Each year there are 20-25 books nominated for the SC Book of the Year.  ONLY students are invited to vote.  There are four categories and each category has an intended audience. They are as follows:

Picture Book Nominees – Kindergarten through 2nd Grade

Chidrens Book Nominees – 3rd Grade – 6th Grade

Junior Book Nominees – 6th Grade – 8th Grade

Young Adult – High School Grades 9-12

Middle School students (typically from schools with grade 6-8) have a broader selection of books to choose from, and can aprticipate in either or both book elections.  All that is required to vote is that a student read no less than 3 titles from the slected lists.  The books fro the current school year (2007-2008) are listed below:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS:
1. Abby Takes a Stand by Pat McKissack
2. Ballpark: The Story of America’s Baseball Fields by Lynn Curlee
3. Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan by Mary Williams
4. Defiance by Valerie Hobbs
5. Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
6. Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy by Andrea Warren
7. Escape to West Berlin by Maurine F. Dahlberg
8. The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands by Louise Borden
9. Hidden Child by Isaac Millman
10. A House of Tailors by Patricia Reilly Giff
11. Lowji Discovers America by Candace Fleming
12. The Missing Manatee by Cynthia C. DeFelice
13. The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
14. Only Emma by Sally Warner
15. The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
16. Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
17. Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
18. Stumptown Kid by Carol Gorman
19. Tackling Dad by Elizabeth Levy
20. When Ratboy Lived Next Door by Chris Woodworth

JUNIOR BOOKS:
1. Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
2. Chicken Boy by Frances O’Roark Dowell
3. The Cloud Chamber by Joyce Maynard
4. Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith
5. Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester
6. Double Idenity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
7. Eyes fo the Emperor by Graham Salisbury
8. Hitch by Jeanette Ingold
9. In Darkness, Death by Dorothy Hoobler
10. Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
11. The Liberation of Gabriel King by Kelly L. Going
12. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
13. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
14. The Revealers by Doug Wilhelm
15. # The Safe-Keeper’s Secret by Sharon Smith
16. The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
17. The Secret of Castle Cant by K.P. Keith
18. Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach
19. Sixth-Grade Glommers, Norks & Me by Lisa Papademetriou
20. Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton