2008 Nominees
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Adam Canfield of the Slash by Michael Winerip
Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
      by Joseph Bruchac
Crooked River by Shelley Pearsall
Defiance by Valerie Hobbs
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
East by Edith Pattou
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
The Misadventures of Maude March, or, Trouble Rides a Fast Horse
      by Audrey Couloumbis
MVP*: *Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans
The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very
      Interesting Boy
by Jeanne Birdsall
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Thunder from the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow
Worth by A. LaFaye
Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman

 

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