LOUISIANA YOUNG READERS’ CHOICE AWARD BALLOT 2010

GRADES 6-8

Chaos Code by Richards, Justin. 388 pages. Join Matt on an action packed modern-day treasure hunt that takes him across the globe in search of a code fabled to have brought down Atlantis.

Trade Cloth. Bloomsbury Publishing 2007. 1-59990-124-2. $17.95.

Compact Disc. Random House Audio 2007. 0-7393-6171-6 $50.00

Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam by Kadohata, Cynthia. 312 pages. Cracker is a female German shepherd who is trained to sniff out booby traps and other dangersto the US troops in the Vietnam War. The story is told in alternating viewpoints between Cracker and her handler.

Trade Cloth. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 2007. 1-4169-0637-1. $16.99.

Compact Disc. Random House Audio Publishing 2007. 0739338889. $39.00.

E-Book. Random House Audio Publishing. 0739354957. $50.00.

Trade Paper Forthcoming. Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing 2008.

1-4169-0638-X. $7.99.

Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Hahn, Mary Downing. 187 pages. In this chilling ghost story Ali goes to spend the summer with her aunt and learns about a girl who disappeared and was presumed deadthirty years earlier.

Trade Cloth. Houghton Mifflin Company 2007. 0618665455. $16.00.

Trade Paper. Houghton Mifflin Company 2008. 0547076452. $5.99.

Diamonds in the Shadow by Cooney, Caroline. 228 pages. Jared’s family takes in a refugee family fleeing a war in Africa. Unfortunately, there was one more person that made it to America from Africa and he is looking for something the refugees have and will stop at nothing to get it.

Trade Cloth. Random House Children’s Books 2007. 0385732619. $15.99.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Kinney, Jeff. 217 pages. Through both text and pictures, Greg chronicles his hilarious first year of middleschool. Greg would like to be cool, popular and impress girls but nothing ever seems to work out the way he wants.

Trade Cloth. Harry N. Abrams , Incorporated 2007. 0-8109-9313-9. $12.95.

Dragon Slippers by George, Jessica Day. 324 pages. All Creel wants to do is move to the big city and become a seamstress. Her fortunes change when she meets her first dragon and is given a magical pair of blue slippers.

Trade Cloth. Bloomsbury Publishing 2007. 1599900572. $16.95.

Trade Cloth Large Type. Thorndike Press 2008. 1410403378. $22.95.

Trade Paper. Bloomsbury Publishing 2008. 1-59990-275-3. $7.99.

Elijah of Buxton by Curtis, Christopher Paul. 395 pages. Eleven-year-old Elijah was born into freedom in Canada but witnesses the cruelties of slavery when he takes a perilous mission into the United States.

Trade Cloth. Scholastic Incorporated 2007. 0439023440. $16.99.

Compact Disc. Random House Audio Publishing Group 2008. 0739367196. $50.00.

Trade Cloth Large Type. Thorndike Press 2008. 1-4104-0580-X. $23.95.

Fire From the Rock by Draper, Sharon. 240 pages. Sylvia is chosen to be one of the first black students to integrate Little Rock’s all white Central High School, chronicling first hand one of the most volatile moments of the Civil Rights Movement’s history.

Trade Cloth. Penguin Group 2007. 0525477209. $16.99.

Trade Paper Forthcoming. Penguin Group 2008. 014241199X. $7.99.

Football Genius by Green, Tim. 256 pages. Troy has the amazing ability to predict football plays before they happen. If he can get anyone to listen to him perhaps he can help his favorite NRL team pull themselves out of their loosing streak.

Trade Cloth. HarperCollins Publishers 2007. 006112270X. $16.99.

Library Binding. HarperCollins Publishers 2007. 0061122726. $17.89.

Trade Cloth Large Type. Thorndike Press 2008. 1410404978. $23.95.

Compact Disc Forthcoming. Full Cast Audio 2008. 1934180424. $29.95.

Trade Paper Forthcoming. HarperCollins Publishers 2009. 0-06-112273-4. $6.99.

Gabriel’s Horses by Hart, Alison. 224 pages. Gabriel, a slave on a Kentucky plantation that breeds and trains Thoroughbreds, is determined to do whatever it takes to protect his beloved horses while the Civil War raging around him.

Trade Cloth. Peachtree Publishers 2007. 1-56145-398-6. $14.95.

Kimchi and Calamari by Kent, Rose. 220 pages. Joseph is bewildered when he is given a family ancestry assignment. Ethnically Joseph is Korean but he has been raised Italian by his adoptive Italian family. This is the beginning of a quest in which ultimately Joseph comes to reconcile and accept his various ancestries and establish his own identity.

Trade Cloth. HarperCollins Publishers 2007. 0060837691. $15.99.

Library Binding. HarperCollins Publishers 2007. 0-06-083770-5. $16.89.

Night of the Howling Dogs by Salisbury, Graham. 191 pages. Taken off guard while camping on a remote beach in Hawaii, Dylan’s Boy Scout troop struggles to survive after they are separated by a tsunami. This account is based on a true story.

Trade Cloth. Random House Children’s Books 2007. 0-385-73122-1. $16.99.

E-Book. Random House Children’s Books 2007. 0375890874. $13.99.

Mass Market Forthcoming. Random House Children’s Books 2009.

0440238390. $6.50.

Peak by Smith, Roland. 246 pages. Peak Marcello loves to climb, it’s in his blood, but unfortunately he lives in Manhattan. When Peak is sent to live with his father, who runs a climbing business in Asia, he takes on the challenge to become the youngest person to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Trade Cloth. Harcourt Children’s Books 2007. 0152024174. $17.00.

Compact Disc. Recorded Books 2007. 1428163565. $66.75.

Cassette. Recorded Books 2007. 1428163514. $51.75.

Trade Paper Forthcoming. Harcourt Paperbacks 2008. 0-15-206268-8. $6.95.

Schooled by Korman, Gordon. 208 pages. Capricorn has lived a completely isolated and sheltered life on a commune with his grandmother Rain. When Rain ends up in the hospital a local social worker takes Capricorn in and sends him to Middle School.

Trade Cloth. Hyperion Press 2007. 0-7868-5692-0. $15.99.

Compact Disc. Recorded Books 2007. 1428171916. $77.75.

Cassette. Recorded Books 2007. 142817186X. $56.75.

So Totally Emily Ebers by Yee, Lisa. 280 pages. Following her parent’s divorce, Emily moves to Californiawith her mom andbefriends Millicent Min and Stanford Wong over the summer.

Trade Cloth. Scholastic 2007. 0-439-83847-9. $16.99.

Trade Paper. Scholastic 2008. 0439838487. $5.99.