Books for Children 3 and Under
Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8
Short Books or Picture Books with More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10)
Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12)
Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and Up)
Poetry
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| Books for Children 3 and Under | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | Price |
| Car Wash | Sandra Steen | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| Flora's Blanket | Debi Gliori | Orchard/Scholastic | $15.95 |
| Four Hungry Kittens | Emily Arnold McCully | Dial/Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| Kipper's A to Z | Mick Inkpen | Harcourt | $16.95 |
| My Car | Byron Barton | HarperCollins | $14.95 |
| Rain or Shine | Pierre-Marie Valat | Scholastic | $4.95 |
| Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8 | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | Price |
| And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon | Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel | Harcourt | $17.00 |
| Baloney (Henry P.) | Jon Scieszka | Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| The Biggest Fish in the Lake | Margaret Carney | Kids Can Press | $15.95 |
| The Class Artist | G. Brian Karas | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Deshawn Days | Tony Medina | Lee amp; Low Books | $16.95 |
| Didi and Daddy on the Promenade | Marilyn Singer | Clarion/Houghton | $14.00 |
| Dinosaur Parents, Dinosaur Young: Uncovering the Mystery of Dinosaur Families | Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld | Clarion/Houghton | $17.00 |
| Four in All | Nina Payne | Front Street | $15.95 |
| Freedom Summer | Deborah Wiles | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| The Friday Nights of Nana | Amy Hest | Candlewick Press | $15.99 |
| Grandma's Records | Eric Velasquez | Walker | $16.95 |
| The Great Canoe: A Karina Legend | Maria Elena Maggi | Groundwood | $15.95 |
| The Great Gracie Chase: Stop That Dog! | Cynthia Rylant | Scholastic | $15.95 |
| Henry's First Moon Birthday | Lenore Look | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Hoodwinked | Arthur Howard | Harcourt | $16.00 |
| It's Simple, Said Simon | Mary Ann Hoberman | Knopf | $15.95 |
| Jubela | Cristina Kessler | Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Milo's Hat Trick | Jon Agee | Hyperion | $15.95 |
| My Dad | Anthony Browne | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Ocean Pop & Pull | Michelle McKenzie | Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $12.99 |
| The Scarecrow's Hat | Ken Brown | Peachtree | $15.95 |
| Sheila Rae's Peppermint Stick | Kevin Henkes | HarperCollins | $6.95 |
| Snow in Jerusalem | Deborah da Costa | Albert Whitman | $15.95 |
| The Stray Dog | Reiko Sassa | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Ten Seeds | Ruth Brown | Knopf | $9.95 |
| Turtle Splash! Countdown at the Pond | Cathryn Falwell | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Waiting for Wings | Lois Ehlert | Harcourt | $17.00 |
| What's Cooking, Jamela? | Niki Daly | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| The Whole Night Through: A Lullaby | David Frampton | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together | Mary Ann Hoberman | Little, Brown | $15.95 |
| Short Books or Picture Books with More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10) | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | Price |
| Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart | Vera B. Williams | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World | Jennifer Owings Dewey | HarperCollins | $16.95 |
| Berry Smudges and Leaf Prints: Finding and Making Colors from Nature | Ellen B. Senisi | Penguin Putnam | $16.99 |
| Breakout at the Bug Lab | Ruth Horowitz | Dial/Penguin Putnam | $13.99 |
| Brooklyn Bridge | Lynn Curlee | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $18.00 |
| Bull's Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley | Sue Macy | National Geographic | $17.95 |
| Celebrating Ramadan | Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith | Holiday | $16.95 |
| Clever Beatrice | Margaret Willey | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Coolies | Yin | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | $16.99 |
| Dig Wait Listen: A Desert Toad's Tale | April Pulley Sayre | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins | Barbara Kerley | Scholastic | $16.95 |
| A Dragon in the Sky: The Story of a Green Darner Dragonfly | Laurence Pringle | Orchard/Scholastic | $18.95 |
| Emily's Art | Peter Catalanotto | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Goin' Someplace Special | Patricia C. McKissack | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Goodbye Mousie | Robie H. Harris | McElderry/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Gugu's House | Catherine Stock | Clarion/Houghton | $14.00 |
| Gus and Grandpa at Basketball | Claudia Mills | Farrar Straus Giroux | $14.00 |
| Handel Who Knew What He Liked | M. T. Anderson | Candlewick Press | $16.99 |
| How Chipmunk Got His Stripes | Joseph Bruchac and James Bruchac | Dial/Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| The Journey | Sarah Stewart | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| Little Panda: The World Welcomes Hua Mei at the San Diego Zoo | Joanne Ryder | Simon & Schuster | $16.95 |
| Mabela the Clever | Margaret Read MacDonald | Albert Whitman | $15.95 |
| Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Doreen Rappaport | Hyperion | $15.99 |
| Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria | As told by Aaron Shepard | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Mice and Beans | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Scholastic | $15.95 |
| The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Handprint Books | $17.95 |
| The Orphan Singer | Emily Arnold McCully | Scholastic | $16.95 |
| The Race of the Birkebeiners | Lise Lunge-Larsen | Clarion/Houghton | $16.00 |
| The Reluctant Flower Girl | Lynne Barasch | HarperCollins | $14.95 |
| Rocks in His Head | Carol Otis Hurst | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Runaway Radish | Jessie Haas | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| The Three Pigs | David Wiesner | Clarion/Houghton | $16.00 |
| Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 | James Rumford | Clarion/Houghton | $16.00 |
| What a Trip, Amber Brown | Paula Danziger | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | $12.99 |
| Wildflowers Around the Year | Hope Ryden | Clarion/Houghton | $17.00 |
| Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People | Bonnie Christensen | Knopf | $16.95 |
| Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12) | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | Price |
| Bad Boy: A Memoir | Walter Dean Myers | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| A Boy at War | Harry Mazer | Simon & Schuster | $15.00 |
| Carver: A Life of Poems | Marilyn Nelson | Front Street | $16.95 |
| Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam | Sherry Garland | Harcourt | $18.00 |
| The Civil War at Sea | George Sullivan | Twenty First Century Books | $26.40 |
| Death on Sacred Ground | Harriet K. Feder | Lerner | $14.95 |
| Everything on a Waffle | Polly Horvath | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| A Face First | Priscilla Cummings | Penguin Putnam | $16.99 |
| Failure Is Impossible! The History of American Women's Rights | Martha E. Kendall | Lerner | $22.60 |
| Fair Weather | Richard Peck | Dial/Penguin Putnam | $16.99 |
| Four to the Pole! The America Women's Expedition to Antarctica, 1992-93 | Nancy Loewen and Ann Bancroft | Linnet Books/Shoestring Press | $25.00 |
| The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won | Stephen E. Ambrose | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $19.95 |
| The Greatest: Muhammad Ali | Walter Dean Myers | Scholastic | $16.95 |
| Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit | Laurie Lawlor | Holiday | $22.95 |
| Hoover Dam | Elizabeth Mann | Mikaya Press | $19.95 |
| Judy Moody Gets Famous! | Megan McDonald | Candlewick Press | $15.99 |
| The Land | Mildred D. Taylor | Dial/Penguin Putnam | $17.99 |
| Laura Secord: A Story of Courage | Janet Lunn | Tundra | $13.56 |
| Love That Dog | Sharon Creech | HarperCollins | $14.95 |
| Love, Ruby Lavender | Deborah Wiles | Harcourt | $16.00 |
| Marco Polo for Kids: His Marvelous Journey to China: 21 Activities | Janis Herbert | Chicago Review Press | $16.95 |
| Money Hungry | Sharon G. Flake | Hyperion | $15.99 |
| Moonshiner's Gold | John R. Erickson | Penguin Putnam | $15.99 |
| Racing the Past | Sis Deans | Henry Holt | $15.95 |
| The Secret School | Avi | Harcourt | $16.00 |
| The Seeing Stone | Kevin Crossley Holland | Scholastic | $17.95 |
| Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy | Rhoda Blumberg | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $16.95 |
| A Single Shard | Linda Sue Park | Clarion/Houghton | $15.00 |
| Slap Your Sides | M. E. Kerr | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (In American History) | Suzanne Lieurance | Enslow Publishers | $20.95 |
| Swimming with Hammerhead Sharks | Kenneth Mallory | Clarion/Houghton | $16.00 |
| Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America | Tonya Bolden | Abrams | $24.95 |
| To the Top of Everest | Laurie Skreslet with Elizabeth MacLeod | Kids Can Press | $16.95 |
| Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott | Julie Cummins | HarperCollins | $16.95 |
| Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist | Jan Greenberg | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $14.95 |
| We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History | Phillip Hoose | Farrar Straus Giroux | $26.00 |
| Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and Up) | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | Price |
| Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio | Tony Johnston | Scholastic | $15.95 |
| Before Wings | Beth Goobie | Orca | $16.95 |
| Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Clarion/Houghton | $18.00 |
| Breaking Through | Francisco Jimenez | Clarion/Houghton | $15.00 |
| Breathing Underwater | Alex Flinn | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| The Brimstone Journals | Ron Koertge | Candlewick Press | $15.99 |
| The Buccaneers | Iain Lawrence | Bantam Doubleday Dell | $15.95 |
| Charles Darwin: The Life of a Revolutionary Thinker | Dorothy Hinshaw Patent | Holiday | $22.95 |
| Clara's War | Kathy Kacer | Second Story Press | $5.95 |
| The Color of Absence: 12 Stories about Loss and Hope | James Howe | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Coram Boy | Jamila Gavin | Farrar Straus Giroux | $19.00 |
| Damage | A. M. Jenkins | HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| The Darkest Corner | Mildred Barger Herschler | Front Street | $16.95 |
| Daughter of Light | Martha Attema | Orca | $4.99 |
| The Demon in the Teahouse | Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | $17.99 |
| The Edge on the Sword | Rebecca Tingle | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | $18.99 |
| Every Time a Rainbow Dies | Rita Williams-Garcia | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| Heaven Eyes | David Almond | Delacorte/Random | $15.95 |
| Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth | Michael Cart | Simon & Schuster | $18.00 |
| Meltdown: A Race against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island: A Reporter's Story | Wilborn Hampton | Candlewick Press | $19.99 |
| Rainbow Boys | Alex Sanchez | Simon & Schuster | $17.00 |
| Razzle | Ellen Wittlinger | Simon & Schuster | $17.00 |
| Rooster | Beth Nixon Weaver | Winslow | $16.95 |
| Seek | Paul Fleischman | Cricket Books | $16.95 |
| Sights | Susanna Vance | Delacorte/Random | $15.95 |
| Sigmund Freud: Pioneer of the Mind | Catherine Reef | Clarion/Houghton | $19.00 |
| Spellbound | Janet McDonald | Farrar Straus Giroux | $16.00 |
| A Step from Heaven | An Na | Front Street | $15.95 |
| The Stones of Mourning Creek | Diane Les Becquets | Winslow | $16.95 |
| Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps | Andrea Warren | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $16.95 |
| True Believer: A Novel in the Make Lemonade Trilogy | Virginia Euwer Wolff | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $17.00 |
| Walk Across the Sea | Susan Fletcher | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | $16.00 |
| Whale Talk | Chris Crutcher | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $15.95 |
| You Don't Know Me | David Klass | Farrar Straus Giroux | $17.00 |
| Zazoo | Richard Mosher | Clarion/Houghton | $16.00 |
| Poetry | |||
| Title | Author | Publisher | Price |
| Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems | Francisco X. Alcarcon | Children's Book Press | $15.95 |
| Just around the Corner | James Stevenson | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $14.95 |
| Love to Mama: A Tribute to Mothers | Pat Mora | Lee & Low Books | $16.95 |
| A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems | Paul B. Janeczko | Candlewick Press | $15.99 |
| Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls | Betsy Franco | Candlewick Press | $15.99 |
| Toasting Marshmallows | Kristine O'Connell George | Clarion/Houghton | $15.00 |
| Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art | Belinda Rochelle | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | $16.95 |
Added/Updated 04/01/03
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