Today they announced the 2005 nominees for the Rebecca Caudill Award, so I've been running around like crazy pulling books and posting to our website. I will post later in the day my thoughts on last night's 24 and why I have been MIA for the past couple of days. Until then take a gander at the new list of Caudill nominees:

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch
Doing Time Online by Jan Siebold
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
Memory Boy by Will Weaver
Overboard by Elizabeth Fama
Phineas Gage by John Fleischman
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
Runt by Marion Dane Bauer
The Shrouding Woman by Loretta Ellsworth
Stand Tall by Joan Bauer
Straw into Gold by Gary Schmidt
Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
Under the Same Sky by Cynthia DeFelice
When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

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