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Summer Reading List for Kids of All Ages: 2004
Page Modified: February 11, 2008
The list includes both fiction and nonfiction books for all ages (toddlers to teens). Titles are arranged alphabetically by author.
The edition listed is the trade book, library bindings are not listed unless that is the only available format. Titles received starred reviews from Booklist, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, School Library Journal, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Horn Book.
The theme information
is derived from cataloging information and is not comprehensive. Books
are suggested for ages 12 and older. Age and grade designations are approximate,
parental judgement should be used.
- Chasing Vermeer
Author: Balliett, Blue
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.95 ISBN: 0439372941 Date: 2004
BooklistKirkus
When a book of unexplainable occurances brings Petra Andalee & Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, & an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal. As Petra & Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth they must draw on their powers of intuition, their skills at problem solving, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has left even the FBI baffled?
Grades: 4-7 Category: Fiction | Mystery - My Light
Author: Bang, Molly
Publisher: Blue Sky $ 16.95 ISBN: 043948961x Date: 2004BooklistSLJ
The Caldecott Honor artist takes young readers on an incredible journey that follows the light of the sun as it is transformed into the energy that's used every day.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Fiction | Science - Walk Softly, Rachel
Author: Banks, Kate
Publisher: Frances Foster $ 16 ISBN: 03748382301 Date: 2003KirkusPWSLJ
SLJ Best Books | Books for the Teen Age | Accelerated Reader
From the author of Dillon Dillon comes this searing new novel that explores the inner lives of 14-year-old Rachel and her late brother, Jake, with exquisite sensitivity and precision.
Grades: 7-12 Category: Fiction - Beauty, Her Basket
Author: Belton, Sandra
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 15.99 ISBN: 0688178219 Date: 2004KirkusPW
Nana's sweetgrass basket holds secrets and stories of the sea, and she has promised to tell some of the tales. But Nana's telling is never straightforward, and the young girl and her cousin must snatch the magic from the soft Sea Island air.
Grades: K+ Category: Fiction | African American - When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked
the Earth: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Before Dinosaurs
Author: Bonner, Hannah
Publisher: National Geographic $ 16.95 ISBN: 079226326x Date: 2004KirkusSLJ
Bonner takes readers back into prehistoric times before dinosaurs lived. This cartoon history features narrative text, engaging illustrations, hilarious cartoons, maps, charts, and time lines.
Grades: 3-7 Category: Nonfiction | Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures - Al Capone Does My Shirts
Author: Choldenko, Gennifer
Publisher: Putnam $ 15.99 ISBN: 0399238611 Date: 2004KirkusPWSLJ
Accelerated Reader
Grades: 5+ Category: Fiction | Historical Fiction - Mimmy and Sophie All Around Town
Author: Cohen, Miriam
Publisher: Frances Foster $ 16 ISBN: 0374349894 Date: 2004KirkusSLJ
Mimmy and Sophie are sisters who live in Brooklyn, New York, during the Great Depression. Even though their parents don't have a lot of money, Mimmy and Sophie still have lots of fun together, whether they're finding treasure, going to Coney Island, or playing in mud puddles.
Charming black-and-white drawings by Thomas F. Yezerski accompany these sweet stories, perfect for independent reading or for reading aloud, about two sisters who aren't always best friends but are always there for each other. - Publisher Marketing.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Fiction | Historical Fiction - The Wish List
Author: Colfer, Eoin
Publisher: Miramax $ 16.95 ISBN: 0786818638 Date: 2003BulletinPWSLJ
From the author of the international bestselling Artemis Fowl series comes this new heartwarming tale of a young girl who is given a gift--the chance to right her wrongs and discover the true meaning of love.
Grades: 8-12 Category: Fiction | Speculative Fiction - Gregor the Overlander
Author: Colins, Suzanne
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.95 ISBN: 0439435366 Date: 2003BooklistKirkusPW
VOYA: Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Accelerated Reader
When Gregor falls through a grate in his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, and cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war and Gregor's arrival is no accident.
Grades: 3-7 Category: Fiction | Speculative Fiction - Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel
Author: Connor, Leslie
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin $ 16 ISBN: 0618305645 Date: 2004KirkusPW
Connor and Azarian deliver a lyrical tribute to the millions of immigrants who left their homes to begin anew in America in this enchanting look at how one woman carves out a life with the help of a common shovel. Full color.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Fiction - Heartbeat
Author: Creech, Sharon
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 15.99 ISBN: 0060540222 Date: 2004PWSLJ
Newbery Medalist Sharon Creech (Walk Two Moons) masterfully weaves this story, told in free verse, about a young girl finding her identity and learning how it fits within the many rhythms of life.
Grades: 3-7 Category: Fiction - The Neighborhood Mother Goose
Author: Crews, Nina
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 15.99 ISBN: 0060515732 Date: 2003BooklistHorn
BookKirkusPWSLJ
Every day, children the world over sing, shout, and celebrate Mother Goose rhymes. And now there's a new reason to cheer: Nina Crews has added her own remarkable, jazzy style of illustration to a collection of forty-one favorite verses.
Grades: Todder + Category: Poetry | Nursery Rhymes - Diary of a Worm
Author: Cronin, Doreen
Publisher: Joanna Cotler $ 15.99 ISBN: 006000150x Date: 2003BulletinKirkusPWSLJ
SLJ Best Books | Booksense Book of the Year Nominee
Accelerated Reader
The New York Times bestselling author of Click, Clack, Moo and Giggle, Giggle, Quack teams up with illustrator Harry Bliss for this hysterical journal about the daily doings and the hidden world of a lovable underground dweller.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Fiction - Iqbal
Author: D'Adamo, Francesco
Publisher: Atheneum $ 15.95 ISBN: 0689854455 Date: 2003KirkusPW
ALA Notable Childrens Books | Christopher Awards Winner
Accelerated Reader
This moving, fictionalized account of the life of Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who brings hope to child workers in a carpet factory, is told through the voice of Fatima, a young Pakistani girl whose life is chanced by Iqbal's courage.
Grades: 3-7 Category: Fiction - Inside Grandad
Author: Dickinson, Peter
Publisher: Wendy Lamb $ 15.95 ISBN: 0385746415 Date: 2004KirkusPW
This unusual and moving story about the magical bond between a boy and his grandfather is by the author of the Prinz Honor Book The Ropemaker.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Fiction - The Conch Bearer
Author: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
Publisher: Roaring Brook $ 16.95 ISBN: 0761319352 Date: 2003BooklistPW
Booklist Editors' Choice
Grades: Category: Fiction - The Snail and the Whale
Author: Donaldson, Julia
Publisher: Dial $ 16.99 ISBN: 0803729227 Date: 2004PWSLJ
When a tiny snail meets a humpback whale, the two travel together to far-off lands. It's a dream come true for the snail, who has never left home before. But when the whale swims too-close to shore, will the snail be able to save her new friend?
Grades: k-3 Category: Fiction - The Oracle Betrayed
Author: Fisher, Catherine
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 16.99 ISBN: 0060571578 Date: 2004KirkusPW
Timid Mirany is chosen to be a priestess to serve the High Priestess, who interprets the wishes of the god as conveyed through the Oracle. However, Mirany is unprepared for the dangers of her exalted position.
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction | Speculative Fiction - The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
Author: Freedman, Russell
Publisher: Clarion $ 18 ISBN: 0618159762 Date: 2004Horn
BookKirkusPW
Grades: 4-7 Category: Nonfictin | Biography - Spining Through the Univers: A Novel in Poems from Room 214
Author: Frost, Helen
Publisher: Frances Foster $ 16 ISBN: 0374371598 Date: 2004KirkusPW
Using a rich array of traditional poetic forms, such as sonnets, sestinas, and acrostics, Frost interweaves the stories of the kids in Room 214 and their fifth grade teacher. A final section giving detailed analyses of the 22 forms will be of special interest.
Grades: 5+ Category: Poetry - The Princess Knight
Author: Fuke, Cornelia
Publisher: Chicken House $ 15.95 ISBN: 0439536308 Date: 2004BooklistPW
Violetta is a small and spirited young princess who wants to be treated like her big brothers, who are training to be knights. But Violetta's father, the King, insists that she act ladylike and get married! He even arranges a knights' jousting contest to find Violetta a suitor. The feisty princess will not stand for this! So Violetta decides to disguise herself as a boy and take part in that very contest. Every night, she secretly practices to become the most nimble knight in the land. But when the big day arrives, will Violetta be able to prove -- once and for all -- what she's truly made of?
Grades: k-3 Category: Fiction - Inkheart
Author: Funke, Cornelia
Publisher: Chicken House $ 19.95 ISBN: 0439531640 Date: 2003KirkusPW
VOYA: Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror | ALA Notable Childrens Books | Books for the Teen Age | Book Sense Book of the Year Nominee
Accelerated Reader
Meggie lives a quiet life with her father, a bookbinder. But her father has a deep secret--he possesses an extraordinary magical power. When a mysterious stranger arrives, Meggie is plunged into intrigue as her father's life is put in danger.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Fiction | Speculative Fiction - The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Author: Gerstein, Mordicai
Publisher: Roaring Brook $ 17.95 ISBN: 0761317910 Date: 2003BulletinHorn
BookKirkusPWSLJ
SLJ Best Books | ALA Notable Childrens Books | Caldecott Award Winner
From a highly respected picture book author/illustrator comes a lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
Grades: k-3 Category: Nonfiction - Kitten's First Full Moon
Author: Henkes, Kevin
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 15.99 ISBN: 0060588284 Date: 2004Booklist
KirkusPWSLJ
From one of the most beloved picture book creators of today comes a memorable new character and a suspenseful adventure. Kitten sees her first full moon, but she thinks it's a bowl of milk and tries to get at it. Full color.
Grades: Preschool + Category: Fiction - Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924
Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
Publisher: Orchard $ 17.95 ISBN: 0439375908 Date: 2003BulletinBooklistKirkusSLJ
Booklist Editors' Choice
In her nonfiction debut, the award-winning author recounts the lives of five young immigrants to New York's Lower East Side through oral histories and engaging narrative.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Social Sciences - A Cool Midnight
Author: Johnson, Angela
Publisher: Dial $ 14.99 ISBN:0803728468 Date: 2003BooklistKirkus
From the two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winner comes an exquisite new novel about a nine-year-old girl named Lila, born with an allergy to the sun who plays by the light of the moon and longs to feel the warmth of the sun.
Grades:3-7 Category: Fiction - Zoo-Ology
Author: Jolivet, Joelle
Publisher: Roaring Brook $ 17.95 ISBN: 0761318941 Date: 2003PWSLJ
SLJ Best Books
Zoo-ology displays animals in thematic groups.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Nonfiction - Kira-Kira
Author: Kadohata, Cynthia
Publisher: Atheneum $ 15.95 ISBN: 0689856393 Date: 2004BulletinBooklistPW
When Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- "kira-kira" -- in the future.
Grades: 6+ Category: Fiction - The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
Author: Konigsburg, E.L.
Publisher: Atheneum $ 16.95 ISBN: 0689866364 Date: 2004BooklistKirkusPWSLJ
The long-awaited new novel by the two-time Newbery Medalist stars Margaret Rose Kane, Connor Kane's older half-sister in Silent to the Bone, who tells the story of the summer she was 12 years old.
Grades: 5-9 Category: Fiction - The Boy of Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss
Author: Krull, Kathleen
Publisher: Random $ 16.95 ISBN: 0375822984 Date: 2004KirkusSLJ
An award-winning author zeros in on the formative first 22 years of the life of Ted Geisel. Featuring decorative illustrations by Dr. Seuss, this picture book biography is written especially for his young fans.
Grades: 1-7 Category: Biography - Brundibar
Author: Kushner, Tony & Maurice Sendak (ilt)
Publisher: Hyperion $ 19.95 ISBN: 0786809043 Date: 2003KirkusPWSLJ
Based on a Czech opera for children that was performed 55 times by the children of the Terezin Nazi concentration camp, this tale of two children bullied by a bellowing hurdy-gurdy grinder is now told in this storybook.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Fiction - Boy Meets Boy
Author: Levithan, David
Publisher: Knopf $ 15.95 ISBN: 0375824006 Date: 2003BooklistBulletinSLJ
ALA Best Boks for Young Adults | Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Awards | Booklist Editors' Choice| ALA Quick Picks | Books for the Teen Age
Boy Meets Boy is a romantic comedy starring two boys.
Grades: 7-12 Category: Fiction - Messenger
Author: Lowry, Lois
Publisher: Walter Lorraine $ 16 ISBN: 0618404414 Date: 2004KirkusPW
Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Lowry returns with the eagerly anticipated companion to Gathering Blue and The Giver, winner of the Newbery Medal.
Grades: 8-12 Category: Fiction | Speculative Fiction - Mosque
Author: MacAulay, David
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin $ 18 ISBN: 0618240349 Date: 2003BooklistBulletinKirkusPWSLJ
ALA Notable Childrens Books | SLJ Best Books | Books for the Teen Age
Grades: 4-7 Category: Nonfiction | Architecture | Islam - Birdland
Author: Mack, Tracy
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.95 ISBN:0439535905 Date: 2003BooklistBulletinKirkus
ALA Best Books for Young Adults | Booklist Editors' Choice | Books for the Teen Age
Accelerated Reader
Jed is filming a documentary of their New York City neighborhood and searches for Zeke, a poet who loved jazzman Charlie "Bird" Parker and who leaves behind a lot of unanswered questions.
Grades: 8-12 Category: Fiction - Secrets in the Fire
Author: Mankell, Henning
Publisher: Annick $ 17.95/7.95 ISBN: 1550378015/1550378007 Date: 2003BooklistSLJ
Books for the Teen Age
Accelerated Reader
Based on a real-life land mine victim, this middle reader novel tells a story of recovery, hope and coming of age of an African girl who loses her legs to a land mine.
Grades: 6-10 Category: Fiction - Silk Umbrellas
Author: Marsden, Carolyn
Publisher: Candlewick $ 15.99 ISBN: 0763622575 Date: 2004BooklistPW
With spare, sure strokes evoking the customs and languages of Thailand, the acclaimed author of The Gold-Threaded Dress tells the graceful tale of a young artist's coming of age.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Fiction - The Meanest Doll in the World
Author: Martin, Ann M. & Laura Godwin
Publisher: Hyperion $ 15.99 ISBN:0786808780 Date: 2003KirkusPWSLJ
SLJ Best Books
In this sequel to The Doll People, Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft hitch a ride with Kate to her school where they encounter Mean Mimi, the wickedest doll of all.
Grades: 3-7 Category: Fiction | Action & Adventure - The Tarantula Scientist
Author: Montgomery, Sy
Publisher: Hougton Mifflin $ 18 ISBN: 0618147993 Date: 2003KirkusSLJ
Grades: 3-7 Category: Nonfiction | Science - Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
Author: Morales, Yuri
Publisher: Chronicle $ 15.95 ISBN: 0811837580 Date: 2003BooklistKirkus
ALA Notable Childrens Books | Pura Belpre Award
This bilingual English-Spanish counting book reveals Mexican traditions sure to be adored by kids everywhere.
Grades: Preschool -3 Category: Nonfiction | Concepts | Counting | Language - Heart's Delight
Author: Nilsson, Per
Publisher: Front Street $ 16.95 ISBN: 1886910928 Date: 2003BooklistHorn
BookPW
Booklist Editors' Choice
Accelerated Reader
Heart's Delight tells of a teenage boy's first love
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction - Freaky Green Eyes
Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 16.99 ISBN: 0066237599 Date: 2003BulletinKirkusPW
Books for the Teen Age
Following up her Big Mouth and Ugly Girl, Oates once again probes the secrets of an all-American family, as 15-year-old Franky witnesses the destruction of her world as she knows it.
Grades: 9+ Category: Fiction - Unseen Companion
Author: Orenstein, Denise Gosliner
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 15.95 ISBN: 0060520566 Date: 2003BooklistBulletinSLJ
Booklist Editors' Choice
In 1970, in Bethel, a small frontier town in Alaska, four teens grapple with the mysterious disappearance of Dove Alexie, who has been beaten and put in the town's jail.
Grades: 9+ Category: Fiction - Run Boy, Run
Author: Orlev, Uri
Publisher: Hougthon Mifflin $ 15 ISBN: 0618164650 Date: 2003BooklistBulletinKirkus
ALA Notable Childrens Book | SLJ Best Books | Mildred L. Batchelder Award Winner
Run, Boy, Run is the extraordinary account of one boy"s survival of the Holocaust. Srulik is only eight years old when he finds himself all alone in the Warsaw ghetto. He escapes into the countryside where he spends the ensuing years hiding in the forest, dependent on the sympathies and generosity of the poor farmers in the surrounding area.
Grades: 5-9 Category: Fiction | Historical Fiction - East
Author: Pattou, Edith
Publisher: Harcourt $ 18 ISBN: 0152045635 Date: 2003BooklistBulletinSLJ
ALA Best Books for Young Adults | ALA Notable Childrens Books | SLJ Best Books
Accelerated Reader
This fresh and original fantasy is a novel retelling of the classic tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon, a sweeping romantic epic in the tradition of Robin McKinley and Gail Carson Levine.
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction | Speculative Fiction | Magic | Fairy Tales - The River Between Us
Author: Peck, Richard
Publisher: Dial $ 16.99 ISBN: 0803727356 Date: 2003BooklistBulletinHorn
BookKirkusPW
ALA Best Books for Young Adults | ALA Notable Childrens Books | Booklist Editors' Choice | National Book Award Finalist
Accelerated Reader
Within a page-turning tale of mystery, adventure, and the civilian Civil War experience, a master of stories about people in transition paints a portrait of the lifelong impact that one person can have on another.
Grades: 5-9 Category: Fiction | Historical - Tell Me One Thing Dad
Author: Pow, Tom
Publisher: Candlewick $ 15.99 ISBN: 0763624748 Date: 2004BooklistPW
Young children will be eager to join in the lyrical, lighthearted bedtime game between a young girl and her dad in this fun book that celebrates the love all parents have for their babies--from dinosaurs to Grimalkens to real-life dads. Ideal for Father's Day.
Grades: Toddler-K Category: Fiction - Ghost Girl: A Blue Ridge Mountain Story
Author: Ray, Delia
Publisher: Clarion $ 15 ISBN: 0618333770 Date: 2003BulletinHorn
BookKirkusSLJ
For 11-year-old April Sloane, living with her family in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the Depression, a one-room schoolhouse in the hollow introduces her to a world of possibilities.
Grades: 5-9 Category: Fiction - Pirates!: The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, Female Pirates
Author: Rees, Celia
Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 16.95 ISBN: 1582348162 Date: 2003PWSLJ
ALA Best Books for Young Adults | Books for the Teen Age
This powerful and thrilling novel presents the story of the inspiring journey of two 18th-century women who break the bonds of gender, race, and position to find their own way to glory.
Grades: 7-12 Category: Fiction | Historical - Mortal Engines
Author: Reeve, Philiip
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 16.99 ISBN: 0060082070 Date: 2003PWSLJ
ALA Best Books for Young Adults | ALA Notable Childrens Books | SLJ Best Books
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction | Speculatve Fiction - Don't Hold Me Back: My Life and Art
Author: Rembert, Winfred
Publisher: Cricket $ 19.95 ISBN: 0812627032 Date: 2003BooklistSLJ
Books for the Teen Age
Text and paintings chronicle the life of this folk artist, who grew up in rural Georgia in the 1950s.
Grades: 5+ Category: Nonfiction | Art - Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed the World
Author: Robinson, Sharon
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.95 ISBN: 0439425921 Date: 2004PWSLJ
Sharon Robinson shares memories of her famous father in this warm loving biography of the man who broke the color barrier in baseball. Jackie Robinson was an outstanding athlete, a devoted family man and a dedicated civil rights activist.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Nonfiction | Sports | Biography - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Pop-Up Adaptation of Lewis
Carroll's Original Tale
Author: Sabuda, Robert
Publisher: Little Simon $ 25.95 ISBN: 0689847432 Date: 2003BooklistHorn
BookKirkusPW
Booklist Editors' Choice
Paper-engineering genius Robert Sabuda delivers this faithful adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic story, with pop-up illustrations done in the style of John Tenniel.
Grades: Preschool-3 Category: Fiction - Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
Publisher: Clarion $ 15 ISBN: 0618439296 Date: 2004KirkusSLJ
Set in 1912 Maine, this historical novel is based on the true story of a community's destruction. No one in town will let Turner Buckminster forget that he's a minister's son. But then he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a smart and sassy girl from a poor nearby island community founded by former slaves, he enters a whole new world.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Fiction | Historical Fiction - The Hidden Alphabet
Author: Seeger, Laura Vaccaro
Publisher: Roaring Brook $ 17.95 ISBN: 0761319417 Date: 2003BulletinKirkusPWSLJ
ALA Notable Childrens Books
This unusual alphabet book greets the reader with an image of an arrowhead, surrounded by a simple black frame. Lift the frame and the arrowhead transforms into the letter A.
Grades: Toddler+ Category: Nonfiction | Concept - Ten Mice for Tet
Author: Shea Pegi Deitz
Publisher: Chronicle $ 15.95 ISBN: 0811834964 Date: 2003KirkusPWSLJ
This counting book introduces Vietnamese New Year traditions.
Grades: Toddler -3 Category: Nonfiction | Concepts - The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of
Charles Darwin: Naturalizt, Geologist & Thinker
Author: Sis, Peter
Publisher: Frances Foster $ 18 ISBN: 0374456283 Date: 2003BulletinHorn
BookPWSLJ
ALA Best Books for Young Adults | Booklist Editors' Choice | Books for the Teen Age
Accelerated Reader
Grades: 3-7 Category: Nonfiction | Science | Biography - Milkweed
Author: Spinelli, Jerry
Publisher: Knopf $ 15.95 ISBN: 0375813748 Date: 2003BooklistBulletinKirkus
ALA Best Books for Young Adults | Booklist Editors' Choice | Books for the Teen Age
Accelerated Reader
Set in Nazi-occupied Poland just before the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Spinelli's first historical novel tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival though the eyes of a young orphan.
Grades: 5-9 Category: Fiction | Historical Fiction - Donuthead
Author: Stauffacher, Sue
Publisher: Knopf $ 15.95 ISBN: 0375824685 Date: 2003BulletinKirkusSLJ
This hilarious middle-grade novel introduces Franklin Delano Donuthead, the world's most neurotic fifth grader, and Sarah Kervick, a tougher-than-nails girl who help each other in more ways than they can imagine.
Grades: 3-7 Category: Fiction - The Amulet of Samarkand
Author: Stroud, Jonathan
Publisher: Miramax $ 17.95 ISBN: 076861859x Date: 2003BooklistPW
ALA Best Books for Young Adults | ALA Notable Childrens Books | Booklist Editors' Choice
Accelerated Reader
Set in modern-day London, this first book in a gripping new trilogy introduces young magician's apprentice Nathaniel. Humiliated by a hotshot wizard, Nathaniel summons the not-so-tame djinni, Bartimaeus, and sends him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand.
Grades: 5-9 Category: Fiction | Speculative Fiction - Clare and Francis
Author: Visconti, Guido
Publisher: Eermdans $ 20 ISBN:0802852696 Date: 2004BooklistKirkus
Opening with a short chronological biography accompanied by miniatures and closing with Francis's "Canticle of Brother Sun," this inspiring book will bring the tale of Assisi's two great saints to life for readers.
Grades: k-2 Category: Nonfiction | Christianity | Biography - Double Helix
Author: Werlin, Nancy
Publisher: Dial $ 15.99 ISBN: 0803726066 Date: 2004BooklistBulletinPWSLJ
Rich and suspenseful, with a hair-raising conclusion, this is Nancy Werlin's most dynamic novel yet--one that explores the ethics and amazements of genetic engineering.
Grades: 8-12 Category: Fiction | Suspense - No Laughter Here
Author: Williams-Garcia, Rita
Publisher: Amistad $ 15.99 ISBN: 0688162479 Date: 2004BooklistKirkus
In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Honor winner Williams-Garcia explores a widespread practice--female circumcision.
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction - Albert, the Dog Who Liked to Ride in Taxis
Author: Zarin, Cynthia
Publisher: Atheneum $ 16.95 ISBN:0689847629 Date: 2004BooklistPW
Albert, a dachshund, is a city dog who likes to jump in taxis unobserved and tour the city. Simple text and lively illustrations capture the spirit of a short dog with sky-high ambitions.
Grades: Toddler-1 Category: Fiction
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