Michigan City Public Library Michigan City, Indiana Youth Services Department Young Hoosier Book Award

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2007-2008 YOUNG HOOSIER BOOK 
AWARD NOMINEES

Picture Book (K-3) ~ Intermediate (4-6) ~ Middle Grades (6-8) 

Past Winners ~ Next Year's Nominees

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2007-2008  PICTURE BOOK NOMINEES (K - 3^rd grade)

(Blue Tape Books)

Janell Cannon                                             Pinduli   
Leslie Connor                                              Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel 
Doren Cronin                                               Diary of a Spider
Dayle Ann Dodds                                        Minnie's Diner: A Multiplying Menu 
Amy Hest                                                       Mr. George Baker 
Mary Ann Hoberman                                  You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: 
                                                                         Very ShortMother Goose Tales to Read Together
Deborah Hopkinson                                   Apples To Oregon 
Keiko Kasza                                                  The Dog Who Cried Wolf
Helen Lester                                                  Hurty Lester
Melinda Long                                                How I Became A Pirate
Carol Nevious                                               Karate Hour
Karen Kaufman Orloff                                 I Wanna Iguana
Susan Pearson                                             Who Swallowed Harold? 
                                                                          And Other Poems About Pets
Coleen Salley                                                Why Epossumondas Has No Hair on His Tail
Amy E. Sklansky                                           Where do Chicks Come From?
Melissa Eskridge Slaymaker                     Bottle Houses: The Creative World 
                                                                          of Grandma Prisbey
Diane Stanley                                                The Giant and the Beanstalk
Karma Wilson                                               Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo
Jacqueline Woodson                                 Coming on Home Soon
Belle Yang                                                     Hannah Is My Name

Mary Bartek                                     Funerals & Fly Fishing 
Darleen Bailey Beard                     Operation Clean Sweep 
Betty G. Birney                               The World According to Humphrey
Andrew Clements                           Lunch Money 
Maurine Dahlberg                           Escape to West Berlin 
Jacqueline Davies                          The Boy Who Drew Birds:  A Story of 
                                                         John James Audubon
M. C. Delaney                                  The Great Sockathon 
Sid Fleischman                                Giant Rat of Sumatra, or, Pirates Galore
Patricia Reilly Giff                            Willow Run 
Joan Hiatt Harlow                            Thunder From the Sea   
Peg Kehret                                       Escaping the Giant Wave
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor                   Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry
Leslea Newman                                Hachiko Wait 
Linda Sue Park                                 Project Mulberry
Janice Repka                                   The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco 
Rosalyn Schanzer                            George vs. George: The American 
                                                           Revolution As Seen From Both Sides 
Loren Spiotta-DiMare                       Rockwell: A boy and His Dog
Cynthia Voigt                                    Angus & Sadie 
Deborah Wiles                                Each Little Bird That Sings
Jacqueline Woodson                      Locomotion

 
                    2007-2008  YOUNG HOOSIER BOOK AWARD

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley             For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy
Joseph Bruchac                              The Warriors
Caroline B. Cooney                        Code Orange
Michael L. Cooper                          Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression
                                                          in the 1930's
Sharon Draper                                 Heartbeat
Jane Louise Curry                           The Black Canary
Cynthia DeFelice                             The Missing Manatee
Patricia Reilly Giff                             A House of Tailors
Mary Downing Hahn                         The Old Willis Place:  A Ghost Story
Marian Hale                                       The Truth About Sparrows
Carl Hiaasen                                      Flush
Mary Blair Immel                               Captured! A Boy Trapped in the Civil War
Lois Lowry                                         Messenger
Mike Lupika                                        Travel Team
Neal Schusterman                             The Schwa Was Here
D. James Smith                                 The Boys of San Joaquin
Lee Wardlaw                                      101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher
Sarah Weeks                                      So B. It
Doris Bader Whiteman                       Lonek's Journey: The True Story of
                                                             a Boy's Escape to Freedom
Deborah Wiles                                   Each Little Bird That Sings