Instructions for the Media Log Assignment



Instructions for the Media Log Assignment Your Name: Letitia Green

For each of the award categories listed below, review at least two items. For the remaining items select a variety of formats-- print, audio, video, kits, 3-D items, etc. Review additional award categories at:

As you complete your Materials Order assignments and the Media Review assignments, you may wish to include those items in the log. Additional rows may be added for resources desired beyond the 25 required titles.

Caldecott Award

Item # Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection

|1 |Where The Wild Things Are |Maurice Sendak |Max’s mother sends him to bed without|Horn Book Fanfare |Language Arts: Easy, Pictures |

| | | |supper and he imagines himself in a |New York Times Best |Grades: K-3 |

| | | |faraway land as king. |Illustrated Book |Fiction |

| | | | |ALA Notable Children’s | |

| | | | |Book | |

| | | | |Reading Rainbow Book | |

| | | | |Lewis Carroll Shelf Award | |

| | | | |Library of Congress | |

| | | | |Children’s Books | |

| | | | |New York Public Library's | |

| | | | |"One Hundred Titles for | |

| | | | |Reading and Sharing" | |

| | | | |Boston Globe-Horn Book | |

| | | | |Award | |

|2 |The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid |Jon Scieszka |Jon Scieszka provides an entertaining|The New York Times Best |Compare/Contrast fairy tales; |

| |Tales(Honor) | |look at some of the more popular |Illustrated Book Award |elements of fairy tales, writing |

| | | |fairy tales. His new millennium | |process skills, oral reading, |

| | | |slant allows children of all ages to |Children’s Book Award: |Picture book, fact/opinion; grades |

| | | |tap into their imaginations as they |Shortlist |4-8 |

| | | |read about how the fairy tales are | | |

| | | |non-traditional | | |

|3 |Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Honor) |John Steptoe |The story of two beautiful daughters |Coretta Scott King |Fairy tales/folk tales; writing |

| | | |being considered to be married to a |(illustrations) |process; Picture book, grades 2-6 |

| | | |king. The good daughter wins out in | | |

| | | |the end, but not before the evil |Reading Rainbow Book | |

| | | |sister sets out to win the king’s | | |

| | | |affections at all costs. |Boston Globe-Horn Book | |

| | | | |Award | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |ALA Notable Children’s | |

| | | | |Book | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |Horn Book Fanfare Award | |

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| | | | |Parent’s Choice Silver | |

| | | | |Honor | |

Newbery Award

Item # Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection

|4 |Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |Mildred Taylor |The first in a trilogy that describes|American Book Award Honor |Social Studies connection, The |

| | | |the life and times of an |Book |Great Depression, race |

| | | |African-American family trying to | |relations-Jim Crow laws, |

| | | |survive the turbulence of race |ALA Notable Book |characterization, writing process, |

| | | |relations and the Great Depression | |rural south, friendship, family; |

| | | |while living in the rural south, as |Boston Globe-Horn Book |grades 4-8 |

| | | |told through the eyes of 10 year old |Award Honor Book | |

| | | |Cassie Logan | | |

| | | | |Jane Addams Book Award: | |

| | | | |Children’s Books that | |

| | | | |Build for Peace | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |George G. Stone Center for| |

| | | | |Children’s Books for | |

| | | | |Recognition of Merit Award| |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |Coretta Scott King Award | |

| | | | |(honor) | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |Pacific Northwest Young | |

| | | | |Reader’s Choice Award | |

|5 |The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 (Honor) |Christopher Paul Curtis |First person account of a young boy’s|Coretta Scott King Award |The Civil Rights Movement, writing |

| | | |understanding of the Birmingham |(honor) |process, characterization, |

| | | |street bombing and other coming of | |friendship, death, grief, |

| | | |age issues when he and his family |Publisher’s Weekly Best |compare/contrast; grades 4-6 |

| | | |take a trip down south in the 1960’s |Book of the Year | |

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| | | | |New York Times Book Review| |

| | | | |Best Book of the Year | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |ALA Notable Children’s | |

| | | | |Book | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |Horn Book Fanfare | |

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| | | | |Jane Addams Peace Award | |

| | | | |Honor Book | |

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| | | | |IRA Young Adult Choice | |

