| The nominees for the 2007-08 Volunteer State Book Awards are:
13 Little Blue Envelopes Maureen Johnson
A Room on Lorelei Street Mary E. Pearson
Autobiography of My Dead Brother Walter Dean Myers
Black and White Paul Volponi - CHS 2nd place
Copper Sun Sharon Draper
Dairy Queen Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Day of Tears Julius Lester
Down the Rabbit Hole Peter Abrahams
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie Jordan Sonnenblick
Fade to Black Alex Flinn
Full Service Will Weaver
Funny Little Monkey Andrew Auseon
Invisible Pete Hautman - CHS 3rd place
Jude Kate Morgenroth - CHS 3rd place
Looking for Alaska John Green - CHS 3rd place
Peeps Scott Westerfeld
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie David Lubar
So B. It: A Novel Sarah Weeks
Sonnys House of Spies George Ella Lyon
Tell It To Naomi Daniel Ehrenhaft
The Perfect Shot Elaine Marie Alphin
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird Phillip Hoose
The Schwa Was Here Neal Shusterman
Twilight Stephanie Meyer - CHS 1st place
Under the Persimmon Tree Suzanne Fisher Staples
The nominees for the 2008-09 Volunteer State Book Awards are:
All of the Above - Shelley Pearsall
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
Ball Don't Lie - Matt De La Pena
Behind the Curtain: an Echo Falls Mystery
Born to Rock - Gordon Korman
Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food - Eric
Schlosser and Charles Wilson
Crossing the Wire - Will Hobbs
Defining Dulcie - Paul Acampora
Elsewhere - Gabriella Zevin
Enthusiasm - Polly Shulman
Hattie Big Sky - Kirby Larson
Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City - Kristin Miller
King Dork - Frank Portman
Listening for Lions - Gloria Whelan
Monkey Town: The Story of the Scopes Trial - Ronald Kidd
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
Scrambled Eggs at Midnight - Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler
Sold - Patricia McCormick
Standing Against the Wind - Traci Jones
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation - M.T.
Anderson
The House of the Red Fish - Graham Salisbury
The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
The Rules of Survival - Nancy Werlin
What Happened to Cass McBride - Gail Giles
What the Moon Saw - Laura Resau
Junior English required readings for Summer 08 are as follows:
A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Advanced English I students will need to read the following books this summer:
-The Pigman, by Paul Zindel
-The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
-Night, by Elie Wiesel
Advanced English II students will need to read the following books this
summer:
The Hobbit by Tolkien
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury
3 Volunteer State Books from the 2008-2009 list
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