2012 - 2013 Young Hoosier Book Award Nominees for Middle Grades

Sources of Lightby Margaret McMullanFourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after herfather is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both loveand hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnessesthe prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin inAuschwitzby Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa BuccieriDescribes the life of Eva Mozes and her twin sister Miriam as they were interred at theAuschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, where Dr. Josef Mengele performedsadistic medical experiments on them until their release.Viralsby Kathy ReichsThe niece of famed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, fourteen-year-old Toryand her three friends are exposed to a rare strain of canine parvovirus that gives themspecial powers which they use to try to solve a murder.