Awesome Award Books In the Terman Library
Here are the awards you will find marked on the following book list:
California Young Reader Medal Winners The best Middle School and Young Adult level books voted on annually by students all over the state of California.
Coretta Scott King Award Annual award for a book written by and about African Americans.
Edgar Allen Poe Award Annual award for a mystery book written for young people.
National Book Award Annual award given for distinguished Fiction for young people.
Newbery Award and Honor Books Annual award given for distinguished Fiction for young people.
Printz Award and Honor Books Bi-annual award given for distinguished Fiction for Young Adults. These books are for more mature readers.
Pura Belpre Award Annual award given for books written by and about Latino Americans.
Sibert Award Annual award given for distinguished Non Fiction books for young people.
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Awesome Award Books In the Terman Library
379.2 Mor Remember: The Journey to School Integration Morrison, Toni
Presents a selection of archival photographs that document events surrounding the integration of U.S. schools following the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and includes captions in which Toni Morrison imagines what the people in the pictures must have been thinking and feeling. 2005 Coretta Scott King Award
614.5 Mur An American Plague Murphy, Jim
Provides an account of the yellow fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793, discussing the chaos that erupted when people began evacuating in droves, leaving the city without government, goods, or services, and examining efforts by physicians, the Free African Society, and others to cure and care for the sick. 2004 Newbery Honor & 2004 Sibert Award
629.45 Thi Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Thimmesh, Catherine
Chronicles the Apollo 11 mission, the spaceflight that landed the first man on Earth's moon on July 20, 1969, emphasizing the contributions and reactions of the thousands of people who made the mission successful. 2007 Sibert Award
741.5 Yan American Born Chinese Yang, Gene
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format. 2007 Printz Award
811 Nel A Wreath for Emmett Till Nelson, Marilyn
This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955. 2006 Printz Honor
812.6 Sch Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Schlitz, Laura Amy
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor. 2008 Newbery Award
921 Anderson The Voice That Challenged a Nation Freedman, Russell
Tells the life story of singer Marian Anderson, describing her famous 1939 Lincoln Memorial performance and explaining how she helped end segregation in the American arts after being refused the right to perform at Washington's Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin. 2005 Newbery Honor & 2005 Sibert Award
921 Lennon John Lennon: All I want Is the Truth Partridge, Elizabeth
Presents a biography of musician John Lennon, chronicling his life and times from his troubled childhood in Liverpool, England, through his career writing, recording, and performing as a member of the Beatles. Includes 140 black-and-white photographs. 2006 Printz Honor
921 Manzano The Poet Slave of Cuba Engle, Margarita
A portrait in poems of Juan Francisco Manzano, the poet who was born a slave in Cuba in 1797. 2008 Pura Belpre Award
921 Sís The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain Sís, Peter
Artist Sís Peter describes what it was like growing up in a Communist country and discusses how Western culture influenced his life. 2008 Sibert Award
943.08 Bar Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow Bartoletti, Susan
A photo-illustrated look at the youth organizations Adolf Hitler founded and used to meet his sociopolitical and military ends; includes profiles of individual Hitler Youth members as well as young people who opposed the Nazis, such as Hans and Sophie Scholl. 2006 Newbery Honor
973.7 Wal Secrets of a Civil War Submarine Walker, Sally
Tells the story of the "H. L. Hunley," the Confederate submarine that in 1864 became the first to ever sink an enemy ship but lay missing on the ocean floor for more than a century, describing its creation, its discovery, skeletons and objects found onboard, and facial reconstructions of several crew members by forensic anthropologists. 2006 Sibert Award
E Woo Show Way Woodson, Jacqueline
A mother passes on the tradition of making quilts, or "Show ways", that serve as secret maps for freedom seeking slaves. 2006 Newbery Honor
F Ale The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Alexie, Sherman
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. 2007 National Book Award
F Alv Before We Were Free Alvarez, Julia
In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo. 2004 Pura Belpre Award
F And The Pox Party Anderson, M. T.
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. 2006 National Book Award & 2007 Printz Honor F Arm Whittington Armstrong, Alan
Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington's famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor's story. 2006 Newbery Honor
F Arn Rat Life Arnold, Tedd
After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteen-year-old Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery. 2008 Edgar Allen Poe Award
F Bal Chasing Vermeer Balliett, Blue
When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. 2005 Edgar Allen Poe Award
F Bir The Penderwicks Birdsall, Jeanne
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother. 2005 National Book Award
F Can The Tequila Worm Canales, Viola
Sofia finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to her family in the barrio community of McAllen, Texas. 2006 Pura Belpre Award
F Cho Al Capone Does My Shirts Choldenko, Gennifer
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister. 2007 California Young Reader Medal & 2005 Newbery Honor
F Cla One Whole and Perfect Day Clarke, Judith
As her irritating family prepares to celebrate her grandfather's eightieth birthday, sixteen-year-old Lily yearns for just one whole perfect day together. 2008 Printz Honor
F Cle Things Not Seen Clements, Andrew
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it. 2005 California Young Reader Medal
F Cle Room One: a Mystery or Two Clements, Andrew
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. 2007 Edgar Allen Poe Award F Cor 12 Again Corbett, Sue
Bernadette, having wished on the eve of her fortieth birthday to be young again, wakes up the next morning as a twelve-year-old, and enrolls in her son Patrick's class in hopes of somehow enlisting his help in returning to her old self. 2006 California Young Reader Medal
F Cur Elijah of Buxton Curtis, Christopher
Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family’s freedom. 2008 Coretta Scott King Award & 2008 Newbery Honor
F DiC The Tale of Despereaux DiCamillo, Kate
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. 2004 Newbery Award
F Don A Northern Light Donnelly, Jennifer
Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and boyfriend, takes a job at a hotel in 1906 where the death of a guest renews her determination to live her own life. 2004 Printz Honor
F Dra Copper Sun Draper, Sharon
Two fifteen-year-old girls, one a slave and the other an indentured servant, escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves. 2007 Coretta Scott King Award
F Fei Last Shot: a Final Four Mystery Feinstein, John
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game. 2006 Edgar Allen Poe Award
F Gil Shattering Glass Giles, Gail
When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence. 2007 California Young Reader Medal
F Goi Fat Kid Rules the World Going, K.L.
