Maine Regional Library System Cream of the Crop List2017

Given by Maine State Library

98 Works 31,411 Books 1,633 Reviews ½ 4.0
Each year publishing houses send thousands of review copies of new children's and young adult books to the Maine Examination Collection to the Southern Maine Library District. The books are show more reviewed at monthly book review meetings by local librarians. A "Cream of the Crop" Collection of the best titles published in the previous year is prepared. The "Cream of the Crop" Collection contains about books from preschool to high school age levels. All of the titles on this list have been favorably reviewed by members of the Southern Maine Library District Book Review Group. show less
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Years:
All, 2023 (58), 2022 (86), 2021 (94), 2020 (105), 2019 (102), 2018 (99), 2017 (98), 2016 (98), 2015 (100), 2014 (114), 2013 (135), 2012 (1), 2010 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
Mary Jemison: Native American Captive (Based on a True Story) by E. F. Abbott
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Booked by Kwame Alexander
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Art of Not Breathing by Sarah Alexander
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Ms. Bixby's Last Day by John David Anderson
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Watched by Marina Budhos
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron
Chapter Book Fiction2017
What Happens Now by Jennifer Castle
Chapter Book Fiction2017
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Possibility of Now by Kim Culbertson
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eagar
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Apple Tart of Hope by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Where You'll Find Me by Natasha Friend
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Last Monster by Ginger Garrett
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Other Boy by M. G. Hennessey
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks
Chapter Book Fiction2017
How It Feels to Fly by Kathryn Holmes
Chapter Book Fiction2017
A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket by Deborah Hopkinson
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly
Chapter Book Fiction2017
A Taste for Monsters by Matthew J. Kirby
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Compass South (Four Points) by Hope Larson
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Skeleton Tree by Iain Lawrence
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Poet's Dog by Patricia MacLachlan
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Fixes by Owen Matthews
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Safest Lies by Megan Miranda
Chapter Book Fiction2017
It Looks Like This by Rafi Mittlefehldt
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Girl in the Picture by Alexandra Monir
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Eleven and Holding by Mary Penney
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Shadow Queen by C. J. Redwine
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Girl Against the Universe by Paula Stokes
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Saving Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Horus and the Curse of Everlasting Regret by Hannah Voskuil
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
Chapter Book Fiction2017
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
Chapter Book Fiction2017
Sabotage: The Mission to Destroy Hitler's Atomic Bomb [YA] by Neal Bascomb
Chapter Book Nonfiction2017
The Ebola Epidemic: The Fight, the Future by Connie Goldsmith
Chapter Book Nonfiction2017
Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA by Bridget Heos
Chapter Book Nonfiction2017
Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II by Albert Marrin
Chapter Book Nonfiction2017
A Storm Too Soon: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and an Incredible Rescue by Michael J. Tougias
Chapter Book Nonfiction2017
Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution by Gretchen Woelfle
Chapter Book Nonfiction2017
All We Know by Linda Ashman
Picture Book Fiction2017
Before I Leave by Jessixa Bagley
Picture Book Fiction2017
Woodpecker Wants a Waffle by Steve Breen
Picture Book Fiction2017
The Day I Became a Bird by Ingrid Chabbert
Picture Book Fiction2017
Absolutely One Thing: Featuring Charlie and Lola by Lauren Child
Picture Book Fiction2017
Grandad's Island by Benji Davies
Picture Book Fiction2017
Dragon Was Terrible by Kelly DiPucchio
Picture Book Fiction2017
How to Track a Truck by Jason Carter Eaton
Picture Book Fiction2017
A Hat for Mrs. Goldman: A Story About Knitting and Love by Michelle Edwards
Picture Book Fiction2017
Halfway Wild by Laura Freudig
Picture Book Fiction2017
Owl Sees Owl by Laura Godwin
Picture Book Fiction2017
Hippopotamister by John Patrick Green
Picture Book Fiction2017
Goodnight Everyone by Chris Haughton
Picture Book Fiction2017
The Girl with the Parrot on Her Head by Daisy Hirst
Picture Book Fiction2017
ABC Dream by Kim Krans
Picture Book Fiction2017
Swap! by Steve Light
Picture Book Fiction2017
The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield
Picture Book Fiction2017
Finding Wild by Megan Wagner Lloyd
Picture Book Fiction2017
The Branch by Mireille Messier
Picture Book Fiction2017
Whoops! by Suzi Moore
Picture Book Fiction2017
Stories from Bug Garden by Lisa Moser
Picture Book Fiction2017
Princess! Fairy! Ballerina! by Bethanie Deeney Murguia
Picture Book Fiction2017
The Whale by Vita Murrow
Picture Book Fiction2017
Frank and Lucky Get Schooled by Lynne Rae Perkins
Picture Book Fiction2017
School's First Day of School by Adam Rex
Picture Book Fiction2017
We Came To America by Faith Ringgold
Picture Book Fiction2017
Before Morning by Joyce Sidman
Picture Book Fiction2017
Tree: A Peek-Through Picture Book by Britta Teckentrup
Picture Book Fiction2017
Faraway Fox by Jolene Thompson
Picture Book Fiction2017
Circle by Jeannie Baker
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Where Did They Go? by Emily Bornoff
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land (Carolrhoda Picture Books) by John Coy
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Milestones of Flight: From Hot-Air Balloons to SpaceShipOne by Tim Grove
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
The Deadliest Creature in the World by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Cecil's Pride by Craig Hatkoff
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Fabulous Frogs by Martin Jenkins
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Otters Love to Play by Jonathan London
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
The Hole Story of the Doughnut by Pat Miller
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
The Great White Shark Scientist by Sy Montgomery
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs by Linda Sue Park
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth by Barb Rosenstock
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Some Writer!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Crossing Niagara: The Death-Defying Tightrope Adventures of the Great Blondin by Matt Tavares
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Every Day Birds by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
Poop Detectives: Working Dogs in the Field by Ginger Wadsworth
Picture Book Nonfiction2017
My Name Is James Madison Hemings by Jonah Winter
Picture Book Nonfiction2017

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