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 * This is a wiki for the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl for Muscogee County School District in Columbus, Georgia. The HRRB is the name of the Battle of the Books for the state of Georgia.**

The middle school students who are members of each school team will become members of this wiki and will participate in the discussions of the books.
All 20 titles of Georgia Book Award Nominees are used for the Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Middle School Division for 2008-2009 school term. || When the Justice he works for is condemned for treason, fourteen-year-old and semi-reformed pickpocket Weasel sets out to find a notorious bandit who may be able to help save his master's life.
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 * Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Middle School Booklist ||
 * Georga Children's Book Award Nominees for 2008-2009 ||
 * Georgia Children's Book Award Nominees for 2008-2009 Middle School Level
 * B ell, Hilari (2007). __Shield of Stars.__ Simon & Schuster.

http://www.sfwa.org/members/bell/ || Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe. [|http://www.elisacarbone.com/ || Fifteen-year-old Princess Meg uses magic and her wits to rescue a baby dragon and escape the unwanted attentions of princes hoping to gain her hand in marriage through a contest arranged by her father,the king [|http://www.katecoombs.com/ || In the mid-1800s, a slave boy dreams of escaping to freedom while on a journey from Missouri to the gold fields of Kansas Territory with his master's n'er-do-well son
 * C arbone, Elisa (2006).__Blood on the River James Town 1607__ Viking.
 * C oombs, Kate (2006) __The Runaway Princess__ Farrar
 * D ahlberg, Maurine F. (2007).__The Story of Jonas__. Farrar

|| Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire is forced to team up with the new boy in class on a science fair project, but the boy's quirky personality causes Phineas to wonder if they have any chance of winning
 * D owell, Frances O’Roark. (2006).__Phineas L. MacGuire … Erupts! .__ Atheneum

http://www.francesdowell.com/ || .After his mother bribes him into reading a self-help book on how to form satisfying relationships and enjoy a happy life, cynical eighth-grader Kyle finds there may be more to the book than he realized.
 * G authier, Gail (2006).__Happy Kid.__.Putnam.

[|http://www.gailgauthier.com/>/a>] || Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.
 * G raff, Lisa (2006). __The Thing About Georgie.__ Laura Geringer.

http://www.lisagraff.com/ || When his adventurous father disappears during a hot-air balloon flight, ten-year-old Darius is torn away from his beloved housekeeper and sent to live with an obnoxious aunt until a strange bicycle repairman with a secret changes his life. || When Deet's father is jailed for using drugs, Deet learns that prison is not what he expected, nor are other people necessarily the way he thought they were >[|http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=350257/] || Frances Foster books." While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow. MCSD discussion of Defiance
 * H arley, Bill (2006). __The Amazing Flight of Darius Frobisher.__ Peachtree.
 * H ill, Kirkpatrick (2007). __Do Not Pass Go.__. Margaret K. McElderry.
 * H obbs, Valerie (2005). __Defiance__. Frances Foster

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|| Through a series of letters written to a post office box, twelve-year-old Cadence describes her father's hospitalization for depression, her subsequent problems at school, and her hope that the mysterious recipient will help her find a happy ending.
 * H olmes, Sara Lewis (2007). __Letters from Rapunzel.__ HarperCollins..

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|| When ten-year-old Drita and her family, refugees from Kosovo, move to New York, Drita is teased about not speaking English well, but after a popular student named Maxine is forced to learn about Kosovo as a punishment for teasing Drita, the two girls soon bond
 * L ombard, Jenny (2006). __Drita, My Homegirl.__ Putnam.

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|| Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic http://www.cynthialord.com/ ||
 * L ord, Cynthia (2006) __Rules.__ Scholastic.
 * L owery, Linda (2006) __Truth and Salsa.__ Peachtree. br>Having moved temporarily from Michigan to live with her grandmother in Mexico, thirteen-year-old Hayley tries to sort out her feelings about her parents' separation while also helping some townsmen who have run into trouble while working in the United States.

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 * L upica, Mike (2006).__)Heat.__ Philomel.

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 * R iordan, Rick (2006). __The Lightning Thief.__ .Miramax.

>Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.

http://www.rickriordan.com/ || After a gang of talking rats transports a young boy to the moon, he embarks on a series of adventures and gains a new perspective on the concept of time. br> [|http://www.trolleymuseum.org/reading05_3.html/]
 * R upp, Rebecca (2006).__Journey to the Blue Moon.__Candlewick.

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 * S mith, Roland (2007). __Peak__. Harcourt br>A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.

http://www.rolandsmith.com/ || After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor,twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. http://www.sarahweeks.com/ || In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel.
 * W eeks, Sarah (2004).__So B. It__. HarperCollins.
 * W hite, Ruth.(2007).__Way Down Deep__. Farrar.

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