South Carolina Junior Book Awards

2007-08 South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominees

1. Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
2. Hitch by Jeanette Ingold
3. The Revealers by Doug Wilhelm
3. Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
4. In Darkness, Death by Dorothy Hoobler
5. The Safe-Keeper's Secret by Sharon Shinn
6. The Cloud Chamber by Joyce Maynard
7. Last Shot by John Feinstein
8. The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
9. Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
10. The Liberation of Gabriel King by Kelly L. Going
11. The Secret of Castle Cant by Kevin P. Bath
12. Day of Tears by Julius Lester
13. The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan
14. Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
15. Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
16. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
17. Sixth-Grade Glommers, Norks and Me by Lisa Papademetriou
18. Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury
19. Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
20. The Revealers by Doug Wilhelm

2006 - So B. It by Sarah Weeks
2005 - Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
2004 - Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
2003 - Jade Greene: A Ghost Story by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
2002 - Dork in Disguise by Carol Gorman
2001 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
2000 - Tangerine by Edward Bloor
1999 - Crash by Jerry Spinelli
1998 - Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
1997 - Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse
1996 - Baby by Patricia MacLachlan
1995 - The Ghost in the House by Betty Wright
1994 - Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
1993 - Dead Man in Indian Creek by Mary Downing Hahn

About SCJBA Nominees

Each year the South Carolina Association of School Librarians (http://scasl.net/bookawards.htm) sponsors the South Carolina children's, picture book, junior and young adult book awards. The purposes of the South Carolina book awards are to encourage our students to read good, quality contemporary literature and to honor the authors of the books annually chosen the favorites by student vote. The book award medals will be awarded to the winning authors the following year at the annual conference of the SCASL. 
     The Association's Book Award Committees are comprised of a cross section of media specialists, teachers, students, parents, administrators, public librarians, and college or university representatives. These individuals commit themselves for three years during which time they annually formulate the SCASL Book Award Program book lists. In order to accomplish this they must each read 100-250 titles each year which are then discussed and evaluated at regular meetings. It is their efforts which afford you each year's carefully selected reading list in each category: picture books, children, junior, and young adult. Media specialists, teachers, and students owe them a big vote of thanks!