Media specialists and other lovers of Black-Eyed Susan
books,
This PowerPoint was designed for your use in an
educational setting. It contains ALL levels of 2011-2012
Black-Eyed Susan books , K-12. It is not intended to be
used “as is” but to be tailored to the needs and
individuality of your own school or library. Where there
is a picture of a certain library branch or display –
please delete and insert your own. Use the parts/slides
that fit your needs, delete and/or modify the rest.
Above all, read and enjoy, encourage your students to
do the same!
Patricia Valas
retired media specialist (CCPL)
Now Presenting !
Black-Eyed Susan
nominees for
2011-2012
Created by Patricia Valas
WHAT?
WHAT?
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A list of nominated
books is presented for
you, the students, to
select your favorite.
So this is a children’s
choice award. No
adult votes.
WHO?
WHO?
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All children, K-12, in
the state of Maryland
are eligible to read
and vote on their
favorite book. You
need to read at least
(three, or whatever your
books from
the list before you
can vote.
school uses!)
WHEN?
WHEN?
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Starting now and
lasting until the vote
is recorded, tallied,
and mailed in April
2012.
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(Remember that these books
have a shorter due date, 5
school days, with no renewal if
someone is waiting- this was
my policy, insert whatever
special rules apply in your
media center)
WHERE?
WHERE?
Books are available
here in the media
center or from your
favorite public
library branch.
 Check out the
special display in
the fiction section…
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WHY?
WHY?
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You have the
opportunity to reward
an author for a job
well done.
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(Reading Counts quizzes are
available for most of these
books. We used this program,
maybe your school uses
another.)
WOW,
take a look at these
Picture Book Nominees
A Pig Parade is a Terrible Idea by
Michael Ian Black
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Explains precisely
why, although it may
sound like a good
idea, gathering
hundreds of pigs to
march in a parade
through one's
hometown is
inadvisable.
Persephone by Sally Pomme Clayton
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Based on the Greek myth
of the beautiful young
goddess who is snatched
by Hades and taken to
the underworld, this
beautifully illustrated
classic brings to life one
of the world's most
ancient legends--the
origins of the seasons.
Clever Jack Takes the Cake by
Candace Fleming
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A poor boy named
Jack struggles to
deliver a birthday
present worthy of the
princess.
Chicken Big! by Keith Graves
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A giant chicken
hatches from an
enormous egg, but
the other chickens
cannot accept that he
is one of them.
That Book Woman
by Heather Henson
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A family living in the
Appalachian Mountains in
the 1930s gets books to
read during the regular
visits of the "Book
Woman"--a librarian who
rides a pack horse
through the mountains,
lending books to the
isolated residents.
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill
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Chronicles the life
of Dave, a
nineteenth-century
slave who went on
to become an
influential poet,
artist, and potter.
I Didn’t Do It by Patricia Maclachlan
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Excited puppies relate
such new discoveries
as the mailman
comes every day and
food tastes better
eaten off a human's
plate.
Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum
by Meghan McCarthy
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Full of fun historical
facts, this book is the
true story of how
bubble gum was
invented.
The Lion’s Share
by Matthew McElligot
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Ant is honored to
receive an invitation
to lion's annual dinner
party, but is shocked
when the other
guests behave rudely
and then accuse her
of thinking only of
herself.
Gracias by Pat Mora
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A young multiracial
boy celebrates family,
friendship, and fun by
telling about some of
the everyday things
for which he is
thankful.
Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney
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This picture book is a
celebration of the 50th
anniversary of the
momentous Woolworth's
lunch counter sit-in, when
four college students
staged a peaceful protest
that became a defining
moment in the struggle
for racial equality and the
growing civil rights
movement.
Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys by
Bob Raczka
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Raczka and Reynolds
present a humorous
haiku collection
perfect for guys (big
and small) that
celebrates outdoor
fun throughout the
seasons.
Memoirs of a Goldfish
by Devin Scillian
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A goldfish gives a
personal account of
his experiences while
swimming around his
bowl as it slowly fills
with fish and other
accessories, only to
realize when he is
relocated for a
cleaning how much
he misses them.
Mirror Mirror : A Book of Reversible
Verse by Marilyn Singer
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A collection of short
poems called reversos
which, when
reversed, provide new
perspectives on the
fairy tale characters
they feature.
Fly Free! By Roseanne Thong
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When Mai feeds the
caged birds at a Buddhist
temple in Vietnam, her
simple act of kindness
starts a chain of
thoughtful acts that
ultimately comes back to
her. Includes author's
note explaining the
Buddhist concepts of
karma and samsara, or
the wheel of life.
These
4-6 Nominees will make
everyone happy!!
The Case of the Case of Mistaken
Identity by Mac Barnett
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Mystery/Humorous
When twelve-year-old Steve
Brixton, a fan of Bailey
Brothers detective novels, is
mistaken for a real
detective, he must elude
librarians, police, and the
mysterious Mr. E as he
seeks a missing quilt
containing coded
information.
Publisher’s website
Lexile 590
The Girl Who Could Fly
by Victoria Forester
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Science Fiction
When homeschooled farm girl
Piper McCloud reveals her
ability to fly, she is quickly
taken to a secret government
facility to be trained with
other exceptional children, but
she soon realizes that
something is very wrong and
begins working with brilliant
and wealthy Conrad to
escape.
Author’s website
Lexile 920
Dream of Night by Heather Henson
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Realistic
Told from their different
points of view, twelveyear-old Shiloh, a
troubled foster child,
Dream of Night, an
abused former racehorse,
and Jess, a woman who
cares for both, find
healing by helping one
another through their
pain.
Author’s website
Lexile 470
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm
Historical
In 1935, when her
mother gets a job
housekeeping for a
woman who does not like
children, eleven-year-old
Turtle is sent to stay with
relatives she has never
met in far away Key
West, Florida.
 Author’s website
 Lexile 610
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After All, You’re Callie Boone
by Winnie Mack
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Realistic
Runaway ferrets, former BFF
drama-trauma, and one
gigantic (and very, very public)
belly flop. No doubt about it,
Callie Boone's summer is
crummy. The only things
keeping her afloat are dive
practice with her dad and a
top-secret Olympic dream.
Then a boy named Hoot-who is
not her boyfriend!-moves in
next door and turns her world
upside down and right-side up.
Author’s website
Lexile 800
Everything for a Dog
by Ann M. Martin
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Realistic
In parallel stories,
Bone, an orphaned
dog, finds and loses a
series of homes,
Molly, a family pet,
helps Charlie through
the grief and other
after-effects of his
brother's death, and
lonely Henry pleads
for a dog of his own.
Publisher’s website
Lexile 890
Emily’s Fortune
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Historical
While traveling to her
aunt's home in Redbud by
train and stagecoach,
quiet young Emily and her
turtle, Rufus, team up
with Jackson, fellow
orphan and troublemaker
extraordinaire, to
outsmart mean Uncle
Victor, who is after Emily's
inheritance.
A publisher’s website
Lexile 840
A Long Walk to Water
by Linda Sue Park
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Realistic/”Recent” Historical
When the Sudanese civil war
reaches his village in 1985,
eleven-year-old Salva
becomes separated from his
family and must walk with
other Dinka tribe members
through southern Sudan,
Ethiopia, and Kenya in search
of safe haven. Based on the
life of Salva Dut, who, after
emigrating to America in
1996, began a project to dig
water wells in Sudan.
Author’s website
Lexile 720
The Gold Rush Kid by Mary Waldorf
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Historical
When their mother
dies in 1897, twelveyear-old Billy McGee
and his angry, older
sister leave Skagway,
Alaska, to find their
father who is trekking
north to the Klondike
to prospect for gold.
