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2010. All the Lovely Bad Ones. While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace.". Author * Book Poor farms * Illinois poor house history Ilinois Poor Farm B&B *

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  1. 2010

  2. All the Lovely Bad Ones While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace." Author * Book Poor farms * Illinois poor house history Ilinois Poor Farm B&B * Wisconsin Poorfarm Cemetary

  3. A Crooked Kind of Perfect 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. Author

  4. Crossing the Wire 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. Author * Book1 * Book 2 Illegal Immigration:1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 Baboquivari Peak, Arizona1 * 2 * 3Guanajuato, Mexico1 * 2Amigos de las Americas

  5. Dragon Slippers Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom. Author * Book

  6. Elephant Run Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Author * Book video * Curriculum Burma – WW II:1 * 2 Burma:1 * 2 Burmese Elephants

  7. Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree 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. Author (includes anti-bullying curriculum)

  8. First Light When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible. Greenland and Climate change:1 * 2

  9. Freedom Walkers Dramatic overview of how the 381-day resistance to segregated buses spurred the civil rights movement. Author1 * Author2 * Author PDFEducator’s guide * Timeline Montgomery Bus Boycott * MBB2 * Montgomery Bus Boycott Timeline

  10. Home of the Brave Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things while staying with his aunt in Minneapolis, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner. Author1 * Author2 * Book * Book VideoSudan Conflict, history * Sudan Conflict, Darfur Darfur Refugee Camps * Sudan Conflict, pictures

  11. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that supposedly contains the meaning of life. Author * Book * Book video

  12. Kimchi & Calamari Adopted from Korea by Italian parents, fourteen-year-old Joseph Calderaro begins to make important self-discoveries about race and family after his social studies teacher assigns an essay on cultural heritage and tracing the past. Author * Kimchi Calamari 1 * 2 * 3 Adoption:1 * 2

  13. The Naked Mole-Rat Letters When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated emails to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship. Author * Book Quiz Naked Mole Rats * RatCam

  14. Shark Girl 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. Author * Book1 * Book2Ichthyology

  15. Shooting the Moon 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. Author * Book Images of Vietnam War:1 * 2 * 3 Vietnam War history:1 * 2 Vietnam Memorial * Photography

  16. A Small White Scar Fifteen-year-old Will Bennon leaves his family and begins life as a cowboy, but his mentally retarded twin brother follows him and joins the journey. Author * Book * Book2 Quiz * Colorado Rodeo Association Down syndrome:1 * 2

  17. Someone Named Eva 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. Author1 * Author2 Lidice (contains disturbing images):1 * 2 * 3Lidice Memorial * Stolen children Lebensborn children1 * 2 * 3 * 4 Heuaktion * Ravensbrück Concentration Camp * Crest Hill Illinois – Lidice memorial Creating the “Master Race”

  18. The Mozart Question 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. Author * Book Concentration camp orchestras * Auschwitz Concentration Camp – basic facts Holocaust, Music:1 * 2 * 3

  19. The Thing About Georgie 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. Author * Author note * Author interview Book * Reading guide Dwarfism:1 * 2 * 3 * 4

  20. The Wednesday Wars 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. 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 1960s:1 * 2 * 360’s Quiz * NY Yankees History Shakespeare1 * 2 * 3 * 4

  21. The White Giraffe 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. Author1 *  Author2 Educator’s guide * Literature circle guide * White Giraffes

  22. Resources Rebecca Caudill’s Young Readers Book Award. September 4, 2009. http://www.rcyrba.org Perma-Bound. October 5, 2009. http://perma-bound.com

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