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Black-Eyed Susan Books

Each year since 1992, the Black-Eyed Susan Book Award has been given in several categories. The purpose of this award is to promote literacy and lifelong reading habits by encouraging students to read quality, contemporary literature. The books selected to be placed on lists for each category are expected to broaden the human experience and provide accurate, factual information. The Black-Eyed Susan Book Award honors outstanding books, chosen annually by Maryland students. Committees of school library media specialists and other interested persons meet over the course of a year to determine which books will go on the lists; anyone is invited to suggest titles. Following are some of the criteria:

Books may be fiction or nonfiction.

Books must have a copyright date of the current year or one of the preceding three years and be listed in the current Books in Print.

Each title selected will have received positive reviews from appropriate professional journals.

Members of the committee will read and discuss the submitted books and choose the best books to be placed on the list.

When the required number of books have been read, each student will cast one vote for the book he or she considers to be the most outstanding in each category. Votes from across the state are sent in to the Black-Eyed Susan committees and tallied to determine the winners. The winning authors and/or illustrators receive a pewter plate engraved with the? year and the Black-Eyed Susan Book Award logo. Authors, illustrators and publishers recognize the award as an honor bestowed by Maryland students.

Winners of the 2007-2008 Black-Eyed Susan Book Awards

Level

Author

Title

Picture Book

Janet Stevens &  Susan Crummel

The Great Fuzz Frenzy

Grades 4 - 6

Joseph Delaney

Revenge of the Witch: The Last Apprentice

Grades 6 - 9

Jordan Sonnenblick

Drums, Girls &  Dangerous Pie

High School

Stephenie Meyer

Twilight

 

2008-09 MARYLAND BLACK-EYED SUSASN BOOK NOMINEES

Picture Book

  • Barretta, Gene - Now & Ben : the Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin
  • Bruel, Nick - Who is Melvin Bubble?
  • Bruel, Robert O. - Bob and Otto
  • Clements, Andrew – Dogku
  • Deedy, Carmen Agra - Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: a Cuban Folktale
  • Ehrhardt, Karen - This Jazz Man
  • Flaherty, Alice - The Luck of the Loch Ness Monster : a Tale of Picky Eating
  • Freymann, Saxton... et al. – Knock, Knock!
  • Harrington, Janice N. - The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
  • Kay, Verla - Rough, Tough Charley
  • Madison, Alan - Velma Gratch & the Way Cool Butterfly
  • Michelson, Richard - Across the Alley
  • Sierra, Judy - Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf
  • Watt, Melanie - Scaredy Squirrel
  • Woodruff, Elvira - Small Beauties : the Journey of Darcy Heart O'Hara

Grades 4-6

  • Berlin, Eric – Puzzling World of Winston Breen, The
  • Clements, Andrew – No Talking
  • Dahlberg, Maurine – Story of Jonas, The
  • DeFelice, Cynthia – Ghost of Poplar Point, The
  • Graff, Lisa – Thing about Georgie, The: a novel
  • Hahn, Mary Downing – Witch Catcher
  • Hicks, Betty – Out of Order
  • McKissack, Patricia – Friendship for Today, A
  • O'Connor, Barbara – How to Steal a Dog

  • Pitchford, Dean – Big One-Oh


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