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Titles	Order
Adventures in Space: The Flight to Fix the Hubble by Elaine Scott
Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause
Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy
Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan
Deep Wizardry by Diane Duane
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Harry's Mad by Dick King-Smith
Ida Early Comes over the Mountain by Robert Burch
An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
Last Was Lloyd by Doris Buchanan Smith
A Light in the Attic: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
Martin's Mice by Dick King-Smith
The Moonlight Man by Paula Fox
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Shrinking Violet by Cari Best
Silent to the Bone by E. L. Konigsburg
Stalin: Russia's Man of Steel by Albert Marrin
Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier	1974
A Very Young Rider by Jill Krementz	1977
Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen	1979
Saving the Peregrine Falcon by Caroline Arnold	1985
Return to Bitter Creek by Doris Buchanan Smith	1986
Memory by Margaret Mahy	1988
The Other Side of the Family by Maureen Pople	1990
The Voyage of the Frog by Gary Paulsen	1991
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are by Carl Sagan	1992
Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert D. San Souci	1993
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman	1995
The Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and Uncover Mysteries of the Dead by Donna M. Jackson	1996
The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth	1998
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen	1999
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson	1999
Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen	2000
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye	2002
9-11: Emergency Relief by Jeff Mason	2002
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn	2002
Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg	2002
America by E. R. Frank	2002
Angelo by David Macaulay	2002
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates	2002
The Book of Fred by Abby Bardi	2002
Bubba and Beau, Best Friends by Kathi Appelt	2002
Bury the Dead: Tombs, Corpses, Mummies, Skeletons, & Rituals by Christopher Sloan	2002
Close Your Eyes by Kate Banks	2002
Confucius : The Golden Rule by Russell Freedman	2002
Crossing Over by Rubén Martínez	2002
Dahlia by Barbara McClintock	2002
The Declaration of Independence by Sam Fink	2002
A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me by Jon Katz	2002
Duck on a Bike by David Shannon	2002
Earthborn by Sylvia Waugh	2002
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde	2002
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman	2002
Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth by Sally M. Walker	2002
The Getaway Special by Jerry Oltion	2002
Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin	2002
Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn	2002
Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen	2002
Gossie by Olivier Dunrea	2002
Hanging on to Max by Margaret Bechard	2002
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos	2002
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson	2002
Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child by Bob Graham	2002
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson	2002
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean	2002
Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution by Steve Jenkins	2002
Little Soldier by Bernard Ashley	2002
Love to Langston by Tony Medina	2002
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold	2002
The Making of America: The History of the United States from 1492 to the Present by Robert D. Johnston	2002
Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks	2002
Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway by Kirkpatrick Hill	2002
Mole and the Baby Bird by Marjorie Newman	2002
My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr	2002
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich	2002
Oliver Finds His Way by Phyllis Root	2002
Peacock and Other Poems by Valerie Worth	2002
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath by Elise Paschen	2002
The Pot That Juan Built by Nancy Andrews-Goebel	2002
Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine by Brian Hicks	2002
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick	2002
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech	2002
Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay	2002
The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson	2002
Scranimals by Jack Prelutsky	2002
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd	2002
Sky of Stone: A Memoir by Homer Hickam	2002
Snow by Manya Stojic	2002
The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt	2002
Stella, Fairy of the Forest by Marie-Louise Gay	2002
I Stink! by Kate McMullan	2002
Summerland by Michael Chabon	2002
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan	2002
Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America by Tonya Bolden	2002
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke	2002
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards) by Elizabeth Partridge	2002
This Little Chick by John Lawrence	2002
Tiger, Tiger by Dee Lillegard	2002
Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age by Raymond Briggs	2002
The Watch: A Novel by Dennis Danvers	2002
Water Hole Waiting by Jane Kurtz	2002
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary	2002
What Would Joey Do? (Joey Pigza Books) by Jack Gantos	2002
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Muñoz Ryan	2002
When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park	2002
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe	2002
The Winter People by Joseph Bruchac	2002
Women of Discovery: A Celebration of Intrepid Women Who Explored the World by Milbry Polk	2002
The Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood	2002
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy	2003
Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life by Candace Fleming	2003
Big Momma Makes the World by Phyllis Root	2003
Bruh Rabbit And The Tar Baby Girl by Virginia Hamilton	2003
The Canning Season by Polly Horvath	2003
Colibri by Ann Cameron	2003
The Dark Horse by Marcus Sedgwick	2003
