Black-Eyed Susan Award - Grades 6-9 (Awarded by Maryland Association of School Librarians)

Awards List

2015

The Great Trouble
(Nominee)
Deborah Hopkinson

Ice Dogs
(Nominee)
Terry Lynn Johnson

The Crossover
(Nominee)
Kwame Alexander

Screaming at the Ump
(Nominee)
Audrey Vernick

The Boundless
(Nominee)
Kenneth Oppel

I Kill the Mockingbird
(Nominee)
Paul Acampora

The Night Gardener
(Nominee)
Jonathan Auxier

Greenglass House
(Nominee)
Kate Milford

2014

On the Day I Died
(Winner)
Candace Fleming

Eddie's War
(Nominee)
Carol Fisher Saller

The Pact
(Nominee)
Margaret Willey

Poison
(Nominee)
Bridget Zinn

The Girl from Felony Bay
(Nominee)
J.E. Thompson

The Neptune Project
(Nominee)
Polly Holyoke

Far Far Away
(Nominee)
Tom Mcneal

After Iris
(Nominee)
Natasha Farrant

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

2013

Wonder
(Winner)
R.J. Palacio

The Grimm Legacy
(Nominee)
Polly Shulman

The Limit
(Nominee)
Kristen Landon

The False Princess
(Nominee)
Eilis O'Neal

The Lions of Little Rock
(Nominee)
Kristin Levine

The One and Only Ivan
(Nominee)
Katherine Applegate

Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Chomp
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

See You at Harry's
(Nominee)
Jo Knowles

Almost Home
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

2012

No Passengers Beyond This Point
(Nominee)
Gennifer Choldenko

Okay for Now
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

Cold Case
(Nominee)
Julia Platt Leonard

Hidden
(Nominee)
Helen Frost

Bluefish
(Nominee)
Pat Schmatz

Jefferson's Sons
(Nominee)
Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

The Apothecary
(Nominee)
Maile Meloy

2011

Out of My Mind
(Winner)
Sharon M. Draper

Cosmic
(Nominee)
Frank Cottrell Boyce

One Crazy Summer
(Nominee)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Fish
(Nominee)
Gregory Mone

Half Brother
(Nominee)
Kenneth Oppel

The Defense of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter
(Nominee)
John Gosselink

2010

The Compound
(Winner)
S.A. Bodeen

Waiting for Normal
(Nominee)
Leslie Connor

Boost
(Nominee)
Kathy MacKel

All the Broken Pieces
(Nominee)
Ann E. Burg

Anything But Typical
(Nominee)
Nora Raleigh Baskin

When You Reach Me
(Nominee)
Rebecca Stead

2009

Shark Girl
(Nominee)
Kelly Bingham

Skulduggery Pleasant
(Nominee)
Derek Landy

Zen And The Art Of Faking It
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Go Big or Go Home
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

2008

Rules
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

Life As We Knew It
(Nominee)
Susan Beth Pfeffer

Peak
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

2007

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
(Winner)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Perfect
(Nominee)
Natasha Friend

Do You Know the Monkey Man?
(Nominee)
Dori Hillestad Butler

Revenge of the Witch // The Spook's Apprentice
(Nominee)
Joseph Delaney

Crossing the Wire
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Heat
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Gossamer
(Nominee)
Lois Lowry

2006

Airborn
(Nominee)
Kenneth Oppel

Code Talker
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

Adam Canfield of the Slash
(Nominee)
Michael Winerip

2005

The City of Ember
(Winner)
Jeanne Duprau

Double Dutch
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

Al Capone Does My Shirts
(Nominee)
Gennifer Choldenko

Chasing Vermeer
(Nominee)
Blue Balliett

Travel Team
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

2004

Hush
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Hoot
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

Pictures of Hollis Woods
(Nominee)
Patricia Reilly Giff

2003

Point Blank
(Winner)
Anthony Horowitz

Touching Spirit Bear
(Nominee)
Ben Mikaelsen

Flipped
(Nominee)
Wendelin Van Draanen

2002

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
(Nominee)
Dorothy Hoobler; Thomas Hoobler

Hidden Talents
(Nominee)
David Lubar

Rewind
(Nominee)
William Sleator

Miracle's Boys
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

2001

I'm Not Who You Think I Am
(Nominee)
Peg Kehret

Jason's Gold
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
(Nominee)
Kimberly Willis Holt

1999

Ella Enchanted
(Winner)
Gail Carson Levine

Wringer
(Nominee)
Jerry Spinelli

Hero
(Nominee)
S.L. Rottman

1998

Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
(Winner)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Lost in Cyberspace
(Nominee)
Richard Peck

The Music Of Dolphins
(Nominee)
Karen Hesse

Far North
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Search for the Shadowman
(Nominee)
Joan Lowery Nixon

Sees Behind Trees
(Nominee)
Michael Dorris

1997

The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963
(Nominee)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Crash
(Nominee)
Jerry Spinelli

With Every Drop of Blood
(Nominee)
James Lincoln Collier

1996

The Name of the Game Was Murder
(Winner)
Joan Lowery Nixon

Daniel's Story
(Nominee)
Carol Matas

Walk Two Moons
(Nominee)
Sharon Creech

1995

Mr. Tucket // Chance for Escape
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen

1994

Time Windows
(Nominee)
Kathryn Reiss
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Blue Heron
(Nominee)
Avi
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The Haymeadow
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen
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If I Had One Wish...
(Nominee)
Jackie French Koller

1993

Last Summer With Maizon
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

The River
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen

I Am Regina
(Nominee)
Sally M. Keehn

Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
(Nominee)
Louis Sachar

The Hideout
(Nominee)
Eve Bunting

1992

The Man Who Was Poe
(Nominee)
Avi
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The Mouse Rap
(Nominee)
Walter Dean Myers

Children of the River
(Nominee)
Linda Crew

Weasel
(Nominee)
Cynthia DeFelice

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