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First begun in 1974, the Young Hoosier Book Award encourages Indiana students to read for fun. Since 1992, the Award has been divided into three categories based on grade level: Kindergarten-3rd grade (picture books), 4th-6th grade (intermediate), and 6th-8th grade (middle grade). Each year, teachers, students, parents and media specialists submit suggestions to the Young Hoosier Book Award committee, who nominate twenty books in each category. Students read the books on the list and vote for their favorites. Votes are then tallied and the winning illustrator and authors are presented the award in the spring of the following year.
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2017-18 Middle Grade Winner
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Orbiting Jupiter
by Gary D Schmidt
Twelve-year-old Jack narrates the story of foster teen Joseph, who after serving time in a juvenile facility has been placed with a family on a rural Maine farm and who resolves to track down the daughter he has never met. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.
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2018-19 Middle Grade Nominees
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Ms. Bixby's Last Day
by John David Anderson
Loving their gifted teacher, three boys are dismayed when the teacher falls ill and leaves for the rest of the school year, a situation that compels them to share their stories while cutting class and journeying across town together on a fateful day.
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Need
by Joelle Charbonneau
When the teens at Wisconsin's Nottawa High School are increasingly drawn into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need, the community spirals into anarchy as the site compels them to commit increasingly malicious pranks. By the best-selling author of the Testing trilogy.
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Hour of the Bees
by Lindsay Eagar
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II
by Alan Gratz
Living with his family in Berlin, Michael O'Shaunessey, the son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, works as a spy like his parents and participates in the horrific activities of the Hitler Youth in order to gain inside information for the British Secret Service. By the award-winning author of Samurai Shortstop.
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When Friendship Followed Me Home
by Paul Griffin
Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in.
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Took: A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Dan's family moves next door to a woman called Old Auntie who claims she is a witch, and he finds he must take action when his little sister, Erica, is 'took' to become Auntie's slave for the next fifty years
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House Arrest
by K. A Holt
Required to keep a journal as well as report to a probation officer and therapist, a young man who is on probation for one year has difficulty staying out of trouble when he is compelled to take drastic measures to help his struggling family and sick brother.
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Some Kind of Happiness
by Claire Legrand
Sent to spend the summer with unfamiliar relatives when her parents' marriage becomes unstable, 12-year-old Finley, a girl who struggles with depression, discovers a magical make-believe world in the woods behind her grandparents' house that she must save in order to save herself. By the award-winning author of The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls.
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A Night Divided
by Jennifer A Nielsen
When her family is abruptly divided by the rise of the Berlin Wall, 12-year-old Gerta harbors forbidden thoughts about freedom and reuniting with her loved ones before a coded message from her father inspires a daring plan. By the best-selling author of the Ascendance Trilogy.
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Ghost
by Jason Reynolds
Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.
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The Hidden Oracle
by Rick Riordan
Cast down from Olympus and transformed into a human after angering Zeus, a weak and disoriented Apollo arrives in New York City as a regular teen and is forced to survive in the modern world while endeavoring to regain Zeus' favor.
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Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
Racing to freedom with thousands of other refugees as Russian forces close in on their homes in East Prussia, Joana, Emilia, and Florian meet aboard the doomed Wilhelm Gustloff and are forced to trust each other in order to survive.
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Faceless
by Alyssa B Sheinmel
Maisie is a normal 16-year-old, until an electrical fire caused by a lightning strike leaves her with severe burns, her face partially destroyed, and though she is lucky enough to get a full face transplant, she soon discovers how much her looks shaped her own identity and her relationship with those around her, including her boyfriend.
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Scythe
by Neal Shusterman
In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't.
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Falling Over Sideways
by Jordan Sonnenblick
The butt of jokes at school and at home, Claire is forced to confront more serious aspects of her life in the wake of her father's medical emergency, which challenges Claire to bring laughter back into the lives of those she loves.
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Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy
by Noelle Stevenson
Best friends Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley spend a fun summer at Lumberjane scout camp where they encounter yetis, three-eyed wolves, and giant falcons while solving a mystery that holds the fate of the world in the balance.
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Top Prospect
by Paul Volponi
A pre-teen quarterback who has considerable potential is offered the opportunity of a lifetime when the University of Florida football coach offers him a scholarship even before he is in high school, a situation that elevates him to a high-stress level of celebrity.
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Love & Gelato
by Jenna Evans Welch
After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mother's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets.
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Wolf Hollow: A Novel
by Lauren Wolk
Growing up in a rural Pennsylvania town in the aftermath of two world wars, 12-year-old Annabelle confronts a bullying newcomer and must defend a traumatized but gentle World War I veteran who is wrongly implicated in the bully's disappearance.
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