The following books were 2005-2006 nominees for the Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award sponsored by the Minnesota Youth Reading Awards.
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay by Julia Alvarez
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Tyler on Prime Time by Steve Atinsky
Runt by Marion Dane Bauer (WINNER!)
Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac
The Summer of Riley by Eve Bunting
The Beloved Dearly by Doug Cooney
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
The Transmogrification of Roscoe Wizzle by David Elliott
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Giff
Hoot by Carl Hiassen (WINNER!)
Lumber Camp Library by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer
Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman
Niagara Falls, Or Does It? by Henry Winkler
The Maud Hart Lovelace Award is a children’s book award designed to encourage recreational reading among school age children. Click on the links to learn more about each book as well as information on where they can be easily purchased.
