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Carver, A Life In Poems by Marilyn Nelson |
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Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine |
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Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson |
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Missing May by Cynthia Rylant |
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Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm |
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Rules by Cynthia Lord |
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Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan |
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The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron |
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The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer |
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The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg |
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| Multicultural/International |
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A Kwanzaa Fable by Eric V. Copage |
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Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Beatriz Vidal |
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For You Are a Kenyan Child by Kelly Cunnane ; art by Ana Juan |
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Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham |
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Goin' Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by] Jerry Pinkney |
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Good Morning China by Hu Yong Yi |
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Max celebrates Chinese New Year by Adria F. Klein ; illustrated by Mernie Gallagher-Cole |
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Peace One Day by byJeremy Gilley ; illustrated by Karen Blessen |
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Ryan and Jimmy : and the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together by Herb Shoveller |
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We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey through Tanzania by Laurie Krebs ; Illustrations by Julia Cairns |
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| Picture Books |
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A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech |
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Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin, Harry Bliss illustrator |
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Russell's Secret by Johanna Hurwitz, Heather Harms Maione illustrator |
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The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper, Loren Long illustrator |
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The Little Sleepy Head by Fran Manushkin, illustrated by Leonid Gore |
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When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry by Molly Bang |
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| Informational/Nonfiction |
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Ah, Music! by Aliki, written and illustrated by |
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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845 - 1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
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Honest Pretzels : and 64 Other Amazing Recipes For Cooks Ages 8 & Up by Mollie Katzen, written and illustrated by |
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Life in a Castle by Kay Eastwood |
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Lincoln: a Photobiography by Russell Freedman |
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Lost Cities by Jason Hook |
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Math appeal by Greg Tang ; illustrated by Harry Briggs |
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Ms. Frizzle's Adventures : Medieval Castle by Joanna Cole , illustrated by Bruce Degen |
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The Monster Health Book : A Guide To Eating Healthy, Being Active & Feeling Great For Monsters & Kids! by Edward Miller |
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What You Never Knew About Tubs, Toilets & Showers by Patricia Lauber ; illustrated by John Manders |
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| Fables/Folk Tales/Fairy Tales |
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Genies, Meanies, and Magic Rings : Three Tales From the Arabian nights by retold by Stephen Mitchell ; illustrations by Tom Pohrt. |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by retold by Laura Ljungkvist |
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The Book Without Words by Avi |
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf by retold by B.G. Hennessy ; illustrated by Boris Kulikov |
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The Princess Knight by Cornelia Funke ; illustrations by Kerstin Meyer ; translated by Anthea Bell |
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| Poetry |
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Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore, illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa |
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Runny babbit : A Billy Sook by Shel Silverstein |
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| Biography |
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Anne Frank by Josephine Poole ; illustrations by Angela Barrett |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Colin Bootman |
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Walt Disney : A Photo-Illustrated Biography by June Preszler ; consultant, Jerry Beck |
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| Bilingual Books |
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All about a month = Los meses : by Joanne Randolph ; traducción al español: María Cristina Brusca. |
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All about a season = las estaciones by Joanne Randolph ; traducción al español: María Cristina Brusca. |
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Eating Lunch At School/El Almuerzo en la Escuela by Joanne Mattern |
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Elephants/Elefantes by JoAnn Early Macken |
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What does a mail carrier do? = Lo que hacen los carteros by Lisa Trumbauer |
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| Short Stories |
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams |
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Christmas Stories For the Very Young by selected and edited by Sally Grindley ; illustrated by Helen Cooper |
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Invasion of the Road Weenies : and Other Warped and Creepy Tales by David Lubar |
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Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by translated and introduced by Naomi Lewis ; illustrated by Joel Stewart |
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Yo, Aesop! : Get A Load of These Fables by Paul Rosenthal ; illustrated by Marc Rosenthal. |
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| Fiction |
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Flora's Blanket by Debi Gliori |
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Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson |
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Horace and Morris, but Mostly Delores by James Howe, illustrated by Amy Walrod |
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Howling Hill by Will Hobbs, illustrated by Jill Kastner |
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Katie and the Mona Lisa by James Mayhew |
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Little Yau : A Fuzzhead Tale by Janell Cannon |
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Nobody's Diggier Than a Dog by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ; Illustrated by Beppe Giacobbe |
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Slippers At School by Andrew Clements ; illustrated by Janie Bynum |
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The Beautiful World that God Made by Rhonda Gowler Greene, illustrated by Anne Wilson |
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Wicked Big Toddlah by Kevin Hawkes, illustrated by Alfred A. Knopf |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket, illustrations by Brett Helquist |
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Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm by Herman Parish ; pictures by Lynn Sweat |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling |
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Magic Tree House: Thanksgiving on Thursday by Mary Pope Osborne ; illustrated by Sal Murdocca |
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Mr. Klutz Is Nuts! by Dan Gutman, ; pictures by Jim Paillot |
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| Caldecott Medal Award |
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Golem by David Wisniewski |
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Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes |
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford; Illustrator: Kadir Nelson |
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My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann |
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Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky |
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Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin ; illustrated by Mary Azarian |
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The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster, Illus. by Chris Raschka |
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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein |
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The Three Pigs by David Weisner |
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| Georgia Children's Book Award |
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Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester ; illustrated by Lynn Munsinger |
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My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza |
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No, David! by David Shannon |
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Stanley's party by Linda Bailey ; illustrated by Bill Slavin |
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith. |
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| Historical Fiction |
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Across the Blue Pacific : A World War II Story by Louise Borden ; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker |
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Gold Fever by Verla Kay ; illustrations by S.D. Schindler |
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Grandmama's Pride by Becky Birtha ; illustrated by Colin Bootman |
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January 1905 by Katharine Boling |
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Roanoke, the Lost Colony: An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple ; illustrated by Roger Roth |
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| Fantasy/Science Fiction |
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Charlie Bone and The Time Twister by Jenny Nimmo |
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Chicken Chuck by Bill Martin ; illustrated by Steven Salerno |
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The Divide by Elizabeth Kay |
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The Navigator by Eoin McNamee |
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Titchy Witch and The Stray Dragon by Rose Impey ; illustrated by Katharine McEwen |
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| Upper Elementary (4th - 6th Grade) |
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12 Again by Sue Corbett |
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A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968 by Diane Mcwhorter ; Illus. with photographs |
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Do You Remember the Color Blue? : and Other Questions Kids Ask About Blindness by Sally Hobart Alexander |
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Double Fudge by Judy Blume |
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Grass Angel by Julie Schumacher |
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Head To Toe Science: 40 Eye-popping, Spine-tingling, Heart-pounding Activities That Teach Kids About the Human Body by Jim Wiese |
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Marooned : the Strange But True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe by Robert Kraske ; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker |
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So You Want To Be President? by Judith St. George ; illustrated by David Small |
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The Same Stuff As Stars by Katherine Paterson |
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Three Good Deeds by Vivian Vande Velde |
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| Read A-Long/Audiobooks |
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Holes by Louis Sachar |
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Miss Nelson is Back by Harry Allard |
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The Mysterious Tadpole by Steven Kellogg |
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