Publisher’s website
Lexile NA
42 Miles
by Tracie Vaughn Zimmerman
Realistic
As her thirteenth birthday
approaches, JoEllen decides to
bring together her two
separate lives--one as Joey,
who enjoys weekends with her
father and other relatives on a
farm, and another as Ellen,
who lives with her mother in a
Cincinnati apartment near her
school and friends.
 Author’s website
 Lexile NP
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Be wise like me
and read these 6-9
Nominees !!
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
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Humorous
12-year old Liam looks like he's
thirty. Sometimes it's not bad;
for example on the first day of
school the principal mistakes
Liam for a teacher or when he
convinces a car dealer to let him
test drive a Porsche. So feeling
like he's stuck between two
worlds, Liam cons his way into
being the adult chaperone on
the first space ship to take
civilians into space. But when
the ship is stuck 230,000 miles
from home, being mistaken for
an adult is not good.
Website with author info
Lexile 670
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
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Realistic
Considered by many to
be mentally retarded, a
brilliant, impatient fifthgrader with cerebral
palsy discovers a
technological device
that will allow her to
speak for the first time.
Author’s website
Lexile 700
Closed for the Season
by Mary Downing Hahn
Mystery
When thirteen-year-old
Logan and his family
move into a run-down old
house in rural Virginia, he
discovers that a woman
was murdered there and
becomes involved with his
neighbor Arthur in a
dangerous investigation to
try to uncover the killer.
 Author Website
 Lexile 670
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The Defense of Thaddeus A.
Ledbetter by John Gosselink
Humorous
Twelve-year-old Thaddeus
A. Ledbetter, who
considers it a duty to
share his knowledge and
talent with others, refutes
each of the charges which
have sent him to "InSchool Suspension" for
the remainder of seventh
grade.
 Author information
 Lexile 970
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The Smoky Corridor by Chris
Grabenstein
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Ghost Mystery
With the help of his
stepmother, his dog
Zipper, and new friend
Malik, Zack Jennings
faces ghosts and
zombies at his new
middle school, which
is said to house a lost
Confederate
treasure.
Author’s website
Lexile 690
Fish by Gregory Mone
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Action/Adventure
Eleven-year-old Fish,
seeking a way to help his
family financially,
becomes a reluctant cabin
boy on a pirate ship,
where he soon makes
friends---and enemies--and is asked to help
decipher clues that might
lead to a legendary
treasure.
Author’s website
Lexile 810
Trash by Andy Mulligan
Mystery/Suspense
Fourteen-year-olds
Raphael and Gardo team
up with a younger boy,
Rat, to figure out the
mysteries surrounding a
bag Raphael finds during
their daily life of sorting
through trash in a thirdworld country's dump.
 Author’s website
 Lexile 850
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Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel
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Realistic
In 1973, when a renowned
Canadian behavioral
psychologist pursues his latest
research project-- an
experiment to determine
whether chimpanzees can
acquire advanced language
skills-- he brings home a baby
chimp named Zan and asks his
thirteen-year-old son to treat
Zan like a little brother.
Author’s website
Lexile 680
Bystander by James Preller
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Realistic
Thirteen-year-old Eric
discovers there are
consequences to not
standing by and watching
as the bully at his new
school hurts people, but
although school officials
are aware of the problem,
Eric may be the one with a
solution.
Author’s website
Lexile HL600
One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Historical
In the summer of 1968, after
traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland,
California, to spend a month with the
mother they barely know, elevenyear-old Delphine and her two
younger sisters arrive to a cold
welcome as they discover that their
mother, a dedicated poet and
printer, is resentful of the intrusion
of their visit and wants them to
attend a nearby Black Panther
summer camp.
Author’s website
Lexile 750
Look at all those award’s won already!!!
It’s true!! These
9-12 Nominees are
awesome !!
