Volunteer State Book Award - Grades 4-6

Awards List

2011

11 Birthdays
(Winner)
Wendy Mass

The Mysterious Benedict Society
(Nominee)
Trenton Lee Stewart

The Gollywhopper Games
(Nominee)
Jody Feldman

Heart of a Shepherd
(Nominee)
Rosanne Parry

Anything But Typical
(Nominee)
Nora Raleigh Baskin

Dying to Meet You
(Nominee)
Kate Klise

Franny Parker
(Nominee)
Hannah Roberts McKinnon

The Potato Chip Puzzles
(Nominee)
Eric Berlin

Captain Nobody
(Nominee)
Dean Pitchford

Extra Credit
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

The Secret of Zoom
(Nominee)
Lynne Jonell

Tentacles
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

Runaway Twin
(Nominee)
Peg Kehret

2010

Found
(Winner)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Homework Machine
(Nominee)
Dan Gutman

Confessions from the Principal's Chair
(Nominee)
Anna Myers

A Piece of the Sky
(Nominee)
David Patneaude

Night of the Black Bear
(Nominee)
Gloria Skurzynski; Alane Ferguson

Leepike Ridge
(Nominee)
N.D. Wilson

Fearless
(Nominee)
Elvira Woodruff

Greetings from Nowhere
(Nominee)
Barbara O'Connor

All the Lovely Bad Ones
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

Lost and Found
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Kenny & the Dragon
(Nominee)
Tony DiTerlizzi

Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Almost True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka
(Nominee)
Jon Scieszka

The Leanin' Dog
(Nominee)
K.A. Nuzum

Masterpiece
(Nominee)
Elise Broach

The Night of the Spadefoot Toads
(Nominee)
Bill Harley

Peace, Locomotion
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

The 100-year-old Secret
(Nominee)
Tracy Barrett

2009

Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
(Nominee)
Lesley M.M. Blume

On the Wings of Heroes
(Nominee)
Richard Peck

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
(Nominee)
Brian Selznick

No Talking
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
(Nominee)
Lynne Jonell

Dragon's Egg
(Nominee)
Sarah L. Thomson

The Legend of Zoey
(Nominee)
Candie Moonshower

Blown Away!
(Nominee)
Joan Hiatt Harlow

2008

The Penderwicks
(Nominee)
Jeanne Birdsall

Punished!
(Nominee)
David Lubar

Heat
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Rules
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

Blood on the River: James Town, 1607
(Nominee)
Elisa Carbone

Room One
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Double Identity
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Trapped!
(Nominee)
Peg Kehret

2007

The Ghost's Grave
(Winner)
Peg Kehret

Chasing Vermeer
(Nominee)
Blue Balliett

The Naked Mole-Rat Letters
(Nominee)
Mary Amato

The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
(Nominee)
Betty G. Birney

Anna's Blizzard
(Nominee)
Alison Hart

The Coastwatcher
(Nominee)
Elise Weston

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
(Nominee)
Kate DiCamillo

Princess Academy
(Nominee)
Shannon Hale

2006

The Old Willis Place
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

Quake!
(Nominee)
Gail Langer Karwoski

Ida B
(Nominee)
Katherine Hannigan

The House on the Gulf
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Last Holiday Concert
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Thunder From The Sea
(Nominee)
Joan Hiatt Harlow

2005

The Tale of Despereaux
(Winner)
Kate DiCamillo

Butterflies and Lizards, Beryl and Me
(Nominee)
Ruth Lercher Bornstein

Jackie's Wild Seattle
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Summer of the Skunks
(Nominee)
Wilmoth Foreman

The City of Ember
(Nominee)
Jeanne Duprau

The Capture
(Nominee)
Kathryn Lasky

Race for the Sky: The Kitty Hawk Diaries of Johnny Moore
(Nominee)
Dan Gutman

Trading Places with Tank Talbott
(Nominee)
Dori Hillestad Butler

2003

Love That Dog
(Winner)
Sharon Creech

2001

Bud, Not Buddy
(Winner)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Speak
(Winner)
Laurie Halse Anderson

2000

Holes
(Winner)
Louis Sachar

1998

Shiloh Season
(Winner)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1996

The Best School Year Ever
(Winner)
Barbara Robinson

1995

The Ghosts of Mercy Manor
(Winner)
Betty Ren Wright

1994

Fudge-A-Mania
(Winner)
Judy Blume

1993

Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies
(Winner)
Eve Bunting

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