Younger Readers

• Once upon a Banana, by Jennifer Armstrong; illustrated by David Small (Simon & Schuster and Paula Wiseman)
  
  


• My Cat, the Silliest Cat in the World, by Gilles Bachelet (Abrams)
  
  


• Keeper of Soles, by Teresa Bateman; illustrated by Yayo (Holiday House)
  
  


• Move Over, Rover!, by Karen Beaumont; illustrated by Jane Dyer (Harcourt)
  
  


• Cork & Fuzz: Short and Tall, by Dori Chaconas; illustrated by Lisa McCue (Viking)
  
  


• Best Best Friends, by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Harcourt)
  
  


• Below, by Nina Crews (Holt)
  
  


• I Lost My Tooth in Africa, by Penda Diakité; illustrated by Baba Wagué Diakité (Scholastic)
  
  


• Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride, by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick)
  
  


• Wolves, by Emily Gravett (Simon & Schuster)
  
  


• The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, by Mini Grey (Knopf)
  
  


• Lilly's Big Day, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
  
  


• Duck & Goose, by Tad Hills (Random and Schwartz & Wade)
  
  


• Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building, by Deborah Hopkinson; illustrated by James E. Ransome (Random/Schwartz & Wade.)
  
  


• Houndsley and Catina, by James Howe; illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay (Candlewick)
  
  


• Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways, by Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Candlewick)
  
  


• Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding, by Lenore Look; illustrated by Yumi Heo (Simon & Schuster and Anne Schwartz)
  
  


• Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur! A Palestinian Folktale, by Margaret Read MacDonald; illustrated by Alik Arzoumanian (Marshall Cavendish)
  
  


• Once I Ate a Pie, by Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest; illustrated by Katy Schneider (HarperCollins and Joanna Cotler)
  
  


• Adèle & Simon, by Barbara McClintock (Farrar and Frances Foster)
  
  


• Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet, by David McLimans (Walker)
  
  


• Los Gatos Black on Halloween, by Marisa Montes; illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Holt)
  
  


• Hippo! No, Rhino!, by Jeff Newman (Brown Little)
  
  


• The Little Red Hen, by Jerry Pinkney (Dial)
  
  


• Not a Box, by Antoinette Portis (HarperCollins)
  
  


• Black? White! Day? Night! A Book of Opposites, by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Roaring Brook and Neal Porter)
  
  


• Good Boy, Fergus!, by David Shannon (Scholastic and Blue Sky)
  
  


• Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie, by Judy Sierra; illustrated by Edward Koren (Knopf)
  
  


• Scaredy Squirrel, by Mélanie Watt (Kids Can)
  
  


• Mammoths on the Move, by Lisa Wheeler; illustrated by Kurt Cyrus (Harcourt)
  
  


• Dizzy, by Jonah Winter; illustrated by Sean Qualls (Scholastic and Arthur A. Levine)
  
  

Middle Readers

• Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas, by Cheryl Bardoe; illustrated by Jos. A. Smith (Abrams)
  
  


• Ivy and Bean, by Annie Barrows; illustrated by Sophie Blackall (Chronicle)
  
  


• Hugging the Rock, by Susan Taylor Brown (Tricycle)
  
  


• Su Dongpo: Chinese Genius, by Demi (Lee & Low)
  
  


• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline (Candlewick)
  
  


• The Adventures of Polo, by Régis Faller (Roaring Brook/Neal Porter)
  
  


• All in Just One Cookie, by Susan E. Goodman; illustrated by Timothy Bush (Greenwillow)
  
  


• Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship, by Hatkoff, Isabella and others; illustrated by Peter Greste (Scholastic)
  
  


• Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War, by Kathy Henderson; illustrated by Jane Ray (Candlewick)
  
  


• Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic, by Emily Jenkins; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Random/Schwartz & Wade)
  
  


• Families, by Susan Kuklin (Hyperion)
  
  


• The Story of Salt, by Mark Kurlansky; illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Putnam)
  
  


• The Year of the Dog, by Lin Grace (Brown Little)
  
  


• Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything, by Lenore Look; illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum)
  
  


• Rules, by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic)
  
  


• Oh, Rats! The Story of Rats and People, by Albert Marrin; illustrated by C.B. Mordan (Dutton)
  
  


• Aliens Are Coming! The True Account of the 1938 War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast, by Meghan McCarthy (Knopf)
  
  


• Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea, by Sy Montgomery; photos by Nic Bishop (Houghton)
  
  


• Jazz, by Walter Dean Myers; illustrated by Christopher Myers (Holiday)
  
  


• The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron; illustrated by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum)
  
  


