Books for Children 3 and Under
Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8
Short Books or Picture Books with More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10)
Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12)
Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and Up)
Poetry
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| Books for Children 3 and Under | ||||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| Animal Train | Little Simon/Simon and Schuster | 0-689-84838-2 | 8.99 | |
| Benny and the Binky | Barbro Lindgren | R&S Books/Farrar Straus Giroux | 91-29-65497-1 | 15.00 |
| Get to Work Trucks! | Don Carter | Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook | 0-7613-2518-2 | |
| Gossie/Gossie and Gertie | Oliver Dunrea | Houghton Mifflin Company |
0-618-17674-8 0-618-17676-4 |
9.95 |
| Kitten and Friends | St. Martin's Press | St. Martins Press | 0-312-49024-0 | 6.95 |
| Olivia Counts/Olivia's Opposites | Ian Falconer | Anne Schwartz/Atheneum/Simon & Schuster |
0-689-85087-5 0-689-85088-3 |
6.99 |
| Owen's Marshmallow Chick | Kevin Henkes | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | 0-06-001012-6 | 6.95 |
| Where Are My Chicks? | Sally Grindley | Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam | 0-8037-2497-7 | 9.99 |
| Picture Books for Children Ages 4 to 8 | ||||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| All About Frogs | Jim Arnosky | Scholastic Press | 0-590-48164-9 | 15.95 |
| Alphabet Under Construction | Denise Fleming | Henry Holt | 0-8050-6848-1 | 16.95 |
| Atlantic | G. Brian Karas | Putnam | 0-399-23632-5 | 15.99 |
| Barkus, Sly and the Golden Egg | Angela McAllister | Bloomsbury Children's Books/ St.Martins Press | 1-58234-764-6 | 15.95 |
| Billywise | Judith Nicholls | Bloomsbury Children's Books/St.Martins Press | 1-58234-778-6 | 16.95 |
| Bubba and Beau: Best Friends | Kathi Appelt | Harcourt | 0-15-202060-8 | 16.00 |
| Dahlia | Barbara McClintock | Farrar Straus and Giroux | 0-374-31678-3 | 16.00 |
| Dog Eared | Amanda Harvey | Doubleday/Random House |
0-385-72911-1 0-385-90845-8 |
15.95 |
| Duck on a Bike | David Shannon | Blue Sky Press/Scholastic | 0-439-05023-5 | 15.95 |
| Epossumondas | Coleen Salley | Harcourt | 0-15-216758-X | 16.00 |
| Farfallina & Marcel | Holly Keller | Greenwillow/HarperCollins |
0-06-623932-X 0-06-623933-8 |
15.99 |
| Frog Hunt | Sandra Jordan | Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook |
0-7613-1592-6 0-7613-2652-9 |
15.95 |
| Giggle, Giggle, Quack | Doreen Cronin | Simon & Schuster | 0-689-84506-5 | 15.95 |
| Goose's Story | Cari Best | Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux | 0-374-32750-5 | 16.00 |
| Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia | Retold by Won-Ldy Paye & Margaret H. Lippert | Henry Holt | 0-8050-6570-9 | 16.95 |
| Hondo & Fabian | Peter McCarty | Henry Holt | 0-8050-6352-8 | 16.95 |
| I Stink! | Kate & Jim McMullan | Joanne Cotler Books/HarperCollins | 0-06-029848-0 | 15.95 |
| Jack Outwits the Giants | Paul Brett Johnson | Margaret McElderry/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-83902-2 | 16.00 |
| Jazzy in the Jungle | Lucy Cousins | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-1903-5 | 14.99 |
| Little Pig Is Capable | Denis Roche | Houghton | 0-395-91368-3 | 15.00 |
| My Friend Rabbit | Eric Rohmann | Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook | 0-7613-2420-8 | 22.90 |
| No More Kissing! | Emma Chichester Clark | Doubleday/Random House |
0-385-74619-9 0-385-90843-1 |
15.95 |
| Noah's Ark | Jerry Pinkney | SeaStar Books/North-South |
1-5871-7201-1 1-5871-7202-X |
15.95 |
| Pearl's Passover: A Family Celebration through Stories, Recipes, Crafts, and Songs | Jane Breskin Zalben | Simon & Schuster | 0-689-81487-9 | 16.00 |
| Picture a Letter | Brad Sneed | Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam | 0-8037-2613-9 | 15.99 |
| Rap-A-Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles - Think of That | Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon | Blue Sky Press/Scholastic | 0-590-47883-4 | 15.95 |
| Saturday Escape, The | Daniel J. Mahoney | Clarion Books/Houghton | 0-618-13326-7 | 14.00 |
| Snow | Manya Stojic | Alfred A. Knopf |
0-375-82348-4 0-375-92348-9 |
15.95 17.99 |
| Spider and the Fly, The | Tony DiTerlizzi | Simon & Schuster | 0-689-85289-4 | 16.95 |
| Tanya and the Red Shoes | Patricia Lee Gauch | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | 0-399-23314-8 | 16.99 |
| That Pesky Rat | Lauren Child | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-1873-X | 15.99 |
| This is the House That Jack Built | Simms Taback | Putnam | 0-399-23488-8 | 15.99 |
| Three Silly Girls Grubb, The | John Hassett and Ann Hassett | Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton | 0-618-14183-9 | 15.00 |
| Tom Mouse | Ursula K. Le Guin | Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook |
0-7613-1599-3 0-7613-2663-4 |
15.95 22.90 |
| What About Me? | Ed Young | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | 0-399-23624-4 | 16.99 |
