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The list includes both fiction and nonfiction books. 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.
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Author: Baker, Jeannie
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 15.99 ISBN: 0066239354 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin Horn Book Kirkus
In Jeannie Baker's striking, natural collages, an urban community reclaims its land. A drab city street becomes a living, thriving neighborhood -- a place to call home.
Grades: Preschool + Category: Picture Book - Chasing Vermeer
Author: Balliett, Blue
Publisher: Scholoastic $ 16.95 ISBN: 0439372941 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus PW
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 - When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth: A Cartoon Prehistory of LIfe Before Dinosaurs
Author: Bonner, Hannay
Publisher: $ ISBN: Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus SLJ
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 | Animals | Prehistoric Creatures - Wallace's Lists
Author: Bottner, Barbara
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 15.99 ISBN: 0060002247 Date: 2004
Bulletin PW SLJ
Wallace, a mouse, can do almost anything as long as he has a list. When Wallace meets his lively neighbor named Albert, his world is swiftly opened to new delights, such as painting and music. Wallace soon discovers a new joy: friendship.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Picture Book | Friends - The Crow Girl: The Children of Crow Cove
Author: Bredsforff, Bodil
Publisher: FSG $ 16 ISBN: 0374312478 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin Horn Book SLJ
Grades: 3-7 Category: Fiction - Al Capone Does My Shirts
Author: Choldenko, Gennifer
Publisher: Putnam $ 15.99 ISBN: 0399238611 Date: 2004
Kirkus PW SLJ |
BBYA
Set in 1935, when guards actually lived on Alcatraz Island with their families, Choldenko's second novel brings humor to the complexities of family dynamics and illuminates the real struggle of a kid trying to free himself from the "good boy" stance he's taken his whole life.
Grades: 5-7 Category: Fiction - The Big House
Author: Coman, Carolyn
Publisher: Front St $ 16.95 ISBN: 1932425098 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus SLJ
When their parents are convicted for embezzlement, Ray and Ivy are sent to live the life of luxury with Marrieta Noland and her ancient husband, Lionel. But life at the Nolands' big house is not all it's cracked up to be. A new novel by Newbery Honoree Coman.
Grades: 3-7 Category: Fiction | Humor - Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel
Author: Connor, Leslie & Mary Azarian (Ilt)
Publisher: Houghton $ 16 ISBN: 0618305645 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus PW
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.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Fiction | Historical - Parthenon
Author: Curlee, Lynn
Publisher: Atheneum $ 17.95 ISBN: 0689844905 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin SLJ
With keen attention to detail, Curlee explores the history and the people behind the building of the Parthenon in ancient Greece. With paintings that evoke the glory of the birth of western civilization, Curlee revitalizes the history of the Western world's most recognizable structure
Grades: 4-7 Category: Nonfiction | Ancient Greece - Bucking the Sarge
Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
Publisher: Wendy Lamb $ 15.95 ISBN: 0385323077 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin Kirkus SLJ
The Newbery Award-winning author of Bud, Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 gives readers a whole new angle on life and a world full of unforgettable and hilarious characters.
Grades: 5-9 Category: Fiction - The Sea of Trolls
Author: Farmer, Nancy
Publisher: Atheneum $ 17.95 ISBN: 0689867441 Date: 2004
Bulletin Horn Book Kirkus PW SLJ
The three-time Newbery Honor-winning author and National Book Award recipient pens a new adventure set in A.D. 793 in the land of the Vikings, where two children are soon swept up in a quest on which they encounter a dragon, a giant spider, and trolls.
