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Quarantine: The Loners
2012 - Selection(s) The best high-concept YA thriller of the year is this paranoia-soaked novel in which an infected Colorado high school is quarantined by the government, leading... |
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The Boston Tea Party
2012 - Selection(s) The curtain rises in 1773, as colonists plan and carry out the Boston Tea Party. Period quotes bring a sense of immediacy to the clearly... |
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Three Times Lucky
2012 - Selection(s) A tiny North Carolina community provides this memorable first novel’s backdrop, but murder is at the forefront as Mo, the young narrator, tells of her... |
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Every Day
2012 - Selection(s) What would it be like to wake up in a different body every day? Levithan explores this intriguing, highly original premise through A (his only... |
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Machines Go to Work in the City
2012 - Selection(s) Thoughtful design, dynamic art, and solid information make this a standout for all those kids (all right, mostly boys) who love cars and trucks and... |
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Railsea
2012 - Selection(s) Miéville continues his rampage as one of sf’s new titans with this blazingly original twist on Moby-Dick, which radically reinvents everything: a barren, railroad-snarled future... |
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The Fairy Ring; or, Elsie and Frances Fool the World.
2012 - Selection(s) In 1917, two teenagers faked photographs of fairies using paper illustrations. Their innocent ruse went international, receiving validation by experts and belief by the likes... |
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Twelve Kinds of Ice
2012 - Selection(s) In this precise, evocative book, 20 short chapters introduce the different kinds of ice that take one family through the winter. McClintock’s pen-and-ink drawings, subtle... |
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The Fault in Our Stars
2012 - Selection(s) Beautifully conceived and executed, this story about 16-year-old Hazel living with stage three cancer artfully examines the largest possible considerations—life, love, and death—with sensitivity, intelligence... |
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Penny and Her Song
2012 - Selection(s) Little mouse-girl Penny has a song in her heart. Well, it’s not just in her heart, because she likes to belt it out. Henkes understands... |
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Seraphina
2012 - Selection(s) An exciting new high-fantasy series begins as Seraphina is thrust into the center of a collapsing peace treaty between human and dragon kingdoms. The problem... |
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It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw.
2012 - Selection(s) Rhythmic text and beautiful folk-art illustrations introduce celebrated “outsider artist” Bill Traylor, who drew on memories of his childhood as a slave when he started... |
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Wonder
2012 - Selection(s) The undisputed stand-up-and-cheer book of the year follows 10-year-old Auggie. Born disfigured but blessed with intelligence and grace, he changes the lives of an ever-increasing... |
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The Final Four
2012 - Selection(s) A triple-overtime NCAA game yields surprising personal drama as Volponi expertly weaves in backstories via four different player points of view. Nailbiting stuff for sports... |
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Sleep like a Tiger
2012 - Selection(s) A young girl can’t sleep until she wonders about various animals and what they do for a night’s rest. A lyrical text and magical art... |
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Sophia’s War: A Tale of Revolution
2012 - Selection(s) In 1780, four years after witnessing the hanging of Benedict Arnold, 16-year-old Sophia puts her life on the line by spying on British officers. Avi... |
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Brothers at Bat
2012 - Selection(s) This true story introduces the Acerra brothers—all 12 of them—who played on their local baseball team, one after another, and then formed a semipro team... |
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And Then It’s Spring
2012 - Selection(s) In this gentle ode to a patient gardener, a young boy, with his dog at his side, plants seeds and then waits . .... |
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Fire in the Streets
2012 - Selection(s) Set in 1968 Chicago, this powerful sequel to the multi-award-winning The Rock and the River (2009) follows Maxie, 14, who joins her older brother in... |
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This Is Not My Hat
2012 - Selection(s) This subversive follow-up to I Want My Hat Back (2011) features a minnow who absconds with the hat belonging to a much larger fish. In... |
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Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story behind an American Friendship.
2012 - Selection(s) After telling the life stories of both Lincoln and Douglass, this well-researched and wonderfully readable book describes their first meeting in 1863, their different points... |
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A Boy Called Dickens
2012 - Selection(s) Less a biography than a slice-of-life, this fictionalized story follows a young, starving Dickens as he dreams of writing. With illustrations that define “Dickensian,” this... |
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Just Ducks!
