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2013 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award List

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The Sequoyah Administrative Team and the Pioneer Library System are proud to announce the following books for the 2013 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award Masterlists. Voting for the winner begins in February, so check out these great books before voting begins.

Children’s (Grades 3-5)

• Tom Angleberger - The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.

• Andy Behrens - The Fast and the Furriest.

• Sharon M. Draper - Out of My Mind.

• Jean Craighead George - The Buffalo Are Back.

• Steve Jenkins - How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships.

• Gregory Mone - Fish.

• S. D. Nelson - Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story.

• Barbara O'Connor - The Fantasic Secret Of Owen Jester.

• Patricia Polacco - The Junkyard Wonders.

• Calvin A. Ramsey - Ruth and the Green Book.

• Laura Resau - Star in the Forest.

• Marilyn Singer - Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse.

• Eileen Spinelli - The Dancing Pancake.

• Clare Vanderpool - Moon over Manifest.

• Rosemary Wells - On the Blue Comet.

Intermediate (Grades 6-8)

• Blue Balliett - The Danger Box.

• Royce Buckingham - The Dead Boys.

• Leslie Connor - Crunch.

• Priscilla Cummings - Blindsided.

• Nancy Bo Flood - Warriors In The Crossfire.

• Enrique Flores-Galbis - 90 Miles To Havana.

• Mark Peter Hughes - A Crack In The Sky

• Margaret McMullan - Sources Of Light.

• Gary Paulsen - Woods Runner.

• Dan Poblocki - The Nightmarys.

• Mark Shulman - Scrawl: A Novel.

• Polly Shulman - The Grimm Legacy.

• Diane Stanley - Saving Sky.

• Jordan Sonnenblick - After Ever After.

• Rita Williams-Garcia - One Crazy Summer.

High School (Grades 9-12)

• Swati Avasthi - Split.

• Cassandra Clare - Clockwork Angel: The Infernal Devices.

• Ally Condie - Matched.

• Carl Dueker - Payback Time.

• Stephen Emond - Happyface.

• John Green and David Levithan. Will Grayson, Will Grayson.

• April Henry - Girl Stolen.

• Travis Hunter - Two the Hard Way.

• Catherine Ryan Hyde - Jumpstart the World.

• Jackie Morse Kessler - Hunger.

• Jonathan Maberry - Rot & Ruin.

• Lauren Oliver - Before I Fall.

• Neal Shusterman - Bruiser.

• Suzanne Supplee - Somebody Everybody Listens To.

• Daisy Whitney - The Mockingbirds.

National Book Award Finalists and Winners

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The winners of the National Book Award were announced this month. The National Book Awards are annual literary awards awarded every November presented by the National Book Foundation. Here are links to the winning and finalist books we currently have in our catalog:

Fiction

Winner:   Louise Erdrich, Round House

One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning.

Finalists:  Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her

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National Novel Writing Month

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November is National Novel Writing Month, which is referred to as NaNoWriMo by participants. NaNoWriMo was started in 1999 by a group of 21 young people with some spare time and an interest in writing. Over the years, NaNoWriMo has grown significantly with 256,618 participants in 2011 and an estimated 300,000+ participants in 2012.

The idea of NaNoWriMo is to encourage writers across the globe to conquer the fear of taking on a big writing project by diving in and writing a 50,000 word novel within the 30 days of November. (Don't worry. That doesn't include editing time.) Participants who complete the 50,000 words in the allotted time are considered "winners" and are offered a free manuscript of their novel, which they can later use as a tool to become a published author.

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Frankenstein Friday

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October 26th is Frankenstein Friday! This holiday is meant to be a celebration of Frankenstein's true creator, Mary Shelley. And we can say a special Thank you to Boris Karloff, who played the Monster in the 1931 classic film.

You can celebrate with us by downloading a free copy of the classic here, checking out details of the novel in one of our databases, or dropping by your local Pioneer hometown library checking it out in person.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Call Number SHELLEY

Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror. This heavily revised second edition includes the originally published 1818 text of the first edition publication of Mary Shelley's much discussed, analyzed, and critiqued Frankenstein, a new introduction, explanatory annotations, and several illustrations new to this edition. Also included are many new major interpretations, a chronology, and selected bibliography. The section on contexts includes commentary on composition, the significance of place, reception and impact, and sources and influences.

Frankenstein [1931] ; director, James Whale