SOUTH DAKOTA TEEN READS
Nominated Books 2008-2009

Middle School List
Winner: Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment by James Patterson

• Acampora, Paul - Defining Dulcie
• Blacker, Terrence - Boy2Girl
• Fleischman, Sid - Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini
• Giblin, James - Good Brother, Bad Brother: Story of Edwin Booth & John W. Booth
• Grant, K.M. - Blood Red Horse
• Grey, Christopher - Leonardo’s Shadow
• Hautman, Pete - Rash
• Key, Watt - Alabama Moon
• Korman, Gordon - Born to Rock
• Lupica, Mike - Heat
• McKinty, Adrian - Lighthouse Land
• Murdock, Catherine - Dairy Queen
• Paterson, Katherine - Bread and Roses, Too
• Patterson, James - Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment
• Pierce, Tamora - Terrier
• Shusterman, Neal - Dread Locks
• Smelcer, John - Trap
• Stanley, Diane - Bella at Midnight
• Turner, Ann - Hard Hit
• Wilson, Diane - Firehorse

High School List
Winner: Runner by Carl Deuker

• Anderson, Laurie H.- Twisted
• Bastedo, Jamie - On Thin Ice
• Carter, Alden R. - Love, Football and Other Contact Sports
• Dessen, Sarah - Just Listen
• Deuker, Carl - Runner
• D'Orso, Michael - Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season
• Garden, Nancy - Endgame
• Going, K. L. - Saint Iggy
• Hall, Barbara - Noah Confessions
• Klass, David - Firestorm
• Leavitt, Martine - Keturah and Lord Death
• McCormick, Patricia - Sold
• Pfeffer, Susan Beth - Life as We Knew It
• Simmons, Michael - Finding Lubchenko
• Tharp, Tim - Knights of the Hill Country
• Vaught, Susan - Trigger
• Volponi, Paul - Black & White
• Werlin, Nancy - Rules of Survival
• Zarr, Sarah - Story of a Girl
• Zusak, Markus - Book Thief

Courtesy of Siouxland Libraries Youth Services Division