South Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees 2012-2013
The South Carolina book awards encourage students and children to read good quality contemporary literature and honor the authors of the books annually chosen the favorites by student vote.
Check out the 2012 - 2013 South Carolina children's book award nominees and let us know your favorite!
- After All, You're Callie Boone
- Because of Mr. Terupt
- Belly Up
- Cheesie Mack Is Not a Genius or Anything
- A Dog's Way Home
- Doodlebug
- The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester
- The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
- Henry Aaron's Dream
- How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life (and a Dog)
- I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat
- Inside Out & Back Again
- Little Joe
- The Romeo and Juliet Code
- The Secret of the Sealed Room
- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
- Touch Blue
- True (...sort of)
- Turtle in Paradise
- What's for Dinner?
Amazon Says: Features seven narrators, each with a unique story, and each with a different perspective on what makes their teacher so special. It’s the start of fifth grade for ...
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Amazon Says: 12 year old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. Henry, the hippopatamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has ...
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Amazon Says: "Cheesie Mack is a true original." —Gordon Korman, bestselling author of Swindle and Schooled Ronald "Cheesie" Mack is not a genius or anything, but he remembers everything...
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Amazon Says: Daddy says, "Most folks got a north star in their life—something that gives their life extra meaning. Mine is music."Without even thinking, I say, "Mine is Tam."Abby knows t...
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Amazon Says: Moving is tough. Being the new kid in school is even tougher. But the hardest thing of all about the move that Doreen “Dodo” Bussey’s family is making is that she suspec...
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Amazon Says: An amazing secret has tumbled off a freight train into Carter, Georgia, and Owen Jester is the only person who knows about it. If he can simply manage to evade his grandfather...
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Amazon Says: When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crutchfield Hall, an old manor ...
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Amazon Says: Matt Tavares hits one out of the park with this powerful tale of a kid from the segregated south who would become baseball’s home-run king. Before he was Hammerin’...
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Amazon Says: Nicky Flynn’s life just got a whole lot harder. His parents are going through a messy divorce, and as a result he’s starting a new life, in a new city, in a new school. No...
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Amazon Says: It wasn’t too long ago that people tried all sorts of things to help sick people feel better. They tried wild things like drinking a glass full of millipedes or putting so...
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Amazon Says: No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama. For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of i...
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Amazon Says: It’s a cold December night and Fancy, the Stegner family’s cow, is about to give birth. Out pops Little Joe, a huge bull calf, and with him comes nine-year-old Eli’s fir...
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Amazon Says: A sudden trip to a seaside house. A boy with brown sugar eyes. And then , a mysterious letter. Felicity's glamorous parents have a secret. When they leave her with distant rel...
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Amazon Says: Indentured servant Patience Martin lives a hard life in 1721 Boston, but things get even harder when her demanding employer is found dead—in a bedroom locked from the inside...
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Amazon Says: In this funny, uncannily wise portrait of the dynamics of a sixth-grade class and of the greatness that sometimes comes in unlikely packages, Dwight, a loser, talks to his cla...
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Amazon Says: An exquisite second novel from the Newbery Honor author of RULES! TOUCH BLUE, sure as certain, will touch your heart. The state of Maine plans to shut down her island's scho...
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Amazon Says: True: Delly Pattison likes surpresents (presents that are a surprise). The day the Boyds come to town, Delly's sure a special surpresent is on its way. But lately, everything ...
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Amazon Says: In Jennifer L. Holm's New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle grade historical fiction novel, life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle i...
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Amazon Says: Dinner is Served
What in nature could be more poetic than the hunt for food and the struggle for survival? In twenty-nine poems readers will squirm at the realities of h...
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