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First begun in 1974, the Young Hoosier Book Award encourages Indiana students to read for fun. Since 1992, the Award has been divided into three categories based on grade level: Kindergarten-3rd grade (picture books), 4th-6th grade (intermediate), and 6th-8th grade (middle grade). Each year, teachers, students, parents and media specialists submit suggestions to the Young Hoosier Book Award committee, who nominate twenty books in each category. Students read the books on the list and vote for their favorites. Votes are then tallied and the winning illustrator and authors are presented the award in the spring of the following year.
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2017-18 Intermediate Winner
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Roller Girl
by Victoria Jamieson
A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart.
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Fuzzy
by Tom Angleberger
When Max (Maxine Zealster) befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, she helps him navigate Vanguard Middle School and together they reveal the truth behind the Robot Integration Program.
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Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
by Chris Barton
An introduction to the life and creative achievements of NASA engineer and inventor Lonnie Johnson describes his childhood in a house full of siblings, the problem-solving talents that inspired his career and his accidental invention of the Super Soaker.
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Gertie's Leap to Greatness
by Kate Beasley
Confident in the awesomeness of her family, Gertie responds to her absent mother's choice to move away from their small town by deciding to become the best fifth-grader in the universe in order to show her mother exactly what she'll be leaving behind, an ambition that is challenged by a seat-stealing rival. A first novel.
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Rookie of the Year
by Phil Bildner
Rip and Red find that fifth grade continues to challenge them in brand-new ways and discover that sometimes radical change is nothing to be afraid of.
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Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
by Donna Janell Bowman
A picture book biography of Dr. William Key, a former slave and self-trained veterinarian who taught his horse, Jim, to read and write and who together with Jim became one of the most famous traveling performance acts around the turn of the twentieth century. Includes afterword and author's sources.
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The Wild Robot
by Peter Brown
Initializing for the first time on a remote island where she is all alone, Roz the robot learns survival strategies from the island's hostile animals and finally gains acceptance when she cares for an orphaned gosling. By the Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of Creepy Carrots!
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The Haunted House Project
by Tricia Clasen
Following the death of her mother and the disintegration of her home life, Andie's interest is piqued when a classmate suggests that they study paranormal activity, which gives her the idea of pretending to be her mother's ghost in order to bring her family life back toward normal.
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The Great Shelby Holmes
by Elizabeth Eulberg
Spunky sixth-grade girl sleuth Shelby and her sports-loving sidekick, Watson, tackle a dognapper in their Harlem neighborhood, in a modern adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes character.
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Applesauce Weather
by Helen Frost
Preparing for her family's annual tradition of picking apples, making applesauce and listening to her Uncle Arthur tell his tall tales, young Faith comforts her uncle, who has lost his zest for stories in the aftermath of losing his wife. By the award-winning author of Among a Thousand Fireflies.
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Some Kind of Courage
by Dan Gemeinhart
In 1890 Washington the only family Joseph Johnson has left is his half-wild Indian pony, Sarah, so when she is sold by a man who has no right to do so, he sets out to get her back--and he plans to let nothing stop him in his quest.
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Garvey's Choice
by Nikki Grimes
Preferring science and reading to the sports his father wants him to pursue, insecure Garvey comforts himself with food and endures teasing by bullies before joining the school chorus, where his musical talents help him accept himself and bond with his father. By the award-winning author of Bronx Masquerade.
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The Lincoln Project
by Dan Gutman
Invited by billionaire Miss Z to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events, Luke, Isabel, David, and Julia are sent to the year 1863 to capture Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address.
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Mighty Jack
by Ben Hatke
Prompted by his sister, Jack trades his mom's car for a box of mysterious seeds, but soon their normal garden turns into a wild jungle filled with magical creatures and one night changes into a dragon.
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Steamboat School: Inspired by a True Story: St. Louis, Missouri: 1847
by Deborah Hopkinson
Rethinking his beliefs about school being boring when he meets inspiring teacher Reverend John Berry Meachum, a mid-19th-century boy thrives until Missouri passes a law that forbids providing education to African-Americans, an edict that prompts the youth to help Meachum build a floating school on the Mississippi River outside of legal boundaries. 15,000 first printing.
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The Infinity Year of Avalon James
by Dana Middleton
Sharing a secret with her best friend that they will manifest protective magical abilities at the age of 10, Avalon becomes increasingly desperate to receive her powers as her 11th birthday approaches while struggling with family problems and bullying at school. A first novel.
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Wish
by Barbara O'Connor
Charlie Reese is sent to live with a family she barely knows, but with the help of a skinny stray dog who captures her heart and a neighbor boy named Howard, she learns what the real meaning of family may be.
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Hamstersaurus Rex
by Tom O'Donnell
Transformed into a ferociously adorable, spiky-tailed mutant by a protein powder, a class hamster befriends a misfit sixth-grader and helps him bring down their school's most formidable bully.
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Word of Mouse
by James Patterson
A rare blue mouse who has the ability to read, write and talk to humans makes a dramatic escape from a mysterious laboratory and must use his special skills to survive in the dangerous outdoors and find his missing family. Co-written by the award-winning author of I Funny.
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The Sweetest Sound
by Sherri Winston
Inheriting musical abilities from the mother who abandoned her for her career, 10-year-old Cadence prays for the ability to overcome her shyness before a recording of her voice catches the attention of her whole church.
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