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Books by Author
A
2009
By
Ellen Jensen Abbott
2009, 341 pages, $17 list
A surge in religious fervor increases
the intolerance and cruelty in her settlement, so Abisina tries to find the
mysterious place where her unknown father waits, called Watersmeet.
2009
By
Peter Abrahams
2009, 336 pages, $17 list
A rich girl's former small-town
boyfriend comes to search for her when she goes missing from her fancy boarding
school.
Allen:
Mr. Lincoln's High Tech War
By Thomas Allen
2009, 144 pages, $19 list
Breaking new historical ground, this book explores how
1986 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Chris Van Allsburg
1985, 32 pages, $19 list
One couldn't select a more delightful and
exciting premise for a children's book than the tale of a young boy lying awake
on Christmas Eve only to have Santa Claus sweep by and take him on a trip with
other children to the North Pole. And one couldn't ask for a more
talented artist and writer to tell the story than Chris Van Allsburg.
2009
By
Julia Alvarez
2009, 336 pages, $17 list
2009
By Laure
Halse Anderson
2009, 288 pages, $18 list
Lia is haunted by her best friend's
death from anorexia, as she struggles with the same eating disorder.
Avi:
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
2003 Winner of Newberry
Award
By Avi
2004, 320 pages, $7 list
“Asta’s son”
is all he’s ever been called. The lack of name is appropriate, because he
and his mother are but poor peasants in fourteenth-century medieval
1999 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Mary Azarian and Jacqueline Briggs Martin
1998, 32 pages, $16 list
From the time he was a small boy, Wilson Bentley saw
snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera
would capture for others the wonder of the tiny crystal. Bentley's
enthusiasm for photographing snowflakes was often misunderstood in his time,
but his patience and determination revealed two important truths: no two
snowflakes are alike; and each one is startlingly beautiful. His story is
gracefully told and brought to life in lovely woodcuts, giving children insight
into a soul who had not only a scientist's vision and perseverance but a clear
passion for the wonders of nature.
By Nora Raleigh Baskin
2010, 208 pages, $7 list
Jason, a 12-year-old with autism
spectrum disorder, finds life in a “neurotypical” world daunting but achieves
success through his creative writing online.
2009
By
Ellen Booraem
2008, 336 pages, $16 list
In a place where everything has a
name and every name has a meaning, outsider Medford Runyuin struggles in vain
to follow the rules of his adopted home.
2009
By
Libba Bray
2009, 496 pages, $18 list
Cameron knew there was something
wrong when he started seeing pillars of fire and angels, but he never imagined
he had mad cow disease.
2009
By Laurie
Brooks
2008, 272 pages, $16 list
12-year-old
Matt struggles to cope with his memories of family left behind in war-torn
2009
By Ann
Burg
2009, 224 pages, $17 list
12-year-old Matt struggles to cope
with his memories of family left behind in war-torn
2009
By Don
Calame
2009, 352 pages, $17 list
To impress a girl, un-athletic Matt
volunteers to swim in the boys' butterfly competition with the help of his two
true friends as they face their true summer's goal.
2009
By
Jillian Cantor
2009, 368 pages, $17 list
13-year-old Abigail and her younger
sister Becky have always fought, until the day Becky mysteriously disappears.
Now Abby struggles to keep herself and her family together and find Becky’s
killer.
By Clay Carmichael
2009, 241 pages, $19 list
Spunky eleven-year-old Zoe comes to live with Uncle Henry
who is a metal sculptor and learns that a safe home and acceptance are
possible, even for wild things like her.
Chaltas: Because I am Furniture
2009
By Thalia
Chaltas
2009, 368 pages, $ 17 list
Anke watches her siblings and mother
suffer at the hands of her abusive father until she finds enough strength,
through involvement in volleyball, to demonstrate her needs.
2009
By Emma
Clayton
2009, 496 pages, $18 list
The government is making thousands
of children strong, agile and competitive, but why? Twelve-year-old Mika plays
along, hoping the training will lead him to his kidnapped twin.
Clement-Moore: Highway to Hell
2009
By
Rosemary Clement-Moore
2009, 368 pages, $17 list
Maggie and Lisa find their spring
break road trip interrupted by a cow’s carcass which launches them into a hunt
for an evil demon terrorizing a remote desert.
2009
By
Matthew Cody
2009, 288 pages, $16 list
In Nobles Green there are six kids
with superpowers, but the night they turn 13 the powers, and their memory of
them, disappear.
2009
By Suzanne
Collins
2009, 400 pages, $18 list
After winning the Hunger Games,
Katniss is preoccupied with the government’s expectations for her romantic
life. She soon has more important worries—including revolts in the Districts
and new Game rules.
2009
By
Caroline Cooney
2009, 224 pages, $17 list
Siblings Jack,
1995 Winner of Newberry Award
By Sharon Creech
2003, 304 pages, $7 list
As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous
story, her own story begins to unfold--the story of a thirteen-year-old girl
whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. In her own
award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one
funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly
moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.
2009
By
Suzanne Crowley
2009, 416 pages, $18 list
In searching for her identity,
Spirit finds that she is the daughter of a former queen and realizes who she
truly loves, at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.
