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The 2012 Caudill Master List

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Watch for information about how YOU can get a FREE ICE CREAM SUNDAE in the LRC during your scheduled lunch time in February 2012 - simply by reading 3 or more of the Caudill nominees.  

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Check out some information about the current
(2012) Rebecca Caudill book nominees.

Source: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Web Site and Follett Library Resources.
Used for educational purposes only. 

. . . Caudill 2012 Nominees . . . 

	From the Rebecca Caudill Website:
	All the Broken Pieces Burg, Ann E. Scholastic, 2009 (Gr. 6-8) Read More About It: Operation Babylift * Adoption History Project * Vietnam adoptee resources
	Every Soul a Star Mass, Wendy Little, Brown and Company, 2008 (Gr. 5-8) Author Read More About It: Eclipse Resources: 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * Safety 1 * 2
	The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Kelly, Jacqueline Holt, 2009 (Gr. 6-8) Author: 1 * 2 * Q&A * Interview Read More About It: Darwin * Female Scientists: 1 * 2 National Geographic Society * Smithsonian Girls can be scientists, too… Can’t they? Pg 256-257 Mrs. Curie’s element Mrs. Maxwell’s screech owl Miss Anning’s pterodactyl and ichthyosaur Miss Kovalevsky’s equations Miss Bird’s travels to the Sandwich Islands
	Extra Credit Clements, Andrew Atheneum, 2009 (Gr. 4-6) Author
	Flygirl Smith, Sherri L. Putnam, 2008 (Gr. 7-8) Author Read More About It: WASP 1 * 2 * 3 * Video Passing for white 1 * 2 * 3 * 4
	The Girl Who Threw Butterflies Cochrane, Mick Knopf, 2009 (Gr. 5-8) Author
	Greetings from Nowhere O'Connor, Barbara Farrar, Straus and Girous, 20086 (Gr. 4-7) Author 1 * 2 * Interview Read More About It: Great Smoky Mountains
	Heart of a Shepherd Parry, Rosanne Random House, 2009 (Gr. 5-8) Author
	Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories about Growing Up Scieszka Scieszka, Jon Viking, 2008 (Gr. 4-8) Author
	Leviathan Westerfeld, Scott Simon & Schuster, 2009 (Gr. 6-8) Author
	The Magic Thief Prineas, Sarah HarperCollins, 2008 (Gr. 4-8) Author * Game
	Masterpiece Broach, Elise Holt, 2008 (Gr. 4-6) Author * Discussion Guide * Audio Excerpt Read More About It: Albrecht Dürer 1 * Albrecht Dürer 2
	The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Philbrock, Rodman Blue Sky Press, 2009 (Gr. 5-8) Author
	One-Handed Catch Auch, M J Holt, 2006 (Gr. 4-8) Author
	Peak Smith, Roland Harcourt, Inc., 2007 (Gr. 6-8) Author * Peak Glog Read More About It: Sherpas
	Powerless Cody, Matthew Knopf, 2009 (Gr. 5-8) Author * Author video
	The Rock and the River Magoon, Kekla Aladdin, 2009 (Gr. 7-8) Author Read More About It: Black Panthers * 1968 Chicago Riot * MLKing Death * Chicago Race Riots
	Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Lin, Grace Little Brown and Company, 2009 (Gr. 4-8) Author * Blog Tour * Activity Book
	Wild Things Carmichael, Clay Front Street, 2009 (Gr. 5-8) Author * Author 2 * Bookmark * Brochure Boy Who Drew Cats

1.  All the Broken Pieces: A Novel in Verse -- Burg, Ann  
   {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Scholastic Press, 2009., RL 4.1, 218p 
   Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past. 
   Lexile: 680

2. Every Soul a Star : a novel-- Mass, Wendy
   {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Little, Brown, 2009, c2008., RL 4.7, 322p 
   Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, to watch a total eclipse of the sun; but soon they begin to learn a great deal about themselves, each other, and the universe. Lexile: 740,

3. Flygirl -- Smith, Sherri L
   {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Putnam's, c2008., 275p 
   During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots. 

4. Greetings from Nowhere -- O'Connor, Barbara 
   {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008., RL 6.2, 198p
   In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences.  Lexile: 660 

5. Heart of a Shepherd -- Parry, Rosanne 
   {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Random House, c2009., RL 5.2, 161p 
   Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be. Lexile: 850 

6. Knucklehead : Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka -- Scieszka, Jon 
   {IL 3-6, 813} -- Viking, 2008., RL 4.6, 106p
   Presents a memoir of what it was like to grow up in the 1950s and other almost true stories by American children's author Jon Scieszka. Lexile: 750 

7. The Magic Thief -- Prineas, Sarah 
   {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- HarperCollins, c2008., RL 4.5, 419p 
   Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick the pocket of the wizard Nevery and instead gets a strong jolt of magic, but, instead of punishing the boy, Nevery takes Conn under his wing, teaches him magic, and enlists his help in finding the person responsible for stealing the city's dwindling magic supply. Lexile: 680 

8. One-Handed Catch -- Auch, Mary Jane 
   {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Holt, 2006., RL 4.7, 248p 
   After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities. Lexile: 710 

9. Powerless -- Cody, Matthew
   {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Knopf, c2009., RL 5.3, 279p 
   Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them. Lexile: 800 

10. The Rock and the River -- Magoon, Kekla 
    {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Aladdin, 2009., RL 3.9, 290p 
    In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party. Lexile: 550

11. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon -- Lin, Grace 
    {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Little, Brown and Co. Books for Young Readers, 2009., RL 5.5, 278p 
    Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River. 

12. Wild Things -- Carmichael, Clay [ NB BL* WC KR* WM BL PW NY ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Front Street, c2009., RL 5.7, 241p 
    Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family.

