MIDDLE GRADE YHBA AWARD NOMINEES 2011—2012
Middle Grade 11-12 Order Form
 

A THOUSAND NEVER EVERS
by Shana Burg
In Kuckachoo, Mississippi, 1963, Addie Ann Pickett worships her brother Elias and follows in his footsteps by attending the black junior high school.
ISBN: 0440422094, $7.99 (pb)


AIN'T NOTHING BY A MAN
by Scott Reynolds Nelson
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost.
ISBN: 142630000X, $ 18.95 (hc)


ALL THE BROKEN PIECES
by Ann E. Burg
Two years after being airlifted out of war-torn Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by the family -- and the terrible secret -- he left behind.
ISBN: 0545080924, $16.99 (hc)


BEEF PRINCESS OF PRACTICAL COUNTY
by Michelle Houts
After years of waiting, it is finally Libby Ryan’s turn to shine at the Practical County Fair.
ISBN: 0440422701, $7.99 (PB)


BEFORE COLUMBUS: THE AMERICAS OF 1491
by Charles C. Mann
A superb story of pre-Columbian America which overturns misconceived images of Natives.
ISBN: 1416949003, $24.99 (hc)


 


BROOKLYN NINE
by Alan Gratz
Baseball is in the Schneider family blood. Each member of this family, from family founder Felix Schneider in the 1800s to Snider Flint in the present day, has a strong tie to the game and to Brooklyn.
ISBN: 0142415448, $8.99 (pb)


BULL RIDER
by Suzanne Williams
All it takes is eight seconds.... Cam O'Mara, grandson and younger brother of bull- riding champions, is not interested in partaking in the family sport.
ISBN: 1442412526, $7.99 (pb)


CLAUDETTE COLVIN: TWICE TOWARD JUSTICE
by Phillip Hoose
On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
ISBN: 0312661053, $ 9.99 (pb)


COMPOUND
by Stephanie A. Bodeen
Eli’s father built the Compound to keep their family safe. Now, they can’t get out. He won’t let them
ISBN: 0312578601, $8.99 (PB)


CROSSING STONES
by Helen Frost
Maybe you won’t rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat.
ISBN: 0374316538, $ 16.99 (HC)

 

FOUND
by Margaret Peterson haddix
Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal.
ISBN: 141695421X, $6.99 (PB)


THE GIRL WHO THREW BUTTERFLIES
by Mick Cochane
For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.
ISBN: 0375846107, $6.99 (PB)


GYM CANDY
by Carl Deuker
Runningback Mick Johnson has dreams: dreams of cutting back, finding the hole, breaking into the open, and running free with nothing but green grass ahead.
ISBN: 0547076312, $18.99 (PB)


MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY
by Trenton Lee Stewart
"ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD Looking for special opportunities?" When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests.
ISBN: 0316003956, $6.99 (pb)


NOTES FROM THE DOG
by Gary Paulsen
Fifteen-year-old Finn is a loner, living with his dad and his amazing dog, Dylan. This summer he's hoping for a job where he doesn't have to talk to anyone except his pal Matthew.
ISBN: 0385738455, $15.99 (HC) ISBN: 0375855424, $6.99 (PB, avail 1/25/11)

 

RUNAWAY TWIN
by Peg Kehret
A unique story of separated twins and the unexpected consequences of their reunion.
ISBN: 0525421777, $16.99 (hc) ISBN: 0142418498, $6.99 (PB avail 1/20/11)


SCAT!
by Carl Hiaasen
Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved.
ISBN: 0375834877, $8.99 (PB)


SCHOOLED
by Gordon Korman
Capricorn Anderson had never watched a television show before. He'd never tasted a pizza. He had never even heard of a wedgie. And he had never, in his wildest dreams, thought of living anywhere but Garland Farm commune with his hippie caretaker, Rain.
ISBN: 1423105168, $ 5.99 (PB)


WHEN THE WHISTLE BLOWS
by Fran Cannon Slayton
Jimmy lives in Rowlesburg, West Virginia, during the 1940s. He does all the things boys do in the small mountain town.
ISBN: 0142417327, $6.99 (pb)


YEAR OF THE BOMB
by Ronald Kidd
When Paul and his friends Arnie, Crank, and Oz find out that a horror movie will be filmed in their town, they can't believe it
ISBN: 1416996257, $5.99 (hc)