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The Black-Eyed Susan is Maryland's Reader's Choice Award nominated titles are out!
The Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award, aptly named after Maryland's state flower, is a program sponsored by the Maryland Association of School Librarians that is dedicated to providing students with quality, contemporary literature. Selection of the winner is done by students, in each participating school, who have read at least 3 books. Votes are tallied across the state and a winning author or illustrator is awarded a pewter plate engraved with the year and BES logo. Good luck to this year's nominees!
6th-9th Grade Nominees
Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father's Secret Children by Kimberly Brubaker-Bradley
Genre: Historical Fiction
Overall Rating: Summary
Summary: This book tells the fictionalized account of the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
No Passengers Beyond This Point by Gennifer Choldenko
Genre: Fantasy
Overall Rating:
Summary: With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time.
Payback Time by Carl Deuker
Genre: Realistic fiction-
Overall Rating:
Summary: High School journalist Mitch True reveals unexpected discoveries when he delves
into the reasons why corner back Angel Marichal obvious talents aren't being put
to use by football Coach McNulty.
Hidden by Helen Frost
Genre: Realistic fiction- Novels in verse
Overall Rating:
Summary: When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
Genre: Fairy Tale
Overall Rating:
Summary: Follow Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.
Eight Keys by Suzanne LaFleur
Genre: Self-realization fiction
Overall Rating:
Summary: When twelve-year-old Elise, orphaned since age three, becomes disheartened by middle school, with its bullies, changing relationships, and higher expectations, keys to long-locked rooms and messages from her late father help her cope.
Cold Case by Julia Platt Leonard
Genre: Mystery
Overall Rating:
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Oz Keillor finds a dead body in his family's Santa Fe, New Mexico, restaurant, he is determined to solve the mystery in which his older brother is implicated, but which also involves their long-dead father, who was accused of being a spy.
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
Genre: Adventure
Overall Rating:
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his book of secrets.
Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
Genre: Realistic fiction
Overall Rating:
Summary: Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide his illiteracy, when he meets a sassy classmate with her own secrets and a remarkable teacher.
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
Genre: Realistic fiction
Overall Rating:
Summary: When Doug Swieteck's family moves from New York City to a small town in upstate New York, Doug is miserable-until he meets a great girl and learns, from a book of Audubon prints, how to draw.
High School Nominees
Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber
Between Shades of Gray by Rita Sepetys
Bruiser by Neal Shusterman
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco Stork
Somebody Everybody Listens To by Suzanne Supplee
Genre: Historical Fiction
Overall Rating: Summary
Summary: This book tells the fictionalized account of the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson's life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
No Passengers Beyond This Point by Gennifer Choldenko
Genre: Fantasy
Overall Rating:
Summary: With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time.
Payback Time by Carl Deuker
Genre: Realistic fiction-
Overall Rating:
Hidden by Helen Frost
Genre: Realistic fiction- Novels in verse
Overall Rating:
Summary: When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
Genre: Fairy Tale
Overall Rating:
Summary: Follow Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk. Based in part on the Grimms' fairy tales Faithful Johannes, Hansel and Gretel, The seven ravens, Brother and sister, The robber bridegroom, and The devil and his three golden hairs.
Eight Keys by Suzanne LaFleur
Genre: Self-realization fiction
Overall Rating:
Summary: When twelve-year-old Elise, orphaned since age three, becomes disheartened by middle school, with its bullies, changing relationships, and higher expectations, keys to long-locked rooms and messages from her late father help her cope.
Cold Case by Julia Platt Leonard
Genre: Mystery
Overall Rating:
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Oz Keillor finds a dead body in his family's Santa Fe, New Mexico, restaurant, he is determined to solve the mystery in which his older brother is implicated, but which also involves their long-dead father, who was accused of being a spy.
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
Genre: Adventure
Overall Rating:
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott, newly arrived in London from Los Angeles in 1952, becomes friends with a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows, and is drawn into a dangerous adventure with Benjamin when his father is kidnapped and Russian spies try to steal his book of secrets.
Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
Genre: Realistic fiction
Overall Rating:
Summary: Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide his illiteracy, when he meets a sassy classmate with her own secrets and a remarkable teacher.
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
Genre: Realistic fiction
Overall Rating:
Summary: When Doug Swieteck's family moves from New York City to a small town in upstate New York, Doug is miserable-until he meets a great girl and learns, from a book of Audubon prints, how to draw.
High School Nominees
Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber
Between Shades of Gray by Rita Sepetys
Bruiser by Neal Shusterman
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco Stork
Somebody Everybody Listens To by Suzanne Supplee
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