Broad Rock Middle School Library: Rhode Island Children's Book Award 2016

2016 Rhode Island Children's Book Award Nominees

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• The Night Gardener (Grades 4 and up) byJonathan Auxier
• Call Number: FIC AUX

  ISBN: 141971144X

  Publication Date: 2014-05-20

  Irish orphans, Molly and Kip, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be. Soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
  Genre: Suspense
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  El Deafo (Grades 4 and up) by Cece Bell

  Call Number: 741.5 BEL

  ISBN: 9781419712173

  Publication Date: 2014-09-02

  All the other students at Cece's old school were deaf and didn't care about her Phonic Ear. At her new school, the device she needs seems to be repelling the one thing she really wants: a friend. This graphic novel chronicles the author's experience with hearing loss.
  Genre: Graphic Novel Memoir
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  Kinda Like Brothers (Grades 5 and up) by Coe Booth

  Call Number: FIC BOO

  ISBN: 0545224969

  Publication Date: 2014-08-26

  Jarrett's life is disrupted when his mom takes in a 12-year-old foster child. Jarrett's summer at the Youth Center is also being ruined by the foster 
  "brother" who seems to excel in everything. The friction between the boys escalates and threatens both of them as they grow to understand the other's pain. 
  Genre: Fiction
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  The Map Trap (Grade 3 and up)by Andrew Clements

  Call Number: FIC CLE

  ISBN: 141699727X

  Publication Date: 2014-07-22

  According to map obsessed Alton Ziegler, maps can be used to chart human behavior, effects of cafeteria food, clothing choices, and cliques.But Alton finds himself in uncharted territory when one of his “secret” maps is stolen and he has to discover how to undo the potential damage to his middle school reputation. 
  Genre: Fiction
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  Mr. Ferris and His Wheel byKathryn Gibbs Davis

  Call Number: 791.06 DAV

  ISBN: 9780547959221

  Publication Date: 2014-09-02

  This fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world's most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel. 
  Genre: Nonfiction

                          

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• Star Stuff (Grades 3 and up)by Stephanie Roth Sisson

  Call Number: 520.92 SIS

  ISBN: 9781596439603

  Publication Date: 2014-10-14

  Ever look up at the night sky and wonder about the stars and planets? As a boy, Carl Sagan’s curiosity about the universe took him on a life long journey of imagination, exploration and discovery to understand what lies beyond our world. Star Stuff tells the story of how Carl Sagan became a renowned scientist who shared with us the fascinating field of astronomy
  Genre: Nonfiction
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  Little Green Men at the Mercury Inn (Grades 3 and up) by Greg Leitich Smith

  Call Number: FIC SMI

  ISBN: 9781250062871

  Publication Date: 2015-06-16

  Aidan’s family runs a motel near Cape Canaveral, Florida that attracts guests with an interest in space shuttle launches. When a UFO is sighted and a prosthetic limb starts picking up alien radio transmissions, Aidan begins to realize that some of the guests of the Mercury Inn might know more about inter-galactic travel than he thought..
  Genre: Science Fiction
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  Another Day As Emily (Grades 3 and up) by Eileen Spinelli

  Call Number: FIC SHU

  ISBN: 9780449809884

  Publication Date: 2014-05-13

  Eleven year-old Suzy has been having a run of bad luck and hurt feelings – especially with the attention her little brother is getting for making a heroic 911 call. Suzy decides that she’ll be better off becoming a reclusive poet like Emily Dickinson. How hard can it be to spend the summer in her room, writing poetry, with no friends, no visitors and none of the usual summer fun? 
  Genre: Novel in Verse
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  Loot (Grades 5 and up) by Jude Watson

  Call Number: FIC VAN

  Publication Date: 2015-05-26

  Twelve-year-old March has spent his life traveling the world with his father, a renowned cat burglar, learning the family business. This all ends when his father dies during their last heist, leaving March alone and caught by the authorities. On his way to a group home in the United States, March meets his twin sister Jules, whom he never knew existed. March and Jules must work together to break their family curse before they die on their thirteenth birthday.
  Genre: Mystery
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  Joltin' Joe DiMaggio (Grades 3 and up)by Jonah Winter

  Call Number: FIC WIS

  ISBN: 9781416940807

  Publication Date: 2014-09-02

  When he was only nineteen years old, Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr., an Italian immigrant from San Francisco, stepped into the retiring shoes of Babe Ruth on the Yankees baseball team. Joe was quiet and shy, yet he fought prejudice and made headlines for his 56-game hitting streak. 
  Genre: Nonfiction