Sunshine State Winner for 2011 - 2012

for ALL grades!!!

Sure, I loved reading about Alcatraz and his war with the Evil Librarians, and I loved Alvin Ho and the magic in The Magic Half, and those wonderful stories in Where the Mountain Meets the Moon...but I am so impressed that the book all of you thought the most amazing was this realistic, inspirational story. You readers are the best!


The new books are out, and here are the lists:
Grades 3 - 5

Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Program

Master List of Titles 2012-13

Grades 3-5

Amato, Mary     Edgar Allan’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook

Holiday House                        2010                             AR 4.7   Lexile 650

Beaty, Andrea    Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies       

Amulet Books                         2010                            AR 5.7   Lexile 790

Behrens, Andy   The Fast and the Furriest    

Alfred A. Knopf                        2010                           AR 5.0   Lexile 660

Cronin, Doreen     The Trouble with Chickens          

Balzer + Bray                          2011                            AR 3.8    Lexile 570

Epstein, Adam & Jacobson, Andrew     The Familiars          

Harper                                     2010                            AR 5.0   Lexile 920    

George, Jessica Day     Tuesdays at the Castle       

Bloomsbury                             2011                            AR 6.4   Lexile not yet Published @ 850

Graff, Lisa     Sophie Simon Solves Them All            (PB To Be Published by September)

Farrar Straus Giroux               2010                            AR 3.4   Lexile 680

Holm, Jennifer     Turtle in Paradise  

Random House                       2010                            AR 4.1   Lexile 610

Jennings, Patrick     Guinea Dog       

Egmont USA                            2010                           AR 3.7   Lexile 600

Marino, Nan     Neil Armstrong is my Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me           

(PB To Be Published by September)

Roaring Brook Press              2009                            AR 4.3   Lexile 670

O’Connor, Barbara      The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester           

Farrar Straus Giroux               2010                            AR 4.7   Lexile 770

Selfors, Suzanne     Fortune’s Magic Farm   

Little, Brown                            2009                            AR 6.2   Lexile 680

Smith, Clete Barrett      Aliens on Vacation

Disney/Hyperion Books          2011                            AR 5.5   Lexile 770

West, Jacqueline     The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows

Dial Books Young Readers    2010                            AR 5.1   Lexile 770

           

Winston, Sherri     President of the Whole Fifth Grade  (PB: To Be Published by September)

Little, Brown                            2010                            AR 5.8   Lexile 730

Grades 6-8

Allen, Crystal     How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-sized Trophy

             Balzer + Bray      2011    AR 5.4 Lexile 550

Carmichael, Clay    Wild Things                          

             Front Street     2009         AR 5.7   Lexile 890

Catanese, P.W.   Happenstance Found

             Aladdin      2009 AR 5.4   Lexile NC700

Flores-Galbis, Enrique     90 Miles to Havana  

              Roaring Brook Press      2010 AR 4.8    Lexile 790

Gaiman, Neil     The Graveyard Book

              HarperCollins      2008 AR 5.3   Lexile 820

Grant, Katy     Hide and Seek

              Peachtree      2010 AR 4.6   Lexile 700

Greenwald, Tommy     Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading

             Roaring Brook Press      2011 AR 5.8   Lexile 830

Korman, Gordon     The Juvie Three

             Hyperion      2008 AR 4.9   Lexile NC730

Park, Linda Sue     A Long Walk to Water : Based on a True Story

             Clarion Books      2010 AR 5.0 Lexile 720

Patterson, James     The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

             Little, Brown      2008 AR 6.3   Lexile 680

Philbrick, Rodman      The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

             Blue Sky Press 2009   AR 5.6   Lexile 950

Rallison, Janette     My Fair Godmother

             Walker      2009                      AR 5.2   Lexile 760

Rorby, Ginny      Lost in the River of Grass

              Carolrhoda Lab      2011               AR 4.2   Lexile 750

Vigilante, Danette     The Trouble with Half a Moon

              G.P. Putnam’s Sons 2011       AR 4.4   Lexile 600

Woods, Brenda     Saint Louis Armstrong Beach    

              Nancy Paulsen Books      2011             AR 4.1   Lexile 660