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| | | | |ALA Top 10 Best Book/Quick| |

| | | | |Pick | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |A New York Times Top 100 | |

| | | | |Books of the Year | |

|6 |Moon Over Manifest |By Clare Vanderpool |12 year old Abiline on a western |Spur Award for Best |Historical fiction, World War I, |

| | | |adventure in Kansas during World War |Western Juvenile Fiction |The Great Depression, US |

| | | |I and the Depression with a little | |History/Geography, writing process,|

| | | |mystery thrown in. | |characterization; grades 6-8 |

Coretta Scott King Award

Item # Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection

|7 |The Land |Mildred Taylor |The first novel in a series of books |Scott O’Dell Award for |Southern history, the Civil War, |

| | | |that describes how the Logan family |Historical Fiction |characterization, friendship, race |

| | | |acquired hundreds of acres of land | |relations, family; grades 6-9 |

| | | |during the Civil War era in the south| | |

|8 |Elijah of Buxton |Christopher Paul Curtis |Elijah learns a great deal about |Newbery Honor Book |Canadian History; slavery, race |

| | | |being free (and never a slave) as he | |relations, family, friendship; |

| | | |learns first hand why his parents |School Library Journal |grades 5-8 |

| | | |fought so hard to not be enslaved. |Best Book | |

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| | | | |Parent’s Choice Gold Award| |

| | | | |Winner | |

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| | | | |IRA Notable Book for a | |

| | | | |Global Society | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |Publisher’s Weekly Best | |

| | | | |Book | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |A Booklist Editor’s Choice| |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |Scott O’Dell Award Winner | |

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| | | | |Kirkus Best Book | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |A Hornbook Fanfare Book | |

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| | | | |A San Francisco Chronicle | |

| | | | |Best Book | |

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| | | | |Canadian Library | |

| | | | |Association Book of the | |

| | | | |Year | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |A Red Maple Award Nominee | |

|9 |One Crazy Summer |By Rita Williams-Garcia |A child’s-eye view of the Black |Scott O’Dell Award for |Historical fiction, friendship, |

| | | |Panther movement within a powerful |Historical Fiction |family; grades 7-12 |

| | | |and affecting story of sisterhood and| | |

| | | |motherhood. |National Book Award | |

| | | | |Finalist | |

Michael Printz Award

Item # Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection

|10 |Monster |Walter Dean Myers |An African-American teenager’s |Coretta Scott King |Realistic fiction, rules, conflict, |

| | | |written documentary of being jailed |(honor) |characterization;Grades 7 and up |

| | | |for murder | | |

| | | | |ALA Best Book for Young | |

| | | | |Adults | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |ALA Quick Pick for | |

| | | | |Reluctant Young Adult | |

| | | | |Readers | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |Kentucky Bluegrass Award | |

|11 |Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster’s Boy (honor) |Gary Schmidt |Turner Buckminster and Lizzie Bright|New York Times Best |Friendship, conflict, environmental |

| | | |become friends and try to save her |Seller |science, coastal Maine, historical |

| | | |slave founded community from being | |fiction; Grades 6-8 |

| | | |converted into a tourist spot |ALA Notable Children’s | |

| | | | |Book | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |ALA Best Book for Young | |

| | | | |Adults | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |Newbery Honor Book | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |School Library Journal | |

| | | | |Best Book of the Year | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |Kirkus Editor’s Choice | |

|12 |Jellicoe Road |By Melinda Marchetta |Abandoned at 11 and now 17, Taylor |ALA Best Book for Young |Writing process, characterization; |

| | | |trying to put together the pieces of|Adults |Grades 8-12 |

| | | |her past to save her future. | | |

| | | | |Kirkus Reviews Best Young| |

| | | | |Adult Book | |

Batchelder Award

Item # Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection

|13 |Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s |By Anne-Laure Bondoux, |Young refugee boy’s quest for |Scott O’Dell Award for |Writing process, characterization, |

| |Books for A Time of Miracles |translated by Y. Maude |identity, safety and truth in war |Historical Fiction |Historical fiction; grades 8-12 |

| | |First published in French in|torn Caucasus over a 5 year period. | | |

| | |2009 | | | |

| | |Winner 2011 | | | |

|14 |Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. |By Nahoko Uehashi translated|Balsa, martial arts expert on a quest|Indie Bound Kids’ Next |Japanese history, Asian/Japanese |

| |for Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit |from the Japanese by Cathy |to redeem lives lost for her sake. |List, Fall 2008 |culture, writing process; grades |

| | |Hirano | | |7-10 |

| | |Winner 2009 | |ALA Notable Children's | |

| | | | |Book, 2009 | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |USBBY Outstanding | |

| | | | |International Book 2009 | |

Pura Belpre Award

Item # Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection

|15 |Baseball in April and Other Stories |Gary Soto |Various stories are told from the |George G. Stone Center for|Multi-cultural focus, writing |

| | | |perspective of Hispanic teenagers in |Children’s Books |process, characterization; grades |

| | | |this collection of short stories |Recognition of Merit Award|7-9 |

|16 |Parrot in the Oven, Mi Vida |Victor Martinez |Fourteen year old Manny Hernandez |National Book Award for |Characterization, friendship, |

| | | |wants to belong even if it means |Young People’s Literature |family relations, conflict; grades |