A Day in the Life of Murphy by Alice Provensen	2003
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin	2003
Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up by Lisa Westberg Peters	2003
East by Edith Pattou	2003
Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going	2003
Fireflies at Midnight by Marilyn Singer	2003
First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane by Peter Busby	2003
George Washington's Teeth by Deborah Chandra	2003
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe	2003
Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean	2003
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jim Aylesworth	Illus: Barbara McClintock, 2003
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull	2003
Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes	2003
How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long	2003
In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights by Russell Freedman	2003
Keeper of the Night by Kimberly Willis Holt	2003
I Kissed the Baby! by Mary Murphy	2003
Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer by Robert Byrd	2003
Little One Step by Simon James	2003
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson	2003
M Is for Music by Kathleen Krull	2003
The Man Who Made Time Travel by Kathryn Lasky	2003
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein	2003
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon by Bea Uusma Schyffert	2003
The Meanest Doll in the World by Ann M. Martin	2003
Morris the Artist by Lore Segal	2003
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve	2003
Mosque by David Macaulay	2003
Mrs. Chicken and the hungry crocodile by Won-Ldy Paye	2003
My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits	2003
Nature's Art Box: From t-shirts to twig baskets, 65 cool projects for crafty kids to make with natural materials you can find anywhere by Laura C. Martin	2003
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly	2003
Old Cricket by Lisa Wheeler	2003
Ollie by Olivier Dunrea	2003
Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver	2003
The Rooster and the Fox by Helen Ward	2003
Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois by Jan Greenberg	2003
The Shape Game by Anthony Browne	2003
Singing the Dogstar Blues by Alison Goodman	2003
Someone Says by Carole Lexa Schaefer	2003
Stop the Train by Geraldine McCaughrean	2003
Straight to the Pole by Kevin O'Malley	2003
Tadpole by Ruth White	2003
The Tree of Life: Charles Darwin by Peter Sís	2003
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha Brooks	2003
Walk Softly, Rachel by Kate Banks	2003
The Way a Door Closes by Hope Anita Smith	2003
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett	2003
What A Great Idea! Inventions That Changed The World by Stephen M. Tomecek	2003
Where's Pup? by Dayle Ann Dodds	2003
Will Moses' Mother Goose by Will Moses	2003
Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials by Marc Aronson	2003
Zoo - ology by Joëlle Jolivet	2003
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel	2004
Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) across the Plains by Deborah Hopkinson	2004
Bones Rock!: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Paleontologist by Peter Larson	2004
Bound by Donna Jo Napoli	2004
The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard by Gregory Rogers	2004
The Bremen Town Musicians: And Other Animal Tales from Grimm by Doris Orgel	2004
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis	2004
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko	2004
The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove by Bodil Bredsdorff	2004
Don't Forget I Love You by Miriam Moss	2004
Double Helix by Nancy Werlin	2004
A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 by Diane McWhorter	2004
Duck for President by Doreen Cronin	2004
George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides by Rosalyn Schanzer	2004
Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History Of The Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill	2004
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding	2004
Heartbeat by Sharon Creech	2004
Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti	2004
Hot Day on Abbott Avenue by Karen English	2004
Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan	2004
Indigo's Star by Hilary McKay	2004
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes	2004
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems	2004
The Little Gentleman by Philippa Pearce	2004
Little Rabbit goes to school by Harry Horse	2004
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt	2004
Lucky Leaf by Kevin O'Malley	2004
Merlin and the Making of the King by Margaret Hodges	2004
Mimmy and Sophie, All Around the Town by Miriam Cohen	2004
Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman by Eleanor Updale	2004
Mr. Maxwell's Mouse by Frank Asch	2004
Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth by Alison McGhee	2004
The Neighborhood Mother Goose by Nina Crews	2004
New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery by Allan Wolf	2004
The Noisy Way To Bed by Ian Whybrow	2004
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg	2004
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo	2004
Remember D-Day: Both Sides Tell Their Stories by Ronald J. Drez	2004
Revenge and Forgiveness by Patrice Vecchione	2004
The Roman Army: The Legendary Soldiers Who Created an Empire by Dyan Blacklock	2004
Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta	2004
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer	2004
Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford	2004
Sidewalk Circus by Paul Fleischman	2004
Speak to Me: (And I Will Listen between the Lines) by Karen English	2004
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson	2004
Tales from the waterhole by Bob Graham	2004
The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery	2004
Tiny's Big Adventure by Martin Waddell	2004
Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing by Paul B. Janeczko	2004
The Unseen by Zilpha Keatley Snyder	2004
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman	2004
Wallace's Lists by Barbara Bottner	2004
Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley	2004
What is Goodbye? by Nikki Grimes	2004
Wild About Books by Judy Sierra	2004
The Young Man And The Sea by Rodman Philbrick	2004
10 Little Rubber Ducks by Eric Carle	2005
Anne Frank by Josephine Poole	2005
