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 (Winner)
  • 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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