2000 Winner of Newberry Award
By Christopher Paul Curtis
2004, 272 pages, $7 list
It's 1936, in
Cushman:
The Midwife's Apprentice
1996 Winner of
Newberry Award
By Karen Cushman
1996, 128 pages, $6 list
From the author of "Catherine, Called Birdy" comes
another spellbinding novel set in medieval
By Ellen Datlow
2009, 200 pages, $17 list
Fifteen deeply twisted, fantastically funny, and hauntingly
human fairy tales are told from the point of view of the villain in this
excellent collection of very grim short stories.
2009
By Matt de
la Pena
2009, 368 pages, $18 list
Miguel, sentenced to a group home
for a horrible crime, must overcome his self-hatred while on the run with two
other criminals.
2009
By
Sarah Dessen
2009, 383 pages, $20 list
Auden’s summer becomes one of second
chances, not just for her but for her family and friends as well. The more
chances she takes, the more she discovers about herself.
1995 Winner of Caldecott Award
By David Diaz and Even Bunting
1999, 36 pages, $7 list
This is a story about cats and people who couldn't get along
until a smoky and fearful night brings them together. The
2004 Winner of Newberry
Award
By Kate DiCamillo
and Timothy Basil Ering
2006, 272 pages, $8 list
Welcome to the story of Despereaux
Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea.
It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness
and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow,
a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These
three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into
a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each
other’s lives. What happens then?
2009
By
Jennifer Echols
2009, 256 pages, $9 list
Meg is the blue haired girl in a
small town, John is the cop who picks her up one night, and the relationship
that develops causes all sorts of problems.
2009
By Ann
Dee Ellis
2009, 160 pages, $17 list
Mazzy spends her summer making art
and heating up marshmallows in the microwave, mainly because her mother won’t
get out of bed and her father has left her alone.
Engle:
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
2009
By Margarita Engle
2009, 208 pages, $17 list
In 1939, Daniel leaves his family
behind when he flees the horrors of holocaust
1987 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Richard Egielski and Arthur Yorinks
1989, 32 pages, $7 list
Al, a janitor, and his faithful dog,
Eddie, live in a single room on the
Fantaskey:
Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
2009
By Beth
Fantaskey
2009, 368 pages, $17 list
Jessica Packwood begins her senior
year unaware that she’s destined to become the bride of an arrogant vampire
prince who expects to establish his birthright and claim his prize.
Ferraro:
The ABC's of Kissing Boys
2009
By Tina Ferraro
2009, 224 pages, $9 list
Learning to kiss from her father's
archenemy's son (a freshman) can lead to consequences Parker never imagined. A
funny, poignant, and sweet Romeo and Juliet.
Fleischman:
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
1989 Winner of Newberry
Award
By Paul Fleischman
2004, 64 pages, $6 list
Written to be read aloud by two
voices––sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous––here is a collection of
irresistible poems that celebrate the insect world, from the short life of the
mayfly to the love song of the book louse. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet,
each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise. In
this remarkable volume of poetry for two voices, Paul Fleischman verbally re–creates
the "Booming/boisterious/joyful noise" of insects. The poems
resound with the pulse of the cicada and the drone of the honeybee. Eric
Beddows's vibrant drawings send each insect soaring, spinning, or creeping off
the page in its own unique way.
1987 Winner of Newberry Award
By Sid Fleischman
2003, 112 pages, $6 list
Jemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a
castle. As the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when Prince Brat
misbehaves, for it is forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the
throne. The two boys have nothing in common and even less reason to like
one another. But when they find themselves taken hostage after running
away, they are left with no choice but to trust each other.
Fleming:
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of a Showman
By Candace Fleming
2009, 160 pages, $19 list
This sweeping biography of a famous, sometimes infamous,
trickster and businessman who left no stone unturned to bring the famous Barnum
& Bailey Circus to an eager 19th century audience.
2009
By
Gayle Forman
2009, 208 pages, $17 list
While in a coma after her family is
killed in a car accident, Mia struggles to decide whether to live or die.
2009
By
Karen Foxlee
2009, 368 pages, $17 list
Jenny’s beautiful sister is dead and
nothing makes sense anymore. The only way for Jenny to right her world is to
analyze the events leading up to her sister’s death.
Freedman:
Lincoln: A Photobiography
1988 Winner of Newberry
Award
By Russell Freedman
1989 (1st edition), 160 pages, $10
list
A description of the boyhood, marriage, and young
professional life of Abraham Lincoln includes his presidential years and also
reflects on the latest scholarly thoughts about our Civil War president.
A Newberry Medal Book.
