# 9780399250781 (HB)
Twelve-year-old Marit who was sent away to supposed safety and who longs to join her parents in the Norwegian Resistance, takes great risks for the cause of freedom as her resentment grows toward the Nazi’s presence and her grandfather’s refusal to oppose them
2009-2010 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Copyright September 3, 2007
ISBN# 9780547744476 (PB)
Wil’s twelfth birthday is approaching and he finally is able to take over the delivering of the newspapers. However, home delivery service is to be cancelled and Wil fights the odds of keeping this service available to his rural community.
2011-2012 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Copyright September 16, 2010
ISBN# 978-0142416969 (PB)
Dess Dean’s life was changed forever when she found a friend to love and confide in and to share her heart. She now had a dog who would delight in the joy and fun of Christmas with her.
2010-2011 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by HarperCollins Publishers
Copyright September 30, 2008
ISBN# 9780061139345 (HB)
In Georgia, during the summer of 1976, Gabriel, a white boy who is being bullied, and Frita, an African American girl who is facing prejudice, decide to face their fears together as they enter the fifth grade.
2007-2008 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.5
Published by Putnam
Copyright June 16, 2005
ISBN# 0-399-23991-X (HB)
Ellen is overwhelmed by her new surroundings when she and her mother must move to a big city in Canada during the Great Depression. Ellen finds solace by hiding in a front yard tree while watching the neighborhood children at play, and one day overhears some devastating news.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Copyright January 31, 2011
ISBN# 9781554550524 (PB)
At fifteen, Midnight Son has already lived quite a courageous life. In the sequel to The Adventure of Midnight Son, the author tells a powerful coming-of-age story about the true meaning of responsibility, bravery, and honor in the face of adversity.
2001-2002 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Holt
Copyright June 15, 1999
ISBN# 0-8050-4715-8 (HB)
Describes the English colony of Roanoke, which was founded in 1585, and discusses the mystery of its disappearance.
2006-2007 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Putnam
Copyright May 24, 2004
ISBN# 0-399-24027-6 (HB)
On a visit with her mother to the garden of the famous painter, Julie discovers a world of true beauty where plants grow as tall as trees.
2005-2006 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Barron’s
Copyright September 1, 2003
ISBN# 0-7641-5574-1 (PB, HB)
Become a detective as you read this true story of how the Mary Celeste was found adrift on the open sea—the entire crew and passengers had vanished. You might be the first to solve this one hundred-twenty-nine-year-old mystery.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Simon & Schuster
Copyright October 1, 1999
ISBN# 0-689-81079-2 (PB, HB)
In his magnificent interpretation of Longfellow’s famous poem, Mr. Bing seamlessly weaves history and imagination into a rich portrait of an American hero.
2003-2004 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Handprint
Copyright October 1, 2001
ISBN# 1-929766-13-0 (PB, HB)
In the early, early morning, the milkman makes his rounds, helping his neighbors in a variety of ways.
2007-2008 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 1.5
Published by Dutton
Copyright June 2, 2005
ISBN# 0-525-47208-8 (PB, HB)
Young Joe Casimir must choose to stay with his family or be adopted by an eccentric millionaire who can offer Joe ‘the world’.
2014-2015 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright February 29, 2012
ISBN# 9780545376365 (HB)
A girl, with her dog as an assistant, learns perseverance and the benefit of taking a break to get a fresh perspective during a frustrating project to create a “magnificent thing”.
2015-2016 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 2.9
Published by Kids Can Press
Copyright April 1, 2014
ISBN# 978-1554537044 (HB)
When she moves into Emily Dickinson’s bedroom, Emmaline, the mouse, discovers her own propensity for poetry.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by FSG
Copyright March 25, 1999
ISBN# 0-374-35083-3 (PB, HB)
Alex wants to be a night worker like his father who goes to work at a construction site after Alex goes to bed.
2002-2003 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright August 28, 2000
ISBN# 0-374-35520-7 (PB, HB)
This impressive biography of Vasily Kandinsky, a Russian abstract artist, highlights the unusual connection between his art and the music that inspired it.
2015-2016 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 4.4
Published by Random House
Copyright February 10, 2014
ISBN# 978-0307978486 (HB)
This book relates the history of how the Panama Canal was planned and built, including the political, international, and health aspects of getting the project finished on time.
