Who or what is Eliot Rosewater and why should you care?

Eliot Rosewater is the title character in Indiana-born Kurt Vonnegut’s book, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.  The “Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award” is your chance to vote for your favorite book.  Each year a committee of high school students, media specialists, classroom teachers and public librarians compiles a list of books that will appeal to students in grades 9-12.  Students who read at least one of the books on the current list may vote for their favorite, thus selecting the award recipient.

Read any of the nominees on the current list before April and you may cast your ballot for the best young adult book of the year.  Each student, statewide, has an equal voice in selecting the yearly award winner!
 
We have most of the books in the IMC – Read something for FUN, and cast your vote!

2008-2009

• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• Anahita’s Woven Riddle by Meghan Sayres
• Avalon High by Meg Cagot
• Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Born to Rock by Gordan Korman
• Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
• Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
• Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock
• Devilish by Maureen Johnson
• Dollmage by Martine Leavitt
• Endgame by Nancy Garden
• Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers
• Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Godless by Pete Hautman
• I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
• Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
• The Storm Front by Jim Butcher
• Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis Crisler
• Trigger by Susan Vaught
• Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Tyrell by Coe Booth
• What Happened to Cass McBride? By Gail Giles

For a list of the past nominees, click here.

Vote! Make Your Voice Heard!

Last updated Friday, August 22, 2008