• Clementine, by Sara Pennypacker; illustrated by Marla Frazee (Hyperion)
  
  


• Here's Looking at Me: How Artists See Themselves, by Bob Raczka (Lerner/Millbrook)
  
  


• The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin, by Susan Goldman Rubin and Ela Weissberger (Holiday)
  
  


• She's All That! Poems about Girls, by Belinda Hollyer; illustrated by Susan Hellard (Kingfisher)
  
  


• Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow, by Joyce Sidman; illustrated by Beth Krommes (Houghton)
  
  


• To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel, by Siena Cherson Siegel; illustrated by Mark Siegel (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)
  
  


• Younguncle Comes to Town, by Vandana Singh; illustrated by B.M. Kamath (Viking)
  
  


• Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon, by Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton)
  
  


• Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom, by Tim Tingle; illustrated by Jeanne Rorex Bridges (Cinco Puntos)
  
  


• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, by Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun)
  
  

Older Readers

• Crispin: At the Edge of the World, by Avi (Hyperion)
  
  


• Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement, by Ann Bausum (National Geographic)
  
  


• The Killer’s Tears, by Anne-Laure Bondoux; translated by Y. Maudet (Delacorte)
  
  


• Ask Me No Questions, by Marina Budhos (Simon & Schuster/Ginee Seo)
  
  


• The Runaway Princess, by Kate Coombs (Farrar)
  
  


• Framed, by Frank Cottrell Boyce (HarperCollins)
  
  


• The Last Dragon, by Silvana DeMari; translated by Shaun Whiteside (Hyperion/Miramax)
  
  


• Odd Man Out, by Sarah Ellis (Groundwood)
  
  


• Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini, by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
  
  


• Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy, by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin (Clarion)
  
  


• The Adventures of Marco Polo, by Russell Freedman; illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline (Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine)
  
  


• Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, by Russell Freedman (Holiday)
  
  


• Penny from Heaven, by Jennifer L. Holm (Random)
  
  


• Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America, by Deborah Hopkinson (Scholastic Nonfiction)
  
  


• Isaac Newton, by Kathleen Krull; illustrated by Boris Kulikov (Viking)
  
  


• Sigmund Freud, by Kathleen Krull; illustrated by Boris Kulikov (Viking)
  
  


• Hattie Big Sky, by Kirby Larson (Delacorte)
  
  


• Gossamer, by Lois Lowry (Houghton/Walter Lorraine)
  
  


• Heat, by Mike Lupica (Philomel)
  
  


• The Pull of the Ocean, by Jean-Claude Mourlevat; translated by Y. Maudet (Delacorte)
  
  


• The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Famous Marshal in the West, by Gary Paulsen (Random/Wendy Lamb)
  
  


• All of the Above: A Novel by Shelly Pearsall; illustrated by Javaka Steptoe (Brown Little)
  
  


• Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett (HarperTempest)
  
  


• Larklight: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space, by Philip Reeve; illustrated by David Wyatt (Bloomsbury)
  
  


• Yellow Star, by Jennifer Roy (Marshall Cavendish)
  
  


• Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter, by Susan Goldman Rubin (Abrams)
  
  


• House of the Red Fish, by Graham Salisbury (Random/Wendy Lamb)
  
  


• Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? The Art of Making Zines and Mini-Comics, by Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson (Houghton/Graphia)
  
  


• Remember Little Bighorn: Indians, Soldiers, and Scouts Tell Their Stories, by Paul Robert Walker (National Geographic)
  
  


• Counting on Grace, by Elizabeth Winthrop (Random/Wendy Lamb)
  
  

All Ages

• Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection, by F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada; illustrated by Felipe Dávalos and others (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum)
  
  


• It's Not the Stork!: A Book about Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families, and Friends, by Robie H. Harris; illustrated by Michael Emberley (Candlewick)
  
  


• Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters, by Patricia C. McKissack; illustrated by André Carrilho (Random/Schwartz & Wade)
  
  


• Solomon and the Ant and Other Jewish Folktales, by Sheldon Oberman (Boyds Mills)
  
  


• Flotsam, by David Wiesner (Clarion)
  
  

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MOVE! by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page

BUCKAMOO GIRLS by Ellen A. Kelley, illustrated by Tom Curry

FLOTSAM by David Wiesner

SO SLEEPY STORY by Uri Shulevitz

PROBUDITI! by Chris Van Allsburg

FANCY NANCY by Jane O'connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser

MAX'S WORDS by Kate Banks, pictures by Boris Kulikov

THE RUNAWAY DINNER by Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman

WHERE DOES PEPPER COME FROM? by Brigitte Raab, illustrated by Manuela Olten

DUCK & GOOSE by Tad Hills

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