By Neil
Gaiman
2008,
320 pages, $18 list
In The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman has created
a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene--a
family is stabbed to death by "a man named Jack” --the story quickly moves
nto more child-friendly storytelling. The sole survivor of the attack--an
18-month-old baby--escapes his crib and his house, and toddles to a nearby
graveyard. Quickly recognizing that the baby is orphaned, the graveyard's
ghostly residents adopt him, name him Nobody ("Bod"), and allow him
to live in their tomb. Taking inspiration from Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Gaiman describes how
the toddler navigates among the headstones, asking a lot of questions and
picking up the tricks of the living and the dead. In serial-like episodes, the
story follows Bod's progress as he grows from baby to teen, learning life’s
lessons amid a cadre of the long-dead, ghouls, witches, intermittent human
interlopers. A pallid, nocturnal guardian named Silas ensures that Bod receives
food, books, and anything else he might need from the human world. Whenever the
boy strays from his usual play among the headstones, he finds new dangers,
learns his limitations and strengths, and acquires the skills he needs to
survive within the confines of the graveyard and in wider world beyond.
1989 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Stephen Gammell and Karen Ackerman
1988, 32 pages, $16 list
Once a song and dance man, Grandpa reclaims his
youth and profession before the delighted eyes of his three grandchildren one
afternoon. He simply cannot resist the urge to dress up in clothes left
over from his vaudeville days, complete with top hat and gold-headed cane, and
to perform tricks, play banjo and tell jokes. He taps, twirls and laughs
himself to tears on a thrown-together stage in his attic. Artist Stephen
Gammell takes full advantage of lamplight to render Grandpa in shadow and
silhouette, trivializing the concept of age and creating a feeling of intense
nostalgia.
2009
By Rita Williams-Garcia
2009, 176 pages, $17 list
When Trina unknowingly insults
Dominique in the hallway, she’s in danger of being jumped after school. Leticia
could warn her, but she’s reluctant to get involved.
2009
By
Jeannine Garsee
2009, 368 pages, $17 list
After her estranged mother dies,
Shawna Gallagher refuses to accept her dysfunctional home life and attempts to
make peace with her mother’s lesbian lover.
George:
Princess of the Midnight Ball
2009
By
Jessica Day George
2009, 288 pages, $17 list
When the decade long war ends,
professional solider Galen finds work as a gardener in the king’s garden, only
to help solve the puzzle involving twelve dancing princesses.
Gerstein:The
Man Who Walked Between the Towers
2004 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Mordicai Gerstein
2007, 40 pages, $7 list
In 1974, French aerialist Philippe
Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the
2009
By
David Macinnis Gill
2009, 368 pages, $17 list
When a repo demon comes for her
Cadillac, Bug Smoot finds that her deceased grandfather pledged both her soul
and her car as collateral on a deal.
2009
By
Charlotte Gingras
2009, 144 pages, $18 list
Pieces of Mira: her crazy
domineering mother, her mostly absent father, her artistic talent, her first
friend Cath, the birdman. Will the pieces come together to free her to be
herself?
Goodman:
Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
2009
By
Alison Goodman
2008, 544 pages, $20 list
Sixteen-year-old Eon is the
unlikeliest candidate for Dragoneye, but she holds great power and a dangerous
secret that just might make her the greatest Dragoneye for centuries.
Grant:
Blue Flame: Book One of the Perfect Fire Trilogy
2009
By K.M.
Grant
2008, 256 pages, $17 list
In 1242
2009
By Paul Griffin
2009, 147 pages, $17 list
Despite poverty, gang violence, and
lack of appropriate supports, three inner-city teens come together and try to
beat the odds and succeed in life.
By Frances Hardinge
2009, 576 pages, $17 list
A complex political puzzle filled with subterfuge and
intrigue is at the center of this enticing fantasy set on a remote tropical
island about two sisters who must grapple with an unknown evil.
2009
By
Brent Hartinger
2009, 288 pages, $17 list
Three friends spend the summer
scheming to raise enough money so they won't have to get summer jobs but find
this may be harder than actually working.
2009
By
Justina Chen Headley
2009, 384 pages, $17 list
Terra Cooper is held back in life by
her facial port-wine stain, her controlling father and herself. When she meets
Jacob’s family, she and her mother begin to escape.
Henkes:
Kitten's First Full Moon
2005 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Kevin Henkes
2004, 40 pages, $17 list
In this beautiful picture book, Kevin Henkes, captures the
sweet, sometimes slapstick struggle of Kitten, who sees her first full moon and
thinks it's a bowl of milk in the sky. Any child who has yearned for
anything will understand how much Kitten wants that elusive bowl of milk.
Readers will giggle as she tries to lick the faraway moon and gets a bug on her
tongue, or leaps to catch it and falls down the stairs.
2009
By M.H.
Herlong
2008, 288 pages, $17 list
His mother is dead and his father is
missing at sea. With a horrific storm brewing, can sixteen-year-old Ben and his
younger brothers survive?
2009
By
David Hernandez
2009, 288 pages, $17 list
Carlos has a cheating girlfriend, a
mystery man urinating on the floor at work, and a friend in a coma. Can
Isabel—still grieving her dead boyfriend—help him cope?
2009
By
Steven Herrick
2009, 279 pages, $19 list
In a small Australian town, a murder
brings everyone under suspicion, especially Albert Holding and his sons.
