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/Illustrator | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| Baby Danced the Polka | Karen Beaumont | Dial Books for Young Readers | 0-8037-2587-6 | $12.99 |
| Bing Get Dressed Bing Paint Day | Ted Dewan | Random House Books for Young Readers | 0-385-75020-X 0-385-75021-8 | $5.95 ea. |
| Kitten's First Full Moon | Kevin Henkes | Greenwillow/HarperCollins Children's Books | 0-06-058828-4 | $15.99 |
| Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale | Mo Willems | Hyperion | 0-7868-1870-0 | $15.99 |
| Peedie | Olivier Dunrea | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-35652-5 | $9.95 |
| Pepo and Lolo and the Red Apple Pepo and Lolo are Friends | Ana Martin Larranaga | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-2036-X 0-7636-1982-5 | $8.99 ea. |
| Tractor (Machines at work) | Caroline Bingham | DK Publishing, Inc. | 0-7566-0217-3 | $8.99 |
| Wow! City! | Robert Neubecker | Hyperion | 0-7868-0951-5 | $16.99 |
| Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8 | ||||
| Title | Author/Illustrator | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| Actual Size | Steve Jenkins | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-37594-5 | $16.00 |
| Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq | Mark Alan Stamaty | Random House Books for Young Readers | 0-375-83217-3 | $12.95 |
| America the Beautiful | Robert Sabuda | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 0-689-84744-0 | $26.95 |
| Apples To Oregon | Deborah Hopkinson & Nancy Carpenter | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 0-689-84769-6 | $15.95 |
| Baby Ground Squirrel | Aubrey Lang | Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Limited | 1-55041-797-5 | $15.95 |
| Cats in Krasinski Square, The | Karen Hesse | Scholastic, Inc. | 0-439-43540-4 | $16.95 |
| Child's Christmas in Wales, A | Dylan Thomas | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-2161-7 | $17.99 |
| City Of Snow: The Great Blizzard of 1888 | Linda Oatman High | Walker & Company | 0-8027-8910-2 | $16.95 |
| Coming On Home Soon | Jacqueline Woodson | Penguin Group | 0-399-23748-8 | $16.99 |
| Doodler Doodling | Rita Golden Gelman | HarperCollins Children's Books | 0-688-16645-8 | $15.99 |
| Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz Age Cinderella | Shirley Hughes | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 0-689-87399-9 | $16.95 |
| Ellington Was Not a Street | Ntozake Shange | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 0-689-82884-5 | $15.95 |
| Firekeeper's Son, The | Linda Sue Park | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-13337-2 | $16.00 |
| Guji Guji | Chih-Yuan Chen | Kane/Miller Book Publishers | 1-929132-67-0 | $15.95 |
| Hachiko | Pamela S. Turner | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-14094-8 | $15.00 |
| Hard Hat Area | Susan L. Roth | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | 1-58234-946-0 | $17.95 |
| Home | Jeannie Baker | Greenwillow/HarperCollins Children's Books | 0-06-623935-4 | $15.99 |
| Hot Day on Abbott Avenue | Karen English | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-395-98527-7 | $15.00 |
| Impudent Rooster, The | Sabina I. Rascol | Dutton Children's Books/Penguin Young Readers Group | 0-525-47179-0 | $16.99 |
| In Our Backyard Garden | Eileen Spinelli | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 0-689-82666-4 | $15.95 |
| Lemons Are Not Red | Laura Vaccaro Seeger | Roaring Book Press | 1-59643-008-7 | $14.95 |
| Love And Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale From The andes Mountains | Barbara Knutson | CarolRhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group | 1-57505-657-7 | $16.95 |
| My Light | Molly Bang | The Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, Inc. | 0-439-48961-X | $16.95 |
| Night Eater, The | Ana Juan | Arthur A. Levine Books/ Scholastic, Inc. | 0-439-48891-5 | $16.95 |
| Peek! A Thai Hide-and-Seek | Minfong Ho | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-2041-6 | $16.99 |
| Ruby Lu, Brave and True | Lenore Look | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 0-689-84907-9 | $15.95 |
| Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf | Janet Schulman | Random House Books for Young Readers | 0-375-82430-8 | $19.95 |
| Sidewalk Circus | Paul Fleischman and Kevin Hawkes | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-1107-7 | $15.99 |
| Subway | Anastasia Suen | Viking/Penguin | 0-670-03622-6 | $15.99 |
| Teeth, Tails, & Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book | Christopher Wormell | Running Press | 0-7624-2100-2 | $18.95 |
| Tiger on a Tree | Anushka Ravishankar | Farrar Straus Giroux | 0-374-37555-0 | $15.00 |
| Tiny's Big Adventure | Martin Waddell | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-2170-6 | $15.99 |
| Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book, The | Lisa Campbell Ernst | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 0-689-85685-7 | $15.95 |
| Under My Hood I Have a Hat | Karla Kuskin | Laura Geringer Book/HarperCollins | 0-06-057243-4 | $15.89 |
| Short Books or Picture Books with More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10) | ||||
| Title | Author/Illustrator | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| Apes and Monkeys: Kingfisher Young Knowledge | Barbara Taylor | Kingfisher/Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-7534-5760-1 | $8.95 |
| Baa-Choo! (An I Can Read Book) | Sarah Weeks | HarperCollins Children's Books | 0-06-029236-9 | $15.99 |
| Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon, The | Jacqueline Davies | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-24343-7 | $15.00 |
| Cave Paintings to Picasso (The Inside Scoop on 50 Art Masterpieces) | Henry Sayre | Chronicle Books LLC | 0-8118-3767-X | $22.95 |
| Circle Unbroken | Margot Theis Raven | Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux | 0-374-31289-3 | $16.00 |
| Clare and Francis | Guido Visconte | Eerdmans Books for Young Readers | 0-8028-5269-6 | $20.00 |
| Ducks in Muck | Lori Haskins | Random House Books for Young Readers | 0-679-89166-8 | $11.99 |
| George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides | Rosalyn Schanzer | National Geographic Society | 0-7922-7349-4 | $16.95 |
| Greatest Skating Race, The | Louise Borden | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 0-689-84502-2 | $18.95 |
| Hachiko Waits | Lesléa Newman | Holt, Henry Books for Young Readers | 0-8050-7336-1 | $15.95 |
| Hungry Coat, The: A Tale from Turkey | Demi | Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-84680-0 | $19.95 |
| Iris and Walter and the Substitute Teacher | Elissa Haden Guest | Gulliver Books/Harcourt | 0-15-205013-2 | $15.00 |
| Kid Blink Beats the World | Don Brown | Roaring Book Press | 1-59643-003-6 | $16.95 |
| Maritcha | Tonya Bolden | Harry N Abrams, Inc | 0-8109-5045-6 | $17.95 |
| Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen | Marissa Moss | A Paula Wiseman Book/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 0-689-86329-2 | $16.95 |
| Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel | Leslie Connor | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-30564-5 | $16.00 |
| Owen Foote, Mighty Scientist | Stephanie Greene | Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-43016-4 | $14.00 |
| Pearl and Wagner Three Secrets | Kate McMullan | Dial/Penguin | 0-8037-2574-4 | $14.99 |
| Promises To Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America | Sharon Robinson | Scholastic, Inc. | 0-439-42592-1 | $16.95 |
| Rain, Rain, Rain Forest | Brenda Z. Guiberson | Holt, Henry Books for Young Readers | 0-8050-6582-2 | $16.95 |
| Secret Identity | Wendelin Van Draanen | Alfred A. Knopf | 0-375-82351-4 | $12.95 |
| Secrets of The Sphinx | James Cross Giblin | Scholastic, Inc. | 0-590-09847-0 | $17.95 |
| See the City: The Journey of Manhattan Unfurled | Matteo Pericoli | Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf | 0-375-82469-3 | $15.95 |
| Sélavi: A Haitian Story of Hope | Youme Landowne | Cinco Puntos Press | 0-938317-84-9 | $17.95 |
| Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing | James Rumford | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-36947-3 | $16.00 |
| Sure As Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit & His Walkin' Talkin' Friends | Alice McGill | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-21196-9 | $17.00 |
| Teddy Roosevelt: The People's President | Sharon Gayle | Simon & Schuster Children's | 0-689-85825-6 | $11.89 |
| Under the Spell of the Moon | Patricia Aldana | Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group | 0-88899-559-8 | $25.00 |
| Walt Whitman: Words For America | Barbara Kerley | Scholastic, Inc. | 0-439-35791-8 | $16.95 |
| What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? : A Math Adventure | Julie Ellis | Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc. | 1-57091-150-9 | $16.95 |
