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South Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees 2013-2014

The 2013-2014 South Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees can be checked out from Richland Library. Get your hands on a copy, today!


The Adventures of Beanboy by Lisa Harkrader
Leah B. Says: Available in print and eBook (OverDrive)
Amazon Says: Never underestimate the power of the bean. Tucker MacBean has been drawing comic books almost as long as he’s been reading ...
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The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell
Leah B. Says: Available in print and eBook (OverDrive and 3M)
Amazon Says: Twelve-year-old Clara Dooley has spent her whole life in the Glendoveer mansion, where her mother is a servant to the kind and elderly matron of the house. Clara has never kno...
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Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: Anyone can get involved in gathering data for ongoing, actual scientific studies such as the Audubon Bird Count and FrogWatch USA. Just get out into a field, urban park, or yo...
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Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year- old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of...
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Close to Famous by Joan Bauer
Leah B. Says: Available in print and eBook (3M)
Amazon Says: Foster McFee dreams of having her own cooking show like her idol, celebrity chef Sonny Kroll. Macon Dillard's goal is to be a documentary filmmaker. Foster's mother Rayka long...
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Double Dog Dare by Lisa Graff
Leah B. Says: Available in print and eBook (3M)
Amazon Says: What would you do to win a dare war? In a humorous and insightful novel reminiscent of her award-winning titles The Thing About Georgie and Umbrella Summer, Lisa Graff tells ...
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Leah B. Says: Available in print and eBook (OverDrive and 3M)
Amazon Says: Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes is sick of getting picked on. But every time he tries to defend himself against class bully Jared Matthews, EllRay is the one who winds up in troub...
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Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: A compelling look at two leaders who held the world's fate in their hands-- and the holiday visit that sealed a friendship and steered the course of World War II. At t...
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Freaky Fast Frankie Joe by Lutricia Clifton
Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: When twelve-year-old Frankie Joe's mother is sent to jail, he is uprooted from his home in Texas to live with the father he has never met, his father's wife, and his father's ...
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The Humming Room by Ellen Potter
Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: Hiding is Roo Fanshaw's special skill. Living in a frighteningly unstable family, she often needs to disappear at a moment's notice. When her parents are murdered, it's her sp...
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The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
Leah B. Says: Available in print, CD, downloadable audio (OverDrive) and eBook (OverDrive and 3M)
Amazon Says: "We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teache...
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Never Forgotten by Patricia C. McKissack
Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: A 2012 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book "Forceful and iconic," raved Publishers Weekly in a starred review. This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patr...
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Pie by Sarah Weeks
Leah B. Says: Available in print and coming soon on CD
Amazon Says: From the award-winning author of SO B. IT, a story about family, friendship, and...pie! When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her th...
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Plunked by Michael Northrop
Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: When a young slugger gets hit by a pitch, he needs more than practice to get back his game. Sixth grader Jack Mogens has it all figured out: He's got his batting routine down...
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Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: Playful political poems about the penchants and peccadilloes of the presidents! Sure, William Taft got stuck in his tub, but did you know that John Quincy Adams used to skinn...
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Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Leah B. Says: Available in print, CD, and eBook (3M)
Amazon Says: Newbery honor winner, New York Times bestseller, and Edgar Award Nominee. A hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime ...
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Waiting for the Magic by Patricia MacLachlan
Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: People may drift apart But love can hold them together. Sometimes we find that love through magic – Sometimes that magic is all around us.This is a story about all of these ...
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With a Name like Love by Tess Hilmo
Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: One of School Library Journal’s Best Fiction Books of 2011When Ollie’s daddy, the Reverend Everlasting Love, pulls their travel trailer into Binder to lead a three-day rev...
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Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Leah B. Says: Available in print and eBook (OverDrive and 3M) and coming soon on CD
Amazon Says: I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, has prevented him from ...
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Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
Leah B. Says: Available in print
Amazon Says: From Brian Selznick, the creator of the Caldecott Medal winner THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET, comes another breathtaking tour de force. Playing with the form he created in his...
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