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Children's Literature Choice List 1998 |
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Books for Children 3 and Under |
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Big Fat Hen |
Keith Baker |
Harcourt |
$ 5.95 |
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Big Little Lion & Big Little Otter |
Lillian Hoban |
HarperFestival |
$ 5.95 |
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Bunny Cakes |
Rosemary Wells |
Dial |
$13.99 |
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I Smell Honey |
Andrea Pinkney |
Harcourt |
$ 4.95 |
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Miss Spider’s Tea Party: The Counting Book |
David Kirk |
Scholastic |
$15.95 |
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Owl and the Pussycat, The |
Edward Lear |
Scholastic |
$ 7.95 |
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Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8 |
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Ali: Child of the Desert |
Jonathan London |
Lothrop |
$16.00 |
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Anansi Does the Impossible |
Retold by Verna Aardema |
Coward McCann |
$16.00 |
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Bantam of the Opera |
Mary Jane Auch |
Holiday |
$16.95 |
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December |
Eve Bunting |
Harcourt |
$15.00 |
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Edward and the Pirates |
David McPhail |
Little, Brown |
$15.95 |
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Fair! |
Ted Lewin |
Lothrop |
$16.00 |
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Friend for Minerva Louise, A |
Janet Morgan Stoeke |
Dutton |
$12.99 |
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Gabriella’s Song |
Candace Fleming |
Atheneum |
$16.00 |
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Gardener, The |
Sarah Stewart |
Farrar Strauss Giroux |
$15.00 |
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Ginger |
Charlotte Voake |
Candlewick |
$16.99 |
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Gingerbread Boy, The |
Richard Egielski |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
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Heat Wave at Mud Flat |
James Stevenson |
Greenwillow |
$15.00 |
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Hunterman and the Crocodile, The |
Baba Wague Diakite |
Scholastic |
$15.95 |
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If I Were Queen of the World |
Fred Hiatt |
McElderry Books |
$16.00 |
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In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall |
Javaka Steptoe |
Lee & Low |
$15.95 |
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Is That You, Winter? |
Stephen Gammell |
Silver Whistle |
$16.00 |
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Library Lil |
Suzanne Williams |
Dial |
$14.99 |
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Little Oh |
Laura Krauss Melmed |
Lothrop |
$16.00 |
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Little Red Cowboy Hat |
Susan Lowell |
Holt |
$14.95 |
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McDuff Moves In |
Rosemary Wells |
Hyperion |
$12.95 |
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Mouse Mess |
Linnea Riley |
Blue Sky |
$15.95 |
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Nim and the War Effort |
Milly Lee |
Frances Foster |
$16.00 |
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Noisy Nora |
Rosemary Wells |
Dial |
$11.99 |
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Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud |
Lynn Plourde |
Blue Sky |
$15.95 |
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Puddle Pail, The |
Elisa Kleven |
Dutton |
$14.95 |
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Queenie, One of the Family |
Bob Graham |
Candlewick |
$15.99 |
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
Rudyard Kipling |
Morrow |
$11.99 |
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Shrinking Mouse |
Pat Hutchinson |
Greenwillow |
$17.00 |
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Snail Started It! |
Katja Reider |
North-South Books |
$15.95 |
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Snapshots from the Wedding |
Gary Soto |
Putnam |
$15.95 |
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To Market, To Market |
Anne Miranda |
Harcourt |
$16.00 |
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Verdi |
Janell Cannon |
Harcourt |
$16.00 |
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Why Did We Have to Move Here? |
Sally J. K. Davies |
Carolrodah |
$14.95 |
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Willy’s Silly Grandma |
Cynthia DeFelice |
Orchard |
$15.95 |
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Short Books or Picture Books with More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10) |
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Archaeologist Dig for Clues |
Kate Duke |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
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Bearskin |
Howard Pyle |
Books of Wonder |
$16.00 |
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Best Vacation Ever, The |
Stuart J. Murphy |
HarperTrophy |
$14.95 |
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Cabbages and Kings |
Elizabeth Seabrook |
Viking |
$15.99 |
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Day of the Dead |
Tony Johnston |
Harcourt |
$14.00 |
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Days of the Blackbird |
Tomie dePaola |
Putnam |
$15.95 |
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Disappearing Lake |
Debbie S. Miller |
Walker |
$15.95 |
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Echoes of the Elders |
Chief Lelookska |
DK Ink |
$24.95 |
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Emperor’s New Clothes, The |
Hans Christian Andersen |
Candlewick |
$15.99 |
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Etcher’s Studio, The |
Arthur Geisert |
Houghton |
$15.95 |
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Hosni the Dreamer |
Ehud Ben-Ezer |
Farrar |
$16.00 |
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I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert |
Eve Bunting |
Harcourt |
$15.00 |
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I Have a Dream |
Dr. Martin Luther King |
Scholastic |
$16.00 |
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Little Ships, The |
Louise Borden |
McElderry |
$15.00 |
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Macbeth |
Retold by Bruce Coville |
Dial |
$16.99 |
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Marven of the Great North Woods |
Kathryn Lasky |
Harcourt |
$16.00 |
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Marvin’s Best Christmas Present Ever |
Katherine Paterson |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
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Mean Margaret |
Tor Seidler |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
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Mr. Semolina-Semolinus |
Anthony L. Manna and Christodoula Mitakidon |
Atheneum |
$15.00 |
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Musicians of the Sun |
Gerald McDermott |
Simon & Schuster |
$17.00 |
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My Name is York |
Elizabeth Van Steenwyk |
Rising moon |
$14.95 |
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Nicholas Pipe |
Robert D. San Souci |
Dial |
$14.99 |
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One Grain of Rice |
Demi |
Scholastic |
$19.95 |
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Only a Pigeon |
Jane and Christopher Kurtz |
Simon & Schuster |
$16.00 |
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Orcas Around Me: My Alaska Summer |
Debra Page |
Albert Whitman |
$15.95 |
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Over the Top of the World |
Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster |
Scholastic |
$17.95 |
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Passage to Freedom |
Ken Mochizuki |
Lee & Low |
$15.95 |
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Rapunzel |
Paul O. Zelinsky |
Dutton |
$15.95 |
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Ring of Tricksters, A |
Virginia Hamilton |
Scholastic |
$19.95 |
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Rockin’ Reptiles |
Stephanie Calmenson and Joanna Cole |
Morrow |
$15.00 |
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Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter |
Diane Stanley |
Morrow |
$15.00 |
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Sea King’s Daughter, The |
Aaron Shepard |
Simon & Schuster |
$17.00 |
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Shooting Star: Annie Oakley, the Legend |
Debbie Dadey |
Walker |
$15.95 |
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Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart |
Corinne Szabo |
National Geographic |
$16.00 |
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Take a Look, It’s in a Book |
Ronnie Krauss |
Walker |
$15.95 |
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When Jessie Came Across the Sea |
Amy Hest |
Candlewick |
$16.99 |
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Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12) |
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Adventures of Odysseus, The |
Retold by Neil Phillip |
Orchard |
$17.95 |
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Author: A True Story |
Helen Lester |
Houghton |
$10.95 |
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Boggart and the Monster, The |
Susan Cooper |
Simon & Schuster |
$16.00 |
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Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero |
James Cross Giblin |
Clarion |
$20.00 |
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Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts |
Penny Colman |
Holt |
$17.95 |
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Drop of Water, A |
Walter Wick |
Scholastic |
$16.95 |
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Drummer Boy of Vicksburg, The |
G. Clifton Wisler |
Lodestar |
$15.99 |
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Elephant Woman: Exploring the World of Elephants |
Laurence Pringle |
Atheneum |
$16.00 |
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Ella Enchanted |
Gail Carson Levine |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
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Five Sisters, The |
Margaret Mahy |
Viking |
$13.99 |
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Growing Up in Coal Country |
Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
Houghton |
$16.95 |
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly |
Joyce Hansen |
Scholastic |
$ 9.95 |
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Jack London: A Biography |
Daniel Dyer |
Scholastic |
$17.95 |
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Last Payback, The |
James VanOosting |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
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Mississippi Mud |
Ann Turner |
HarperCollins |
$15.95 |
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My Palace of Leaves in Sarajevo |
Marybeth Lorbiecki |
Dial |
$14.99 |
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My Sister the Sausage Roll |
Barbara Ware Holmes |
Hyperion |
$ 3.95 |
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Mysterious Visitor, The |
Nina Jaffe |
Scholastic |
$19.95 |
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Mythical Birds and Beasts from Many Lands |
Margaret Mayo |
Dutton |
$19.99 |
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Octopus, The |
Mary M. Cerullo |
Cobblehill |
$16.99 |
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Out of the Dust |
Karen Hesse |
Scholastic |
$15.95 |
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Outrageously Alice |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Atheneum |
$15.00 |
