Nominated Books

The Turnabout Shop

By Colby Rodowsky

n Livvy’s mother dies, she must move from New York City to Baltimore, to live with her mother’s college friend—a woman Livvy has never met. Slowly she learns that, even without her mother, she can still learn and laugh and love, and take root in a whole different world.

Nominated

2000-2001 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Farrar

ISBN# 0-374-37889-4 (PB, HB)

Foster’s War

By Carolyn Reeder

When his older brother joins the army during World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian father, eleven-year-old Foster fights his battles on the home front.

Nominated

2000-2001 Lamplighter Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Scholastic

ISBN# 0-590-09846-2 (HB)

In The Forest With The Elephants

By R. Smith & M. Schmidt

Myanmar is the only country in Asia that still can boast a healthy elephant population. Thousands roam in the wild there, and thousands more work with humans to harvest valuable wood.

Nominated

2000-2001 Crown Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Gulliver Green

ISBN# 0-15-201289-3 (PB, HB)

Destination: Jupiter

By Seymour Simon

With clear text and vivid photographs, Seymour Simon sheds light on the many mysteries of Jupiter, the fifth, and largest planet in our solar system. The spacecraft Galileo is and has been sending back information since 1995.

Nominated

2000-2001 Crown Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Morrow

ISBN# 0-688-15620-7 (HB)

Black Whiteness

By Robert Burleigh

Admiral Richard Byrd stayed alone on the continent of Antarctica for almost six months in 1934. He battled the elements, the loneliness, and an illness that nearly killed him, all the while continuing to record his scientific observations.

Nominated

2000-2001 Crown Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Atheneum

ISBN# 0-689-81299-X (PB, HB)

Ruthie’s Gift

By Kimberly Bradley

Just before the beginning of World War I, eight- year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.

Nominated

2000-2001 Gallery Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Delacorte

ISBN# 0-385-32525-8 (PB, HB)

Lucy’s Wish

By Joan L. Nixon

It’s 1866, and ten-year-old Lucy Grigg’s mother has just died, leaving Lucy alone on the streets of New York City. She learns about a group that sends orphans out west to new homes, and hopefully, a new, loving family—maybe even a little sister.

Honor

2000-2001 Crown Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Delacorte

ISBN# 0-385-32293-3 (HB)

The Adventures Of Midnight Son

By Denise Patrick

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.

Honor

2000-2001 Lamplighter Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Henry Holt

ISBN# 0-8050-4714-X (HB)