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The Book Award Committee will read the books suggested by South Dakota teachers and librarians and formulate a master list of titles to be used for the book award. For more information on Prairie Pasque
| Author | Title - Book Information from the SD State Library |
|---|---|
| Avi | Never Mind: A Twin Novel |
| Andrew Clements | The Last Holiday Concert |
| Michael De Guzman | Beekman's Big Deal |
| John Grandits | Technically, It's Not My Fault |
| Dan Gutman | Get Rich Quick Club |
| Mary Downing Hahn | The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story |
| Marian Hale | Truth About Sparrows |
| Karen Hesse | Cats in Krasinski Square |
| Margaret Hodges | Merlin and the Making of the King |
| Paul B. Janeczko | Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing |
| Peg Kehret | Abduction! |
| Lucy Nolan | Down Girl and Sit: Smarter Than Squirrels |
| Wendelin Van Draanen | Shredderman: Secret Identity |
| Jean Van Leeuwen | Cabin on Trouble Creek |
| William Wise | Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler |
| Author | Title - Book Information from the SD State Library |
|---|---|
| Mary Batten | Aliens from Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems |
| John H. Ritter | The Boy who Saved Baseball |
| Sid Fleischman | Disappearing Act |
| Sue Stauffacher | Donuthead |
| Lisa Westberg Peters | Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up |
| Karen Levine | Hana's Suitcase |
| John Bemelmans Marciano | Harold's Tail |
| Cynthia Leitich Smith | Indian Shoes |
| Janet S. Anderson | The Last Treasure |
| Kevin O'Malley | Mount Olympus Basketball |
| Tony Jonston | The Mummy's Mother |
| Elvira Woodruff | The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From The Tower Of London |
| Esme Raji Codell | Sahara Special |
| Peg Kehret | Spy Cat |
| Kay Winters | Voices of Ancient Egypt |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Nancy Andrews-Goebel | The Pot That Juan Built |
| Judy Blume | Double Fudge |
| Michael C. Delaney | Birdbrain Amos |
| Patricia Reilly Giff | Pictures of Hollis Woods |
| Nikki Grimes | Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman |
| Jessie Haas | Shaper |
| Dennis Haseley | Amazing Thinking Machine |
| X. J. Kennedy | Exploding Gravy: Poems to Make You Laugh |
| Erik P. Kraft | Lenny and Mel |
| Janet Taylor Lisle | How I Became a Writer and Oggie Learned to Drive |
| Carolyn Marsden | The Gold-Threaded Dress |
| Jane O'Connor | Emperor's Silent Army: Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China |
| Dorothy Hinshaw Patent | Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark |
| Katherine Paterson | The Same Stuff as Stars |
| David J. Smith | If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Thomas B. Allen & Robert D. Ballard | Remember Pearl Harbor |
| Joseph Bruchac | Skeleton Man |
| Sharon Creech | Love That Dog |
| Jean Fritz | Leonardo's Horse |
| Gail Gauthier | Hero Of Ticonderoga |
| Andrew Glass | Mountain Men: True Grit and Tall Tales |
| Paul B. Janeczko | A Poke In The I |
| Amy MacDonald | No More Nasty |
| Patricia McKissack | Goin' Someplace Special |
| Sy Montgomery | Man Eating Tigers Of Sundarbans |
| Donna Jo Napoli | Three Days |
| Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Great Chicken Debacle |
| Diane Stanley | Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine |
| Vera B. Williams | Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart |
| Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris | Odysseus In The Serpent's Maze |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Joseph Bruchac | Crazy Horse's Vision |
| Carmen Agra Deedy | Yellow Star: The Legend Of King Christian X of Denmark |
| Kate DiCamillo | Because of Winn-Dixie |
| Nancy Etchemendy | Power of UN |
| Debra Frasier | Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster |
| Jennifer B. Jones | Dear Mrs. Ryan, You're Ruining My Life |
| Laurie Myers | Surviving Brick Johnson |
| Jack Prelutsky | It's Raining Pigs and Noodles |
| Pam Munoz Ryan | Esperanza Rising |
| Judith St. George | So You Want To Be President? |
| Sophie Webb | My Season With Penguins: An Antarctic Journal |
| Sheila Kelly Welch | Shadowed Unicorn |
| Betty Ren Wright | Moonlight Man |
| Laurence Yep | Cockroach Cooties |
| Jane Yolen | Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery From History |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Avi | Midnight Magic |
| Mary Casanova | Stealing Thunder |
| Christopher Paul Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy |
| Cynthia DeFelice | Nowhere to Call Home |
| Gretel Ehrlich | A Blizzard Year: Timmy's Almanac of the Seasons |
| Paul Fleischman | Weslandia |
| Carol Gorman | Dork in Disguise |
| Florence Parry Heide | The House of Wisdom |
| Kimberly Willis Holt | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town |
| Polly Horvath | Trolls |
| Steve Jenkins | The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest |
| Gail Karwoski | Seaman: the Dog who Explored the West with Lewis and Clark |
| Maggie Lewis | Morgy Makes His Move |
| Lynn McElfresh | Can You Feel the Thunder? |
| Walter Dean Myers | Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly |
| Mary Pope Osborne | Adaline Falling Star |
| Vera W. Propp | When the Soldiers were Gone |
| Charles R. Smith, Jr. | Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls and Rhythms |
| Stephen R. Swinburne | Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf |
| Pamela Todd | Pig and the Shrink |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Avi | Perloo the Bold |
| Allan Ballard | Ghost Liners: Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships |
| Robert Burleigh | Black Whiteness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic |
| Paula Danziger | P.S. Longer Letter Later |
| Cynthia C. DeFelice | Ghost of Fossil Glen |
| Lynda Durrant | Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell |
| Ralph J. Fletcher | Flying Solo |
| Jack Gantos | Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key |
| Helen V. Griffith | Dinosaur Habitat |
| Karen Hesse | Just Juice |
| Johanna Hurwitz | Faraway Summer |
| Kathryn Lasky | A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain |
| J. Patrick Lewis | Doodle Dandies: Poems That Take Shape |
| Richard Peck | A Long Way from Chicago |
| Carolyn Reeder | Foster's War |
| Pam Muñoz Ryan | Riding Freedom |
| Louis Sachar | Holes |
| James Solheim | It's Disgusting and We Ate It!: True Food Facts from Around the World |
| David Wisniewski | The Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups |
| Laurence Yep | IMP That Ate My Homework |
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Arnold Adoff | Love Letters |
| Bruce Coville | William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Paul Fleischman | Seedfolks |
| Russell Freedman | Out of Darkness: the Story of Louis Braille |
| Dan Gutman | The Million Dollar Shot |
| Wilborn Hampton | Kennedy Assassinated!: the World Mourns: a Reporter's Story |
| Will Hobbs | Ghost Canoe |
| Gail Carson Levine | Ella Enchanted |
| Elizabeth Levy | My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian |
| Lois Lowry | Stay!: Keeper's Story |
| Dav Pilkey | The Adventures of Captain Underpants: an Epic Novel |
| Tracey Porter | Treasures in the Dust |
| Candice F. Ransom | Fire in the Sky |
| Dian Curtis Regan | Monsters in Cyberspace |
| Joanne Rocklin | For Your Eyes Only |
| George Shannon | True Lies: 18 Tales for You to Judge |
| Zilpha Keatley Snyder | Gib Rides Home |
| Jerry Spinelli | Wringer |
| Ann Turner | Finding Walter |
| Carol Lynch Williams | The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson |
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