| When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, Tetrapods Stalked The Earth | Hannah Bonner | National Geographic Society | 0-7922-6326-X | $16.95 |
| Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12) | ||||
| Title | Author/Illustrator | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| Al Capone Does My Shirts | Gennifer Choldenko | G. P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin | 0-399-23861-1 | $15.99 |
| Are We Alone?: Scientists Search for Life in Space | Gloria Skurzynski | National Geographic Society | 0-7922-6567-X | $18.95 |
| Becoming Naomi León | Pam Munoz Ryan | Scholastic, Inc. | 0-439-26969-5 | $16.95 |
| Big House, The | Carolyn Coman | Front Street | 1-932425-09-8 | $16.95 |
| Boy On Fairfield Street, The: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss | Kathleen Krull | Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers/Random House | 0-375-82298-4 | $16.95 |
| Bucking the Sarge | Christopher Paul Curtis | Random House Children's Books | 0-385-32307-7 | $15.95 |
| Crow-Girl, The | Bodil Bredsdroff | Farrar Straus and Giroux | 0-374-31247-8 | $16.00 |
| Dragon Rider | Cornelia Funke | Scholastic, Inc. | 0-439-45695-9 | $12.95 |
| Dream of Freedom, A: The Civil Right Movement From 1954 to 1968 | Diane McWhorter | Scholastic, Inc. | 0-439-57678-4 | $19.95 |
| Exiled Memories of a Camel | Kathleen Karr | Marshall Cavendish Inc | 0-7614-5164-1 | $15.95 |
| Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane | Suzanne Collins | Scholastic, Inc. | 0-439-65075-5 | $16.95 |
| Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance | Laban Carrick | Megan Tingley Books/Little Brown | 0-316-81411-3 | $18.95 |
| Ida B...and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World | Katherine Hannigan | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | 0-06-073024-2 | $16.89 |
| Indigo's Star | Hilary McKay | Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-86563-5 | $15.95 |
| Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics | Catherine Thimmesh | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-39666-7 | $17.00 |
| Mark Twain For Kids: His Life & Times 21 Activities | R. Kent Rasmussen | Chicago Review Press | 1-55652-527-3 | $14.95 |
| Millions | Frank Cottrell Boyce | HarperCollins Children's Books | 0-06-073330-6 | $15.99 |
| Missy Violet & Me | Barbara Hathaway | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-37163-X | $15.00 |
| Old Willis Place, The | Mary Dowing Hahn | Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-43018-0 | $15.00 |
| Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place | E. L. Konningsberg | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-86636-4 | $16.95 |
| Peter and the Starcatchers | Dave Barry | Disney/Hyperion | 0-7868-5445-6 | $17.99 |
| Regarding the Sink | Kate Klise | Harcourt | 0-15-205019-1 | $15.00 |
| Roman Army, The: The Legendary Soldiers Who Created An Empire | Dyan Blacklock | Walker & Company | 0-8027-8896-3 | $17.95 |
| Schwa Was Here, The | Neal Shusterman | Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers | 0-525-47182-0 | $15.99 |
| Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude | Louise Borden | Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-84216-3 | $18.95 |
| Shadows of Ghadames, The | Joelle Stolz | Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers | 0-385-73104-3 | $15.95 |
| So B. It: A Novel | Sarah Weeks | Laura Geringer Books/HarperCollins | 0-06-623622-3 | $15.99 |
| So Hard To Say | Alex Sanchez | Simon & Schuster Children's | 0-689-86564-3 | $14.95 |
| Star Of Kazan, The | Eva Ibbotson | Dutton/Penguin | 0-525-47347-5 | $16.99 |
| Swifter, Higher, Faster | Sue Macy | National Geographic Society | 0-7922-6667-6 | $18.95 |
| Tarantula Scientist, The | Sy Montgomery | Houghton Mifflin Company | 0-618-14799-3 | $18.00 |
| Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing | Paul B. Janeczko | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-0971-4 | $16.99 |
| Trembling Earth | Kim L. Siegelson | Philomel/Penguin | 0-399-24021-7 | $17.99 |
| Wee Winnie Witch's Skinny | Barry Moser | Blue Sky Press/Scholastic | 0-590-28880-6 | $16.95 |
| Woman for President, A: The Story of Victoria Woodhull | Kathleen Krull | Walker & Company | 0-8027-8908-0 | $16.95 |
| Wonders and Miracles: A Passover Companion | Eric A. Kimmel | Scholastic, Inc. | 0-439-07175-5 | $18.95 |
| Worth | A. LaFaye | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 0-689-85730-6 | $15.95 |
