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Black-Eyed Susan Award Books

2011-2012 Award Nominees

Picture Books

  • Black, Michael Ian, A Pig Parade is a Terrible Idea
  • Clayton, Sally Pomme, Persephone
  • Fleming, Candace, Clever Jack Takes the Cake
  • Graves, Keith, Chicken Big!
  • Henson, Heather, That Book Woman
  • Hill, Laban Carrick, Dave the Potter:  Artist, Poet, Slave
  • Mora, Pat, Gracias
  • MacLachlan, Patricia, I Didn’t Do It
  • McCarthy, Meghan, Pop!:  The Invention of Bubble Gum
  • McElligott, Matthew, The Lion’s Share
  • Mora, Pat, Gracias
  • Pinkney, Andrea Davis, Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down
  • Raczka, Bob, Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys
  • Scillian, Devin, Memoirs of a Goldfish
  • Singer, Marilyn, Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
  • Thong, Roseanne, Fly Free

Grades 4 - 6

  • Barnett, Mac, The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
  • Forester, Victoria, The Girl Who Could Fly
  • Henson, Heather, Dream of Night
  • Holm, Jennifer L., Turtle in Paradise
  • Mack, Winnie, After All, You’re Callie Boone
  • Martin, Ann M., Everything for a Dog
  • Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds, Emily’s Fortune
  • Park, Linda Sue, A Long Walk to Water
  • Waldorf, Mary, The Gold Rush Kid
  • Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn, 42 Miles

Grades 6 - 9

  • Cottrell Boyce, Frank, Cosmic
  • Draper, Sharon M., Out of My Mind
  • Gosselink, John, The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter: A Novel
  • Grabenstein, Chris, The Smoky Corridor
  • Hahn, Mary Downing, Closed for the Season
  • Mone, Gregory, Fish
  • Mulligan, Andy, Trash
  • Oppel, Kenneth, Half Brother
  • Preller, James, Bystander
  • Williams-Garcia, Rita, One Crazy Summer

High School

  • Brown, Jennifer, Hate List
  • Carbone, Elisa, Jump
  • Flinn, Alex, A Kiss in Time
  • Henry, April, Girl, Stolen
  • Jarzab, Anna, All Unquiet Things
  • Magoon, Kekla, The Rock and the River
  • Standiford, Natalie, How to Say Goodbye in Robot
  • Stork, Francisco X., Marcelo in the Real World

2010-2011 Award Winners

Picture Books Tony Fucile, Let’s Do Nothing
Grades 4-6 Wendy Mass, 11 Birthdays
Grades 6-9 S.A. Bodeen, The Compound
High School Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Friends Middle School Favorite – Bodeen, S.A., The Compound

2009-2010 Award Winners

Picture Books Melanie Watt, Chester
Grades 4-6 Gordon Korman, Swindle
Grades 6-9 Gordon Korman, Schooled
High School Neal Shusterman, Unwind

Friends Middle School Favorite –Korman, Gordon, Schooled

2008-2009 Award Winners

Picture Books Melanie Watt, Scaredy Squirrel
Grades 4-6 Andrew Clements, No Talking
Grades 6-9 Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
High School Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

Friends Middle School Favorite –Pfeffer, Susan Beth, Life As We Knew It

2007-2008 Award Winners

Picture Books Steven, Janet and Susan Stevens Crummel,  The Great Fuzz Frenzy 
Grades 4-6 Joseph Delaney, Revenge of the Witch: The Last Apprentice
Grades 6-9 Jordan Sonnenblick, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
High School Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

Friends Middle School Favorite: Sonnenblick, Jordan, Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie

2006-2007 Award Winners

Picture Books O'Malley, Kevin, Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude
Grades 4-6 Butler, Dori,  Trading Places with Tank Talbott
Grades 6-9 Cummings, Priscilla, Red Kayak
High School Picoult, Jodi, My Sister's Keeper

Friends Middle School Favorite: Feinstein, John, Last Shot

2005-2006 Award Winners

Picture Books Wilcox, Leah, Falling for Rapunzel
Grades 4-6 Birney, Betty, World According to Humphrey
Grades 6-9 DuPrau, Jeanne, City of Ember
High School Schusterman, Neal, Full Tilt

Friends Middle School Favorite: DuPrau, Jeanne, City of Ember

2005-2006 Award Winners

Picture Books Wilcox, Leah, Falling for Rapunzel
Grades 4-6 Birney, Betty, World According to Humphrey
Grades 6-9 DuPrau, Jeanne, City of Ember
High School Schusterman, Neal, Full Tilt

Friends Middle School Favorite: DuPrau, Jeanne, City of Ember

2004-2005 Award Winners

Picture Books French, Whatley, Diary of a Wombat
Grades 4-6 Stanley, Diane, Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine
Grades 6-9 Vande Velde, Vivian, Heir Apparent
High School Bechard, Margaret, Hanging on to Max

Friends Middle School Favorite: Hiaason, Carl, Hoot

2003-2004 Award Winners

Picture Books Prelutsky/Sis, Scranimals
Grades 4-6 Gutman, Dan, Million Dollar Kick
Grades 6-9 Horowitz, Anthony, Point Blank
High School Flinn, Alex, Breathing Underwater

Friends Middle School Favorite: Horowitz, Anthony, Point Blank

2002-2003 Award Winners

Picture Books Palatini/Egielski, Web Files
Grades 4-6 Duffey, Betsy, Cody Unplugged
Grades 6-9 Peters, Julie Ann, Define Normal
High School Brashares, Ann, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Friends Middle School Favorite: Colfer, Eoin, Artemis Fowl

2001-2002 Award Winners

Picture Books Cronin/Lewin, Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type
Grades 4-6 DiCamillo, Kate, Because of Winn-Dixie
Grades 6-9 Velde, Vivian Vande, There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around
High School Woodson, If You Come Softly

Friends Middle School Favorite: Avi, Midnight Magic

2000-2001 Award Winners

Primary Simms, Rotten Teeth
Intermediate Korman, The 6th Grade Nickname Game
Grades 6-8 Sacher, Holes
High School Werlin, Someone Like You: The Killer's Cousin

Friends Middle School Favorite: Sacher, Louis, Holes

1999-2000 Award Winners

Picture Books Shannon, A Bad Case of the Stripes
Grades 4-6 Wardlaw, 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents
Grades 6-9 Levine, Ella Enchanted
High School Klass, Danger Zone

Friends Middle School Favorite: Levine, Ella Enchanted

1998-1999 Award Winners

Picture Books Clement, Rod, Just Another Ordinary
Grades 4-6 Clements, Andrew, Frindle
Grades 6-9 Haddix, Margaret, Don't You Dare Read this Mrs. Dumphries

Friends Middle School Favorite: Fenner, Carol, Yolanda's Genius

1997-1998 Award Winners

Picture Books Palantini, Margie, Piggy Pie
Grades 4-6 Fleischman, Sid, The 13th Floor
Grades 6-9 Haddix, Margaret, Running Out of Time

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