1998 Winner of Newberry Award
By Karen Hesse
1999, 240 pages, $6 list
A poem cycle that reads as a novel, Out of the Dust
tells the story of a girl named Billie Jo, who struggles to help her family
survive the dust-bowl years of the Depression. Fighting against the
elements on her
2009
By
Julia Hoban
2009, 336 pages, $17 list
Hoose:
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
2009
By
Phillip Hoose
2009, 144 pages, $20 list
As a teen, Claudette Colvin sparked
the protest that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and desegregation of public
facilities by refusing to relinquish her seat to a white woman.
2009
By
Simmone Howell
2008, 304 pages, $17 list
Riley is intent on escaping the
Christian camp her father has sent her to before the week is out, but meeting
Dylan Luck, who uses a wheelchair, challenges her own beliefs and plans.
2009
By
Shelley Hrdlitschka
2008, 176 pages, $13 list
Celeste lives in a remote polygamist
society but chafes at her coming marriage. There is an option to leave
everything she knows, but that is the problem.
Hyman:
Saint Geore and the Dragon
1985 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Trina Schart Hyman and Margaret Hodges
1990, 32 pages, $8 list
This adaptation of The Faerie Queen features
illustrations that "glitter with color and mesmerizing details."
Jinks:
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
2009
By
Catherine Jinks
2009, 368 pages, $17 list
Nina Harrison, now and forever a
teenage vampire, leads her dysfunctional crew of bloodsuckers on a mission to
halt vampire persecution and rescue a vicious werewolf.
2009
By
Carrie Jones
2008, 320 pages, $17 list
Zara moves to
Juster:
The Hello, Goodbye Window
2006 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Chris Raschka and Norton Juster
2005, 32 pages, $16 list
The kitchen window at Nanna and Poppy’s house is, for
one little girl, a magic gateway.
Everything important happens near it, through it, or beyond it. Told in her voice, her story is both a voyage
of discovery and a celebration of the commonplace wonders that define
childhood. It is also a love song
devoted to that special relationship between grandparents and grandchild. The world for this little girl will soon grow
larger and more complex but never more enchanting or deeply felt.
2005 Winner of Newberry Award
By Cynthia Kadohata
2006, 272 pages, $7 list
Glittering. That's how Katie
Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira
because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira
for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her
family move from a Japanese community in
2009
By A.S.
King
2009, 336 pages, $10 list
After being cursed to live the lives
of 100 dogs before being reborn as a human, former pirate Emer Morrisey returns
to
Konigsburg:
The View from Saturday
1997 Winner of Newberry Award
By E.L. Konigsburg
1998, 176 pages, $6 list
HOW HAD MRS. OLINSKI CHOSEN her
sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But
were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and
Julian? And why did they make such a good team?
It was a surprise to a lot of people
when Mrs. Olinski's team won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at
By Iain Lawrence
2009, 304 pages, $17 list
An epic narrative spun for the residents of a polio ward in
1955 becomes personal for the young storyteller Laurie Valentine.
Levine:
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
2009
By
Kristin Levine
2009, 272 pages, $17 list
2009
By
Alisa Libby
2009, 320 pages, $18 list
A pawn to her family's ambition,
Catherine Howard tries to give Henry VIII a son.
2009
By Lesley Livingston
2008, 336 pages, $17 list
Faeries, pixies, Janus guards, and
struggling actresses populate this fantasy that weaves Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream with a
contemporary New York City Setting.
1990 Winner of Newberry Award
By Lois Lowry
1998, 144 pages, $7 list
The evacuation of Jews from
Nazi-held
1994 Winner of Newberry Award
By Lois Lowry
2002, 192 pages, $7 list
In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no
unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to
be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders
and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his
utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With
echoes of Brave New
World, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give
up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually
Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and
boldly decides he cannot pay the price.
1991 Winner of Caldecott Award
By David Macaulay
1990, 32 pages, $7 list
Black and White is an interesting title for a
book that aims to prove there's no such thing as black and white. But
read on and you will see that irony and playful deception are running themes in
this multidimensional, nonlinear picture story, which was awarded the 1991
Caldecott Medal. In it, a normal-looking cow contains a robber literally
pointing at one of the plot's various possible outcomes, which remain tentative
as long as they are formulated by young readers. Seeing new angles and
clues every time they open the book, these readers will probably astound adult
onlookers with their excitement and ease at navigating the unknown in a
literary medium akin to interactive multimedia.
MacLachlan:
Sarah, Plain and Tall
1986 Winner of Newberry Award
By Patricia MacLachlan
2004, 64 pages, $6 list
Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their
house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then
Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from
one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of
Magoon:
The Rock and the River
2009
By Kekla Magoon
2009, 304 pages, $16 list
Chicago, Sam struggles to decide
whether to support his father's nonviolent approach to civil rights or his
brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
2009
By Peter Marino
2009, 293 pages, $18 list
TJ and her gay best friend Pan enjoy
their close friendship until Caspar asks TJ out on a date. TJ stuggles to
balance her time between Pan and Caspar.
By Albert Marrin
2009, 128 pages, $23 list
This ecological disaster created by human misdeed
forces a grim choice upon the people of the plains during the depths of the
Great Depression.
