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Georgia Children’s Book Award: Nominees for 2008-2009

Georgia Children’s Book Award: Nominees for 2008-2009. The purpose of the award is to foster a love of reading in the children of Georgia and to introduce them to books of literary excellence. The Amazing Flight of Darius Frobisher by Bill Harley.

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Georgia Children’s Book Award: Nominees for 2008-2009

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  1. Georgia Children’s Book Award:Nominees for2008-2009 The purpose of the award is to foster a love of reading in the children of Georgia and to introduce them to books of literary excellence.

  2. The Amazing Flight ofDarius Frobisher by Bill Harley • When his adventurous father disappears during a hot-air balloon flight, ten-year-old Darius is torn away from his beloved housekeeper and sent to live with an obnoxious aunt until a strange bicycle repairman with a secret changes his life.

  3. Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607by Elisa Carbone • Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.

  4. Defianceby Valerie Hobbs • While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.

  5. Do Not Pass Go by Kirkpatrick Hill • When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were.

  6. Happy Kid by Gail Gauthier • After his mother bribes him into reading a self-help book on how to form satisfying relationships and enjoy a happy life, cynical eighth-grader Kyle finds there may be more to the book than he realized.

  7. Heatby Mike Lupica • Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.

  8. Journey to the Blue Moonby Rebecca Rupp • After a gang of talking rats transports a young boy to the moon, he embarks on a series of adventures and gains a new perspective on the concept of time.

  9. Letters from Rapunzelby Sara Holmes • Through a series of letters written to a post office box, twelve-year-old Cadence describes her father’s hospitalization for depression, her subsequent problems at school, and her hope that the mysterious recipient will help her find a happy ending.

  10. Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan • Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he and friends go to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus’s lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.

  11. Peak by Roland Smith • A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

  12. Phineas L. MacGuire…Erupts! The First Experimentby Frances O’Roark Dowell • Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire is forced to team up with the new boy in class on a science fair project, but the boy’s quirky personality causes Phineas to wonder if they have any chance of winning.

  13. Rules by Cynthia Lord • Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.

  14. Runaway Princess by Kate Coombs • Fifteen-year-old Princess Meg uses magic and her wits to rescue a baby dragon and escape the unwanted attentions of princes hoping to gain her hand in marriage through a contest arranged by her father, the king.

  15. Shield of Stars by Hilari Bell • When the Justice he works for is condemned for treason, fourteen-year-old and semi-reformed pickpocket Weasel sets out to find a notorious bandit who may be able to help save his master’s life.

  16. So B. It by Sarah Weeks • After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.

  17. Story of Jonas by Maurine F. Dahlberg • In the mid-1800s, a slave boy dreams of escaping to freedom while on a journey from Missouri to the gold fields of Kansas Territory with his master’s n’er-do-well son.

  18. Thing About Georgie by Lisa 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.

  19. Truth and Salsa by Linda Lowery • Having moved temporarily from Michigan to live with her grandmother in Mexico, thirteen-year-old Hayley tries to sort out her feelings about her parents’ separation while also helping some townsmen who have run into trouble while working in the United States.

  20. Way Down Deep by Ruth White • In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby’s past begins to unravel.

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