William Allen White

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William Allen White Children's Book Award
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This award honors William Allen White, a famous
writer and journalist from Emporia Kansas.
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Each year a new master list is chosen by
librarians.
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Students in the state of Kansas get to read the
books and vote for their favorite one.
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The book with the most votes wins the award.
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For the year 2006-2007 2 lists have been chosen.
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One list is for 3rd - 5th grade, the other is
for 6th -8th grade.
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To be eligible to vote, students are required to
read at least 2 books from the list.
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Voting takes place in March. Start reading now!!
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The following books are on the master list for
3rd through 5th grade.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
The A Custodian by Louise Borden
The students and teachers at Dublin Elementary
School make banners, posters, and signs for their
school custodian to show how much they appreciate
him and all the work he does.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
Cabin on Trouble Creek by Jean Van Leeuwen
In 1803 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to
finish the log cabin and guard the land while
their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch
their mother and younger siblings.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
Two Jewish sisters, escapees of the infamous
Warsaw ghetto, devise a plan to thwart an attempt
by the Gestapo to intercept food bound for
starving people behind the dark Wall.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
Hachiko Waits by Leslea Newman
Professor Uenos loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for
him at the train station every afternoon, and
even after the professor unexpectedly dies while
at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await
his return until the day the dog dies.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
Ida Band Her Plans to Maximize Fun and Disaster
and Possibl) Save the World by Katherine
Hannigan
Fourth grader Ida B spends happy hours being
home-schooled and playing in her familys apple
orchard, until circumstances force her parents to
sell part of the orchard and send her to public
school.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clememts
Life is usually easy for popular sixth grader,
Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him
in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use
all his leadership skills to unite the other
students.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
Operation Clean Sweep by Darleen Bailey Beard
In 1916, just four years after getting the right
to vote, the women of Umatilla, Oregon, band
together to throw the mayor and other city
officials out of office, replacing them with
women.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
The Presidents Daughter by Kimberly Brubaker
Bradley
A fictionalized account of ten-year-old Ethel
Roosevelts early experiences in the White House
after her father, Theodore Roosevelt, becomes
president in 1901.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
The Report Card by Andrew Clements
Fifth grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the
fact that she is a genius from everyone because
all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes
up with a plan to prove that grade are not
important, things begin to get out of control.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
S is for Sunflower a Kansas Alphabet by
Devin Scillian
Brief rhymes for each letter of the alphabet,
accompanied by longer explanatory text, features
of Kansas.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade
Thunder from the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow
Just when his dreams of being part of a family
and having a dog seem to be coming true, Tom
wonders if trouble with neighbors on his new
island home and the impending birth of a new baby
will change everything. Set in Newfoundland in
1929.
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William Allen White Childrens Book Award
nominee for 3rd-5th grade

What is goodbye? by Nikki Grimes
Alternating poems by a brother and sister convey
their feelings about the death of their older
brother and the impact it had on their family.