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- Presentation
- May 10, 2007
- From the DuPage Library System
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- When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes
from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a
sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.
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- After Jack Grammar's friends, Percy and Natalie, post a personal ad in
the school newspaper for him, Jack ends up with only seven days to date
all the responses before asking one special girl to the prom.
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- When his old coach dies, high school football star Neely Crenshaw
returns to his hometown after fifteen years, reunites with his former
teammates, and struggles to resolve his mixed feelings about the man.
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- Paul's simple high-school life is confused by his desire for another boy
who seems unattainable, until Paul's friends help him find the courage
to pursue him.
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- After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a
teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of
their pasts.
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- Pro-skateboarder Andy MacDonald describes his experiences along the way
to becoming a world champion skateboarder and what it takes to be a
professional in the field.
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- Seveteen-year-old Becky Martin, an aspiring comic, must find the courage
to get the help she needs when her boyfriend Kip, a rising star in the
San Francisco comedy club scene, becomes emotionally and physically
abusive.
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- A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is
meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds
himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones,
some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and
whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.
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- The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an
alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her
siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the
resources and will to leave home.
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- While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and
intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have
damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the
game quickly or be damaged herself.
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- In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as
the young clone of El Patron, the 140-year-old leader of a corrupt drug
empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
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- Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War
II, the Navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain,
and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight
fifty-five years later.
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- After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the
"bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation,
take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their
own origins and purpose.
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- After Zianno Zenzen discovers he is a Meq, an immortal race who live
among humans and who do not age after turning twelve-years-old until
they find their soul mate Meq, he embarks on a search to stop an evil
Meq and find his legacy.
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- At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe,
set sail from Jamaica on a pirate vessel, hoping to escape from an
arranged marriage
- and slavery.
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- When Pete, a talented bass player, moves from playing in the high school
jazz band to playing in a popular rock group, he finds the experience
exhilarating even as his new fame jeopardizes his relationship with
girlfriend Margaret.
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- An evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a
nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding,
isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as
they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a
unique secret language.
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- Eight years after his beloved wife, Elizabeth, was supposedly murdered
by a serial killer, Beck receives information that suggests she may
still be alive, but his search for the truth could mean setting himself
up as the prime suspect in a number of crimes.
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- Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood,
discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special
destiny.
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- When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in
Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for
whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize
is not wholly human.
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- Two young, star-crossed lovers--17-year-old Antonio and 16-year-old
Natasha--face tragedy when Antonio is convicted of murder. Their story,
told through a decade of letters, captures their anger, hope, and
frustrations in this coming-of-age story.
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- The sketches of Yossel, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy confined to the
Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during World War II, capture the suffering of
his family, the hardships and cruelties of the ghetto, the increasingly
harsh treatment of the Nazis, and the events of the 1943 uprising.
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- Send an e-mail to
- croys@lphs.org
- Images and blurbs used with permission from Baker and Taylor.
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- First published within the past five years
- Currently in print in paperback
- Author living at time of selection for the Master List
- Fiction, non-fiction, or poetry
- May not be a textbook, a translation, or an anthology by more than one
author
- May not be a previous Rebecca Caudill Award winner
- May not have appeared on a previous ALIHSBA Master List
- If part of a series, must be the first volume unless it can stand by
itself without reading the previous titles in the series
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- Fill out the form on the ISLMA.org website under the Grants and Awards
link and send it along with $10 to address listed. Only official participant votes are
tallied for the award.
- Students need to read 4 of these presented titles and tell you their
favorites. How they report on
them is up to you but you’ll need to provide them with the official
student ballot from the website for the vote.
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- Nomination period for 2008 Master List –
- April 1 - November 1, 2007 – jump online and tell us what you’d like to
see on next year’s list
- Student reading period for 2008 Award –
- March, 2007 – February, 2008
- Official Vote Reporting Form due - March 1, 2008
- Announcement of 2008 winner – March, 2008
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- Chairperson - Kathy Shannon, retired from Thornwood High School
- Jane Lenser, Prairie Area Library System
- Carolyn Roys, Lake Park High School
- Gayl Smith, Waubonsie Valley High School
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- Carolyn Roys
- croys@lphs.org
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Notes