13.  HL FBG 1 11.01 11.01 0009FL9 The evolution of Calpurnia Tate -- Kelly, Jacqueline [ BL* WC NM KR* SL* BK* NY PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Square Fish/Henry Holt, 2011, c2009., RL 5.3, 340p In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery. AR: 5.3 MG 12.0 130075EN Lexile: 830 FBG 1 13.12 13.12 0014QP5 Extra credit -- Clements, Andrew, 1949- [ WC EL MR BK BL PW HB SL ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011, c2009., RL 5.2, 189p Three young middle-school-age children, Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across cultural and religious divides. AR: 5.3 MG 5.0 130571EN Lexile: 830 FBG 1 10.81 10.81 0224UH3 Flygirl -- Smith, Sherri L [ BL* WM BK* PW HB SL WS BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Speak, 2010, c2008., 278p During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots. AR: 4.3 MG 11.0 128024EN Lexile: 680 FBG 1 12.91 12.91 39964C7 The girl who threw butterflies -- Cochrane, Mick [ KR* WM BL PW HB SL ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Yearling, c2009., 177p Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well. AR: 5.1 MG 7.0 128825EN Lexile: 750 FBG 1 12.31 12.31 00013S8 Greetings from nowhere -- O'Connor, Barbara [ KR WM BL HB SL BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008., RL 6.2, 198p In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences. AR: 4.2 MG 4.0 121376EN Lexile: 660 FBG 1 18.10 18.10 0133ZC3 Heart of a shepherd -- Parry, Rosanne [ WC KR* WM BL HB SL HB* BC ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Yearling, c2009., RL 5.2, 161p Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be. AR: 5.2 MG 5.0 128015EN Lexile: 850 FBG 1 12.31 12.31 23932W6 Knucklehead : tall tales & mostly true stories about growing up Scieszka -- Scieszka, Jon [ NB WC WM BL SL* NY HB BC ] {IL 3-6, 813} -- Viking, 2008., RL 4.6, 106p Presents a memoir of what it was like to grow up in the 1950s and other almost true stories by American children's author Jon Scieszka. AR: 4.6 MG 2.0 124997EN Lexile: 750 FBG 1 17.12 17.12 0310KC3 Leviathan -- Westerfeld, Scott [ BC* KR* WM BL SL* NY PW* WS ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Simon Pulse, 2010, c2009., 440p In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts. AR: 5.3 MG 12.0 132849EN Lexile: 790 FBG 1 14.01 14.01 0092SD2 The magic thief -- Prineas, Sarah [ BL* WC BC* WM BK* PW SL HB* ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- HarperTrophy, 2009, c2008., RL 4.5, 419p Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick the pocket of the wizard Nevery and instead gets a strong jolt of magic, but, instead of punishing the boy, Nevery takes Conn under his wing, teaches him magic, and enlists his help in finding the person responsible for stealing the city's dwindling magic supply. AR: 4.5 MG 9.0 123126EN Lexile: 680 FBG 1 12.31 12.31 0402LA6 Masterpiece -- Broach, Elise [ NB WC WM BK BL SL* HB PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Square Fish/Holt, 2010, c2008., RL 5.3, 292p After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. AR: 4.8 MG 8.0 125321EN Lexile: 700, NC FBG 1 13.12 13.12 0088VQ3 The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg -- Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman) [ NB WC NM WM BL HB SL PW* ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Scholastic, 2011, c2009., RL 5.6, 218p Homer P. Figg escapes from his wretched foster home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army. AR: 5.6 MG 7.0 127487EN Lexile: 950 FBG 1 12.01 12.01 04516W8 One-handed catch -- Auch, Mary Jane [ VO WC KR BL HB SL BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Square Fish, 2009, c2006., RL 4.7, 248p After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities. AR: 4.2 MG 8.0 109088EN Lexile: 710 FBG 1 12.31 12.31 04312X6 Peak -- Smith, Roland, 1951- [ BL* VO WM HB SL PW* HB* BC ] {IL YA, -Fic-} -- Harcourt, 2008, c2007., 246p A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. AR: 5.0 MG 9.0 114836EN Lexile: 760 FBG 1 11.61 11.61 0004CN1 Powerless -- Cody, Matthew [ WC KR WM BL PW HB SL BC ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Yearling, 2011, c2009., RL 5.3, 279p Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them. AR: 5.2 MG 10.0 134381EN Lexile: 800 FBG 1 12.31 12.31 39460G3 The rock and the river -- Magoon, Kekla [ JS BL* WM BK NY HB SL WS ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Aladdin, 2010, c2009., RL 3.9, 290p In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party. AR: 3.9 MG 8.0 128762EN Lexile: 550, HL FBG 1 11.61 11.61 0313GT2 Where the mountain meets the moon -- Lin, Grace [ BL* WC NM WM BK SL* LM* ] {IL 3-6, -Fic-} -- Little, Brown, 2011., RL 5.5, 278p Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River. AR: 5.5 MG 7.0 131480EN FBG 1 11.71 11.71 0165WP7 Wild things -- Carmichael, Clay [ NB BL* WC KR* WM BL PW NY ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Front Street, c2009., RL 5.7, 241p Stubborn, self-reliant, eleven-year-old Zoe, recently orphaned, moves to the country to live with her prickly half-uncle, a famous doctor and sculptor, and together they learn about trust and the strength of family. AR: 5.3 MG 9.0 129621EN Lexile: 890 FBG 1 19.51 19.51 0381HM8 Woods runner -- Paulsen, Gary [ KR* WM BL NY HB SL LM* PW* ] {IL 5-8, -Fic-} -- Wendy Lamb Books, c2010., RL 5.5, 164p From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Native Americans who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes. AR: 5.5 MG 5.0 134843EN Lexile: 870

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