The newest Sunshine State Young Reader books!
Here are some more of the books that have been nominated for the Sunshine State Young Reader award. "Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen" by Donna Gephart is about 12 year old Olivia who lives with her brother, Charlie, her mom and her mom's new boyfriend. Olivia loves trivia and her little brother and her mom, but not so much on the boyfriend. Her dad left them (and the whole story comes out about halfway into the book) and Olivia misses him a lot. Olivia is also a big trivia buff and really wants to be on Jepoardy! I found this book difficult to get into. I came to like the characters more as I read and I'm glad I finished it but it didn't grab me immediately. Here's a book trailer about it. Another one that is nominated for the Sunshine State Young Readers is Blast Off by Nate Ball. It's part of a series of books called "An Alien in my Pocket". It's an easy chapter book about a boy named Zack who wakes up and finds that a space ship...