2009
By
Wendy Mass
2009, 272 pages, $17 list
On Amanda's eleventh birthday
everything goes wrong, and she is celebrating without her best friend. When she
wakes up the next morning, it's her birthday again...and again...and again.
McCully:
Mirette on the High Wire
1993 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Emily Arnold McCully
1997, 32 pages, $8 list
Mirette and the "Great Bellini"
traverse the
McKernan:
The Devil's Paintbox
2009
By Victoria McKernan
2009, 368 pages, $17 list
Orphaned siblings Aiden and Maddy
have survived
McKinley:
The Hero and the Crown
1985 Winner of Newberry Award
By Robin McKinley
2007, 304 pages, $5 list
Robin McKinley's mesmerizing history of Damar is the stuff
that legends are made of. The Hero and the Crown is a dazzling
"prequel" to The Blue Sword. Aerin is the only child of
the king of Damar, and should be his rightful heir. But she is also the
daughter of a witchwoman of the North, who died when she was born, and the
Damarians cannot trust her. But Aerin's destiny is greater than her
father's people know, for it leads her to battle with Maur, the Black Dragon,
and into the wilder Damarian Hills, where she meets the wizard Luthe. It
is he who at last tells her the truth about her mother, and he also gives over
to her hand the Blue Sword, Gonturan. But such gifts as these bear a
great price, a price Aerin only begins to realize when she faces the evil mage,
Agsded, who has seized the Hero's Crown, greatest treasure and secret strength
of Damar.
2009
By Lisa
McMann
2009, 256 pages, $16 list
Janie’s ability to see people’s
dreams leads police to a predator who is assaulting girls at her high school.
But this gift may jeopardize the first love she’s ever known.
2009
By Neesha Meminger
2009, 256 pages, $17 list
By Jim Murphy
2009, 144 pages, $20 list
In the middle of World War I, British and German forces quit
fighting to celebrate Christmas together peacefully. First person details
present the human side of this bloody war.
2009
By Walter Dean Myers
2009, 192 pages, $17 list
An undercover cop is shot in a drug
sting. Wounded, dealer Lil J is hiding in an abandoned apartment with a
stranger and a TV that replays events in Lil J’s life.
2009
By Donna Jo Napoli
2009, 288 pages, $17 list
14-year-old Calogero emigrates to
2009
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
2008, 208 pages, $17 list
"Superhero" Cricket Man
rescues crickets, fights bullies, saves a drowning child, helps a friend after
the birth of her illegitimate baby, and delivers the baby to safety.
1992 Winner of Newberry Award
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
2000, 144 pages, $7 list
When Marty Preston comes across a
young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight -- and also
big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names
By Marilyn Nelson
2009, 80 pages, $22 list
Unique poetry and creative illustrations bring to life the
story of an integrated all-girl swing band that traveled the
2009
By Michael Northrop
2009, 256 pages, $17 list
After one of four rough cut high
school guys disappears, his friends become suspicious of their teacher Mr.
Haberman, who refers to them as gentlemen while teaching Crime and Punishment.
2009
By K.A. Nuzum
2008, 256 pages, $16 list
The only witness at her mother’s
death, Dessa Dean is paralyzed with fear and loneliness. She won’t leave the
house. A skittish, injured stray dog is her only hope for healing.
2002 Winner of Newberry
Award
By Linda Sue Park
2003, 192 pages, $7 list
Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a
potters’ village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become
fascinated with the potter’s craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master
potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min
takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated — until he finds obstacles
in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min’s
irascible temper, and his own ignorance. But Tree-ear is determined to prove
himself — even if it means taking a long, solitary journey on foot to present
Min’s work in the hope of a royal commission . . . even if it means arriving at
the royal court with nothing to show but a single celadon shard.
Partridge:
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children Don't You Grow Weary
By Elizabeth Partridge
2009, 80 pages, $20 list
Haunting illustrations and moving text tell the story of
children leading the way on freedom marches, through voter registration drives,
and even to jail during the quest for civil rights.
Patron:
The Higher Power of Lucky
2007 Winner of Newberry Award
By Susan Patron and Matt Phelan
2006, 144 pages, $17 list
Lucky, age ten, can't wait another
day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions
in her brain make running away from Hard Pan,
2001 Winner of Newberry Award
By Richard Peck
2002, 144 pages, $7 list
Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy
2006 Winner of Newberry Award
By Lynne Rae Perkins
2007, 368 pages, $7 list
She wished something would happen.
Something good. To her. Checking her wish for loopholes, she found
one. Hoping it wasn't too late, she thought the word soon.
Meanwhile, in another part of town, he felt as if the world was opening.
Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, fraying in spots.
He felt himself changing, too, but into what? So much can happen in
a summer.
2009
By Aprilynne Pike
2009, 304 pages, $17 list
2010 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Jerry Pinkney
2009, 40 pages, $17 list
In award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney's wordless adaptation
of one of Aesop's most beloved fables, an unlikely pair learn that no act of
kindness is ever wasted. After a ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse that
he'd planned to eat, the mouse later comes to his rescue, freeing him from a
poacher's trap. With vivid depictions of the landscape of the African Serengeti
and expressively-drawn characters, Pinkney makes this a truly special
retelling, and his stunning pictures speak volumes.
