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Lovelace Winners |
| 2009 |
Flush
Carl HIaasen |
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of the floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the waters around their Florida home. |
| 2008 |
Ruby Holler
Sharon Creech |
Thirteen-year-old twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them to Ruby Holler. |
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2007 |
Escaping the Giant Wave
Peg Kehret
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When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years. |
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2006 |
Runt
Marion Dane Bauer
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Runt, the smallest wolf cub in the litter, seeks to prove himself to his father King and the rest of the pack and to earn a new name. |
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2005 |
Doll People
Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin
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A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow "The Doll Code of Honor." |
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2004 |
In the Stone Circle
Elizabeth Kimmel
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While spending the summer in an old stone house in Wales, fourteen-year-old Cristyn comes to terms with the death of her mother while satisfying the request of a thirteenth-century princess. |
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2003 |
The Ghost of Fossil Glen
Cynthia DeFelice
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Allie tries hard to deal with her very active imagination, especially when she hears the voice and finds the diary of a girl found dead in Fossil Glen. |
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2002 |
Silverwing
Kenneth Oppel
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When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys. |
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2001 |
The Million Dollar Shot
Dan Gutman
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Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals. |
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2000 |
Danger in the Desert
Terri Fields
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Two brothers attempt to survive in the desert outside Scottsdale, Arizona, after they are abandoned there following a carjacking. |
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1999 |
Frindle
Andrew Clement
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When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. |
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1998 |
Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park
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Thirteen-year-old Phoebe recalls the death of her younger brother Mick in a bicycle accident, which might not have been fatal had he been wearing his helmet, and how she and her family reacted to the tragedy. |
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1997 |
The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother
Elvira Woodruff
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When aspiring scientist Nelly Brown uses a magic chemistry set to make her grandmother young again but is unable to stop the alteration, the seventy-year-old woman becomes a baby and Nelly fears that she may shrink into nothing. |
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1996 |
Cages
Peg Kehret
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After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work, as part of her sentence, at an animal shelter. |
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1995 |
Nightmare Mountain
Peg Kehret
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Twelve-year-old Molly's visit to her aunt and uncle's llama ranch in the state of Washington leads her into unexpected danger and suspense. |
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1994 |
38 Weeks Till Summer Vacation
Mona Kerby |
Skinny Nora Jean Sampson and her friends at R.B. Nolen Elementary School are kept busy with a snake in the girls' bathroom, a scary Halloween fun house, and a pizza party in the library. |
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1993 |
Dead Man in Indian Creek
Mary Downing Hahn
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When Matt and Parker learn the body they found in Indian Creek is a drug-related death, they fear Parkers' mother may be involved. |
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1992 |
This Island Isn't Big Enough for the Four of Us
Gery Greer amd Bob Ruddick
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Peter and Scott excitedly plan a camping trip to a deserted island, only to arrive and discover that two girls with zany senses of humor are already in residence. |
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1991 |
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. |
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1990 |
Wait Till Helen Comes
Mary Downing Hahn
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Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister, Heather, but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom. |
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1989 |
Eating Ice Cream with a Werewolf
Phyllis Green
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When Brad and his babysitter, Phoebe, obtain a magic book, strange things begin to happen around the house.
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1988 |
Night of the Twisters
Ivy Ruckman
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A fictional account of the night freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, as experienced by a twelve-year-old, his family, and friends. |
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1987 |
Stone Fox
John Gardiner
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Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. |
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1986 |
Zucchini
Barbara Dana
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Zucchini, a ferret, escapes from the zoo and after riding the subway across town, meets Billy, a shy boy, and their friendship begins |
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1985 |
Skinnybones
Barbara Park
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Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world. |
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1984 |
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
Barbara DeClements
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Initially repelled by an overweight new student who has serious home problems, the fifth grade class finally learns to accept her. |
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1983 |
It Can't Hurt Forever
Marilyn Singer
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Eleven-year-old Ellie describes her experiences during twelve days of hospitalization for heart surgery. |
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1982 |
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Barbara Robinson
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The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant. |
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1981 |
Pinballs
Betsy Byars
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Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and about each other. |
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1980 |
The Summer of the Monkeys
Wilson Rawls
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In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus |
