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)