Black-Eyed Susan Book List: 2009
Suggested Reading levels, you may
choose a book from any level below.
Grades 4-6
Nominees
Brendan
Buckley’s Universe and Everything In It by
Sundee T. Frazier
Diamond Willow
by Helen Frost
Igraine the
Brave by Cornelia Funke
Samuel Blink and
the Forbidden Forest by Matt Haig
Swindle by
Gordon Korman
Savvy by
Ingrid Law
Paint the Wind
by Pam Munoz Ryan
Dragon’s Egg
by Sarah Thomson
A Crooked Kind
of Perfect by Linda Urban
Fearless by
Elvira Woodruff
Grades 6-9 Nominees
Shark Girl
by Kelly Bingham
A Thousand Never
Evers by Shana Burg
Dragon’s Keep
by Janet Lee Carey
The London Eye
Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Go Big or Go
Home by Will Hobbs
Schooled by
Gordon Korman
Skulduggery
Pleasant (also known as Scepter
of the Ancients) by Derek Landy
The Killing Sea
by Richard Lewis
Zen and the Art
of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
Someone Named
Eva by Joan Wolf
High School Nominees
Does My Head
Look Big In This? by Randa Abel-Fattah
Shift by
Jennifer Bradbury
November Blues
by Sharon Draper
The Last Exit to
Normal by Michael Harmon
Yellow Flag
by Robert Lipsyte
Wicked Lovely
by Melissa Marr
All We Know of
Heaven by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Streams of Babel
by Carol Plum-Ucci
Unwind by
Neal Shusterman
Notes From the
Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick
NOTE: Students who read at least three books on the Black-eyed Susan List are
invited to an end of the year party hosted by
librarian Mrs. Drenning. Students also may vote for
the award winner!
