Sequoyah Intermediate Book Award 2016

Laugh with the Moon

By: Shana Burg

Dragonswood

By: Janet Lee Carey

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Drama

By: Raina Telgemeier

Shadow and Bone

By: Leigh Bardugo

After her mother dies suddenly, Clare’s father decides to drag her to Malawi, Africa, so he can be a doctor. Clare is NOT happy about this. While dealing with uncomfortable uniforms, a school that doesn’t have textbooks, and living in the jungle, Clare has to grieve, teach English, and make friends. But the people of her new home are more than up to the challenge, and they slowly chip away at Clare’s walls, until she comes to see that maybe just about

anywhere can be home, if you can find family.

Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-

The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon

By: Steve Sheinkin

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In a land called Ravka, which has been torn into two by the Shadow Fold – an immense and dangerous abyss filled with darkness - a fragile orphan named Alina discovers a power that she never knew she possessed; the power to summon the sun.

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Callie is in 7th grade and is an enthusiastic set designer for this year’s rendition of Moon over Mississippi. While she must deal with big plans and a small budget, she also has love issues to contend with.

In 1192 A.D. on Wilde Island, Tess is accused of witchcraft and must flee, but when she meets a warden of Dragonswood who offers her shelter, she does not realize that he has a secret that may finally bring about peace among the races.

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In 1938, after discovering what happens when a Uranium atom is split in two, a scientific race

between nations involving espionage, death-defying heroics, and intellect begins for the world’s most dangerous weapon, the atomic bomb.

Stolen into Slavery: The True

Story of Solomon Northup

By: Judith and Dennis Fradin

Raven Boys

By: Maggie Stiefvater

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Insignia

By: S. J. Kincaid

False Prince

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

Living the life of a free black man was rare, but Solomon Northup was doing just that, but when he was misled and taken out of the state of New York, a new life started. Waking up in chains and his freedom taken away, Solomon is in for a horrendous time. Go on the horrifying journey with Solomon and see that even in a time of misery one can find their way

out of the pain.

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Every year, Blue visits the local graveyard with her mother, to listen to those who will die in the coming year, but when Blue meets one of the ghosts, he and his friends will change her life forever.

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Kizzy Ann Stamps

By: Jeri Hanel Watts

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Sage is one of four orphans who are being forced to

compete to be the best impersonator for the long lost Prince Jaron in order to take over the kingdom of Carthya.

Second Chance Summer

By: Morgan Matson

In a world where World War III is fought in space with drones, Thomas Raines, a virtual reality gaming prodigy, could be the undiscovered gem that helps the Indo-Americans finally win the war.

Curveball: The Year I

Lost My Grip

By: Jordan Sonnenblick

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Cinder

By: Marissa Mayer

Taylor Edwards must spend her summer in the

family lake house in the Poconos where she must face people she has hurt in the past and the fact that her terminally ill father only has a few months to live.

Nervous about attending the new integrated school, Kizzy Ann

takes her former teacher’s advice and writes letters to her new white teacher. Kizzy Ann pours her heart into the letters, describing her excitement, fears and her facial scar and how her dog Shag helps her deal with it all.

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Peter‘s freshman year is not going as planned. An injury forces him to look for other interests than sports. Friendships, a certain girl, and his grandfather’s illness further complicate his life.

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On the brink of intergalactic war and ravaged by a deadly plague, New Beijing’s only hope lies with a cyborg, mechanic named Cinder whose mysterious past could be the key to preventing all-out war with the Lunars.

FAR FAR AWAY

By: Tom McNeal

Sequoyah Intermediate Book Award 2016

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"Listen, if you will," whispers the ghost of Jacob Grimm to Jeremy Johnson Johnson and to the readers of this delightful, modern-day fairy tale. Jeremy has the rare ability to hear ghosts caught in the Zwischenraum between mortal life and the hereafter. Jacob Grimm has been a constant presence since Jeremy was 6, a stand-in for Jeremy's absent mother and his absent-minded father. Jacob takes his role as mentor and protector seriously, although his attempts to help Jeremy are not always successful. Jeremy's social standing is a little dubious--what teenager stands a chance with pretty girls when he spouts curses in German? But Ginger Boultinghouse falls for Jeremy after eating the village baker's enchanted Prince Cakes. The two get up to some

pranks that lead them to one adventure after another. Things aren't what

they seem in the village of Never Better, where kids have gone

missing and evil is afoot.

DOLL BONES

By: Holly Black

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RESOURCES:

Summaries from: The Oklahoma Library Association's Sequoyah Promotional materials, 2015.

http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.oklibs.org/resource/resmgr/Sequoyah_Promotional_2015/Sequoyah_2015_Intermediate_A.pdf

Twelve-year-old Zach and his longtime friends Poppy and Alice have created an elaborate, ongoing imaginative game they act out with their dolls and action figures. When his dad throws away Zach's figurines ("it's time you grew up"), the distraught boy abandons the game with little explanation to the others ("you can't play pretend forever"). Poppy attempts to lure him back with the game's all-powerful Great Queen, a bone-china doll so precious that Poppy's mother keeps it in a locked cabinet. Poppy takes the queen, only to be haunted in her dreams by the ghost of a girl whose ashes are inside the doll. The ghost won't rest until she has been properly buried, so Poppy persuades Alice and Zach to journey with her to the girl's gravesite. The

impromptu trip includes a scary bus ride, eerie supernatural encounters,

and an action-packed sailboat voyage in this spooky adventure.

Created by Sherri Malget, Librarian

Hawthorne Elementary, OKCPS