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Pearls of Lutra |
Brian Jacques |
Philomel |
$19.95 |
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Planet Hunters, The |
Dennis Brindell Fradin |
McElderry |
$19.95 |
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Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution |
Ji Li Jiang |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
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Robber and Me, The |
Josef Holub |
Holt |
$16.95 |
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Secrets of Animal Flight, The |
Nic Bishop |
Houghton |
$14.95 |
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Skull of Truth, The |
Bruce Coville |
Harcourt |
$17.00 |
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Stonehenge Revealed |
David Souden |
Facts On File |
$29.95 |
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Sun & Spoon |
Kevin Henkes |
Greenwillow |
$15.00 |
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Tales from the Homeplace |
Harriet Burandt and Shelley Dale |
Holt |
$14.99 |
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Treehouse Tales |
Anne Isaacs |
Dutton |
$14.99 |
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True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson, The |
Carol Lynch Williams |
Delacorte |
$14.95 |
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Tulip Touch, The |
Anne Fine |
Little, Brown |
$15.95 |
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Watching Water Birds |
Jim Arnosky |
National Geographic |
$16.00 |
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Water Buffalo Days |
Huynh Quang Nhuong |
HarperCollins |
$13.95 |
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Well Wished |
Fanny Billingsley |
Atheneum |
$16.00 |
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Wicked Witch is at it Again, The |
Hanna Kraan |
Front Street |
$14.95 |
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Wish Me Luck |
James Heneghan |
Farrar |
$16.00 |
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Wringer |
Jerry Spinelli |
HarperCollins |
$13.95 |
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Wind at Work, The |
Gretchen Woelfe |
Chicago Review Press |
$14.95 |
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Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and Up) |
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Beautiful Days of My Youth |
Ana Novac |
Holt |
$15.95 |
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Black Legacy |
William Loren Katz |
Atheneum |
$19.00 |
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Blood and Chocolate |
Annette Curtis Klause |
Delacorte |
$13.45 |
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Braving the Frozen Frontier |
Rebecca L. Johnson |
Lerner |
$23.93 |
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Bull Catcher |
Alden R. Carter |
Scholastic |
$15.95 |
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Dancing on the Edge |
Han Nolan |
Harcourt |
$16.00 |
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Dark Side of Nowhere, The |
Neal Shusterman |
Little Brown |
$15.95 |
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Elizabeth Blackwell: A Doctor’s Triumph |
Nancy Kline |
Conari |
$ 6.95 |
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Empires Lost and Won |
Albert Marrin |
Atheneum |
$19.00 |
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Going Through the Gate |
Janet S. Anderson |
Dutton |
$15.99 |
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In a Sacred Manner I Live |
Edited by Neil Philip |
Clarion |
$20.00 |
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Inside the Walls of Troy |
Clemence McLaren |
Atheneum |
$16.00 |
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Kennedy Assassinated! |
Wilborn Hampton |
Candlewick |
$17.99 |
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Leaving Fishers |
Margaret Peterson Haddix |
Simon & Schuster |
$17.00 |
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Leaving Home: Stories |
Selected by Hazel Rochman & Darlene Z. McCampbell |
HarperCollins |
$16.95 |
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Lightning Time |
Douglas Rees |
DK Ink |
$15.95 |
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Necessary Roughness |
Marie Lee |
HarperCollins |
$14.95 |
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North Star to Freedom |
Gena K. Gorrell |
Delacorte |
$17.95 |
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Painting the Black |
Carl Deuker |
Houghton |
$14.95 |
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Rose Daughter |
Robin McKinley |
Greenwillow |
$15.00 |
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Shade's Children |
Garth Nix |
HarperCollins |
$15.95 |
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Shared Heart, The |
Photographs by Adam Mastoon |
Morrow |
$25.00 |
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Slave Day |
Rob Thomas |
Simon & Schuster |
$16.00 |
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Stones in Water |
Donna Jo Napoli |
Dutton |
$14.99 |
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Stranded in Harmony |
Barbara Shoup |
Hyperion |
$17.95 |
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Tangerine |
Edward Bloor |
Harcourt |
$17.00 |
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Virtual War |
Gloria Skurzynski |
Simon & Schuster |
$16.00 |
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Poetry |
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Beauty of the Beast, The |
Selected by Jack Prelutsky |
Knopf |
$25.00 |
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Bone Poems |
Jeff Moss |
Workman |
$14.95 |
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Great Frog Race, The |
Kristine O’Connell George |
Clarion |
$14.95 |
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Harlem |
Walter Dean Myers |
Scholastic |
$16.95 |
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Hoops |
Robert Burleigh |
Silver Whistle |
$16.00 |
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Jump Ball |
Mel Glenn |
Lodestar |
$15.99 |
