Arizona Young Readers Award Nominations

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Arizona Young Readers Award Nominations

• Picture books
• 2005

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How Groundhogs Garden Grewby Lynne Cherry

• Groundhog loves to go into his neighbors garden
  and eat the fresh vegetables he finds there,
  until one day he has a friend who teaches him the
  joy of planting his own garden. Learn with
  Groundhog as he is introduced to the cycles of a
  garden gathering seeds in the fall, storing them
  in the winter, planting them in the spring,
  weeding and watering them in the summer, and then
  sharing the harvest of the garden with friends at
  a Thanksgiving feast.

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The Name Jarby Yangsook Choi

• Unhei (Yoon-hye) not only moves to a new school,
  but she moves to a new country with her family
  and she is worried no one will be able to
  pronounce her Korean name. She decides she needs
  a new one, but she doesnt know what to choose!
  One day she finds a large glass jar on her desk,
  and she realizes that her classmates want to help
  her. Will she be Daisy, Tamela, or Michelle?
  And, what will she do with her real name? Unhei
  learns that sometimes being different is a good
  thing.

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Diary of a Wormby Doreen Cronin

• This is a diaryof a worm. Worms are not all
  that different from you and me except they eat
  their homework, and they dont have any legs.
  This worm has trouble with friends, has set goals
  for himself, and wants to keep a puppy as a pet.
  This wonderfully simple journal written from the
  worms point-of-view shows the daily life of a
  worm and a bit of the world he lives in.

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Miss Smiths Incredible Storybookby Michael
Garland

• Zack thinks this school year will be just like
  all the rest until he meets his teacher, Miss
  Smith. Miss Smith has the ability to make
  characters come alive as she reads stories aloud
  during story time. Every day Zack looks forward
  to hearing a new story. However, one day when
  Miss Smith is late and Principal Rittenrotten
  reads aloud, characters not only come alive but
  escape and do not want to return. Zack then
  knows the magic of Miss Smith. Who would ever
  guess that reading could be this much fun?

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You Read to Me, Ill Read to Youby Mary Ann
Hoberman

• Heres a book With something
  new-- You read to me!
  Ill read to you.!
• Well read each page To one
  another-- Youll read one
  side, I the other.
• This book written for two voices uses rhyme,
  rhythm, and repetition to allow two children (or
  a child and an adult) to read aloud together.
  Themes include family, friendship, pets, and
  humor to celebrate reading and the joy it brings.

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How I Became a Pirateby Melinda Long

• Jeremy Jacob runs into a pirate ship, and he
  joins the crew at the invitation of their
  captain, Braid Beard. Soon Jeremy knows all
  about being a pirate, and he enjoys being his own
  man and not having to follow directions. He has
  the very best time of his life and thinks he
  might want to be a pirate forever. But, then
  Jeremy finds out what pirates dont do, and hes
  not sure he can be happy with their life-style
  for the rest of his life.

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Belly Button Boyby Peter Maloney

• Billy loves to get dirty while digging in dirt.
  He feels that dirt is his friend. And, Billy
  hates taking baths, so he is not at all worried
  when dirt and mud start to pile up in his belly
  button. However, when a green leafy plant begins
  sprouting from his navel, he tries everything to
  hide his condition. The doctor is not sure what
  to do with Billys belly garden. Can he clean up
  his act and get back to normal?

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The Recess Queenby Alexis ONeill

• Mean Jean is the recess queen, and nobody
  questions her. She dictates what everybody does
  on the playground. If other students try to
  cross her, she pushes them and smooshes them and
  hammers them and slammers them One day a new
  kid comes to school and challenges Mean Jean.
  Can Katie Sue show Mean Jean that she doesnt
  need to be mean to the other students?

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Eleanor, Ellatony, Ellencake, and Meby C. M.
Rubin

• Eleanor has a problem. All the members of her
  family have a different nickname for her, and
  they insist on calling her those names. They
  range from Elle, the perfect mademoiselle to
  Eleanora the movie star with so much mora.
  Eleanor finally realizes that the only person who
  can come up with the perfect nickname is the one
  who is going to use it--Eleanor herself. Can she
  come up with a name that everyone will love?

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Dear Mrs. LaRueby Mark Teague

• Poor Ike LaRue has a hard time following
  directions, and he is sent to obedience school by
  his owner, Gertrude LaRue. Ike writes letters
  home to his owner pleading with her to let him
  come home as he paints a bleak picture of the
  school, which is a bit exaggerated. Ike makes
  his own point-of-view known as he tries to
  persuade his owner to let him have his way again.
  The black-and-white illustrations emphasize
  Ikes point-of-view. Will Gertrude LaRue give in
  and let Ike come home and return to his
  disobedient ways?