Grades: 5-8 Category: Fiction | Historical | Speculative - The Oracle Betrayed
Author: Fisher, Catherine
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 16.99 ISBN: 0060571578 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus PW
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 - The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
Author: Freedman, Russell
Publisher: Clarion $ 18 ISBN: 0618159762 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus PW SLJ
This insightful account of the great African-American vocalist considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in America. Drawing on Anderson's own writings and other contemporary accounts, Freedman shows how she came to stand for all black artists--and for all Americans of color.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Nonfiction | Biography - Doodler Doodling
Author: Gelman, Rita Golden & Paul O. Zelinsky (Ilt)
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 15.99 ISBN: 0688166458 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus PW SLJ
With an irreverent exuberance, Caldecott Medalist Zelinsky illustrates 21 words, and in the process creates a totally original, laugh-out-loud picture book about the mysteries, joys, and possibilities of imagination, language, and doodles.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Concept Books - Tales from the Waterhole
Author: Graham, Bob
Publisher: Candlewick $ 16.99 ISBN: 0763623245 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus SLJ
The winner of the 2003 Kate Greenaway Medal turns his distinctive attention to the animals of the African plains with this wry, laugh-out-loud story that pays tribute to the merriment and mishaps of young friendship.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Fiction | Picture Book - Ida B: And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and Possibly Save the World
Author: Hannigan, Katherine
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 15.99 ISBN: 0060730242 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin Kirkus SLJ
In this first novel by Hannigan, readers are introduced to Ida B, a fourth grader like no other, living a life like no other, with a voice like no other, and a family like no other. How does Ida B cope when outside forces--life, really--attempt to derail her, her family, and her future?
Grades: 3-5 Category: Fiction - Going North
Author: Harrington, Janice N. & Jerome Larrigue (Ilt)
Publisher: Kroupa $ 16 ISBN: 0374326819 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin Kirkus SLJ
An African-American family becomes a new kind of pioneer in the 1960s as it migrates north from segregated Alabama to Nebraska in search of a better life. Lyrical free verse and evocative paintings capture the rhythm of the road and a young girl's longing as she wonders if she'll like the north. Full
Grades: K-3 Category: Fiction | Picture book - Godless
Author: Hautman, Pete
Publisher: S & S $ 15.95 ISBN: 0689862784 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin Kirkus
National Book Award Finalist
As a joke, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents his own religion: theworship of his town's water tower. But what starts as a loose congregation of Jason's friend Shin and some classmates soon takes on a power of its own.
Grades: 7-12 Category: Fiction - Kitten's First Moon
Author: Henkes, Kevin
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 15.99 ISBN: 0060588284 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus PW SLJ
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.
Grades: Preschool + Category: Picture Book - Asleep in the Stable
Author: Hillennbrand, Will
Publisher: Holiday $ 16 ISBN: 0823418243 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus PW
Baby Owl listens to Mama Owl and learns all about the Holy Child and the bright star that has come with him. Young children can share in Baby Owl's wonder in this cozy and joyous rendition of the Nativity story
Grades: Toddler - 1st Category: Picture Book - Merlin and the Making of the King
Author: Hodges, Margaret & Trina Schart Hyman (Ilt)
Publisher: Holiday $ 16.95 ISBN: 082341647x Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus PW SLJ
In this collection of three Arthurian tales, Merlin the magician watches over young Arthur as he rises to become king of England. But enemies threaten Arthur. Will the good king triumph over the dark forces in his path and bring peace and justice to the world?
Grades: 3-7 Category: Fiction | Folklore & Myths - The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
Author: Hoose, Phillip
Publisher: Kroupa $ 20 ISBN: 0374361738 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus PW SLJ
The tragedy of extinction is explained through the powerful, dramatic story of a legendary bird, the ivory-billed woodpecker, and of those who have tried to possess it, shoot it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it over a 200-year span. Includes time line, glossary, and index.
Grades: 7-12 Category: Nonfiction | Nature - The Pepins and Their Problems
Author: Horvath, Polly & Marylin Hafner (Ilt)
Publisher: FSG $ 16 ISBN: 0374358176 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus PW
Whether it's waking up to find toads in their shoes, becoming trapped on the roof, or searching for cheese when their cow makes only lemonade, the Pepin family always seems to get into the most bizarre scrapes.
Grades: 3-7 Category: Fiction - The Star of Kazan
Author: Ibbotson, Eva & Kevin Hawkes (Ilt)
Publisher: Dutton $ 16.99 ISBN: 0525473475 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus SLJ
Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, this novel tells the story of a young servant girl who learns she is, in fact, an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. But at the crumbling castle, young Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Fiction | Mystery - Henry Works
Author: Johnson, D. B
Publisher: Houghton $ 15 ISBN: 0618420037 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus PW
Without Henry, wildflowers would go unwatered in dry weather and rivers would have no crossing stones. In this fourth book about Henry David Thoreau, Johnson's quiet story flows through morning's mist to evening's glow, when, at last, Thoreau's most important work is revealed.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Picture Book | Nature - Kira-Kira
Author: Kodohata, Cynthia
Publisher: Atheneum $ 15.95 ISBN: 0689856393 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin PW
Grades: 6+ Category: Fiction - Walt Whitman: Words for America
Author: Kerley, Barbara & Brian Selznick (Ilt)
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.95 ISBN: 0439357918 Date: 2004
Kirkus PW SLJ
Meticulously researched and documented, this portrait of American poet Walt Whitman celebrates his work and provides insight to this man, artist, and Civil War hero who is a symbol of America.
