SC Junior and Young Adult Book Award Nominees 2012-2013

I'm challenging myself to read (or re-read) all of the 2012-2013 South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominees by the end of the school year. If I finish them, I'll start on the YA Nominees.  Let's see if I can do it!

Here's a list, which is also posted in my room:

SC Junior Book Award Nominees

Bat Scientists, Mary Kay Carson

Boys Without Names, Kashmira Sheth

Camo Girl, Kekla Magoon

Crunch, Leslie Connor

Dark Life, Kat Falls

The Grimm Legacy, Polly Shulman

Hero, Mike Lupica

Is it Night or Day?, Fern Schumer Chapman

A Long Walk to Water: A Novel Based on a True Story, Linda Sue Parks

Mamba Point, Kurits Scaletta

Mockingbird, Kathryn Erskine

Ninth Ward, Jewell Parker Rhodes

Roots and Blues: A Celebration, Arnold Adoff

Saving Sky, Diane Stanley

Shooting Kabul, N. H. Senzai

Sources of Light, Margaret McMullan

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, Tom Angleberger

The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, Erin Dionne

Warriors in the Crossfire, Nancy Bo Flood

Woods Runner, Gary Paulsen

SC Young Adult Book Award Nominees

Blindsided, Priscilla Cummings

Blue Plate Special, Michelle Kwasney

Claire de Lune, Christine Johnson

Eli the Good, Silas House

Firelight, Sophie Jordan

Five Flavors of Dumb, Antony John

The Ghost and the Goth, Stacey Kade

Heist Society, Ally Carter

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer, Lish McBride

Hunger, Jackie Morse Kessler

Lockdown, Walter Dean Myers

Matched, Ally Condie

Pathfinder, Orson Scott Card

Please Ignore Vera Dietz, A. S. King

Prisoners in the Palace: Michaela MacColl

The Sky is Everywhere, Jandy Nelson

Something Like Hope, Shawn Goodman

Sorta Like a Rock Star: A Novel, Matthew Quick

Star Crossed, Elizabeth C. Bunce

Virals, Kathy Reichs