2012 - Selection(s) As a young girl tells about the mallard ducks living near her home, her easygoing narration and the fresh look of the watercolor illustrations make... |
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Auntie Yang’s Great Soybean Picnic
2012 - Selection(s) Based on the author and illustrator’s childhoods, this heartfelt tale introduces two Chinese girls in 1950s Indiana who come to feel more at home thanks... |
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The Girl with Borrowed Wings
2012 - Selection(s) In Rossetti’s spellbinding debut, Frenenqer—a girl bound by her father’s strict rules—and a shape-shifting Free person with wings fly to far-flung lands. This is magic... |
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Z Is for Moose
2012 - Selection(s) It’s just your basic abecedarian animal parade—except that Moose is a tad overeager, crowding the early alphabet with annoying anticipation. When M goes to Mouse... |
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Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust
2012 - Selection(s) This important addition to the Holocaust curriculum is one of the few histories to focus in detail on Jewish resistance across Europe. Among the meticulously... |
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The Boy on Cinnamon Street
2012 - Selection(s) Four-foot-seven Louise Terrace lives with her grandparents following a family tragedy—the details of which she’s blocked out—in this achingly sweet, heartbreaking title. |
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Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
2012 - Selection(s) Illustrated with exquisitely detailed artwork, this stunning picture-book introduction to Sylvia Earle incorporates many of the world-renowned marine scientist’s poetic words into the graceful text. |
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Boot and Shoe
2012 - Selection(s) The inner workings of doggie brains are on full display in this charmer about two almost identical dogs. Frazee’s art perfectly captures joy and chaos... |
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Grave Mercy
2012 - Selection(s) This dark, sophisticated novel, true to fairy-tale conventions, follows fifteenth-century Ismae, a handmaiden to Motrain, the god of Death, as she tries to protect a... |
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Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years
2012 - Selection(s) In this companion to Traveling the Freedom Road (2009), Osborne offers another handsome, highly readable overview of African American history, focusing here on both the... |
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The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
2012 - Selection(s) At his latest orphanage, nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict relies on his intellect, courage, and ingenuity to outwit bullies while solving a mystery and forming a makeshift... |
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Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas.
2012 - Selection(s) Never underestimating its child audience, this ambitious, visually brilliant picture book shows how the sun supports life by sustaining the ocean’s microscopic phytoplankton, an essential... |
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Cold Snap
2012 - Selection(s) The townsfolk in Toby Mills enjoy winter fun in a snowy landscape but not the bitter, relentless freeze of a cold snap. While the lively... |
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Keeping the Castle
2012 - Selection(s) This delicious Regency romp takes readers through the Yorkshire countryside, as 17-year-old Althea Crawley sets out on a quest to marry rich in order to... |
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Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
2012 - Selection(s) Hoose turns his eye to the endangered rufa red-knot bird—specifically Moonbird, a humble fellow who has flown more than 325,000 miles in his lifetime. Despite... |
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Jump into the Sky
2012 - Selection(s) Based on historical events, Pearsall’s poignant novel, set in the Jim Crow South of 1945, follows a young teen’s reunion with his father, a member... |
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The Children and the Wolves
2012 - Selection(s) Rapp returns with his most nightmarish vision yet. A 14-year-old genius keeps two boys in her thrall via drugs and sex, and together they hide... |
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Extra Yarn
2012 - Selection(s) Annabelle, who lives in a black-and-white world, stumbles on a box filled with yarn of every color. The yarn is never ending, allowing Annabelle to... |
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
2012 - Selection(s) Danforth’s ambitious, sophisticated debut follows Cameron Post, a lesbian, as she falls in love for the first time and is forced to attend God’s Promise... |
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Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
2012 - Selection(s) Through original interviews, a smart use of source material, and a wonderfully easygoing style, Blumenthal gives readers a full portrait of Jobs, in all his... |
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Lulu and the Duck in the Park
2012 - Selection(s) Lulu’s teacher doesn’t want any more animals in class, but when an unhatched egg winds up in Lulu’s pocket, she finds an unexpected ally. Lulu... |
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Code Name Verity
2012 - Selection(s) A masterpiece of historical verisimilitude and gut-wrenching mystery, this is the tale of a powerful WWII friendship between a pilot named Maddie and a spy... |
