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USA:

Maryland's Black-Eyed Susan Award 2016-2017
(Der Verband der Schulbibliotheken des US-Bundesstaats Maryland vergibt im Turnus des Schuljahres diesen Preis, der nach einem Korbblütengewächs benannt ist. Die Blume heißt bei uns Schwarzäugige Rudbeckie oder Rauer Sonnenhut.
Inzwischen wurden die Nominierungen bekanntgegeben.)

Bilderbuch:

• Bethany Barton: I’m Trying to Love Spiders: (It Isn’t Easy) (Penguin - Viking Books for Young Readers)
• Kate Cotton (Text) / Stephen Walton (Illustrationen): Counting Lions: Portraits from the Wild (Candlewick)
• Michael Hall: Red: A Crayon's Story (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Annette LeBox (Text) / Stephanie Graegin (Illustrationen): Peace is an Offering (Dial Books)
• Kadir Nelson: If You Plant a Seed (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Julie Paschkis: Flutter & Hum: Animal Poems = Aleteo y Aumbido: Poemas de Animals (Macmillan - Holt Books for Young Readers)
• Miranda Paul (Interview) / Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrationen): One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia (Millbrook Press)
• John Rocco: Blizzard (Disney Hyperion)
• Mara Rockliff (Text) / Vincent X. Kirsch (Illustrationen): Gingerbread for Liberty! How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution (HMH Books for Young Readers)
• Mara Rockliff (Text) / Iacopo Bruno (Illustrationen): Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France (Candlewick Press)
• Lucy Margaret Rozier (Text) / Leo Espinosa (Illustrationen): Jackrabbit McCabe & the Electric Telegraph (Random House Kids)
• Katheryn Russell-Brown (Text) / Frank Morrison (Illustration): Little Melba and Her Big Trombone (Lee & Low Books)
• Laura Purdie Salas (Text) / Violeta Dabija (Illustrationen): Water can be … (Millbrook Press)
• Laurie Ann Thompson (Text) / Sean Qualls (Illustrationen): Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah (Penguin Random House - Schwartz & Wade)
• Deborah Underwood (Text) / Meg Hunt (Illustrationen): Interstellar Cinderella (Chronicle Books)

Bücher für Klasse 4-6:

• Kimberly Brubaker Bradley: The War That Saved My Life (Penguin Random House - Puffin Books)
• W. Bruce Cameron: Ellie’s Story: A Dog’s Purpose Novel (Macmillan - Tor/Forge)
• Andrew Clements (Text) / Dan Andreasen (Illustrationen): The Map Trap (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
• Alison DeCamp: My Near-death Adventures (99% true!) (Penguin Random House - Yearling)
• Sharon Draper: Stella by Starlight (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
• Mary Downing Hahn: Took: A Ghost Story (Clarion Books)
• Kate Hannigan: The Detective’s Assistant (Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Lynda Mullaly Hunt: Fish in a Tree (Nancy Paulsen Books)
• Gordon Korman: Masterminds (HarperCollinsPublishers - Balzer + Bray)
• Louis Sachar: Fuzzy Mud (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)

Graphic Novels für Klasse 4-6:

• Jorge Augusto Aguirre (Szenario) / Rafael Rosado (Zeichnungen): Dragons Beware! (First Second)
• Barry Deutsch: Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish (Harry N. Abrams)
• Nathan Hale: Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #5: The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman (Harry N. Abrams)
• Jennifer L. Holm (Szenario) / Matthew Holm und Lark Pien (Zeichnungen): Sunny Side Up (Scholastic)
• Deb Lucke: The Lunch Witch. 1 (Papercutz)
• Marika McCoola (Szenario) / Emily Carroll (Zeichnungen): Baba Yaga’s Assistant (Candlewick Press)
• Dave Roman: Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry (First Second)
• Nadja Spiegelman (Szenario) / Sergio García Sánchez (Zeichnungen): Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure (Toon Graphics)
• Craig Thompson: Space Dumplins (Scholastic Graphix)
• Gene Luen Yang (Szenario) / Mike Holmes (Zeichnungen): Secret Coders (First Second)

Bücher für Klasse 6-9:

• Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda mit Liz Welch: I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Ali Benjamin: The Thing About Jellyfish: A Novel (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Jennifer Chambliss Bertman: Book Scavenger (Henry Holt and Co,)
• Alice Hoffman: Nightbird (Wendy Lamb Books)
• K. A. Holt: House Arrest (Chronicle Books)
• Thanhha Lai: Listen, Slowly (HarperCollins Publishers)
• Victoria Laurie: When (Disney-Hyperion)
• Cherie Priest: I am Princess X (Arthur A. Levine Books)
• Jordan Romero mit Linda LeBlanc: No Summit Out of Sight: The True Story of The Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Gary D. Schmidt: Orbiting Jupiter (Clarion Books)

Graphic Novels für Klasse 6-9:

• Don Brown: Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans (HMH Books for Young Readers)
• Svetlana Chmakova: Awkward (Yen Press)
• Tony Cliff: Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant (First Second)
• Matt Faulkner: Gaijin: American Prisoner of War (Disney-Hyperion)
• Jay Hosler: The Last of the Sandwalkers (First Second)
• Victoria Jamieson: Roller Girl (Dial Books)
• Greg Ruth: The Lost Boy (Scholastic Graphix)
• Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson und Shanonn Watters (Szenario) / Brook Allen (Zeichnungen): Lumberjanes. 1, Beware the Kitten Holy (BOOM! Studios)
• Ben Towle: Oyster War (Oni Press)
• G. Willow Wilson (Szenario) / Adrian Alphona (Zeichnungen): Ms. Marvel. 1, No Normal (Marvel)

Bücher für weiterführende Schulen:

• Nina Berry: Pagan Jones Book 1: The Notorious Pagan Jones (Harlequin Teen)
• Sarah Dessen: Saint Anything: A Novel (Viking Books for Young Readers)
• Michael B Harmon: Stick (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Kekla Magoon: How it Went Down (Henry Holt and Co.)
• Julie Murphy: Dumplin’ (Balzer + Bray)
• Jason Reynolds: The Boy in the Black Suit (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
• Allan Stratton: The Dogs (Sourcebooks Fire)
• Sabaa Tahir: An Ember in the Ashes (Razorbill)
• Teresa Toten: The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (Delacorte Press)
• Nicola Yoon: Everything, Everything (Delacorte Press)