Nominated Books

Buddy is a Stupid Name for a Girl

By Willo Davis Roberts

When her father disappears mysteriously, Buddy must live with dysfunctional relatives and learns of the whole family’s past secrets.

Nominated

2003-2004 Crown Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Atheneum

ISBN# 0-689-81670-7 (PB, HB)

Bear Dogs: Canines With a Mission

By Ted Wood

These 50-pound bundles of energy and courage routinely take on 400-pound grizzlies to steer problem bears away from trouble.

Nominated

2003-2004 Crown Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Walker

ISBN# 0-8027-8759-2 (HB)

Animals Nobody Loves

By Seymour Simon

With striking photographs, the author reveals the truth about nature’s grossest, fiercest, most fascinating and yet most misunderstood animals.

Nominated

2003-2004 Crown Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by SeaStar

ISBN# 1-58717-079-5 (PB, HB)

The Hickory Chair

By Lisa Fraustino, Illustrated by Benny Andrews

A blind boy tells of his warm relationship with his grandmother and the gift she left him after her death.

Nominated

2003-2004 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Arthur Levine

ISBN# 0-590-52248-5 (PB, HB)

Westward to Home: Joshua’s Diary

By Patricia Hermes

In 1848, Joshua McCullough writes a journal of his family’s journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon.

Nominated

2003-2004 Crown Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Scholastic

ISBN# 0-439-11209-5 (HB)

Nutik, the Wolf Pup

By Jean Craighead George, Illustrated by Ted Rand

A young Eskimo boy cares for a sickly wolf pup, but he is warned by his sister not to fall in love with him.

Nominated

2003-2004 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by HarperCollins

ISBN# 0-06-028164-2 (PB, HB)

Love Is…

By Wendy Halperin

A beautifully illustrated adaptation of one of the most beloved chapters in the Bible, I Corinthians 13, given to us by the apostle Paul.

Nominated

2003-2004 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Simon & Schuster

ISBN# 0-689-82980-9 (PB, HB)

Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman

By Louise Borden & Mary Kay Kroeger, Illustrated by Teresa Flavin

This book discusses the life of the determined African American woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot’s license in 1921.

Nominated

2003-2004 Crown Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Simon & Schuster

ISBN# 0-689-82457-2 (HB)