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Green
2012 - Selection(s) In her latest beguiling picture book, Seeger shows that green is a color that stretches the mind—as does this clever piece of bookmaking that allows... |
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My Book of Life by Angel
2012 - Selection(s) Using searing free verse, Leavitt tells the harrowing story of 16-year-old Angel, who prostitutes herself through a drug haze while still fighting to save 11-year-old... |
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We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
2012 - Selection(s) With its focus on four young people who participated in the Birmingham Children’s March, this fascinating title offers a unique view of the role of... |
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Splendors and Glooms
2012 - Selection(s) In this brooding Dickensian novel, three resilient children struggle with difficult circumstances and surprising plot twists in their lives. The novel’s strength lies in the... |
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Dodger
2012 - Selection(s) One stormy night in an alternate Victorian London, a young tosher (sewer scavenger) named Dodger rises from the sewers to rescue a mysterious lady in... |
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Homer
2012 - Selection(s) Homer, an old dog, observes his small world—and the human goings-on around him—from the comfort of the porch. Loose watercolors and spare text offer up... |
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Never Fall Down
2012 - Selection(s) McCormick tells the story of a young Cambodian boy who survives the killing fields only to become a soldier with the Khmer Rouge. The authentic... |
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Wild Horse Scientists
2012 - Selection(s) Illustrated with handsome photos, this informative and wholly engaging book transports readers to Maryland’s Assateague Island National Seashore, where scientists study herds of wild horses... |
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Starry River of the Sky
2012 - Selection(s) Lin’s companion to the Newbery Honor Book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (2009) introduces runaway Rendi and the Village of Clear Sky. Chinese folklore... |
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Drama
2012 - Selection(s) Telgemeier (Smile, 2010) demonstrates a sure sense of young teen life and sensibilities in this spot-on graphic-novel portrayal of the middle-school theater scene. |
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Jimmy the Greatest
2012 - Selection(s) Translated from the Spanish and first published in Colombia, this unusual story about a young boxer celebrates the power of a close community and the... |
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Karma
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 9–12. Fifteen-year-old Maya accompanies her Sikh father to India to spread the ashes of her Hindu mother, who committed suicide, and their arrival coincides... |
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Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 8–12. A sober look at an oft-sensationalized period of American history, this thoroughly researched, highly readable book traces the roots of the Eighteenth Amendment... |
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You Killed Wesley Payne
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 9–12. Clever doesn’t begin to cover this hard-boiled send-up riddled with wise-guy wit, as Dalton Rev trods the mean streets of a high school’s... |
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The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 2–4. With elegantly simple language and vibrant acrylic illustrations, this exemplary picture-book biography focuses on animal advocate Jane Goodall’s life and work. |
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Sparrow Road
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 5–8. In this story told with a spare tenderness, 12-year-old Raine tries to figure out why her mother has taken a job away from... |
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Leverage
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 10–12. This hard-hitting novel about an unlikely fellowship between a football star and a gymnast tackles drugs, rape, violence, and the insular nature of... |
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Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 7–10. Marrin’s landmark study of this historic tragedy not only supplies the brutal facts but also effortlessly ropes in the surrounding issues of immigration... |
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Around the World
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 4–7. Phelan offers lightly fictionalized graphic-format accounts of three nineteenth-century adventurers whose inner journeys displayed as much hardiness, courage, and resilience as their globe-trotting exploits. |
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Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade.
2011 - Selection(s) K–Gr. 2. This is an introduction to both a national event and to Tony Sarg, who loved puppets as a boy and grew up to... |
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A Storm Called Katrina
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 1–4. The terror and emotional impact of Hurricane Katrina are on display in this forceful picture book for older children about Louis Daniel, who... |
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Life: An Exploded Diagram.