2009
By Monique Polak
2008, 208 pages, $13 list
When Anneke and her family are sent
to Theresienstadt, the "model" concentration camp, she struggles to
understand how her father could cooperate with the Nazis in order to improve
their family's situation.
2009
By Janette Rallison
2009, 320 pages, $17 list
2009
By Adam Rapp
2009, 256 pages, $17 list
Jamie has run away from his family,
military school, and his troubled past. He sets out via bus to visit his dying
brother, writing letters along the way.
Raschka:
The Hello, Goodbye Window
2006 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Chris Raschka and Norton Juster
2005, 32 pages, $16 list
The kitchen window at
Nanna and Poppy’s house is, for one little girl, a magic gateway.
Everything important happens near it, through it, or beyond it. Told in
her voice, her story is both a voyage of discovery and a celebration of the
commonplace wonders that define childhood. It is also a love song devoted
to that special relationship between grandparents and grandchild. The
world for this little girl will soon grow larger and more complex but never
more enchanting or deeply felt.
Rathmann:
Officer Buckle and Gloria
1996 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Peggy Rathmann
1995, 40 pages, $17 list
Officer Buckle is a roly-poly bloke, dedicated
to teaching schoolchildren important safety tips, such as never put anything in
your ear and never stand on a swivel chair. The problem is, Officer
Buckle's school assemblies are dull, dull, dull, and the children of Napville
just sleep, sleep, sleep. That is, until Gloria the police dog is invited
along! Stealthily pantomiming each safety tip behind Officer Buckle's
back, Gloria wins the children's hearts.
2009
By Laura Resau
2009, 336 pages, $17 list
Zeeta has lived in a different
country every year with her mom Layla. Instead of enjoying their nomadic
existence, she wants a boring suburban life and a normal boring dad.
2009
By Rick Riordan
2009, 400 pages, $18 list
The fifth installment of the Percy
Jackson and the Olympians series unfolds the long-awaited prophecy and Percy
battles for the survival of Western civilization.
2003 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Eric
Rohmann
2007, 32 pages, $7 list
When Mouse lets his best friend,
Rabbit, play with his brand-new airplane, trouble isn't far behind. From
Caldecott Honor award winner Eric Rohmann comes a brand-new picture book about
friends and toys and trouble, illustrated in robust, expressive prints.
Runyon:
Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers
2009
By Brent Runyon
2008, 208 pages, $17 list
Every
summer Luke spends two weeks vacationing at a lake, and every year things are
just slightly different.
By Ching Yeung Russell
2009, 136 pages, $17 list
In a patchwork ‘quilt’ of free verse poems the author
recounts her struggle to become a writer growing up in 1960s
Ryan:
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
2009
By Carrie Ryan
2009, 320 pages, $17 list
Mary’s village is protected by a
fence keeping out the Unconsecrated-who are undead craving human flesh-until a
massive breach launches the teenage girl into a fight for survival.
1993 Winner of Newberry Award
By Cynthia Rylant
2004, 112 pages, $6 list
When May dies suddenly while gardening, Summer assumes
she'll never see her beloved aunt again. But then Summer's Uncle Ob
claims that May is on her way back—she has sent a sign from the spirit world.
So
1999 Winner of Newberry Award
By Louis Sachar
2003, 256 pages, $7 list
Stanley Yelnats tries to dig up the truth in this inventive
and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment–and redemption.
1994 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Allen Say and Walter Lorraine
1993, 32 pages, $17 list
Home becomes elusive in this story about
immigration and acculturation, pieced together through old pictures and
salvaged family tales. Both the narrator and his grandfather long to
return to
Schlitz:
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
2008 Winner of Newberry Award
By Laura Amy Schlitz
2007, 96 pages, $20 list
Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons -- in these pages, readers
will meet them all. There’s Hugo, the lord’s nephew, forced to prove his
manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by
selling live eels; and the peasant’s daughter, Mogg, who gets a clever lesson
in how to save a cow from a greedy landlord. There’s also mud-slinging
1988 Winner of Caldecott Award
By John Schoenherr and Jane Yolen
1987, 32 pages, $17 list
Among the greatest charms of children is their ability to
view a simple activity as a magical adventure. Such as a walk in the
woods late at night. Jane Yolen captures this wonderment in a book whose charm
rises from its simplicity. "It was late one winter night, long past
my bedtime, when Pa and I went owling." The two walked through the
woods with nothing but hope and each other in a journey that will fascinate
many a child. John Schoenherr's illustrations help bring richness to the
countryside adventure.
Schrefer:
School for Dangerous Girls
2009
By Eliot Schrefer
2009, 256 pages, $18 list
Angela has been sent to Hidden Oak,
a special boarding school for the most difficult girls. The worst ones never
leave.
Selznick: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
2008 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Brian Selznick
2007, 544 pages, $23 list
Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in
the walls of a busy
By Jacqueline Sheehan
2007, 304 pages, $15 list
Essie, 16, sews all day for pennies
at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory to help feed her fatherless family and now
to forget her little sister's death. Then the fire happens.