Grades: 2-5 Category: Nonfiction | Biography - A Christmas Like Helen's
Author: Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie & Mary Azarian (Ilt)
Publisher: Houghton $ 16 ISBN: 0618231374 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus PW
With absorbing details of country life and a look at a Christmas of the past, along with elegant, hand-colored woodcuts, this book captures the strength of family, the magic of Christmas, and the love of place all year long.
Grades: K - 3 Category: Picture Book - The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
Author: Konigsburg, E.L.
Publisher: Atheneum $ 16.95 ISBN: 0689866364 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus PW SLJ
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 on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss
Author: Krull, Kathleen
Publisher: Random $ 16.95 ISBN: 0375822984 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus SLJ
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: Nonfiction | Biography - B for Buster
Author: Lawrence, Iain
Publisher: Delacorte $ 15.95 ISBN: 0385730861 Date: 2004
Kirkus PW SLJ
In this gripping story, 16-year-old Kak dreams of flying with the Allied bombers in World War II. Underage but desperate to escape his abusive parents, he enlists in the Canadian Air Force and is soon sent to a squadron in England. But he does not expect the experience to be as harrowing as it becomes.
Grades: 8-12 Category: Fiction | Historical - Gifts
Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
Publisher: Harcourt $ 17 ISBN: 0152051236 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin PW
A darkly compelling fantasy about a world in which each person has a magical, dangerous "gift."
Grades: 4+ Category: Fiction | Speculative - Messenger
Author: Lowry, Lois
Publisher: Walter Lorraine $ 16 ISBN: 0618404414 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin Kirkus PW
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 - Sonny's House of Spies
Author: Lyon, George Ella
Publisher: Atheneum $ 16.95 ISBN: 0689851685 Date: 2004
Kirkus PW SLJ
The acclaimed author of "Borrowed Children" pens this novel about a 13-year-old Alabama boy who aims to change the tightlipped atmosphere at his house and find out the truth.
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction - Saving Francesca
Author: Marchetta, Melina
Publisher: Random $ 15.95 ISBN: 0375829822 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus PW SLJ
Teenage Francesca is constantly battling her mother over what it best for her. But when her mother becomes severely depressed, her family begins to fall apart, and Francesca realizes that without her mother's high spirits, she hardly knows who she is.
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction - Shooter
Author: Myers, Walter Dean
Publisher: HarperCollins $ 15.99 ISBN: 0060295198 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin PW
The Michael L. Printz Award-winning author of Monster unveils a bleak picture of what life can be like for a teenage misfit in this new novel of three loners told through a series of interviews, reports, newspaper articles, and journal entries.
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction - Bound
Author: Napoli, Donna Jo
Publisher: Atheneum $ 16.95 ISBN: 0689861753 Date: 2004
Kirkus PW SLJ Booklist
From the award-winning author of Beast and Breath comes this thrilling and haunting retelling of the Cinderella story that returns the much-loved fairy tale to its Chinese roots.
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction | Fairy Tale - The Little Gentleman
Author: Pearce, Philippa
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 15.99 ISBN: 0060731605 Date: 2004
Kirkus PW SLJ
The acclaimed author of Tom's Midnight Garden introduces the Little Gentleman, a small black mole. But this mole has been tunneling for 300 years on his way from Scotland to England. Not only is he immortal, he can speak several languages and has very strong opinions.