Bears by Ruth Krauss	2005
Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii by James M. Deem	2005
Cinderella by Barbara McClintock	Illus: Barbara McClintock, 2005
Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack: An Alphabetical Adventure by Doreen Cronin	2005
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins	2005
Defiance by Valerie Hobbs	2005
Dickens: His Work and His World by Michael Rosen	2005
The Dog Who Cried Wolf by Keiko Kasza	2005
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin	2005
First Snow by Bernette Ford	2005
George Did It by Suzanne Tripp Jurmain	2005
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator by Jennifer Allison	2005
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin	2005
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster	2005
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti	2005
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner	2005
If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty	2005
Inexcusable by Chris Lynch	2005
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge	2005
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms by Paul B. Janeczko	2005
Klondike Gold by Alice Provensen	2005
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems	2005
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America by Karen Blumenthal	2005
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan	2005
Lizette's Green Sock by Catharina Valckx	2005
Looking for Alaska by John Green	2005
Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier	2005
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden	2005
A Maze Me: Poems for Girls by Naomi Shihab Nye	2005
Mice, Morals, & Monkey Business by Christopher Wormell	2005
Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen	2005
Mimus by Lilli Thal	2005
Mr. Williams by Karen Barbour	2005
My Best Friend by Mary Ann Rodman	2005
Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean	2005
Oh, No! Where Are My Pants? and Other Disasters: Poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins	2005
Oscar's Half Birthday by Bob Graham	2005
Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life by Candace Fleming	2005
Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk about AIDS by Deborah Ellis	2005
Pearl's New Skates by Holly Keller	2005
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld	2005
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall	2005
Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War by Jennifer Armstrong	2005
A Play's the Thing by Aliki	2005
The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands by Sneed B. Collard III	2005
Precious and the Boo Hag by Patricia C. Mckissack	2005
The Real Revolution: The Global Story of American Independence by Marc Aronson	2005
The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman	2005
Shhhhh! Everybody's Sleeping by Julie Markes	2005
Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems by Joyce Sidman	2005
Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust by April Pulley Sayre	2005
Stinky Stern Forever by Michelle Edwards	2005
Summertime Waltz by Nina Payne	2005
That New Animal by Emily Jenkins	2005
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan	2005
Traction Man is Here! by Mini Grey	2005
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century by Uri Shulevitz	2005
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer	2005
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld	2005
The Water Mirror by Kai Meyer	2005
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson	2005
5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from Slavery by Judith Bloom Fradin	2006
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson	2006
Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde Johnson	2006
Adventures of Marco Polo by Russell Freedman	2006
The Adventures of Odysseus by Hugh Lupton	2006
Aliens Are Coming!: The True Account Of The 1938 War Of The Worlds Radio Broadcast by Meghan McCarthy	2006
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang	2006
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga	2006
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson	2006
Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom by Unita Blackwell	2006
Beatles Art: Fantastic New Artwork of the Fab Four by Linda Webb	2006
Beauty and the Beast by Max Eilenberg	2006
Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley	2006
Benny and Beautiful Baby Delilah by Jean Van Leeuwen	2006
Black Cat Bone: The Life of Blues Legend Robert Johnson by J. Patrick Lewis	2006
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell	2006
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone	2006
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak	2006
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky: A True Story by Ken Dornstein	2006
The Braid by Helen Frost	2006
The Buffalo and the Indians: A Shared Destiny by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent	2006
But Excuse Me That Is My Book by Lauren Child	2006
Chickens to the Rescue by John Himmelman	2006
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker	2006
Clip-Clop! by Nicola Smee	2006
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper	2006
Cotton by Christopher Wilson	2006
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock	2006
Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoir by Asha Miro	2006
The Demon under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug by Thomas Hager	2006
Disco for the Departed by Colin Cotterill	2006
Dizzy by Jonah Winter	2006
Endgame by Nancy Garden	2006
Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman	2006
Everlost by Neal Shusterman	2006
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine	2006
Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson	2006
Firestorm by David Klass	2006
Flotsam by David Wiesner	2006
Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge	2006
Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce	2006
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman	2006
The Girl from Charnelle: A Novel (P.S.) by K. L. Cook	2006
Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia A. McKillip	2006
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson	2006
The Heartless Stone: A Journey through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire by Tom Zoellner	2006
How High Can a Dinosaur Count?: ...and Other Math Mysteries by Valorie Fisher	2006
