Young Hoosier Book Awards

First begun in 1974, the Young Hoosier Book Award exists to encourage recreational reading in Indiana students. Since 1992, the Award has been divided into three categories based on grade level: Kindergarten-3rd grade, 4-6th grade, and 6-8th grade.

Each year, teachers, students, parents and media specialists submit suggestions to the Young Hoosier Book Award committee, which is composed of AIME (Association for Indiana Media Educators) members. The Award Committee then selects twenty nominees for each age category. Students take part in the process by reading a certain number of the books on the list. In April, the students vote for their favorite book. Votes are then tallied and the winning illustrator and authors are presented the award at the annual AIME spring conference the following year. Their names are added to the list of winners spanning from 1975 to the present.

[Text adapted from Clay County Public Library website.]

Visit the Young Hoosier Book Award website to nominate a title or view previous winners.

 

2007-2008 Nominees

Picture Books - Grades K-3

Pinduli by Janell Cannon
Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel by Leslie Connor
Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin
Minnie’s Diner: A Multiplying Menu by Dayle Ann Dodds
Mr. George Baker by Amy Hest
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You:Very Short Mother Goose Tales To Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman
Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson
The Dog Who Cried Wolf by Keiko Kasza
Hurty Feelings by Helen Lester
How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long
Karate Hour by Carol Nevious
I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff
Who Swallowed Harold?: And Other Poems About Pets by Susan Pearson
Why Epossumondas Has No Hair On His Tail by Coleen Salley
Where Do Chicks Come From? by Amy E. Sklansky
Bottle Houses: The Creative World of Grandma Prisbey by Melissa Eskridge Slaymaker
The Giant and the Beanstalk by Diane Stanley
Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo by Karma Wilson
Coming On Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson
Hannah Is My Name by Belle Yang

 

Intermediate Grades 4-6

Funerals & Fly Fishing by Mary Bartek
Operation Clean Sweep by Darleen Bailey Beard
The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney
Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
Escape to West Berlin by Maurine Dahlberg
The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies
The Great Sockathon by M. C. Delaney
Giant Rat of Sumatra, or, Pirates Galore by Sid Fleischman
Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff
Thunder From the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow
Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret
Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Hachiko Wait by Leslea Newman
Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
The Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco by Janice Repka
George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen From Both Sides by Rosalyn Schanzer
Rockwell: A Boy and His Dog by Loren Spiotta-DiMare
Angus and Sadie by Cynthia Voigt
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson