Sasquatch Books- 2007 Book Award Nominees

The following descriptions were prepared by the Sasquatch Committee, a group formed through the Washington Library Media Association. The 4th-6th graders in Washington State are voting these books on.

“Snarf Attack, Underfood, and the Secret of Life” The Riot Brothers tell all

By Mary Amato; 151 pgs.

Brothers Wilbur and Orville Riot create and take part in their own adventures, including the capture of a crook, the discovery of hidden treasure and the foiling/deposing/toppling of a bully.

The World According to Humphrey

By Betty G. Birney; 124 pgs.

Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.

Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade

By Esme Raji Codell, 133 pgs.

Hilarious, quirky, and poignant, this unusual memoir recounts episodes from the transformative fifth-grade year of an acclaimed author.

Eager

By Helen fox, 280 pgs.

Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the belly family’s new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will.

Troll Fell

By Katherine Langrish, 264 pgs.

Forced to live with his evil identical-twin uncles after his father’s death, twelve-year-old peer tries to find a way to stop their plan to sell the neighbor’s children to the trolls.

The Tarantula Scientist

By Sy Montgomery, 80 pgs

This book describes the research that Samuel Marshall and his students are doing on tarantulas, including the largest spider on earth and the Goliath bird-eating tarantula. This book is part of a series entitled Scientists in the Field.

Thin Wood Walls

By David Patneaude, 231 pgs.

When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hanada and his family face growing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the United States Army to fight in the war.

Wolf Brother

By Michelle Paver, 295 pgs.

6000 years in the past, twelve-year-old Torak and his guide, a wolf cub, set out on a dangerous journey to fulfill an oath the boy made to his dying father- to travel to the mountain of the world Spirit seeking a way to destroy a demon-possessed bear that threatens all the clans.

Becoming Naomi Leon

By Pam Munoz Ryan, 246 pgs.

Naomi’s life with her Gram and her little brother is happy until their mother reappears after seven years of being gone, stirring up all sorts of questions and challenging Naomi to discover and proclaim her own true identity.

The Story of Seagull and the Cat who taught her to Fly

By Luis Sepuveda, translated from Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden, 126 pgs.

A seagull, dying from the effects of an oil spill, entrusts her egg to Zorba the cat that promises to care for it until the chick hatches and then teach it to fly.

Secret Identity: Shredderman Book 1

By Wendelin Van Draanen, 138 pgs.

Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class bully, has a secret identity-Shredderman!

Cabin on Trouble Creek

By Jean Van Leeuwen, 219 pgs.

In 1803 in Ohio, two young brothers are left to finish the log cabin and guard the land while their father goes back to Pennsylvania to fetch their mother and younger siblings.