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Sasquatch Award



2009 Winner

book coverThe Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.

2010 Nominees

book coverThe Return of the Killer Cat by Anne Fine
Tuffy the pet cat narrates his escapades as he attempts to escape his family's cat-sitter and suffers through a humiliating episode of mistaken identity.
book coverBrendan Buckley's Universe and Everything In It by Sundee Frazier
Brendan Buckley, a biracial ten-year-old, applies his scientific problem-solving ability and newfound interest in rocks and minerals to connect with his white grandfather, the president of the Puyallup Rock Club.
book coverMoxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
by Peggy Gifford
With summer coming to an end, about-to-be-fourth-grader Moxy Maxwell does a hundred different things to avoid reading her assigned summer reading book.
book coverDeep and Dark and Dangerous
by Mary Downing Hahn
When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
book coverEmmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
by Lynne Jonell
When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged by their evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she and some new friends must try everything possible to return things to normal.
book coverSkulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.

 

book coverHeat by Mike Lupica
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
book coverTen Ways to Make My Sister Disappear
by Norma Fox Mazer
Ten-year-old Sprig no longer gets along with her twelve-year-old sister, Dakota, but the two pull together during their father's extended business trip to Afghanistan.
book coverThe Mutiny on the Bounty by Patrick O'Brien
An account of the tragic voyage of the British ship to the island of Tahiti.
book coverHow to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgia, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
book coverLawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
book coverYellow Star by Jennifer Roy
From 1939, when Sylvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
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