2000-2001 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Mikaya
Copyright October 1, 1998
ISBN# 0-9650493-4-5 (PB, HB)
Soloman Azar brought nothing but a big dream with him when he crossed the ocean from Lebanon at the turn of the century. He would seek his fortune in America and then bring his beloved, Marie, to share life in the New World.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Houghton Mifflin
Copyright December 31, 1991
ISBN# 1-57168-294-5 (HB)
Two families, one that is perfect and one that is far from it, celebrate Thanksgiving in their own loving ways.
2005-2006 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Henry Holt
Copyright September 1, 2003
ISBN# 0-8050-6531-8 (PB, HB)
When American soldiers entered World War I Moina felt they deserved a symbol for their courage and sacrifice. Almost singlehandedly she ultimately secured a place in history for the ever vibrant red poppy and that symbol is still strong today.
2015-2016 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.9
Published by Calkins Creek
Copyright September 1, 2012
ISBN# 1590787544 (HB)
Omakayas or Little Frog and her Ojibwe family lived the most extraordinary year full of flight and adventure and joy in 1852 while searching for a new home. While the family has prepared, unexpected danger, enemies, and hardships test their survival.
2010-2011 Crown Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by HarperCollins Publishers
Copyright September 14, 2010
ISBN# 9780064410304 (PB)
The eleven-year-old son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being held prisoner there. It is a riveting historic adventure.
2005-2006 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright October 31, 2003
ISBN# 0-439-28133-4 (PB, HB)
Oseola McCarty worked all her life washing and ironing other people’s clothes. She saved her money and because she did not get to go to college, she gave $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi, for needy students.
2001-2002 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by A. Whitman
Copyright November 1, 1998
ISBN# 0-8075-6961-5 (HB)
Adrian’s new friend Antoinette is called to the Realm, but when she arrives to rescue Robby through his Glimpse-twin, the place is in turmoil and she must decide whether to stay loyal to the one true king of join the evil side.
2008-2009 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.0
Published by Thomas Nelson Publishers
Copyright July 10, 2007
ISBN# 9781400322657 (PB)
Jessica, an accomplished runner, thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She is not comforted by the news that she’ll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg.
2013-2014 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 4.1
Published by Random House
Copyright January 9, 2012
ISBN# 9780375866289 (PB)
The renowned Caldecott Honoree and illustrator of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom provides a moving, intimate, and inspiring inside look at her colorful picture book career.
2015-2016 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 3.5
Published by Simon & Schuster
Copyright March 3, 2014
ISBN# 978-1442435711 (HB)
A young girl listens as her relative, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of an infant that washed ashore in a storm.
2004-2005 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Dial Press
Copyright August 5, 2002
ISBN# 0-8037-2703-8 (HB)
Four French boys make a remarkable discovery of some of the world’s oldest cave paintings while searching for treasure in 1940.
2013-2014 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 4.5
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux
Copyright September 14, 2010
ISBN# 9780374366940 (HB)
In this fantasy based very loosely on the biblical story of King David, teenaged Aidan has become the triumphant, giant-slaying hero of the court of King Darrow of Corenwald. Darrow, increasingly paranoid and depressed, sends Aidan on an impossible quest to retrieve the mysterious frog orchid, whose essence is the cure for melancholia. He must travel to the depths of the Feechiefen Swamp–a journey from which no Corenwalder has ever returned.
2007-2008 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 5.7
Published by Broadman & Holman
Copyright May 1, 2005
ISBN# 0-8054-3132-2 (HB)
This is one of many stories written about seventy five years ago by the Pulitzer Prize winner for The Yearling. The Dillons, in their captivating illustrations, have brought to life again the tale of young Calpurnia who goes to a secret place in the Florida forest to catch fish to feed her hungry neighbors and she shares her bounty with the creatures she meets on the way home.
2013-2014 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.0
Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Copyright January 3, 2011
ISBN# 9781416911791 (HB)
Laura leaves her strict parents’ Georgia plantation to spend the summer with her Quaker relatives and discovers their home is a stop on the Underground Railroad.
2003-2004 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Holiday House
Copyright October 1, 2001
ISBN# 0-8234-1543-0 (HB)
Megan lives next door to the zoo and notices puzzling behavior from the animals. When she disappears, her friends follow a set of clues and must sneak into the zoo. There they discover much more than they could have ever guessed.
2012-2013 Crown Award
Reading Level: 4.0
Published by HarperCollins Publishers
Copyright December 27, 2010
ISBN# 9780061987519 (PB)
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