#Lovelace Award Winners
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| 2008 |
Ruby Holler
Sharon Creech |
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler. |
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2007 |
Escaping the Giant Wave
Peg Kehret
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When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years. |
| 2006 |
Runt
Marion Dane Bauer |
Runt, the smallest wolf cub in the litter, seeks to prove himself to his father King and the rest of the pack and to earn a new name. |
| 2005 |
Doll People
Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin |
A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow "The Doll Code of Honor." |
| 2004 |
In the Stone Circle
Elizabeth Kimmel |
While spending the summer in an old stone house in Wales, fourteen-year-old Cristyn comes to terms with the death of her mother while satisfying the request of a thirteenth-century princess. |
| 2003 |
The Ghost of Fossil Glen
Cynthia DeFelice
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Allie tries hard to deal with her very active imagination, especially when she hears the voice and finds the diary of a girl found dead in Fossil Glen. |
| 2002 |
Silverwing
Kenneth Oppel |
When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys. |
| 2001 |
The Million Dollar Shot
Dan Gutman
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Eleven-year-old Eddie gets a chance to win a million dollars by sinking a foul shot at the National Basketball Association finals. |
| 2000 |
Danger in the Desert
Terri Fields
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Two brothers attempt to survive in the desert outside Scottsdale, Arizona, after they are abandoned there following a carjacking. |
| 1999 |
Frindle
Andrew Clement |
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. |
| 1998 |
Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park |
Thirteen-year-old Phoebe recalls the death of her younger brother Mick in a bicycle accident, which might not have been fatal had he been wearing his helmet, and how she and her family reacted to the tragedy. |
| 1997 |
The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother
Elvira Woodruff |
When aspiring scientist Nelly Brown uses a magic chemistry set to make her grandmother young again but is unable to stop the alteration, the seventy-year-old woman becomes a baby and Nelly fears that she may shrink into nothing. |
| 1996 |
Cages
Peg Kehret
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After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work, as part of her sentence, at an animal shelter. |
| 1995 |
Nightmare Mountain
Peg Kehret
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Twelve-year-old Molly's visit to her aunt and uncle's llama ranch in the state of Washington leads her into unexpected danger and suspense. |
| 1994 |
38 Weeks Till Summer Vacation
Mona Kerby |
Skinny Nora Jean Sampson and her friends at R.B. Nolen Elementary School are kept busy with a snake in the girls' bathroom, a scary Halloween fun house, and a pizza party in the library. |
| 1993 |
Dead Man in Indian Creek
Mary Downing Hahn
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When Matt and Parker learn the body they found in Indian Creek is a drug-related death, they fear Parkers' mother may be involved. |
| 1992 |
This Island Isn't Big Enough
for the Four of Us
Gery Greer amd Bob Ruddick
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Peter and Scott excitedly plan a camping trip to a deserted island, only to arrive and discover that two girls with zany senses of humor are already in residence. |
| 1991 |
Hatchet
Gary Paulson
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. |
| 1990 |
Wait Till Helen Comes
Mary Downing Hahn
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Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister, Heather, but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom. |
| 1989 |
Eating Ice Cream with a Werewolf
Phyllis Green
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When Brad and his babysitter, Phoebe, obtain a magic book, strange things begin to happen around the house.
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| 1988 |
Night of the Twisters
Ivy Ruckman
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A fictional account of the night freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, as experienced by a twelve-year-old, his family, and friends. |
| 1987 |
Stone Fox
John Gardiner
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Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. |
| 1986 |
Zucchini
Barbara Dana
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Zucchini, a ferret, escapes from the zoo and after riding the subway across town, meets Billy, a shy boy, and their friendship begins |
| 1985 |
Skinnybones
Barbara Park |
Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world. |
| 1984 |
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
Barbara DeClements
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Initially repelled by an overweight new student who has serious home problems, the fifth grade class finally learns to accept her. |
| 1983 |
It Can't Hurt Forever
Marilyn Singer
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Eleven-year-old Ellie describes her experiences during twelve days of hospitalization for heart surgery. |
| 1982 |
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Barbara Robinson |
The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant. |
| 1981 |
Pinballs
Betsy Byars
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Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and about each other.
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| 1980 |
The Summer of the Monkeys
Wilson Rawls |
In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus |
