Great+Stone+Face+books



The Great Stone Face Book Award is sponsored by the Children's Librarians of New Hampshire (CHILIS) and is given each year to an author whose book receives the most votes from fourth through sixth graders throughout the state. Each year a committee chooses 25 recently published titles, which children are encouraged to read and then use as a guide for voting. Students vote fo r their favorite book in April during National Library Week, and the winner is announced in May. The purpose of the award is to promote reading enjoyment, to increase awareness of contemporary writing, and to allow children to honor their favorite author

= And the 2009 winner is: Diary of a = == = Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney =

= 2009-2010 Nominees =

How many can you read?

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 *  **Curse of the Night Wolf by Paul Stewart**

Barnaby Grimes, a punctual lad who runs errands around the city, seeks out mysteries to solve, is attacked one night by a huge dog, and gets caught up in a world of corrupt doctors, strange potions, and expensive furs. || **The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson**

Tally and her friends at Dalderton Boarding School form a dance troupe and travel to Bergania, where she befriends Karil, the crown prince, and helps him flee the Nazis after his father is assassinated. || **Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass**

Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, to watch a total eclipse of the sun; but soon they begin to learn a great deal about themselves, each other, and the universe. || **Fearless by Elvira Woodruff**

In late seventeenth-century England, eleven-year-old Digory, forced to leave his hometown after his father is lost at sea, becomes an apprentice to the architect Henry Winstanley, who built a lighthouse on the treacherous Eddystone Reef--the very rocks that sank Digory's grandfather's ship years before. || **Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix**

When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time. ||
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 * **The Funeral Director's Son by Colene Paratore**

The last thing twelve-year-old Christopher "Kip" Campbell wants is to take over the funeral business that has been in his family for generations, but he is the only Campbell heir and seems to have a calling to help the dead and their survivors in a most unusual way. || ** The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman **  The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures. || ** The Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O'Connor ** 

In North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, a troubled boy and his mother, a happy family seeking adventure, a man and his lonely daughter, and the widow who must sell the run-down motel that has been her home for decades, meet and are transformed by their shared experiences. || **It's Only Temporary by Sally Warner** When Skye's older brother comes home after a devastating accident, she moves from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to California to live with her grandmother and attend middle school, where she somewhat reluctantly makes new friends, learns to stand up for herself and those she cares about, and begins to craft a new relationship with her changed brother. || **Into the Volcano by Don Wood**

While their parents are away doing research, brothers Duffy and Sumo Pugg go with their cousin, Mister Come-and-Go, to Kokalaha Island, where they meet Aunt Lulu and become trapped in an erupting volcano. ||
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 * **Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas**

Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick the pocket of the wizard Nevery and instead gets a strong jolt of magic, but, instead of punishing the boy, Nevery takes Conn under his wing, teaches him magic, and enlists his help in finding the person responsible for stealing the city's dwindling magic supply. || **The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by W.R. Philbrick**

Homer P. Figg escapes from his wretched foster home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army. || **Nurk by Ursula Vernon**

Nurk, a sort-of brave shrew, packs up a few pairs of clean socks and sails off on an accidental adventure, guided by wisdom found in the journal of his famously brave and fierce grandmother. || <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**Oggie Cooder by Sarah Weeks**

Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone's best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show, but he soon learns the perils of being a celebrity--and having a neighbor girl as his manager. || <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell**

Ottoline and Mr. Munroe investigate a string of burglaries and the disappearance of several lapdogs. ||
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 * <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**Robe of Skulls by Vivian French**

The sorceress Lady Lamorna has her heart set on a very expensive new robe, and she will stop at nothing--including kidnapping and black magic--to get the money to pay for it. || <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**Savvy by Ingrid Law**

Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident. || <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**Scat by Carl Hiaasen**

Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong. || <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**The Seer of Shadows by Avi**

Photographer Horace Carpetine is commissioned to do a portrait for society matron Mrs. Frederick Von Macht; however, the photos evoke both the image and the ghost of the Von Macht's dead daughter, Eleanora, who has returned to seek vengence on those who killed her. || <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**The Sherlock Files by Tracey Barrett**

Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister living in London for a year, discover that Sherlock Holmes was their great-great-great grandfather when they are inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Famous Detectives and given his unsolved casebook, from which they attempt to solve the case of a famous missing painting. ||
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 * <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**Swindle by Gordon Korman**

After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the Smart Pick fruit picker. || <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg**

As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963 and violence against African-Americans intensifies, residents of the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice. || <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**The Truth About Horses, Friends & My Life as a Coward by Sarah P. Gibson**

As she fearfully begins learning to ride and manage the horses she never wanted her family to own, Sophie Groves also begins to acquire friends on the Maine island she calls home. || <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);">**We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes by Patrick Jennings**

When Crusher the snake is captured, her only thought is to escape but as time goes by and she befriends the other inmates of the "zoo," she realizes that freedom also means leaving companions behind. || <span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);"> **The Wooden Mile by Chris Mould**

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Eleven-year-old Stanley Buggle, happily anticipating a long summer vacation in the house he inherits from his great-uncle, discovers, soon after arriving in the seemingly peaceful village of Crampton Rock, that along with the house he has also inherited some sinister neighbors, a talking stuffed fish, and a host of mysteries surrounding his great-uncle's death.<span style="color: rgb(155, 9, 220);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> || njk 5/9/09