1. Black-Eyed Susan
4-6 Grade Nominees

2. The Girl Who Could Fly
Victoria Forester
 Meet plucky Piper McCloud. She can’t seem to keep
her feet on the ground. She flies. When she flies to
catch a foul ball at a Fourth of July baseball
game, she is whisked away to I.N.S.A.N.E. by the
charismatic Dr. Letitia Hellion.
 Each child at the Institute of Normalcy, Stability, and
NonExceptionality has an exceptional ability. Piper
makes an instant friend in colorful Bella and an
instant enemy in the genius, Conrad.
 The twists and turns in Piper’s adventures have her
face her beliefs about right and wrong, being
loyal, and being true to who she is.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch4I1XTKNyI

3. Turtle in Paradise
Jennifer Holm
 During the 1930’s, a girl named
Turtle is sent to the Florida
Keys to live with her aunt and
three boy cousins.
 Join Turtle as she tries to: get
membership in the diaper
gang, wins over her tough
cookie of a
grandmother, befriends Slow
Poke (a fisherman who may be
her dad), goes treasure hunting
in the Keys, and survives a
hurricane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcO1PxJ
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4. 42 Miles
Tracie Zimmer
 Jo + Ellen = a girl who is trying to
make sense out of the weekdays
she spend with her mom in
Cincinnati, and the weekends she
spend with her father in the
country, and the 42 miles in
between.
 Travel with JoEllen between her two
worlds as she tries to bring both
world together.
Read the poems aloud and relish
them.
 http://www.tracievaughnzimmer.com
/TVZ/42.html
 Read pg 1 Changes

5. Everything For A Dog
By Ann Martin
This is a three for one book, with two human stories
and one animal story all barking to be heard!
Bone is a stray that sets out to seek his fortune
in the cold, cruel world, Charlie is painfully
getting over the death of his brother with the help
of a dog, and Henry wants a dog so badly he will
do anything.
Will Bone ever get enough to eat and a good
home, and why can’t Henry convince his folks
that he is responsible enough, and WHAT does
Aunt Susan know about his dad that she isn’t
telling?
What would you do for a dog???
http://www.schooltube.com/video/cda3abec
d8de6746797c/Everything-for-a-Dog

6. A Long Walk To Water
Linda Sue Park
 What would it be like to have to walk 2
hours every day just to get water?
What would it be like to be told to get
up and run from school and to go
anywhere but back home?
Follow Salva as he and thousands of
other “Lost Boys” trek across Sudan
in the middle of war and unspeakable
horror.
When he finally makes it to the US
he decides to give back to his people:
Walk with Nya as water is brought to
her village 23 years after Salva’s
journey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkxki
sRUmMM

7. The Gold Rush Kid
Mary Waldorf
 What do you do when your father is
prospecting for gold, your mother
dies of typhoid, your sister cuts off
all her hair and tells you she’s your
big brother, Ed, and you’re both
lugging 75 pound packs up the
Klondike trail from Skagway to find
your father?
 Read how Billy finds gold, becomes
a spy and a reporter, and lives to
tell about it. Includes maps so you
too can experience the trip!
 http://www.brainpop.com/socialstud
ies/ushistory/goldrush/

8. Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
Mac Barnett
 A rare national treasure is missing.
 Steve was the last one to borrow the
book, coded with its location, so he
is on the run from officials and
hoodlums and undercover agents.
 With only ‘The Bailey Brothers
Detective Handbook’ to guide
him, Steve must outwit the good and
bad guys and track down the
mysterious Mr. E behind the plot
before………Steve is history!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_8AMH
1E6rg

9. Dream of Night
Heather Henson
 Shiloh has a terrible secret that
draws her to the
scarred, former race
horse, Dream of Night….
 Jess, a horse rescuer, provides
a home on her ranch for both
of them, but is unsure about
offering anything permanent….
 As each character speaks, its
clear they will all have to pull
together to stop the former
owner’s plan to have the horse
killed… one dark night.
http://www.simonandschuster.com/multime
dia?video=27806097001

10. After All You’re Callie
Boone….Winnie Mack
 Callie Boone’s summer has begun
badly. Her former best
friend, Amy, has got a new best
friend who has different interests
than Callie, mainly boys. Callie
loves to dive. She is coached by her
father and encouraged by her next
door neighbor, a boy named
Hoot, to go out for a teen diving
team.
 See how Callie deals with
friendship, family health issues, and
growing up, because after all, she’s
Callie Boone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaNB
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11. Emily’s Fortune
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
 A meek young girl named Emily
Wiggins is orphaned and
travels west with her turtle
named Rufus to live with her
Aunt Hilda.
 AND WHAT THE JUMPIN’
JEHOSHAPHAT HAPPENS
NEXT?
 Well…Ready! Aim! Fire! She
does things she has never
done before like meeting
another orphan named
Jackson, escaping from her evil
Uncle Victor, and disguising
herself as a boy.
 Embrace the melodrama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDcSD7
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