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2010 Master List
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
Illinois' Children's Choice Award, Grades 4-8
Please Note: The numbers in parentheses indicate grade/interest level as determined by the Steering Committee for the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award and are included to help guide readers to titles which may be most appropriate for them. To participate in the program registered organizations must provide participants access to at least 12 of the titles. Teachers, librarians and parents are encouraged to evaluate these books in order to determine their appropriateness to individual students and school communities.
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A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Urban, Linda
Harcourt, Inc.
2007 (Gr. 4-7)
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A Small White Scar
Nuzum, K. A.
Joanna Cotler /
HarperCollins, 2006 (Gr.
5-8)
Author * Book * Book2
Quiz * Colorado Rodeo Association
Down syndrome:
1 * 2
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All the Lovely Bad Ones
Hahn, Mary Downing
Clarion, 2008 (Gr.
4-8)
Author * Book
Poor farms * Illinois poor house history
Ilinois Poor Farm B&B * Wisconsin Poorfarm Cemetery
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Crossing the Wire
Hobbs, Will
HarperCollins, 2006 (Gr.
5-8)
Author * Book1 * Book 2
Illegal Immigration:
1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 |
Baboquivari Peak, Arizona
1 * 2 * 3 |
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Dragon Slippers
George, Jessica Day
Bloomsbury, 2007 (Gr.
5-8)
Author * Book
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Elephant Run
Smith, Roland
Hyperion, 2007 (Gr.
4-8)
Author * Book video * Curriculum
Burma – WW II:
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Burma:
1 * 2
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Burmese Elephants
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Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
Tarshis, Lauren
Dial Books
2007 (Gr. 4-7)
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First Light Wendy Lamb
Stead, Rebecca
Books
2007 (Gr. 5-8)
Greenland and Climate change:
1 * 2
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Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Freedman, Russell
Holiday House, 2006 (Gr.
4-8)
Author1 * Author2 * Author PDF
Educator’s guide * Timeline
Montgomery Bus Boycott * MBB2 * Montgomery Bus Boycott Timeline
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Home of the Brave
Applegate, Katherine
Feiwel and Friends, 2007 (Gr. 4-8)
Author1 * Author2 * Book * Book Video
Sudan Conflict, history * Sudan Conflict, Darfur
Darfur Refugee Camps * Sudan Conflict, pictures
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Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Mass, Wendy
Little, Brown and Company, 2006 (Gr.
5-8)
Author * Book * Book video |
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Kimchi & Calamari
Kent, Rose
HarperCollins, 2007 (Gr.
4-8)
Author * Kimchi
Calamari
1 * 2 * 3
Adoption:
1 * 2
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Naked Mole-Rat Letters
Amato, Mary
Holiday House, 2005 (Gr.
4-6)
Author * Book Quiz
Naked Mole Rats *
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