Check out the 2010 Rebecca Caudill Nominees! If you would like to learn more about these awards, you can visit the official RCYRBA site.
From now until February 2010, The Jewel LMC will be running the Caudill Challenge! If you read 3 books, you will be eligible to vote for your favorite 2010 Caudill Nominee. If you read 5 books, you will win a small prize, if you read 10 books you will get a medium prize, and if you read all 20 books, you will receive a somewhat larger prize.
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All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story, by Mary Downing Hahn
FIC HAHN
Travis and his sister Corey decide to boost business at their grandmother's Vermont inn by staging a few "hauntings" that soon draw tourists from across the country, but when their antics awaken a dark force, they must find a way to put to rest the ghosts they have disturbed.
FINISHED ON 2/16/2009
A Crooked Kind of Perfect, by Linda Urban
FIC URBAN
Ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.
FINISHED ON 2/20/2009
Crossing the Wire, by Will Hobbs
FIC HOBBS
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
FINISHED ON 6/5/2009
Dragon Slippers, by Jessica Day George
FIC GEORG
Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom.
FINISHED ON 7/28/2009
Elephant Run, by Roland Smith
FIC SMITH
Nick's father and others are taken prisoner when his plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, leaving Nick and his friend Mya to risk their lives in order to free them from the POW camp.
FINISHED ON 7/15/2009
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree, by Lauren Tarshis
FIC TARSH
A quirky and utterly logical seventh-grade girl named Emma-Jean Lazarus discovers some interesting results when she gets involved in the messy everyday problems of her peers.
FINISHED ON 4/11/2009
First Light, by Rebecca Stead
FIC STEAD
Twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, where he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never would have imagined possible.
FINISHED ON 5/24/2009
Freedom Walkers: the Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Russell Freedman
323.1 FRE
Presents the story of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and the major persons and events that contributed to the year-long struggle for equal rights on Montgomery's city buses.
FINISHED ON 3/13/2009
Home of the Brave, by Katherine Applegate
FIC APPLE
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth-grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
FINISHED ON 5/8/2009
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, by Wendy Mass
FIC MASS
Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.
FINISHED ON 5/26/2009
Kimchi & Calamari, by Rose Kent
FIC KENT
After getting caught lying on a school project about who his grandfather was, fourteen-year-old Joseph Claderno is forced to redo the assignment and learns more about his adopted Italian-American family and Korean heritage than he ever thought possible.
FINISHED ON 3/2/2009
The Mozart Question, by Michael Morpurgo
FIC MORPU
A young journalist goes to Venice, Italy, to interview a famous violinist, who tells the story of his parents' incarceration by the Nazis, and explains why they can no longer listen to the music of Mozart.
FINISHED ON 5/12/2009
The Naked Mole-Rat Letters, by Mary Amato
FIC AMATO
Twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated e-mail letters in an attempt to end her widowed father's long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C., zookeeper.
FINISHED ON 5/26/2009
Shark Girl, by Kelly Bingham
FIC BINGH
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
FINISHED ON 6/12/2009
Shooting the Moon, by Frances O'Roark Dowell
FIC DOWEL
When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in.
FINISHED ON 6/7/2009
A Small White Scar, by K. A. Nuzum
FIC NUZUM
Fifteen-year-old Will Bennon leaves his family and begins life as a cowboy, but his twin brother with mental disabilities follows him and joins the journey.
FINISHED ON 3/21/2009
Someone Named Eva, by Joan M. Wolf
FIC WOLF
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
FINISHED ON 5/23/2009
The Thing About Georgie, by Lisa Graff
FIC GRAFF
Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.
FINISHED ON 5/11/2009
The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt
FIC SCHMI
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
FINISHED ON 2/22/2009
The White Giraffe, by Lauren St. John
FIC STJOH
After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.
