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2007 K-3 Winner

Big-Enough Anna: the Little Sled Dog who Braved the Arctic

by 

Pam Flowers with Ann Dixon

Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth 

Published by Alaska Northwest Books

2003

 

2007 4-6 Winner

The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story 

by Mary Downing Hahn

Published by Clarion Books

2004

 

 

2007 7-12  Winner

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

by Sonya Sones

Published by Simon & Schuster

2004

 

Pam Flower's website

http://www.mtsu.edu/pamflowers.com

Ann  Dixon's website

http://www.anndixon.com/bigenoughanna.html

Bill Farnsworth's website

http://www.billfarnsworth.com

 

Sonya Sones' website

http://www.sonyasones.com/

 

 

From the book jacket flap:

Anna may be the smallest member of the dog team, but she's surely the most determined. In this incredible true story, Anna is picked to join a thrilling, 2,500- mile expedition across the top of the world. When the lead dog becomes lost, it's up to Anna to take his place. Will she have what it takes to ensure the survival of all?

Arctic adventurer Pam Flowers shares Anna's amazing story in classrooms and auditoriums all over North America. Children learn that even the smallest, seeming the most powerless among us, are big enough to try their best. 

 

 

 

 

From the book jacket flap:

 

Diana and her little brother, Georgie, have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a decaying mansion, for what seems like forever. A strict set of rules won't allow them to leave the property or even show themselves to anyone. But when a new caretaker and his young daughter, Lissa, come to live there, Diana is tempted to break the mysterious rules for the first time in hopes of making a new friend. Somehow Diana knows she  must get Lissa's help if she and Georgie are ever to be released from the a secret that has bound them to the old Willis place for so  long. Here is a chilling new ghost story in the tradition of Mary Downing Hahn's earlier classics. 

 

From Amazon.com summary:

Ruby has turned her grief into anger at her father: because he divorced her mother before she was born, because she has had to leave her best friend Lizzie and her boyfriend Ray to come to Los Angeles to live with him, and because he is Whip Logan, a very famous and rich movie star. She turns a cold shoulder to all his gentle and persistent attempts to relate to her, sneers at the glamour of his Beverly Hills mansion and famous friends, and spends most of her time writing desperate emails to Lizzie and Ray, and her dead mother, from her Dream Bedroom. The friendship of Max, Whip's live-in assistant/personal trainer, is some comfort, and Ruby has a harder and harder time keeping her sneer as Whip ups the ante, from rides in his classic vintage cars, to shopping trips for anything she wants, to weekends in Las Vegas and Catalina and a party where Eminem is the guest of honor. But an earthquake leads to a surprising revelation that changes everything for Ruby, in an enormously satisfying ending.

Pam Flowers and her team ran the Iditarod, mushed to the Magnetic North Pole, and made a 2,500-mile trans-arctic expedition. Her account of that journey is chronicled in Alone across the Arctic. Anna and her littermates, Roald and Sojo, live with Pam in Talkeetna, Alaska.  Mary Downing Hahn is a former children's librarian an author of numerous critically acclaimed books for young readers. She lives in Columbia, Maryland, a town too new to host many ghosts. However, she's convinced a few linger in the old houses and farms that lie within Columbia's boundaries. From the Book Jacket: Before becoming a writer, Sonya Sones was a film editor. Ms. Sones says: "I grew up near Boston, but moved to L.A.. in my twenties to work for a famous film director. The first time I walked through the gates of MGM, I thought I'd died and gone to heave. Hollywood seemed so glamorous and exciting. But it was like living on a different planet. So when I was writing Ruby's story, I could draw on memories of my own culture shock--seeing palm trees everywhere, movies stars standing in line at the drugstore. I even got a ticket for crossing the street...just like Ruby." Ms. Sones lives with her family in California.
Runners Up K-3 
Runners Up 4-6

 
Runners Up 7-12

 

  1. Late for School by Mike Reiss ; ill. Michael Austin

  2. Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook by Michael Garland

  3. John Philip Duck by Patricia Polacco

  4. Fox and Fluff Shutta Crum ; ill. John Bendall-Brunello 

  5. Why Epossumondas no Hair on his Tail by Coleen Salley ; ill. Janet Stevens

  6. Beatrice Doesn't Want To by Laura Numeroff ; ill. Lynn Munsinger

2. Hachiko Waits by Leslea Newman

3. Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

4. Cold in Summer by Tracy Barrett

5. The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements

 

  1. The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

  2. High Heat by Carl Deuker

  3. Messenger by Lois Lowry

  4. Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson

  5. Godless by Pete Hautman

 

 

BTSB Book Set Winners in 2007

Winners receive a complete set of 2007-2008 books at the appropriate grade levels.

A BIG thank you to Greg Kaiser for supporting VSBA with this wonderful gift.

Please tell him how much you appreciate this.
Winner K-3 Winner 4-6 Winner 7-12
Rubberta Powers at Dresden Elementary in

Dresden, Tn

Becky Boyd at Weaver Elementary in

Bristol, Tn

Donna Jerden at Central High School in

 Wartburg, Tn

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