2009
By Janni Lee Simner
2009, 256 pages, $17 list
Liza is caught in a world where
magic is deadly and her powers lead her on a quest to find her missing mother.
Small: So
you Want to Be President?
2001 Winner of Caldecott Award
By David Small
2008, 56 pages, $10 list
So you want to be President! Why not? Presidents
have come in every variety. They've been generals like George Washington
and actors like Ronald Reagan, big like William Howard Taft and small like
James Madison, handsome like Franklin Pierce and homely like Abraham
Lincoln. From the embarrassment of
skinny-dipping John Quincy Adams to the mischievous adventure of Theodore
Roosevelt's pony, Judith St. George shares the backroom facts, the spitfire
comments, and the comical anecdotes that have been part and parcel of
2009
By
Sherri Smith
2009, 256 pages, $17 list
During WWII Ida Mae Jones must go
against her family and heritage to join the Army’s WASP program and fulfill her
dream of being a pilot.
By Hope Anita Smith
2009, 80 pages, $17 list
This touching collection of free verse poems explores a
child’s view of her mother and their life together, then expresses raw emotions
after her mother’s death.
2009
By Tom Sniegoski
2009, 224 pages, $16 list
High school dropout Lucas Moore is
shaken to learn he’s the son of The Raptor, a superhero sworn to protect
1991 Winner of Newberry Award
By Jerry Spinelli
1999, 180 pages, $7 list
Maniac Magee is a folk story about a
boy, a very excitable boy. One that can outrun dogs, hit a home run off
the best pitcher in the neighborhood, tie a knot no one can undo.
"Kid's gotta be a maniac," is what the folks in Two Mills say.
It's also the story of how this boy, Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac"
Magee, confronts racism in a small town, tries to find a home where there is
none and attempts to soothe tensions between rival factions on the tough side
of town. Presented as a folk tale, it's the stuff of storytelling. "The
history of a kid," says Jerry Spinelli, "is one part fact, two parts
legend, and three parts snowball." And for this kid, four parts of
fun.
2009
By Nancy Springer
2009, 117 pages, $17 list
Fifteen-year-old Sherica has moved
around the country with her father and brother. Flashbacks and the opportunity
to log into the Internet, answers the unanswered questions about her family.
Stiefvater:
Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception
2009
By Maggie Stiefvater
2008, 336 pages, $10 list
Shy and ordinary Deirdre finds
herself caught up in an ancient struggle in the faerie world when she meets
Luke, an attractive musician with a very dark past.
2009
By Karlijn Stoffels
2009, 144 pages, $17 list
Mee, the singer of sorrows, and
Mitou, the merrymaker, are destined to meet and change the life of a princess.
Can they change one another?
Stone:
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
By Tanya Lee Stone
2009, 144 pages, $25 list
In the early 1960s, 13 women endured
rigorous testing and training for the space program, as well as prejudice.
Numerous photographs and a revealing text chronicle their difficulties and
achievements.
Stork:
Marcelo in the Real World
2009
By Francisco Stork
2009, 320 pages, $18 list
Marcelo—a teen who exhibits
Asperger-like behaviors—is forced to leave his job caring for horses to work in
his father’s law firm and experience “the real world.”
2009
By Jonathan Stroud
2009, 496 pages, $18 list
Halli lives in the shadow of his
brother and the ancient heroes of his homeland, but when his family is
threatened, he is unafraid to face enemies - whether human or not.
2009
By Courtney Summers
2008, 224 pages, $10 list
Once a perfectionist cheerleader,
Parker Fadley now comes to school drunk and lashes out at classmates and
teachers in a hateful voice that masks her inner pain.
Swanson:
The House in the Night
2009
Winner of Caldecott Award
By Susan
Marie Swanson
2008, 40
pages, $17 list
A young girl is given a golden key to a house. A spare, patterned text
and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in
this bedtime book for young children. Naming nighttime things that are both
comforting and intriguing to preschoolers—a key, a bed, the moon—this timeless
book illuminates a reassuring order to the universe.
Taback:
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
2000 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Simms Taback
1999, 32 pages, $12 list
Joseph had a little overcoat, but it was full of holes, just
like this book! When Joseph's coat got too old and shabby, he made it
into a jacket. But what did he make it into after that? And after
that? As children turn the pages of this book, they can use the die-cut
holes to guess what Joseph will be making next from his amazing overcoat, while
they laugh at the bold, cheerful artwork and learn that you can always make
something, even out of nothing.
Tan:
Tales from Outer Suburbia
2009
By Shaun Tan
2009, 98 pages, $22 list
Giant floating poetry balls, living
stick figures, strange creatures from the sea and an all-knowing water buffalo
are some of the wonders found in this lushly illustrated collection of stories.
Thompson:
Creature of the Night
2009
By Kate Thompson
2009, 256 pages, $18 list
Juvenile delinquent Bobby resists
his mother’s plan to move to the countryside, but his anger becomes fear as he
learns about local history and the creatures who rule the fields.