Split by Swati Avasthi
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Realistic
A teenaged boy thrown
out of his house by his
abusive father goes to
live with his older
brother, who ran away
from home years ago to
escape the abuse.
Author’s website
Lexile NA
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Futuristic
In a futuristic world,
teenaged Nailer scavenges
copper wiring from
grounded oil tankers for a
living, but when he finds a
beached clipper ship with a
girl in the wreckage, he has
to decide if he should strip
the ship for its wealth or
rescue the girl.
 Author interview and other
author info
 Lexile HL690
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Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Realistic
Sixteen-year-old Valerie,
whose boyfriend Nick
committed a school
shooting at the end of
their junior year, struggles
to cope with integrating
herself back into high
school life, unsure herself
whether she was a hero
or a villain. .
 Author’s website
 Lexile HL760
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Jump by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Realistic/Adventure
 Two runaway
teenagers meet at a
rock gym and decide to
go on a climbing trip
without telling their
parents. Their
adventure turns
dangerous as they are
pursued by authorities.
 Author’s website
 Lexile 720
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A Kiss In Time by Alex Flinn
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Fantasy/Romance
Sixteen-year-old Princess
Talia persuades
seventeen-year-old Jack,
the modern-day American
who kissed her awake
after a 300-year sleep, to
take her to his Miami
home, where she hopes to
win his love before the
witch who cursed her can
spirit her away.
Author’s website
Lexile HL610
Girl Stolen by April Henry
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Realistic
When an impulsive
carjacking turns into a
kidnapping, Griffin, a
high school dropout,
finds himself more in
sympathy with his
wealthy, blind victim,
sixteen-year-old
Cheyenne, than with
his greedy father.
Author’s website
Lexile HL700
All Unquiet things by Anna Jarzab
Mystery
After the death of
his ex-girlfriend
Carly, Northern
California high
school student Neily
joins forces with
Carly's cousin
Audrey to try to
solve her murder.
 Author’s website
 Lexile HL780
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The Rock and the River
by Kekla Magoon
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Historical
In 1968 Chicago,
fourteen-year-old Sam
Childs is caught in a
conflict between his
father's nonviolent
approach to seeking civil
rights for African
Americans and his older
brother, who has joined
the Black Panther Party.
Author’s website
Lexile HL550
How to Say Goodbye in Robot
by Natalie Standiford
Realistic
After moving to
Baltimore and enrolling
in a private school,
high school senior
Beatrice befriends a
quiet loner with a
troubled family
history.
 Author’s website
 Lexile HL560
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Marcelo in the Real World by
Francisco X. Stork
Realistic
Marcelo Sandoval, a
seventeen-year-old boy
on the high-functioning
end of the autistic
spectrum, faces new
challenges, including
romance and injustice,
when he goes to work for
his father in the mailroom
of a corporate law firm.
 Author’s website
 Lexile HL700
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Other nominees for this year……
This slide could be used if you are showing only a
certain grade level of BES books but wanted to
include some from other levels that may be in your
collection.
READ AND VOTE !!
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Keep track of the books
you have read on your
own list and use a rating
scale of some kind to
remember your favorite.
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(However your school
does this – modify the
following slides!)
LEXILE LEVELS
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Did you
know that
lexile levels
are now part
of the
information
that you get
about a
book on the
OPAC?
LEXILE LEVELS
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And you
can search
for a list of
books on a
certain
lexile level
using the
lexile
button.
Credits
The pictures came from these websites.
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/atozpictures/lr000347.html
http://www.blupete.com/Nature/Wildflowers/Wild.htm
http://www.jimemery.com/Virginia/blackeydsus.htm
http://www.joeydragon.com/Graphics/blackeyedsusan.htm
http://www.digmagazine.com/96/10-96/jacqui.cfm
http://www.geobop.com/World/NA/US/MD/Flower.htm
The pictures of the book covers all came from CCPL ,BCPL or LCPL websites.
The summaries came from CIP information.