Voice of Youth Award Books 2002-2003 7th and 8th grades
Avi. Wolf Rider.
After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have
committed murder, 15-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with
his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.
Joan Bauer. Hope Was Here.
When 16-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from
Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the
Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's
political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. Read more about Hope Was Here in Kids' Books We Love!
Susan Cooper. King of Shadows.
While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to
perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds
himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater
under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. Chuck Close Up Close.
A biography of the revisionist artist who achieved prominence in the
late 1960s for enormous, photographically realistic, black and white
portraits of himself and his friends.
Will Hobbs. Ghost Canoe.
Fourteen-year-old Nathan, fishing with the Makah in the Pacific
Northwest, finds himself holding a vital clue when a mysterious stranger
comes to town looking for Spanish treasure.
Felice Holman. Slake's Limbo.
Thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake, hounded by his fears and misfortunes,
flees them into New York City's subway tunnels, never again--he
believes--to emerge. Read more about Slake's Limbo in Kids' Books We Love!
Naomi Shihab Nye. This Same Sky.
A poetry anthology in which 120 poets from 62 different
countries celebrate the natural world and its human and animal
inhabitants.
Gary Paulsen. Harris and Me.
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home
life, an 11-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is
given an introduction to a whole new world. Read more about Harris and Me in Kids' Books We Love!
Margaret Rostkowski. After the Dancing Days.
A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the
aftermath of World War I forces 13-year-old Annie to redefine the
word "hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism.
Graham Salisbury. Under the Blood-Red Sun.
Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local
bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically
after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
