2008-2009

And the winner is…

The votes have been counted and over 70,000 students from across the state have selected their favorite books as part the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award program.  The student selections are:

Picture Book – Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt

Grades 4-6 – No Talking by Andrew Clements

Grades 6-9 – I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

High School – Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Congratulations to our winning authors and publishers and to the students, teachers, and librarians who every year make the program such a resounding success.

The Results

Wondering how your favorite book did in student voting?  The following charts list the books in descending order beginning with the top vote-getter.  In deference to our authors, publishers, and especially the student voters whose books do not capture top honors, we do not publish numbers of votes.  We also had our largest vote count yet, over 70,000 votes!

Picture Books
Scaredy Squirrel
Who is Melvin Bubble?
Knock, Knock!
Luck of the Loch Ness Monster
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach
Dogku
Bob and Otto
Mind Your Manners, B. B. Wolf
Small Beauties
Velma Gratch & the Way Cool Butterfly
Rough, Tough Charley
Across the Alley
Now and Ben
This Jazz Man
Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County

Grades 4 – 6
No Talking
How to Steal a Dog
Witch Catcher
Puzzling World of Winston Breen
Big One-Oh
Thing about Georgie
Out of Order
Friendship for Today
Story of Jonas
Ghost of Popular Point

Grades 6 – 9
I’d Tell You I Love You
Life as We Knew It
Rules
Peak
The Mailbox
Epic
Alabama Moon
One-Handed Catch
Night of the Howling Dogs
Red Moon at Sharpsburg

High School
Life as We Knew It
Christopher Killer
Rash
Skate*
Sold*
Diva
Knights of the Hill Country
Grand & Humble
Shackleton’s Stowaway

*Received the exact same number of votes!