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly three hundred pounds, gets a new perspective on life when Curt, a semi-homeless teen who is a genius on guitar, asks Troy to be the drummer in a rock band. 2004 Printz Honor
F Hal Princess Academy Hale, Shannon
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland. 2006 Newbery Honor
F Hau Godless Hautman, Pete
When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own. 2004 National Book Award
F Hen Olive's Ocean Henkes, Kevin
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer. 2004 Newbery Honor
F Hol Penny From Heaven Holm, Jennifer
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. 2007 Newbery Honor
F Hoo In Darkness, Death Hoobler, Dorothy
In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai. 2005 Edgar Allen Poe Award
F Hor Stormbreaker Horowitz, Anthony
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. 2005 California Young Reader Medal
F Joh The First Part Last Johnson, Angela
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. 2004 Printz Award & 2004 Coretta Scott King Award
F Kad Kira-Kira Kadohata, Cynthia
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. 2005 Newbery Award
F Kno Dreamquake Knox, Elizabeth
While investigating the government's involvement in the disappearance of her father, Tziga Hame, and the decline of the art of projecting dreams, dreamhunter Laura learns more about "The Place." 2008 Printz Honor F Lar Hattie Big Sky Larson, Kirby
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. 2007 Newbery Honor
F Les Day of Tears Lester, Julius
Presents a historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts. 2006 Coretta Scott King Award
F Lor Rules Lord, Cynthia
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. 2007 Newbery Honor
F Mac The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things Mackler, Carolyn
Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her. 2004 Printz Honor
F Mar The Night Tourist Marsh, Katherine
After fourteen-year-old classics prodigy Jack Perdu has a near-fatal accident he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York's underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there. 2008 Edgar Allen Poe Award
F McC The White Darkness McCaughrean, G.
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone, a troubled fourteen year old, discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth. 2008 Printz Award
F McN Acceleration McNamee, Graham
Stuck working in the lost and found department of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him. 2004 Edgar Allen Poe Award
F Mor Private Peaceful Morpurgo, Michael
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself. 2008 California Young Reader Medal F Nam Ties That Bind, Ties That Break Namioka, Lensey
Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound. 2004 California Young Reader Medal
F Nay Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry Naylor, Phyllis
Many residents of Middleburg, Indiana, are already going crazy from the ever-ringing church bells and now, after a bat is spotted in the hotel run by Bernie's family, they worry that the dangerous Indiana Aztec bat has finally arrived. 2004 Edgar Allen Poe Award
F Opp Airborn Oppel, Kenneth
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. 2005 Printz Honor
F Pat The Higher Power of Lucky Patron, Susan
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life. 2007 Newbery Award
F Per Criss Cross Perkins, Lynne
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love. 2006 Newbery Award
F Pro After Prose, Francine
In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear. 2006 California Young Reader Medal
F Ros How I Live Now Rosoff, Meg
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. 2005 Printz Award
F Sch Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Schmidt, Gary
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers, and Turner's, want to change into a tourist spot. 2005 Newbery Honor & 2005 Printz Honor F Sch The Wednesday Wars Schmidt, Gary
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. 2008 Newbery Honor
F Shu The Schwa Was Here Shusterman, Neal
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone. 2008 California Young Reader Medal
F Smi The Boys of San Joaquin Smith, D.J.
In a small California town in 1951, twelve-year-old Paolo and his deaf cousin Billy get caught up in a search for money missing from the church collection, leading them to complicated discoveries about themselves, other family members, and townspeople they thought they knew. 2006 Edgar Allen Poe Award
F Str Chanda's Secrets Stratton, Allan
Chanda Kabelo, a sixteen-year-old in a small South African town, faces down shame and stigma in her efforts to help friends and family members who are dying of AIDS. 2005 Printz Honor
F Van Flipped Van Draanen, W.
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years. 2004 California Young Reader Medal
F Woo Feathers Woodson, Jacqueline
When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light. 2008 Newbery Honor
F Zus The Book Thief Zusak, Markus
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel, a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. 2007 Printz Honor |