Soaring Eagle Book Award Book Lists
Sponsored by the Wyoming Library Association and the Wyoming State Reading Council, the Soaring Eagle Book Award will provide the opportunity for Wyoming youth in grades 7-12 to select a favorite book and honor its author.
Its purpose is to help Wyoming students in grades 7-12:
- Become acquainted with the best contemporary authors
- Become aware of the qualities that make a good book
- Choose the best rather than the mediocre
- Set a goal to read at least three good books
- To honor an author whose books Wyoming students have enjoyed.
2008-2009 Soaring Eagle Winners:
Winner: Hopkins, Ellen – Crank
1st Runner-up: Rowling, J. K.- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (year 6)
2nd Runner-up: Riordan, Rick - The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson & the Olympians #3)
2009-2010 Soaring Eagle Nominees
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie **(content/older readers)
Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eion Colfer
Bounce by Natasha Friend
Breaking Dawn (Twilight #4) by Stephenie Meyer **(content/older readers)
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Demon Apocalypse (Demonata #6) by Darren Shan
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
Go Big or Go Home by Will Hobbs
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Icebound Land (Ranger’s Apprentice #3) by John Flanagan
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Secret Journal of Brett Colton by Kay Lynn Mangum
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher **(content/older readers)
Travel Team by Mike Lupica
For more information contact the Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award Committee.
