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A Few of My Favorites
Fall, 2009
Non-fiction
The Journey That Saved Curious George Louise Borden and Allan Drummond
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving The Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley Sally Walker
Poetry
Poems to Dream Together Francisco X. Alarcon
Poemas Para Sonar Juntos
Middle Grade
Catching Fire Collins, Suzanne
The Magician’s Elephant DiCamillo, Kate
Chaos Walking Book One:The Knife of Never Letting Go Ness, Patrick
The Fog Mound 3:Simon’s Dream Schade, Susan and Butler, Jon
When You Reach Me Stead, Rebecca
Capt. Hook J.V. Hart
Flush Carl Hiassen
Gossamer Lois Lowry
Skybreaker Kenneth Oppel
Magyk: Septimus Heap, Book one Angie Sage
Each Little Bird that Sings Deb Wiles
Young Adult
Anansi Boys Neal Gaiman
Solstice Wood Patricia McKillip
Twilight Stephanie Meyers
Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin
The Book Thief Marcus Zusak
Early Chapter Book
Baby Mouse: the Musical Holm, Jenifer and Holm, Matthew
Catwings LeGuin, Ursula
Clementine’s Letter Pennypacker, Sara
Check these out!
Picture Books
Let’s Do nothing! Fuclle, Tony
Crazy Hair Gaiman, Neal and McKean, Dave
Just a Dream Van Allsburg, Chris
365 Penguinsp Fromental, Jean Luc
Non-fiction
5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft’s Flight from Slavery Judith and Dennis Fradin
The Adventures of Marco Polo, Russell Freedman
The Adventurous Life of Myles Standish and the Amazing-But-True Survival Story of Plymouth Colony, Cheryl Harness
Akira to Zoltan: 26 Men Who Changed the World, Cynthia Chin-Lee
& Megan Halsey, il Sean Addy
The Buffalo and the Indians: A Shared Destiny, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, William Muñoz
Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief On the Reservation and Beyond, Joseph Medicine Crow
Middle Grade
Wright 3 Blue Balliett
A “triangle” of friends try to work out their differences while discovering secrets, uncovering clues and trying to save a hauntingly beautiful old building from being destroyed
Victory Susan Cooper
An old book and a flag remnant form a psychic connection between an English boy and girl who cross an ocean 200 year apart. Swashbuckling sailors, secret treasure, long-lost relatives and time travel.
Just for You to Know Cheryl Harness
Almost thirteen, Carmine’s the oldest child in her family, with five noisy little brothers, a dreamy mom, and a sometimes reckless dad. When she's a famous artist, she'll get away from them all!
Crossing the Wire Will Hobbs
15-year-old Victor makes the painful decision to leave his mother and younger siblings behind in Mexico and attempt a dangerous border crossing, facing death and discovery at every turn.
Weedflower Cynthia Kadohata
Sumiko is no stranger to discrimination, especially when asked to leave a classmate's birthday party because she is not white. But life as she knows it crumbles when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
The Green Glass Sea Ellen Klages
Children of world-class scientists live in a strange kind of vacuum at Los Alamos in the days before the testing of the Atom Bomb.
Probably the World’s Best Story about a Dog and the Girl Who Loved Me D. James Smith
A dog-napping, a paper route, a boy locked in his aunt’s attic, and a girl with a major crush on him threaten to keep 12-yr-old Paolo from his summer schemes.
Fall, 2009
Non-fiction
The Journey That Saved Curious George Louise Borden and Allan Drummond
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving The Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley Sally Walker
Poetry
Poems to Dream Together Francisco X. Alarcon
Poemas Para Sonar Juntos
Middle Grade
Catching Fire Collins, Suzanne
The Magician’s Elephant DiCamillo, Kate
Chaos Walking Book One:The Knife of Never Letting Go Ness, Patrick
The Fog Mound 3:Simon’s Dream Schade, Susan and Butler, Jon
When You Reach Me Stead, Rebecca
Capt. Hook J.V. Hart
Flush Carl Hiassen
Gossamer Lois Lowry
Skybreaker Kenneth Oppel
Magyk: Septimus Heap, Book one Angie Sage
Each Little Bird that Sings Deb Wiles
Young Adult
Anansi Boys Neal Gaiman
Solstice Wood Patricia McKillip
Twilight Stephanie Meyers
Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin
The Book Thief Marcus Zusak
Early Chapter Book
Baby Mouse: the Musical Holm, Jenifer and Holm, Matthew
Catwings LeGuin, Ursula
Clementine’s Letter Pennypacker, Sara
Check these out!
Picture Books
Let’s Do nothing! Fuclle, Tony
Crazy Hair Gaiman, Neal and McKean, Dave
Just a Dream Van Allsburg, Chris
365 Penguinsp Fromental, Jean Luc
Non-fiction
5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft’s Flight from Slavery Judith and Dennis Fradin
The Adventures of Marco Polo, Russell Freedman
The Adventurous Life of Myles Standish and the Amazing-But-True Survival Story of Plymouth Colony, Cheryl Harness
Akira to Zoltan: 26 Men Who Changed the World, Cynthia Chin-Lee
& Megan Halsey, il Sean Addy
The Buffalo and the Indians: A Shared Destiny, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, William Muñoz
Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief On the Reservation and Beyond, Joseph Medicine Crow
Middle Grade
Wright 3 Blue Balliett
A “triangle” of friends try to work out their differences while discovering secrets, uncovering clues and trying to save a hauntingly beautiful old building from being destroyed
Victory Susan Cooper
An old book and a flag remnant form a psychic connection between an English boy and girl who cross an ocean 200 year apart. Swashbuckling sailors, secret treasure, long-lost relatives and time travel.
Just for You to Know Cheryl Harness
Almost thirteen, Carmine’s the oldest child in her family, with five noisy little brothers, a dreamy mom, and a sometimes reckless dad. When she's a famous artist, she'll get away from them all!
Crossing the Wire Will Hobbs
15-year-old Victor makes the painful decision to leave his mother and younger siblings behind in Mexico and attempt a dangerous border crossing, facing death and discovery at every turn.
Weedflower Cynthia Kadohata
Sumiko is no stranger to discrimination, especially when asked to leave a classmate's birthday party because she is not white. But life as she knows it crumbles when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.
The Green Glass Sea Ellen Klages
Children of world-class scientists live in a strange kind of vacuum at Los Alamos in the days before the testing of the Atom Bomb.
Probably the World’s Best Story about a Dog and the Girl Who Loved Me D. James Smith
A dog-napping, a paper route, a boy locked in his aunt’s attic, and a girl with a major crush on him threaten to keep 12-yr-old Paolo from his summer schemes.