Black-Eyed Susan Program

The Black-Eyed Susan Book Nominees are good choices for independent reading.

Black-Eyed Susan Nominees:

Picture Books
Bateman, Teresa – Fiona's luck
Berne, Jennifer – Manfish : a story of Jacques Cousteau
Cyrus, Kurt – Tadpole Rex
Ernst, Lisa Campbell – The Gingerbread Girl
Fletcher, Susan – Dadblamed Union Army cow
Hopkinson, Deborah – Abe Lincoln crosses a creek : a tall, thin tale
Keller, Laurie – Do unto otters : a book about manners
LaRochelle, David – The end
Mitchell, Susan K – The rainforest grew all around
Smith, Lane – Madam President
Stevens, Janet – Help me, Mr. Mutt! : expert answers for dogs with people problems
Thoms, Susan Collins – Cesar takes a break
Watt, Melanie – Chester
Weatherford, Carole Boston – I, Matthew Henson : polar
explorer
Willis, Jeanne – Daft Bat

Grades 4-6 Nominees
Frazier, Sundee T. – Brendan Buckley’s universe and everything in it
Frost, Helen – Diamond Willow
Funke, Cornelia – Igraine the brave
Haig, Matt – Samuel Blink and the forbidden forest
Korman, Gordon – Swindle
Law, Ingrid – Savvy
Ryan, Pam Munoz – Paint the wind
Thomson, Sarah – Dragon’s egg
Urban, Linda – A crooked kind of perfect
Woodruff, Elvira - Fearless

Grades 6-9 Nominees
Bingham, Kelly – Shark girl
Burg, Shana – A thousand never evers
Carey, Janet Lee – Dragon’s keep
Dowd, Siobhan – The London Eye mystery
Hobbs, Will – Go big or go home
Korman, Gordon – Schooled
Landy, Derek – Skulduggery Pleasant (also known as Scepter of the Ancients)
Lewis, Richard – The killing sea
Sonnenblick, Jordan – Zen and the art of faking it
Wolf, Joan – Someone named Eva