Grades: 3-7 Category: Fiction | Speculative - The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
Author: Peck, Richard
Publisher: Dial $ 16.99 ISBN: 0803727364 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus PW SLJ
The award-winning author creates a whole world of folksy, one-of-a-kind characters in his newest novel. In 1904 Indiana, 15-year-old Russell Culver is raring to leave his small town. But he has a particularly eventful season of school ahead of him, led by a teacher he never expected--his sister, Tansy.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Fiction | Historical | Humor - If Not for the Cat
Author: Prelutsky, Jack & Ted Rand (Ilt)
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 16.99 ISBN: 0060596775 Date: 2004
Horn Book Kirkus PW
The "New York Times" bestselling picture book author serves up a series of haiku that reveals the mysteries of the animal kingdom in this beautifully illustrated collection that will puzzle, delight, and surprise
Grades: Toddler - 3rd Category: Poetry - Predator's Gold
Author: Reeve, Philip
Publisher: Eos $ 16.99 ISBN: 0060721936 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus PW
In this breathtaking sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve plunges readers into a ruthless and terrifyingly believable world where cities eat each other, betrayal is as common as ice, and loyalty offers the only chance for survival.
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction | Speculative - Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America
Author: Robinson, Sharon
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.95 ISBN: 0439425921 Date: 2004
Booklist PW SLJ
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 | Biography | Baseball - Sequoya: The Cherokee Man Who Gave his People Writing
Author: Rumford, James
Publisher: Hougton $ 16 ISBN: 0618369473 Date: 2004
Horn Book Kirkus SLJ
This beautiful picture book biography relates the story of Sequoyah, who creates a writing system for the Cherokee in the 1820s that would turn his people into a nation of readers and writers.
Grades: Preschool- 3rd Category: Nonfiction | Biography - Becoming Naomi Leon
Author: Ryan, Pam Munoz
Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.95 ISBN: 0439269695 Date: 2004
Bulletin Kirkus PW
From the award-winning author of Esperanza Rising comes a riveting novel about family and identity, drawn from the warmth, wisdom, and love of Ryan's own Mexican and Oklahoman heritages.
Grades: 4-7 Category: Fiction - Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy
Author: Schmidt, Gary D.
Publisher: Clarion $ 15 ISBN: 0618439293 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus SLJ
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 - Train of States
Author: Sis, Peter
Publisher: Greenwillow $ 17.99 ISBN: 0060578386 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin PW
As a freight train passes by a school, the students learn something about the United States from its cargo. Like floats in a parade, each of the the colorful, intricate wagons aboard the train celebrate the famous, symbolic, and historic aspects of each state in the country.
Grades: 1-5 Category: Nonfiction | Picture Book 11+ - Chandra's Secret
Author: Stratton, Allan
Publisher: Annick $ 8.95 ISBN: 1550378341 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin SLJ
Grades: 9-12 Category: Fiction - The Golem's Eye
Author: Stroud, Jonathan
Publisher: Hyperion $ 17.95 ISBN: 0786818603 Date: 2004
Bulletin PW SLJ
Young apprentice magician Nathaniel is working his way up the ranks of the government when a crisis hits--a monolithic, indestructible clay golem is making random attacks in London. Nathaniel and the all-powerful djinni, Bartimeaus, must travel to Prague to discover the source of the golem's power.
Grades: 5-9 Category: Fiction | Speculative - Double Helix
Author: Werlin, Nancy
Publisher: Dial $ 15.99 ISBN: 0803726066 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin PW SLJ
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 - Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
Author: Willems, Mo
Publisher: Hyperion $ 15.99 ISBN: 0786818700 Date: 2004
Booklist Bulletin Kirkus PW SLJ
Using a combination of muted black-and-white photos and expressive illustrations, the author of the Caldecott Honor book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! tells a true-to-life tale about what happens when Daddy's in charge and things go terribly, hilariously wrong.
Grades: Preschool - 3 Category: Picture Book - September Roses
Author: Winter, Jeanette
Publisher: FSG $ 14 ISBN: 0374367361 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus PW
After flying to America from South Africa for a flower show on September 11, 2001, two sisters--stranded in New York City when all flights out are canceled--find a loving way to display the 2,400 roses that have brought with them.
Grades: 2-6 Category: Fiction | Historical | Picture Book - The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Author: Wooding, Chris
Publisher: Orchard $ 16.95 ISBN: 0439546567 Date: 2004
Booklist Kirkus PW SLJ
At just 17, Thaniel is a wych-hunter. Together, he and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London. It is on one of these hunts that he first encounters Alaizabel Cray, who is half-crazed, lovely, and possessed.
Grades: 7+ Category: Fiction | Speculative
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