| | | |being in a gang to get the respect he| |8 and up |

| | | |feels he deserves; his dad thinks his| | |

| | | |family is pennies… | | |

Carnegie Award Videos

Item # Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection

|17 |“March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the |Weston Woods Studios, producers of|Dr. King’s sisters account of the | |Non-fiction, Civil Rights |

| |World” |"March On! The Day My Brother |1963 March on Washington. | |Movement, family, writing process;|

| | |Martin Changed the World” | | |grades 4-6 |

| | |Author Christine King Farris | | | |

|18 |“The Dot” |FableVision/Weston Woods Studios, |Vashti learns that she can be an |Oppenheimer Platinum Toy |Art education, conflict, freedom, |

| | |Paul Gagne and Melissa Reilly |inspiration to herself and others if|Award (2004) |writing process; grades K-6 |

| | | |and when she puts her mind to it. | | |

| | | |There is so much power in a little |Best Book of the Year: | |

| | | |dot… |Most Inspirational | |

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| | | | |The Christopher Award | |

Georgia Children’s Book Award

Item # Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection

|19 |The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan |Percy Jackson discovers he is | |Mythology, Fantasy/Fiction, |

| | | |half-God and that may be the cause |2005 School Library |characterization, conflict; grades |

| | | |for his ADHD diagnosis. His |Journal Best Book |4-7 |

| | | |discovery takes him on the journey of| | |

| | | |a lifetime. |2005 New York Times | |

| | | | |Notable Book | |

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| | | | |2005 Chicago Public | |

| | | | |Library Best of the Best | |

| | | | |Book List | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |2005 VOYA Top Shelf | |

| | | | |Fiction List | |

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| | | | |2005 ALA Notable Book | |

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| | | | |2005 YALSA Best Book for | |

| | | | |Young Adults | |

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| | | | |2006 Red House Children's | |

| | | | |Book Award Winner (UK) | |

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| | | | |2006 Notable Children's | |

| | | | |Book, National Council for| |

| | | | |Teachers of English | |

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| | | | |2006 Askews Torchlight | |

| | | | |Award (UK) | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |2006 CCBC Choice Award | |

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| | | | |Cooperative Children's | |

| | | | |Book Center | |

|20 |Flush | Carl Hiaasen |Noah believes the casino boat is |New York Times Notable |Characterization, realistic |

| | | |flushing raw sewage into the harbor |Book |fiction, environmental science, |

| | | |and sets out to prove it. | |character education; grades 5-8 |

| | | | |National Parenting | |

| | | | |Publications Award | |

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| | | | |Disney Adventures Book | |

| | | | |Award | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |ALA Best Book for Young | |

| | | | |Adults | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |ALA Notable Children’s | |

| | | | |Book | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |ALA Quick Pick for | |

| | | | |Reluctant Young Adult | |

| | | | |Readers | |

|21 |Measle and the Wrathmonk |Ian Ogilvy |Adventures of Ten-year-old orphan | |Fantasy, Fiction, family; |

| | | |Measle Stubbs whose guardian Basil | |characterization; grades 3-6 |

| | | |Tramplebone casts a spell that | | |

| | | |shrinks Measle. | | |

Additional materials

Item # Title Author/Producer/Date Brief Summary Additional Awards Why/Curr Connection

|22 |Forever |Judy Blume |Katherine and Michael fall in love in|Margaret A. Edwards |Realistic fiction, friendship, |

| | | |high school. | |love, trust; Grades 9-12 |

|23 |The Giver |Lois Lowry |Jonas questions the rules imposed on |Margaret A. Edwards |Freedom, rules/social order, |

| | | |his village by the elders until he | |conformity, conflict, adult-child |

| | | |comes to understand that freedom is |Newbery Award |relationships; fiction; grades 6-9 |

| | | |what his spirit needs | | |

| | | | |Boston Globe-Horn Book | |

| | | | |Award (honor) | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |ALA Best Book for Young | |

| | | | |Adults | |

| | | | | | |

| | | | |ALA Notable Children’s | |

| | | | |Book | |

|24 |Charlotte’s Web |E. B. White |A pig and a spider become best |Laura Ingalls Wilder |Friendship, death, life, family; |

| | | |friends and share their special bond | |realistic fiction, grades 2-6 |

| | | |with other farm animals while living |Newbery Award | |

| | | |in a barn | | |

| | | | |Horn Book Fanfare | |

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| | | | |Massachusetts | |

| | | | |Children’s Book Award | |

|25 |The Cat in the Hat |Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) |Rhyme, mischief and fun on a rainy |Laura Ingalls Wilder |Friendship, siblings, rules, |

| | | |day. The cat cleans up the mess he | |poetry/rhyme, easy reading; grades |

| | | |makes before mom gets home. | |K-3 |

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