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YOUNG HOOSIER BOOK YOUNG HOOSIER BOOK AWARDSAWARDSEach year Indiana teachers,

librarians, and students select 20 books that they consider some of the best new reading for students in each age group.

These titles are promoted to young people throughout the state of Indiana.

Students are encouraged to read as many of the selected books as possible.

Students who read 5 or more YHBA titles can vote for their favorites.

Ballots are collected throughout the state each April to determine the winning title in each age group.

YHBA PROGRAMYHBA PROGRAMEach year our students participate in

the YHBA program.Lists of YHBA titles are posted in the

media center, in your English classrooms, and on the media center website.

You can find the YHBA books at the media center, public library, classrooms, or bookstores.

THE COMPETITIONTHE COMPETITIONAt the media center, we keep

track of who reads YHBA books by monitoring AR Tests.

When you pass the AR Test on a YHBA book, your name is added to the list.

BUT WHY SHOULD I READ YHBA BUT WHY SHOULD I READ YHBA BOOKS?BOOKS?They’re some of the best new books

out there. Odds are that you’ll like most of them.

Many language arts teachers require their students to read a number of YHBA titles.

You’ll get a chance to vote on the book you liked best.

Students who read the most YHBA books are eligible for special rewards!

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Follow Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering witches, devils, warlocks, kindly strangers, and other helpful folk as they take charge of their own happily ever after.

A TALE DARK AND GRIM A TALE DARK AND GRIM BY ADAM BY ADAM GIDWITZGIDWITZ

RL 4.6 Pts. 4.6RL 4.6 Pts. 4.6

Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.

BAMBOO PEOPLE BAMBOO PEOPLE BY MITALI BY MITALI PERKINSPERKINS

RL 4.4 Pts. 7RL 4.4 Pts. 7

Although Jeff and Tad make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his brother Steven, who is studying drums in Africa.

AFTER EVER AFTER AFTER EVER AFTER BY JORDON BY JORDON SONNENBLICKSONNENBLICK

RL 5.2 Pts. 7RL 5.2 Pts. 7

This collection of poems retells the histories of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, cosmetics entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker, and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie and their daughters.

BORROWED NAMES : POEMS ABOUT BORROWED NAMES : POEMS ABOUT LAURA INGALLS WILDER, MADAM LAURA INGALLS WILDER, MADAM C.J., WALKER, MARIE, CURIE, AND C.J., WALKER, MARIE, CURIE, AND THEIR DAUGHTERS THEIR DAUGHTERS BY JEANNINE ATKINS

RL 5.5 Pts. 3RL 5.5 Pts. 3

This book describes the pivotal transformation of George Washington from an inexperienced leader to a brilliant general.

THE CROSSING : HOW GEORGE THE CROSSING : HOW GEORGE WASHINGTON SAVED THE AMERICAN WASHINGTON SAVED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION REVOLUTION BY JIM MURPHY

RL 7.8 Pts. 2RL 7.8 Pts. 2

Fourteen-year-old Dewey juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.

CRUNCHCRUNCH BY LESLIE CONNOR

RL 3.3 Pts. 7RL 3.3 Pts. 7

A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.

THE DREAMER THE DREAMER BY PAM MUNOZ RYAN

RL 4.6 Pts. 4RL 4.6 Pts. 4

During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

FLYGIRLFLYGIRL BY SHERRI L. SMITH

RL 4.3 Pts. 11RL 4.3 Pts. 11

Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.

FORGEFORGE BY LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON

RL 5.4 Pts. RL 5.4 Pts. 1010

  Imagine Garth's surprise when he's accidentally zapped to the spirit world by Frank Gallows, a washed-out ghost wrangler. Suddenly, Garth has powers the ghosts don't have, but he‘s stuck in a world run by the evil ruler of Ghostopolis.

GHOSTOPOLISGHOSTOPOLIS BY DOUG TENNAPEL

RL 2.4 Pts. 1RL 2.4 Pts. 1

Twelve-year-old Happenstance wakes up in a cave with no idea how he got there or who he is, but merchant and royal advisor Lord Umber and his two friends help Hop escape from the caverns.

HAPPENSTANCE FOUND HAPPENSTANCE FOUND BY P.W. CATANESE

RL 4.9 Pts. 10RL 4.9 Pts. 10

In this book, readers explore the lives of the fuzzy, buzzy insects and learn what might happen to us if they were gone.

THE HIVE DETECTIVES: CHRONICLE THE HIVE DETECTIVES: CHRONICLE OF A HONEY BEE CATASTROPHEOF A HONEY BEE CATASTROPHE BY LOREE GRIFFIN BURNS

RL 7.5 Pts. 2RL 7.5 Pts. 2

Eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family when the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, and he must walk with other Dinka tribe members in search of a safe haven.

A LONG WALK TO WATER: BASED A LONG WALK TO WATER: BASED ON A TRUE STORYON A TRUE STORY BY LINDA SUE PARK

RL 5.0 Pts. 3RL 5.0 Pts. 3

Homer P. Figg escapes from his ruthless guardian's home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army.

THE MOSTLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF THE MOSTLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF HOMER P. FIGG HOMER P. FIGG BY RODMAN PHILBRICK

RL 5.6 Pts. RL 5.6 Pts. 77

Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

OUT OF MY MIND OUT OF MY MIND BY SHARON DRAPER

RL 4.3 Pts. 8RL 4.3 Pts. 8

Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like herself.

SEARCH FOR WONDLA SEARCH FOR WONDLA BY TONY DITERLIZZI

RL 5.2 Pts. RL 5.2 Pts. 1111

Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.

SLOBSLOB BY ELLEN POTTER

RL 5.0 Pts. 7RL 5.0 Pts. 7

In 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, Samantha moves with her mother to Jackson, Mississippi. During the year they spend there, Sam encounters both love and hate as she witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.

SOURCES OF LIGHT SOURCES OF LIGHT BY MARGARET MCMULLAN

RL 5.2 Pts. 8RL 5.2 Pts. 8

Eva Mozes Kor details experiences she shared with her twin sister, Miriam, when they were sent to Auschwitz as children and forced to endure medical experiments and other horrors under the care of Josef Mengele.

SURVIVING THE ANGEL OF DEATH: SURVIVING THE ANGEL OF DEATH: THE STORY OF A MENGELE TWIN IN THE STORY OF A MENGELE TWIN IN AUSCHWITZ AUSCHWITZ

BY EVA MOSES KOR AND LISA BUCCIERI

RL 5.6 Pts. 4RL 5.6 Pts. 4

Tory, the niece of Temperance Brennan, the world famous anthropologist of the BONES series, is exposed to a strain of canine parvovirus that changes her life.

VIRALSVIRALS BY KATHY REICHS

RL 3.5 Pts. 11RL 3.5 Pts. 11

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