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 9–12. Peet’s look at England’s class war and the Cuban missile crisis through the viewpoint of two star-crossed lovers is heady, sophisticated, and one... |
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Gangs
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 8–12. This is an eloquent, well-documented commentary with a clear point of view: “Weapons + poverty + inequality + dashed hopes = street gang... |
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 2–5. Paterson, a Newbery Medalist and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, writes from her own abiding faith as she adds her careful embroidery... |
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Me . . . Jane
2011 - Selection(s) PreS–Gr. 3. This quietly affecting picture book tells of Jane Goodall’s childhood, spent exploring the outdoors along with her intrepid stuffed animal, a chimpanzee. A... |
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The Wikkeling
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 5–8. Now here’s a different sort of dystopia. In a world where children are coddled by a rigidly safeguarded society, Henrietta discovers a window... |
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A Monster Calls
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 7–10. Developing an idea left behind by the late Siobhan Dowd, Ness tells the story of a young boy who is pummeled with grief... |
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I. M. Pei: Architect of Time, Place, and Purpose
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 7–10. Renowned architect I. M. Pei is the focus of this handsome book, which offers a fascinating account of his life and discusses seven... |
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 5–8. As much an homage to classic children’s stories as a fantastic yarn in itself, Valente’s richly worded story sends a girl with bottomless... |
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Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature
2011 - Selection(s) PreS–Gr. 3. In this mesmerizing picture book, a precisely worded, free-verse text explores spirals in nature, while strong scratchboard compositions celebrate the variety of the... |
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Wonderstruck
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 4–8. This beautifully crafted, kid-friendly mystery combines two parallel stories set 50 years apart—one told in text, the other solely in illustrations—which eventually intertwine... |
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Now Playing: Stoner & Spaz II.
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 8–12. Ben (with his cerebral palsy) and Colleen (with her lingering drug problems) continue their wholly believable on-again, off-again relationship in this fast, funny... |
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Little Rock Girl 1957: How a Photograph Changed the Fight for Integration
2011 - Selection(s) Can a photograph change the world? The answer is a resounding yes as this title in the Captured History series shows. The picture of an... |
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Inside Out and Back Again
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 4–8. Written in accessible, short free-verse poems, this is the moving story of 10-year-old Hà, who is forced to flee war-torn Vietnam with her... |
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Anya’s Ghost
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 7–12. A friendly ghost turns out to have a terrifying agenda in this spooky, polished debut that offers something that’s still too rare in... |
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Mudkin
2011 - Selection(s) PreS–Gr. 1. This gleeful, dirt-worshipping reverie sends a young girl off with an onion-shaped glob of mud who speaks in smudges and leads the girl... |
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Okay for Now
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 6–9. This companion to The Wednesday Wars (2007) focuses on Doug Switek’s tough home life and connection to Audubon’s portraits of birds, which serve... |
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Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoops on the Map
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 3–5. A sprightly first-person text and fabulous in-your-face paintings energetically recall the first all-female intercollegiate basketball game between Stanford and UC Berkeley in 1896. |
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Lost & Found
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 5–12. This collection of three picture books, originally published in Australia, displays a sense of deep melancholy and wide-eyed wonder as it showcases Tan’s... |
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Between Shades of Gray
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 7–12. Set in 1939, Sepetys’ beautifully written, deeply felt debut, seen from the viewpoint of 16-year-old Lina, offers a harrowing account of the forcible... |
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Mouse & Lion
2011 - Selection(s) PreS–Gr. 2. Graceful prose lends warmth and accessibility to the familiar Aesop tale of a tiny mouse who trips over a sharp-toothed lion and has... |
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Paper Covers Rock
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 9–12. Many books are compared to A Separate Peace, but Hubbard’s finely crafted novel about a boarding-school death and its fallout earns that... |
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Drawing from Memory
2011 - Selection(s) With a scrapbook format that includes photographs, sketchbook drawings, and comic-book-style panels, this stunning autobiography tells the story of how Caldecott Award–winning Say became an... |
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Mo Wren, Lost and Found
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 4–6. This sequel to What Happened on Fox Street (2010) follows sisters Mo and Dottie through a family move. Springstubb captures the emotions of... |
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The Big Crunch
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 8–11. Hautman skillfully subverts clichés in this subtle, authentic, heart-tugging exploration of first love between two perceptive teens trying to survive a long-distance relationship. |
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Lola’s Fandango
2011 - Selection(s) K–Gr. 3. At heart (and it has lots of heart), this story about young Lola learning the fandango when she finds a pair of dance... |
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A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 1–3. The story of Joe Louis’ 1938 bout with Max Schmeling shows how sports can take on a mythic weight. Nelson’s rounded artwork is... |
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Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 3–7. Through 44 full-page paintings and a text told in the fictionalized, informal voice of an African American senior citizen looking back on her... |
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My Name Is Mina
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 4–7. Both form and language bring Mina to life in this prequel to Almond’s award-winning Skellig (1998). This novel very much stands alone, but... |
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Chime
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 8–12. Briony, a secret witch at 17, is a force to be reckoned with in this story that explores the powers of guilt and... |
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999 Tadpoles
2011 - Selection(s) PreS–Gr. 3. When Mother and Father Frog lead their 999 offspring in search of a new home, looming tragedy turns to triumph. The amusing story... |
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The Great Migration: Journey to the North.