| Young Man And The Sea, The | Roman Philbrick | The Blue Sky Press/Scholastic Inc | 0-439-36829-4 | $16.95 |
| Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and Up) | ||||
| Title | Author/Illustrator | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| Airborn | Kenneth Oppel | EOS/HarperCollins | 0-06-053180-0 | $16.99 |
| Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop | Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan | Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers/Random House | 0-385-73056-X | $16.95 |
| Bird | Angela Johnson | Dial/Penguin | 0-8037-2847-6 | $15.99 |
| Call Me Maria: A Novel in Letters, Poems, and Prose | Judith Ortiz Cofer | Orchard Books/Scholastic | 0-439-38577-6 | $16.95 |
| Chanda's Secrets | Allan Stratton | Annick Press | 1-55037-835-X | $19.95 |
| Daniel Half Human | David Chotjewitz | Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-85747-0 | $17.95 |
| Double Helix | Nancy Werlin | Dial/Penguin | 0-8037-2606-6 | $15.99 |
| Face relations: 11 Stories About Seeing Beyond Color | Marilyn Singer | Simon & Schuster | 0-689-85637-7 | $17.95 |
| Firmament | Tim Bowler | Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-86161-3 | $16.95 |
| Gifts: A Novel | Ursula K. Le Guin | Harcourt | 0-15-205123-6 | $17.00 |
| Godless | Pete Hautman | Simon & Schuster | 0-689-86278-4 | $15.95 |
| Hat Full of Sky, A | Terry Pratchett | HarperCollins | 0-06-058660-5 | $16.99 |
| Kira-Kira | Cynthia Kadohata | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-85639-3 | $15.95 |
| Kissing the Rain | Kevin Brooks | The Chicken House/Scholastic | 0-439-57742-X | $16.95 |
| Legend of Buddy Bush, The | Shelia P. Moses | Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-85839-6 | $15.95 |
| Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy | Gary D Schmidt | Clarion/Houghton Mifflin | 0-618-43929-3 | $15.00 |
| Luna: A Novel | Julie Anne Peters | Megan Tingley Books/Little Brown and Company | 0-316-73369-5 | $16.95 |
| Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? | Eleanor Updale | Orchard Books/Scholastic | 0-439-58035-8 | $16.95 |
| No Shame, No Fear | Ann Turnbull | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-2505-1 | $15.99 |
| Orphea Proud | Sharon Dennis Wyeth | Delacorte/Random House | 0-385-32497-9 | $15.95 |
| Outlaws of Moonshadow Marsh, The: The Sign of Quin - Book #1 | L. G. Bass | Hyperion | 0-7868-1918-9 | $17.99 |
| Private Peaceful | Michael Morpurgo | Scholastic | 0-439-63648-5 | $16.95 |
| Redemption | Julie Chibbaro | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-85736-5 | $16.95 |
| Remember D-Day: The Plan the Invasion, Survivor Stories | Ronald J. Drez | National Geographic Society | 0-7922-6666-8 | $17.95 |
| Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood | Benjamin Alire Saenz | Cinco Puntos Press | 0-938317-81-4 | $19.95 |
| Saving Francesca | Melina Marchetta | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc | 0-375-82982-2 | $15.95 |
| Sea of Trolls, The | Nancy Farmer | Simon & Schuster Children's | 0-689-86744-1 | $17.95 |
| Voice That Challenged A Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, The | Russell Freedman | Clarion/Houghton Mifflin | 0-618-15976-2 | $18.00 |
| Who am I Without him? : Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in their Lives | Sharon G. Flake | Hyperion | 0-7868-0693-1 | $15.99 |
| Winning The Fight With Courage And Cloth: Woman's Right To Vote | Ann Bausum | National Geographic Society | 0-7922-7647-7 | $21.95 |
| Poetry | ||||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| Fine Feathered Friends: Poems for Young People | Jane Yolen | Boyds Mills Press | 1-59078-193-7 | $17.95 |
| Here in Harlem, Poems in Many Voices | Walter Dean Myers | Holiday House, Inc | 0-8234-1853-7 | $16.95 |
| Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems | Kristine O'Connell George | Harcourt | 0-15-202325-9 | $16.00 |
| If Not for the Cat | Jack Prelutsky | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | 0-06-059678-3 | $17.89 |
| On Her Way: Stories and Poems About Growing Up Girl | Sandy Asher | Dutton/Penguin | 0-525-47170-7 | $17.99 |
| Once Upon a Poem (Favorite Poems That Tell Stories) | Kevin Crossley-Holland | The Chicken House/Scholastic | 0-439-65108-5 | $18.95 |
| Revenge and Forgiveness: An Anthology of Poems | Patrice Vecchione | Henry Holt & Company | 0-8050-7376-0 | $16.95 |
| What is Goodbye? | Nikki Grimes | Hyperion | 0-7868-0778-4 | $15.99 |
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