As promised, here's the list of 2012-2013 Young Hoosier Book Award Intermediate Nominees. Links go to my reviews & I've provided links to GoodReads, also. Here's a printer friendly list: 2012-2013 YHBA Nominees (please note: the first version on the ILF website and the copies distributed at the ILF Conference were missing three titles from the Middle Grade Category. This is the complete list).
2012-2013 Young Hoosier Book Award Intermediate Nominees
Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea (GoodReads)
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity by Mac Barnett (GoodReads)
Crunch by Leslie Connor (GoodReads)
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman (GoodReads)
Eggs Over Evie by Alison Jackson (GoodReads)
The Familiars by Adam Jay Epstein (GoodReads)
The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester by Barbara O'Connor (GoodReads)
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall by Mary Downing Hahn (GoodReads)
Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old West by Avi (GoodReads)
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery (GoodReads)
Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything by Kathleen Krull (GoodReads)
Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur (GoodReads)
Nic Bishop Lizards by Nic Bishop (GoodReads)
Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz (GoodReads)
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (GoodReads)
Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace by Jen Cullerton Johnson (GoodReads)
Sharing the Seasons: A Book of Poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins (GoodReads)
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger (GoodReads)
Touch Blue by Cynthia Lord (GoodReads)
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm (GoodReads)
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