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2008-2009 Maine Student Book Award List

2008-2009 Maine Student Book Award List. A list of the MSBA titles available in the Kaler School Library. Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion. Burns, Loree Griffin.

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2008-2009 Maine Student Book Award List

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  1. 2008-2009Maine Student Book Award List A list of the MSBA titles available in the Kaler School Library

  2. Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion. Burns, Loree Griffin. When sneakers washed up off the coast of the state of Washington, scientist Curt Ebbesmeyer used them to learn about the movement of trash by ocean currents. Photographs illustrate and add to the scientific explanation of ocean patterns as well as the effects of ocean-borne trash.

  3. The Castle Corona. Creech, Sharon. In this entertaining and richly imagined fairy tale romp, two young and poor Italian peasant children, Enzio and Pia, find a pouch marked with the royal seal. The pouch leads them to the castle where the outspoken Enzio and Pia find new lives with an unconventional, dissatisfied royal family and its advisors, the royal hermits.

  4. Igraine the Brave. Funke, Cornelia. Although her parents are magicians, Igraine finds magic dull as dishwater; instead, she yearns to become a swashbuckling knight. When Osmund the Greedy attempts to steal her parent's Singing Books of Magic and her parents are accidentally turned into pigs, Igraine, her magician-in-training brother, a giant, and a knight work together to save the day.

  5. Dragon Slippers. George, Jessica Day. Creel, a feisty, orphaned peasant girl, is forced by her aunt to surrender to a local dragon in the hope that the knight who rescues Creel will want to marry her. No such luck. Instead, Creel befriends the dragon and receives a pair of magical slippers that link her to all the dragons of the kingdom and later enable Creel to help the prince keep the peace.

  6. Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest. Haig, Matt. After Samuel and his sister Martha lose their parents in an automobile accident, the children are sent to live with their aunt in Norway. They are warned to avoid the attic and the ominous Shadow Forest nearby, but Martha disobeys and enters the woods only to disappear. Samuel, armed with a book about the magical Scandinavian creatures like trolls and huldres, sets off to rescue her.

  7. Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat. Jonell, Lynne. Since her parents have inherited millions, Emmy seems less and less important to them; even her teacher and classmates hardly acknowledge her existence. After she is bitten by the class rodent, Emmy starts to hear the rat's smart aleck comments. With his help, Emmy discovers that her nasty nanny, Miss Barmy, and the sneaky Prof. Vole are plotting to get rid of Emmy in order to steal her parent's fortune.

  8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal. Kinney, Jeff. In short chapters and hilarious, earthy dialog punctuated with cartoons, sixth-grader Greg records his experiences during a year of middle school.

  9. Summer Ball. Lupica, Mike. At summer basketball camp, Danny, a talented and spunky thirteen-year-old, finds himself up against an antagonistic coach and must prove that he and his unlikely team are the winning players he knows they can be.

  10. Lawn Boy. Paulsen, Gary. The narrator of this slapstick story receives a used riding lawn mower from his grandmother for his twelfth birthday. One lawn-mowing job turns into two, then three, then more. Soon the energetic young entrepreneur is making and investing big money.

  11. When is a Planet not a Planet?: the Story of Pluto. Scott, Elaine. Exactly what makes a planet a planet? This book is a history of astronomy and offers an explanation as to Pluto's recent demotion in status. It includes historical facts, photos, a glossary, an index, and suggested reading.

  12. TheInvention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures. Selznick, Brian. The year is 1931, the setting is a train station in Paris, and the story is unique. Told in text and exquisitely detailed double-page illustrations, a mystery unfolds around a young boy called Hugo, his new friend Isabelle, an automaton, and a magician turned filmmaker.

  13. Peak. Smith, Roland. Gifted climber, Peak Marcello, is arrested for attempting to scale New York's Woolworth Building and lands in jail. He is bailed out by his famous mountain climber dad, a man he hardly knows, who gets Peak out of trouble but onto Mt. Everest where Peak may become the youngest person to reach the top of this fabled mountain.

  14. The White Giraffe. St. John, Lauren. When eleven-year old Martine's parents perish in a house fire in England, she is sent to live on a game preserve in Africa with a grouchy grandmother she's never met.  Martine's love for the animals makes her existence livable, and she discovers she has a mystical gift which helps her rescue a rare white giraffe.

  15. Dragon's Egg. Thomson, Sarah L. In a lively adventure, Mella, age twelve, is a young but very talented keeper to common, domestic dragons. By accident, Mella takes on the care and delivery of a wild dragon's egg to its hidden hatching grounds in the Dragontooth Mountains. Aided by a young squire, Mella proves that her courage and spunk can forge a peace among humans and the threatened and threatening wild dragons. This is an engaging fantasy by a Maine author.

  16. HAPPY READING!!

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