Royal Spring Middle School

Grades 6-8 – Kentucky Bluegrass Award Nominees for 2008-2009

The Alchemyst – Michael Scott

Beauty Shop for Rent – Laura Bowers

Call Me Hope – Gretchen Olson

Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam – Cynthia Kadohata

Diamonds in the Shadow – Caroline Cooney

Elijah of Buxton – Christopher Paul Curtis

Football Genius – Time Green

Frannie in Pieces – Delia Ephron

Hiroshima Dreams – Kelly Easton

Lawn Boy – Gary Paulson

Leeppike Ridge – N.D. Wilson

Night of the Howling Dogs – Graham Salisbury

Peak – Roland Smith

Shooting the Moon – Frances O’Roark Dowell

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam and the Science of Ocean Motion – Loree Griffin Burns

Grade 6-8 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Nominees for 2009-2010

Every Soul a Star – Wendy Mass

Game – Walter Dan Myers

The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman

The Great Wide Sea – Madaline Herlong

A Horse of Her Own – Annie Wedekind

Knucklehead – Jon Scieszka

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg – W. R. Philbrick

Savvy – Ingrid Law

Scat – Carl Hiasson

The Trials of Kate Hope – Warwick Downing

Trouble – Gary Schmidt

Waiting for Normal – Leslie Connor

Ways to Live Forever – Sally Nichols

A Long Way from Chicago – Richard Peck

Among the Hidden – Margaret Peterson Haddix

Because of Winn Dixie – Kate DiCamillo

Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Patterson

Bud, Not Buddy – Christophe Paul Curtis

City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau

Crash – Jerry Spinelli

Do You Know the Monkey Man? – Dor Butler

Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan

Hatchet – Gary Paulson

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key – Jack Gantos

Love that Dog – Sharon Creech

Out of the Dust – Karen Hesse

Peter and the Starcatchers / Peter and the Shadow Thieves – Barry and Pearson

Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie

Pictures of Hollis Woods – Patricai Reilly Giff

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor

Rules – Cynthia Lord

Sounder – William Armstrong

The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke

The Wall and the Wing – Laura Ruby

The Wright 3 – Balliett Blue

Airborne – Kenneth Oppel

Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food – Eric Schlosser

Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis

Code Talker – Joseph Bruchac

Hard Hit – Ann Turner

Here in Harlem – Walter Dean Myers

Jericho Walls – Kristi Collier

The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan

Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

Music from a Place Called Half-Moon – Jerrie Oughton

Secrets of a Civil War Submarine *– Sally Walker

Short Stories – Edgar Allan Poe

So B. It – Sarah Weeks

Book of a Thousand Days – Shannon Hale

Redwall – Brian Jacques

Tangerine – Edward Bloor

Weedflower – Cynthia Kadohata

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

Blood on the River – Elisa Carbone

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village – Laura Schlitz

Hattie Big Sky – Kirby Larson

The Hobbitt – J.R.R. Tolkien

Hitler Youth *– Susan Bartoletti

House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer

Left for Dead *– Pete Nelson

Maximum Ride – James Patterson

Olive’s Ocean – Kevin Henkes

The Pearl – John Steinbeck

Touching Spirit Bear – Ben Mikaelsen

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Truesight – David Stahler

Twilight – Stephanie Meyer

A Wreath for Emmitt Till *– Marilyn Nelson

Z for Zachariah – Robert C. O’Brien

* Non-Fiction