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Black-Eyed Susan Award Nominees 2009-2010. Brendan Buckley’s universe and everything in it By Sundee T. Frazier.
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Brendan Buckley’s universe and everything in it By Sundee T. Frazier Ten-year-old Tae Kwon Do blue belt and budding rock hound Brendan Buckley keeps a "Confidential" notebook for his top-secret scientific discoveries. And he's found something totally top secret. The grandpa he's never met, who his mom refuses to talk about or see, is an expert mineral collector and lives nearby! Secretly, Brendan visits Ed DeBose, whose skin is pink, not brown like Brendan's, his dad's, or that of Grampa Clem's, who recently died. Brendan sets out to find the reason behind Ed's absence, but what he discovers can't be explained by science, and now he wishes he'd never found him at all. . . .
Diamond WillowBy Helen Frost Twelve-year-old Willow, the daughter of an Anglo father and an Athabascan mother, lives in a remote area of Alaska. She loves running their sled dogs and would love to use them to visit her grandparents' cabin. With her parents' permission, she sets out. Everything goes well until a downed tree unexpectedly appears around a blind curve, and Roxy, the lead dog, cannot stop in time. The dog is permanently blinded, and Willow feels very guilty about the accident. When it seems that the dog might be put down, Willow heads out again to her grandparents' place, taking Roxy along as a passenger. As it starts to snow, Willow realizes that she might be in trouble. With familiar landmarks hidden by blowing snow and temperatures plummeting below zero, Willow fears that no one will be able to find her in the storm. She doesn't realize, however, that someone is watching her.
Igraine the brave By Cornelia Funke Princess Igraine dreams of becoming a famous knight just like her great grandfather, but the truth is, life at the family castle is rather boring. Until the nephew of the baroness-next-door shows up. He's got a dastardly plan to capture the castle and claim as his own the wonderful singing spell books that belong to Igraine's magician parents. To make matters worse, at the very moment of the siege, her mom and dad botch a spell, turning themselves into pigs! Aided by a Gentle Giant and a Sorrowful Knight, it's up to Igraine to be brave and save the day--and the books!
Samuel Blink and the forbidden forest By Matt Haig When Samuel and Martha are sent to Norway to live with their Aunt Eda after their parents' deaths, they soon learn her most important rule: NEVER--UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES--GO INTO THE FOREST. She doesn't offer an explanation, but Samuel suspects it might have something to do with a strange guidebook he finds in her attic: The Creatures of Shadow Forest. And when Martha wanders into the trees and is captured by some of the creatures, Samuel has no choice but to go in after her. What he finds there is an eerie world populated by trolls, truth pixies and other fantastical creatures.
Swindle By Gordon Korman After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's compound and recapture the card. There are many things standing in their way -- a menacing guard dog, a high-tech security system, a very secret hiding place, and their inability to drive -- but Griffin and his team are going to get back what's rightfully his . . . even if hijinks ensue.
SavvyBy Ingrid Law Mibs Beaumont is about to turn thirteen, which in the Beaumont family means her "savvy"-her special power-is about to strike. Her brothers' savvies let them create hurricanes and spark electricity, but Mibs has yet to learn what her savvy is. Then, two days before her birthday, her father is in a terrible car accident. He is sent to a hospital two hours from their isolated small town, and Mibs determines that she must get there, adamant that her savvy is going to help save him. She ends up on a traveling bible salesman's pink bus with all her siblings and the preacher's children, including the preacher's son, Will, who has a crush on her. The story chronicles the ups and downs of their journey to the hospital-where, in the end, Mibs's savvy (she can hear the thoughts and feelings of people with ink on their skin) helps her hear Poppa's tattoo speak and, ultimately, save his life.
Paint the wind By Pam Munoz Ryan Maya lives like a captive. At Grandmother's house in California, everything is forbidden: friends, fun, even memories. And her life is built on lies: lies Grandmother tells her about her dead mother, lies Maya tells to impress or manipulate. But then she moves to the vast Wyoming wilderness where her mother's family awaits - kind, rugged people who have no tolerance for lies. They challenge Maya to confront the truth about who she is. And a mysterious mustang called Artemisia waits, too. She holds the key to Maya's freedom. But to find it, Maya will have to risk everything, including her life.
Dragon’s eggBy Sarah Thomson Mella is a dragon keeper. It is a rare talent, and only she can care for the Inn's herd. She feeds them, gathers their eggs, and tends to their injuries. But Mella dreams about the dragons of legend, even though hardly anyone believes they still exist. Dragons are small farm animals, not huge fire-breathing monsters. Everyone knows that. Until one day changes everything. Mella finds a real dragon egg, and when the dragon mother is slain she promises to deliver the precious egg to its hatching ground far away in the mountains. Accompanied by a new friend, a squire named Roger, Mella sets off to keep her promise.
A crooked kind of perfect By Linda Urban Ten-year-old Zoe Elias can’t wait to start playing the piano her dad will be buying her. She longs to play classical music at Carnegie Hall. But when a trip to the mall sends her anxious father into a panic, he buys a wheezy electric organ instead of a piano. To make things worse, her best friend dumps her, her mother is always at work, and Wheeler Diggs, the odd boy at school, has been following her home from school every day. Zoe begins to learn how to play the organ as she prepares for the Perform-O-Rama, where young organ players compete. But music just doesn’t sound the same on the organ. Can she accept playing old show tunes instead of her favorite classical music?
Fearless By Elvira Woodruff In 1703 when a storm brings down his father's boat, 12-year-old Digory Beale sets off alone, walking across the wilds of Cornwall. He must get word of his father's fate--and his own. For if Father is dead, Digory can never go home again. With no guide, no money, and no prospects, Digory's journey is beset with problems--and plagued with nightmares of drowning on the treacherous Eddystone Reef. But all that is about to change when a stranger, Henry Winstanley, takes him on as an apprentice. A fun-loving daredevil, inventor, and gadgeteer, Henry lives in a fun house filled with robots, a roller coaster, and a dragon who snores. As a monster storm--part hurricane, part cyclone, and part tornado--threatens Cornwall's coast, Digory finds himself on a mission with his fearless master to rescue a battered lighthouse on the Eddystone Reef. Will Digory be fearless enough to face his worst nightmare?
