Winners (2008)

And the winner is…

The votes have been counted and over 60,000 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 -- The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel

Grades 4-6 -- Revenge of the Witch: The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney

Grades 6-9 -- Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

High School -- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

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  In deference to our authors, publishers, and especially the student voters whose books do not capture top honors, we do not publish numbers of votes.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 60,000 votes!

Picture Books

Great Fuzz Frenzy
Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies
John, Paul, George, and Ben
Tunjur, Tunjur, Tunjur
Gold Miner’s Daughter
Henry’s Freedom Box
Chameleon, Chameleon
Boy, Were We Wrong About the Dinosaurs
Dad, Jackie, and Me
Max’s Words
Pop’s Bridge
I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote
The Hungry Coat
This is the Dream
Thanks a Million

Grades 4 – 6

Revenge of the Witch: The Last Apprentice
Listen!
Satch & Me
Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
Bridge to America
Lowji Discovers America
Free Baseball
Moon Runner
Trading Places
Close Encounters of the Third World Kind

Grades 6 - 9

Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
Do You Know the Monkey Man?
Revenge of the Witch: The Last Apprentice
Perfect
Shakespeare’s Secret
Crooked River
Heat
Crossing the Wire
Gossamer
Archer’s Quest

High School

Twilight
13 Little Blue Envelopes*
Uglies*
Invisible
Just Listen: a novel
Copper Sun
The Perfect Shot
Thieves Like Us
Dark Angel
The Goodness Gene

*Received the exact same number of votes!