2011 Nebraska Book Awards Submissions TITLE CATEGORY AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER Filling the Empty Room: Poetry from the Series. November 2009 Anthology Matt Mason Morpo Press Activity Books (set of 3)- It's Hard to Be A Verb!, Bull Beans & Personal Space Camp Children/Young Adult Julia L. Cook National Center for Youth Issues Born Yesterday: The Diary of a Young Journalist Children/Young Adult James Solheim Philomel Books Ella B. Bella and the Magic Pink Shoes Children/Young Adult Leslie Means Shapato Publishing Firespell Children/Young Adult Chloe Neill New American Library Grandfather Big Elk: An Omaha Chief: Witigon Onphontonga Children/Young Adult Katharine Sires Jackeyed Dog Press Lessons from a Rubber Duck Children/Young Adult Melissa Saunders Writelife, LLC Lucky Ears: The True Story of Ben Kuroki, World War II Hero Children/Young Adult Dr. Jean A. Lukesh Field Mouse Productions Maddi Moo, Veterinarian's Daughter, Presidental Adventure Children/Young Adult Dr. Johnny McConnaughhay Dog Ear Publishing Melvin Children/Young Adult Julia L. Cook National Center for Youth Issues Red Cell Children/Young Adult John Kalkowski iUniverse Sky Sailors: True Stories of the Balloon Era Children/Young Adult David Bristow Farrar Straus Giroux The Flower Girl/The Ring Bear Children/Young Adult Nancy Sharp Wagner Prairieland Press The Kid Trapper Children/Young Adult Julia L. Cook National Center for Youth Issues The Red Umbrella Children/Young Adult Christina Gonzalez Random House Books At Willa Cather's Tables: The Cather Foundation Cookbook Cover/Design/Illustration Ann Romines, Editor The Willa Cather Foundation Augury Cover/Design/Illustration Linnea Johnson The Backwaters Press Bella Maura Cover/Design/Illustration Dawn Dyson Creation House Belle Boy: A Sister in the Rebel Ranks Cover/Design/Illustration Anne Fuller Fuller Minds, LLC Fireside Chats: Volume I: A Surrealist's View of the World Cover/Design/Illustration Frank S. O'Neal LJAC Press 1 TITLE CATEGORY AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER Lucky Ears: The True Story of Ben Kuroki, World War II Hero Cover/Design/Illustration Dr. Jean A. Lukesh Field Mouse Productions The Flower Girl/The Ring Bear Cover/Design/Illustration Nancy Sharp Wagner Prairieland Press Wings Over Nebraska: Historic Aviation Photographs Cover/Design/Illustration Vince Goeres Nebraska State Historical Society Books Bella Maura Fiction Dawn Dyson Creation House Come Again No More Fiction Jack Todd Simon and Schuster, Inc. Crimson Runs the Prairie Fiction Aaron M. Smith Morris Publishing Drive Thru Fiction Annette Snyder Whiskey Creek Press Greetings from Below Fiction David Philip Mullins Sarabande Books, Inc. Lamb Bright Saviors Fiction Robert Vivian University of Nebraska Press Maddi Moo, Veterinarian's Daughter, Presidental Adventure Fiction Dr. Johnny McConnaughhay Dog Ear Publishing Something Like A Dream Fiction Robert Richter Plain Ventures Press Songs From Our Summer Fiction Max McElwain Wayne State College Press Stars in the Night Fiction Cara C. Putman Summerside Press Stolen Horses Fiction Dan O'Brien University of Nebraska Press The Boarder Fiction Jane E. Ryan iUniverse 13 Cats Lavelle Nonfiction Demond Lavelle Lulu.com A Never Event: Exposing the Largest Outbreak of Hepatitis C in American Healthcare History Nonfiction Evelyn V. McKnight History Examined, LLC At Willa Cather's Tables: The Cather Foundation Cookbook Nonfiction Ann Romines, Editor The Willa Cather Foundation Heaven Is for Real Nonfiction Todd Burpo Thomas Nelson Publishers Letting God See Me Naked Nonfiction Karen Watson The Amplified Life Life Is What You Make It Nonfiction Peter Buffett Harmony Books Lucky Ears: The True Story of Ben Kuroki, World War II Hero Nonfiction Dr. Jean A. Lukesh Field Mouse Productions Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story Nonfiction Marilyn June Coffey "out West" press Nerdy Thirty Nonfiction Wendy Townley Writelife, LLC 2 TITLE CATEGORY AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER Picture Essays: A Journey Through Life with Camera in Hand Nonfiction William E. Ramsey Standards Printing Company Reflection on Pediatric Medicine Nonfiction Byron B. Oberst, MD iUniverse Slow Boat to Pakistan: The Personal Diaries and Letters of Pegge Parker, 1951-1952 Nonfiction Pegge Parker Hlucky Books Talk Show Nonfiction Dick Cavett Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, LLC The Bliss List: The Ultimate Guide to Living the Dream at Work and Beyond Nonfiction J.P. Hansen Career Bliss Publications, Inc. The Nebraska Dispatches Nonfiction Christopher Cartmill University of Nebraska Press The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Stephen S. Witte & Marsha V. Gallagher, Volume 2 Nonfiction Editors University of Oklahoma Press The Only State: A History of Public Power in Nebraska Nonfiction Don Schaufelberger & Bill Beck The Donning Company The Schepp Family Chronicles Nonfiction Frances Ruh Schepp Farolar Publishing Co. Whit's Town: A Pioneer Editor, His Newspaper & His Community Nonfiction Ramon D. Hansen Argus Publishing Wings Over Nebraska: Historic Aviation Photographs Nonfiction Vince Goeres Nebraska State Historical Society Books A Far Allegiance Poetry Roy Scheele The Backwaters Press At Any Moment Poetry Jean LeBlanc The Backwaters Press Augury Poetry Linnea Johnson The Backwaters Press Beside You at the Stoplight Poetry Marjorie Saiser The Backwaters Press Cradling Monsoons Poetry Sarah McKinstry-Brown 1st World Library Fireside Chats: Volume I: A Surrealist's View of the World Poetry Frank S. O'Neal LJAC Press Ghost on 3rd Poetry Jim Reese The New York Quarterly Foundation, Inc. Ordinary Mourning Poetry Carrie Shipers ABZ Poetry Press Selected Poems Poetry James Magorian Black Oak Press Swallowing The Soap Poetry William Kloefkorn University of Nebraska Press The Way We Go On Poetry Charles Gillispie The Backwaters Press 3 TITLE CATEGORY AUTHOR/EDITOR PUBLISHER What Bob Says Poetry Barbara Schmitz Pudding House Publications Witch Dance Poetry Glenna Luschei Presa Press 4 .