2011 - Selection(s) Striking images and free-verse poetry, rooted in Greenfield’s personal experience, create a haunting view of a pivotal moment in U.S. history—when more than a million... |
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The House Baba Built: An Artist’s Childhood in China
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 3–5. With inventive collage illustrations and a vivid text, this memoir recalls the artist’s childhood in Shanghai, where Young’s father protected his large family... |
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Never Forgotten
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 4–8. Accessible free verse and dramatic acrylic-and-watercolor illustrations combine in this unique perspective on the Middle Passage, told from the point of view of... |
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Guantanamo Boy
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 7–12. Set six months after 9/11, this unforgettable novel explores crucial headline issues through the story of an English teenager who is arrested while... |
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No Two Alike
2011 - Selection(s) PreS–Gr. 2. Two little birds in a snowy countryside observe things around them that are similar yet different. The verse reads aloud beautifully, while the... |
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The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 9–12 Wolf’s expertly researched masterpiece of free-form poetry tells the haunting, sweeping story of the Titanic disaster through a multi-octave chorus of two dozen... |
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Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto.
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 3–6. Quietly telling a dramatic story in words and pictures, this picture book offers a stirring tribute to a courageous young woman who rescued... |
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No Ordinary Day
2011 - Selection(s) Valli flees her home in Jharia, India, only to find herself alone and afflicted with leprosy. Valli’s humor and fearlessness make this a surprisingly inspirational... |
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Island’s End
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 7–10. Infused with spirituality as well as heart-stopping action, this novel, set on a remote Indian island, addresses issues of modernity versus tradition as... |
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Stars
2011 - Selection(s) PreS–Gr. 2. The winning combination of Ray and Frazee crystallizes the idea that stars are everywhere into a near-perfect picture book with airy illustrations and... |
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Why We Broke Up
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 9–12. Structured around the objects being returned after a breakup, this girl-meets-boy story rises far above par due to Handler’s deft depiction of the... |
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Roots and Blues: A Celebration
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 4–8. In short poems and prose vignettes, Adoff offers a sensory history of the blues, capturing the rhythms, sounds, and imagery that inform this... |
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The Silver Bowl
2011 - Selection(s) Gr. 5–8. Blessed, or perhaps cursed, with visions and voices foretelling the future, a young scullery maid proves her mettle in this historical fantasy, which... |
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2008 booklist editors choice youth
2008 - Selection(s) Older Readers Ain’t Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. By Scott Reynolds Nelson and Marc Aronson. illus. National Geographic... |
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2007 booklist editors choice youth
2007 - Selection(s) Older Readers The Arrival. By Shaun Tan. Illus. by the author. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, $19.99 (0-439-89530-8). Gr. 6–12. The immigrant’s struggle in a new land... |
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2006 booklist editors choice youth
2006 - Selection(s) Older Readers Almond, David. Clay. Delacorte, $15.95 (0-385-73171-X). Gr. 6–9. A strange new kid in town convinces altar boy Davie to steal the body and... |
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2005 booklist editors choice youth
2005 - Selection(s) Older Readers Abrahams, Peter. Down the Rabbit Hole. HarperCollins, $15.99 (0-06-073701-8). Gr. 7–10. Thirteen-year-old Ingrid Levin-Hill feels like Alice plunging down the rabbit hole as... |
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