School Library Journal Best Book of the Year2005

Given by School Library Journal

Other Names: School Library Journal Best Books
63 Works 183,353 Books 7,599 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Chapter Book (6), Illus: Barbara McClintock (2), Middle Grade (13), Nonfiction (17), Picture Book (24), No Category (1,744)
Years:
All, 2023 (153), 2022 (149), 2021 (139), 2020 (92), 2019 (90), 2018 (80), 2017 (70), 2016 (66), 2015 (65), 2014 (70), 2013 (68), 2012 (65), 2011 (66), 2010 (60), 2009 (53), 2008 (67), 2007 (61), 2006 (86), 2005 (63), 2004 (57), 2003 (60), 2002 (77), 2000 (2), 1999 (3), 1998 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1988 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1983 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1977 (1), 1974 (1), 1970 (1)
Announced:
November 2023: 2023 Recent
WorkCategoryYear
Cinderella by Barbara McClintock
Illus: Barbara McClintock2005
A Play's the Thing by Aliki
2005
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator by Jennifer Allison
2005
Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War by Jennifer Armstrong
2005
The Real Revolution: The Global Story of American Independence by Marc Aronson
2005
Mr. Williams by Karen Barbour
2005
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
2005
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
2005
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America by Karen Blumenthal
2005
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
2005
10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle
2005
Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure by Doreen Cronin
2005
Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii by James M. Deem
2005
Stinky Stern Forever by Michelle Edwards
2005
Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk about AIDS by Deborah Ellis
2005
Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life by Candace Fleming
2005
First Snow by Bernette Ford
2005
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
2005
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin
2005
Oscar's Half Birthday by Bob Graham
2005
Looking for Alaska by John Green
2005
Traction Man is Here! by Mini Grey
2005
Defiance by Valerie Hobbs
2005
Oh, No! Where Are My Pants? and Other Disasters: Poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins
2005
The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands by Sneed B. Collard III
2005
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms by Paul B. Janeczko
2005
That New Animal by Emily Jenkins
2005
George Did It by Suzanne Tripp Jurmain
2005
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster
2005
The Dog Who Cried Wolf by Keiko Kasza
2005
Pearl's New Skates by Holly Keller
2005
Bears by Ruth Krauss
2005
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier
2005
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch
2005
Shhhhh! Everybody's Sleeping by Julie Markes
2005
Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean
2005
Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia C. Mckissack
2005
If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty
2005
The Water Mirror by Kai Meyer
2005
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
2005
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
2005
A Maze Me: Poems for Girls by Naomi Shihab Nye
2005
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge
2005
Summertime Waltz by Nina Payne
2005
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
2005
Anne Frank by Josephine Poole
2005
Klondike Gold by Alice Provensen
2005
The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman
2005
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2005
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
2005
My Best Friend by Mary Ann Rodman
2005
Dickens: His Work and His World by Michael Rosen
2005
Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen
2005
Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust by April Pulley Sayre
2005
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century by Uri Shulevitz
2005
Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems by Joyce Sidman
2005
Mimus by Lilli Thal
2005
Lizette's Green Sock by Catharina Valckx
2005
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
2005
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
2005
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
2005
Mice, Morals, & Monkey Business by Christopher Wormell
2005
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
2005

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