Immersed in Verse: An Informative, Slightly Irreverent & Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the Poet's Life by Allan Wolf	2006
Isaac Newton by Kathleen Krull	2006
John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Smith	2006
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner	2006
Larklight: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space by Philip Reeve	2006
Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua	2006
Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen	2006
Lilly's Big Day by Kevin Henkes	2006
Max's Words by Kate Banks	2006
The Meteor Hunt: The First English Translation of Verne's Original Manuscript (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) by Jules Verne	2006
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo	2006
Mommy? by Maurice Sendak	2006
The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson	2006
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford	2006
Not Afraid of Dogs by Susanna Pitzer	2006
Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn	2006
Play, Mozart, Play! by Peter Sís	2006
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes	2006
The Princess and the Pea by Lauren Child	2006
The Princess of Denmark by Edward Marston	2006
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea by Sy Montgomery	2006
Remember Little Bighorn: Indians, Soldiers, and Scouts Tell Their Stories by Paul Robert Walker	2006
The Road Of The Dead by Kevin Brooks	2006
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything by Lenore Look	2006
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin	2006
Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen by Cari Best	2006
The Secret River by Kate Grenville	2006
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts	2006
Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? by Ted Rall	2006
SuperHero ABC by Bob McLeod	2006
To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel	2006
Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic by Emily Jenkins	2006
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In America by Deborah Hopkinson	2006
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur by Carl Safina	2006
Wabi: A Hero's Tale by Joseph Bruchac	2006
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy by Leonard S. Marcus	2006
Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? by Esther Watson	2006
Wildfire by Taylor Morrison	2006
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy	2006
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie	2007
I Am Not Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos	2007
The Arrival by Shaun Tan	2007
Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art by Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art	2007
At Gleason's Gym by Ted Lewin	2007
Beowulf, A Hero's Tale Retold by James Rumford	2007
Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits	2007
Bone by Bone by Bone by Tony Johnston	2007
The Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale	2007
Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates by Kevin O'Malley	2007
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Retold (adapted ∙ graphic novel) by Marcia Williams	2007
Dogs and Cats by Steve Jenkins	2007
Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey	2007
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis	2007
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis	2007
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell	2007
Epic by Conor Kostick	2007
Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks	2007
Fox by Kate Banks	2007
Freak Show by James St. James	2007
A Good Day by Kevin Henkes	2007
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz	2007
Heat Wave by Eileen Spinelli	2007
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate	2007
How it Happened in Peach Hill by Marthe Jocelyn	2007
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor	2007
Hurry! Hurry! by Eve Bunting	2007
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming [Young Adult Adaptation] by Al Gore	2007
Into the Woods by Lyn Gardner	2007
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll	2007
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems	2007
Lenny's Space by Kate Banks	2007
The Lion Hunter by Elizabeth Wein	2007
Little Red Riding Hood by Jerry Pinkney	2007
My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow	2007
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart	2007
The New Policeman by Kate Thompson	2007
No Talking by Andrew Clements	2007
Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett	2007
Pictures from Our Vacation by Lynne Rae Perkins	2007
The Real Benedict Arnold by Jim Murphy	2007
Red Glass by Laura Resau	2007
Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells	2007
Slam by Nick Hornby	2007
Spiders by Nic Bishop	2007
The Talented Clementine by Sara Pennypacker	2007
Tamar by Mal Peet	2007
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat	2007
That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown by Cressida Cowell	2007
There Is a Bird on Your Head! by Mo Willems	2007
This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman	2007
Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis Crisler	2007
The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex	2007
Undercover by Beth Kephart	2007
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison	2007
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís	2007
What They Found: Love on 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers	2007
When I Crossed No-Bob by Margaret McMullan	2007
Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards)) by Russell Freedman	2007
Why War Is Never a Good Idea by Alice Walker	2007
Wolf's Coming! by Joe Kulka	2007
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson	2008
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford	2008
The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin	2008
Buffalo Music by Tracey E. Fern	2008
Chicken Said, "Cluck!" by Judyann Ackerman Grant	2008
Christopher Counting by Valeri Gorbachev	2008
Clementine's Letter by Sara Pennypacker	2008
Coraline: The Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman	2008
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee	2008
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart	2008
The Door of No Return by Sarah Mussi	2008
The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson	2008