Uehashi:
Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness
By Nahoko Uehashi
2009, 245 pages, $11 list
Bodyguard-for-hire Balsa returns in this tale of redemption
and political intrigue set in a fantasy world reminiscent of medieval
2009
By Jenny Valentine
2009, 224 pages, $17 list
Since Rowan’s brother died, her
mother’s been depressed, and she’s been caring for her sister alone. When a
stranger insists that a photo negative belongs to her, Rowan’s life changes.
2009
By Alison van Diepen
2009, 288 pages, $16 list
Escaping her dreadful family is
Raven’s goal when dancing with the crew at Evermore. Raven’s attraction for
mysterious Zin leads to an ancient secret and the possibility of eternal love.
2009
By Paul Volponi
2009, 160 pages, $16 list
After being severely beaten with a
baseball bat during a hate crime, seventeen-year-old Noah must determine how he
will let the event change him.
By Sally Walker
2009, 144 pages, $23 list
Crime
Scene Investigation meets early American History—exposing ancient crimes and
describing patterns of everyday life as told and written on the bones of the
early
By Scott Westerfeld
2009, 448 pages, $20 list
A hunted young Prince Aleksander Ferdinand and a girl
disguised as a boy must form an unlikely alliance to survive in this steampunk
version of WWI.
2009
By Laura Whitcomb
2009, 384 pages, $17 list
Calder, a 350-year old
"Fetch" that accompanies souls to heaven, breaks all his vows for a
woman, wreaking havoc in the world of lost souls.
2007 Winner of Caldecott Award
By David Wiesner
2006, 40 pages, $17 list
On a seemingly ordinary day at the beach, a budding young scientist
makes a fabulous discovery. A barnacle-encrusted underwater camera has
washed up on the shore, holding a reel of film of fantastical images that no
human eye has seen. Moving cities, an octopus in a lounge chair, a
clockwork fish. And yet, there is one more secret, even more astonishing
than these surreal scenes: the camera has journeyed not only through the depths
of the ocean but through the past, hiding in its last photo a visual timeline
of children from around the world.
1992 Winner of Caldecott Award
By David Wiesner
1997, 32 pages, $7 list
"Tuesday evening, around eight" is a deceptively
mundane beginning for what proves to be a thrilling, miraculous, and surreal
amphibian journey. Slowly and quietly on this particular Tuesday, a few
fat frogs begin hovering over a swamp, riding lily pads like magic carpets.
Clearly satisfied and comfortable, the floating frogs are as serene as little
green buddhas. Gradually, the flying fleet grows in momentum and number,
sailing over the countryside and into an unsuspecting town.
2002 Winner of Caldecott Award
By David Wiesner
2001, 40 pages, $16 list
Once upon a time three pigs built three houses,
out of straw, sticks, and bricks. Along came a wolf, who huffed and
puffed... So, you think you know the rest? Think again. With David
Wiesner at the helm, it's never safe to assume too much. When the wolf
approaches the first house, for example, and blows it in, he somehow manages to
blow the pig right out of the story frame.
2009
By Carol Lynch Williams
2009, 224 pages, $17 list
When the Prophet commands
thirteen-year-old Kyra to marry her aging uncle, her family is shaken.
Desperate to escape, Kyra knows that running away puts them all at risk.
1997 Winner of Caldecott Award
By David Wisniewski
2007, 32 pages, $7 list
Golem is the Hebrew word for shapeless
man. According to Jewish legend, the renowned scholar and teacher Rabbi
Loew used his powers to create a Golem from clay in order to protect his people
from persecution in the ghettos of 16th century
2009
By Virginia Wolff
2009, 496 pages, $18 list
LaVaughn perseveres through a broken
heart while discovering a new love and determining what it means to have
character in the face of challenging friendships, conclusion of Make Lemonade
trilogy.
2009
By Gene Luen Yang
2009, 176 pages, $17 list
Three tales in one graphic novel
show the paper-thin margin that separates fantasy from reality for a warrior, a
frog and a girl.
Young:
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
1990 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Ed Young
1989, 32 pages, $7 list
Three little girls spare no mercy to Lon Po Po,
the granny wolf, in this version of Little Red Riding Hood where they tempt her
up a tree and over a limb, to her death. The girls' frightened eyes are
juxtaposed against Lon Po Po's menacing squint and whirling blue costume in one
of the books numerous three-picture sequences, which resemble the decorative
panels of Chinese tradition. Through mixing abstract and realistic images
with complex use of color and shadow, artist and translator Young has
transformed a simple fairy tail into a remarkable work of art.
1998 Winner of Caldecott Award
By Paul Zelinsky
2002, 48 pages, $8 list
Trapped in a tower with no door, Rapunzel is
allowed to see no one but the sorceress who has imprisoned her, until the day a
young prince hears her singing to the forest birds. The timeless tale of
Rapunzel is vividly and magnificently brought to life through Paul O.
Zelinsky's powerful sense of narrative and his stunning oil paintings.
2009
By Amy Bronwen Zemser
2008, 336 pages, $17 list
Sixteen-year-old Elaine Hamilton
wants to be a chef like her hero, Julia Child, but her bossy and flamboyant
best friend, Lucida Sans, is about to make life much more interesting.
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