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Information about Club Read:
- Sign up sheets will be out in December
- Beginning in January, meetings will be held on Friday mornings at 8:00am in the Media Center
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The club will be lead by Mrs. Ehly and Mrs. Ogg
Intermediate Golden Sower Nominees
2008 - 2009
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Armstrong, Alan W. WHITTINGTON.
Illustrated by S. D. Schindler. Random House, 2005. ISBN 0375828648 [paperback ISBN 0375828656]
Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington’s famous cat of English folklore,
appears at a run-down barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor’s
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Auch, Mary Jane. WING NUT.
Henry Holt & Co., 2005. ISBN 0805075313
When twelve-year-old Grady and his mother relocate yet again, they find work taking
care of an elderly man, who teaches Grady about cars, birds, and what it means to have a home. |
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Clements, Andrew. ROOM ONE: A MYSTERY OR TWO.
Illustrated by Chris Blair. Simon & Schuster Books, 2006. ISBN 0689866860
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town’s one-room
schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. |
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Gutman, Dan. SATCH AND ME.
HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 0060594918
With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with
him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.
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Hart, Alison. ANNA’S BLIZZARD.
Peachtree, 2005. ISBN 1561453498
Having never excelled at schoolwork, twelve-year-old Anna discovers that she may know
a few things about survival when the 1888 Children’s Blizzard traps her and her classmates in
their Nebraska schoolhouse.
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Hicks, Betty. OUT OF ORDER.
Roaring Brook Press, 2005. ISBN 1596430613 [paperback ISBN 0312373554]
Four youngsters, ages nine to fifteen, narrate one side of the story of their newly blended
family’s adjustment, interwoven with grief and loss. |
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Lord, Cynthia. RULES.
Scholastic Press, 2006. ISBN 0439443822
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal
existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
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Lowry, Lois. GOSSAMER.
Houghton Mifflin, 2006. ISBN 0618685502 [paperback ISBN 0385734166 – January 2008]
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy
from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds. |
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Whelan, Gloria. LISTENING FOR LIONS.
HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0060581743 [paperback ISBN 006058176X]
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thirteen-year-
old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor’s identity to travel to England, where
her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents’ mission hospital.
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Wiles, Deborah. EACH LITTLE BIRD THAT SINGS.
Harcourt Children’s Books, 2005. ISBN 0152051139 [paperback ISBN 0152056572]
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral
parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of
heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of
her beloved great-uncle Edisto. |
Nebraska Golden Sower Award
2008-2009 Intermediate Nominees
Sponsored by Nebraska Library Association’s
School, Children’s, and Young People’s Section
http://www.goldensower.org
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