Farmer George Plants a Nation by Peggy Thomas	2008
Frogs by Nic Bishop	2008
Goose and Duck by Jean Craighead George	2008
Graceling by Kristin Cashore	2008
Helen's Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher by Marfé Ferguson Delano	2008
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve	2008
Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose by Naomi Shihab Nye	2008
Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet Time by James Howe	2008
How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz	2008
How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham	2008
How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming by Lynne Cherry	2008
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins	2008
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel	2008
Impossible by Nancy Werlin	2008
Jumpy Jack & Googily by Meg Rosoff	2008
Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith	2008
A Kitten Tale by Eric Rohmann	2008
The Leanin' Dog by K. A. Nuzum	2008
Lincoln Shot: A President's Life Remembered by Barry Denenberg	2008
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming	2008
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow	2008
Little Rabbit's New Baby by Harry Horse	2008
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhán Dowd	2008
Mail Harry to the Moon by Robie H. Harris	2008
My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath	2008
Nation by Terry Pratchett	2008
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin	2008
Old Bear by Kevin Henkes	2008
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out by National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance.	2008
Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City by Janet Schulman	2008
Paleo Bugs: Survival of the Creepiest by Timothy J. Bradley	2008
Paper Towns by John Green	2008
Princess Ben by Catherine Gilbert Murdock	2008
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant	2008
Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder by Tanya Lee Stone	2008
The Seer of Shadows by Avi	2008
Show and Tell: Exploring the Fine Art of Children's Book Illustration by Dilys Evans	2008
Skunkdog by Emily Jenkins	2008
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers	2008
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox	2008
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan	2008
Traction Man Meets Turbodog by Mini Grey	2008
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West by Sid Fleischman	2008
Verdigris Deep by Frances Hardinge	2008
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor	2008
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter	2008
Washington at Valley Forge by Russell Freedman	2008
Wave by Suzy Lee	2008
Way Up and Over Everything by Alice McGill	2008
The Way We Work by David Macaulay	2008
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson	2008
What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell	2008
What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! by Barbara Kerley	2008
Wild Animals in Captivity by Rob Laidlaw	2008
Wild Tracks!: A Guide to Nature's Footprints by Jim Arnosky	2008
All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon	2009
Anne Frank: Her life in words and pictures from the archives of The Anne Frank House by Menno Metselaar	2009
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 by Charles C. Mann	2009
Birds by Kevin Henkes	2009
The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull	2009
Butterflies And Moths by Nic Bishop	2009
Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus ... by Kristen Tracy	2009
The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd	2009
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman	2009
Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure (Historical Notebooks) by A. J. Wood	2009
Chicken Little by Rebecca Emberley	2009
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose	2009
Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson	2009
The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton	2009
The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Judith St. George	2009
Epossumondas Plays Possum by Coleen Salley	2009
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly	2009
Fire by Kristin Cashore	2009
Hate List by Jennifer Brown	2009
I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings by Elizabeth Spires	2009
Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli	2009
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz	2009
Let's Do Nothing! by Tony Fucile	2009
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld	2009
Liar by Justine Larbalestier	2009
The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney	2009
Little Chick by Amy Hest	2009
Looking Like Me by Walter Dean Myers	2009
The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge	2009
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes by Margie Palatini	2009
Lucy long ago by Catherine Thimmesh	2009
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco Stork	2009
Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge	2009
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca	2009
Night Lights by Susan Gal	2009
Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson	2009
Pharaoh's Boat by David L. Weitzman	2009
Pigs Make Me Sneeze! by Mo Willems	2009
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks	2009
Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia by Sy Montgomery	2009
Scat by Carl Hiaasen	2009
The Secret of Zoom by Lynne Jonell	2009
The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis by Barbara O'Connor	2009
Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney	2009
Thunder-Boomer! by Shutta Crum	2009
Tricking the Tallyman by Jacqueline Davies	2009
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy	2009
Tumtum & Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall by Emily Bearn	2009
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead	2009
A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems by Deborah Ruddell	2009
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker	2009
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin	2009
Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales by Lucy Cousins	2009
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones	2011
A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty	2013

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