| Short Books or Picture Books with More Text Than Usual for Younger Readers (Children 5 to 10) | ||||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| 7 x 9 = Trouble! | Claudia Mills | Farrar Straus Giroux | 0-374-36746-9 | 15.00 |
| Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark | Dorothy Hinshaw Patent | Clarion/Houghton | 0-395-91415-9 | 18.00 |
| Berta: A Remarkable Dog | Celia Barker Lottridge | Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre |
0-88899-461-3 0-88899-469-9 |
4.95 |
| Bug Scientists, The | Donna M. Jackson | Houghton | 0-618-10868-8 | 16.00 |
| Butterflies in the Garden | Carol Lerner | HarperCollins | 0-688-17478-7 | 16.95 |
| Declaration of Independence, The | Sam Fink | Scholastic Reference | 0-439-40700-1 | 19.95 |
| Earth From Above; for Young Readers | Robert Burleigh | Harry N. Abrams | 0-8109-3486-8 | 12.95 |
| Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey | Maira Kalman | Putnam | 0-399-23953-7 | 16.99 |
| Get Well, Good Knight |
Shelley Moore Thomas Picture by Jennifer Plecas |
Dutton/Penguin Putnam | 0-525-46914-1 | 13.99 |
| Gooney Bird Greene | Lois Lowry | Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton | 0-618-23848-4 | 15.00 |
| Gus and Grandpa and the Halloween Costume | Claudia Mills | Farrar Straus Giroux | 0-374-32816-1 | 15.00 |
| I pledge allegiance: The Pledge of Allegiance: with Commentary | Bill Martin, Jr. and Michael Sampson | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-1648-6 | 15.99 |
| Ice Cream | Elisha Cooper | Greenwillow/HarperCollins |
0-06-001423-7 0-06-001424-5 |
15.95 |
| If the Shoe Fits | Gary Soto | Putnam | 0-399-23420-9 | 15.99 |
| Iris and Walter: The Sleepover | Elissa Haden Guest | Gulliver/Harcourt | 0-15-216487-1 | 14.00 |
| Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child | Bob Graham | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-1772-5 | 15.99 |
| King Midas: The Golden Touch | Demi | Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-83297-4 | 19.95 |
| Lapin Plays Possum | Sharon Arms Doucet | Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux | 0-374-34328-4 | 18.00 |
| Mole and the Baby Bird | Marjorie Newman | Bloomsbury Children's Books/St.Martins Press | 1-58234-784-0 | 16.95 |
| Moonbeams, Dumplings, & Dragon Boats | Nina Simonds, Leslie Swartz, & The Children's Museum | Gulliver/Harcourt | 0-15-201983-9 | 20.00 |
| New York's Bravest | Mary Pope Osborne | Alfred A. Knopf | 0-375-82196-1 0-375-92196-6 | 15.95 |
| Paisano, Roadrunner, The | Jennifer Owings Dewey | Millbrook Press | 0-7613-1250-1 | 23.90 |
| Penguin Chick | Betty Tatham | HarperCollins |
0-06-028594-X 0-06-028595-8 0-06-445206-9 |
15.95 4.95 |
| Pond | Gordon Morrison | Walter Lorraine/Houghton Mifflin | 0-618-10271-X | 16.00 |
| Pot That Juan Built, The | Nancy Andrews-Goebel | Lee & Low Books | 1-58430-038-8 | 16.95 |
| Puss in Cowboy Boots | Jan & Phil Huling | Simon & Schuster | 0-689-83119-6 | 16.00 |
| Robert and the Weird & Wacky Facts | Barbara Seuling | Cricket Books | 0-8126-2653-2 | 15.95 |
| Salmon Creek | Annette LeBox and Karen Reczuch | Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre | 0-88899-458-3 | 16.95 |
| Seymour Simon's Book of Trains | Seymour Simon | HarperCollins |
0-06-028475-7 0-06-028476-5 |
16.95 |
| Slim and Jim | Richard Egielski | Laura Geringer Books/HarperCollins | 0-06-028352-1 | 15.95 |
| Talkin' About Bessie | Nikki Grimes | Orchard Books/Scholastic | 0-439-35243-6 | 16.95 |
| Tell Me, Tree: All About Trees for Kids | Gail Gibbons | Little Brown & Co | 0-316-30903-6 | 15.95 |
| Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving | Laurie Halse Anderson | Simon & Schuster | 0-689-84787-4 | 16.95 |
| Three Questions, The | Jon J. Muth | Scholastic Press | 0-439-19996-4 | 16.95 |
| To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers | Wendie Old | Clarion/Houghton | 0-618-13347-X | 16.00 |
| When Marian Sang | Pam Muñoz Ryan | Scholastic Press | 0-439-26967-9 | 16.95 |
| World Team | Tim Vyner | Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook |
0-7613-1497-0 0-7613-2409-7 |
22.90 |
| Longer Books with More Sophisticated Themes for Middle Readers (Children 8 to 12) | ||||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| Action Jackson | Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan | Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook |
0-7613-1682-5 0-7613-2770-3 |
16.95 22.90 |
| Blizzard's Wake | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-85220-7 | 16.95 |
| Bury the Dead | Christopher Sloan | National Geographic Society | 0-7922-7192-0 | 18.95 |
| Confucius: The Golden Rule | Russell Freedman | Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic | 0-439-13957-0 | 15.95 |
| Coraline | Neil Gaiman | HarperCollins |
0-380-97778-8 0-06-623744-0 |
15.99 |
| Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi | Hyperion Press | 0-7868-0828-4 | 15.99 |
| Darby | Jonathon Scott Fuqua | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-1417-3 | 15.99 |
| Dillon Dillon | Kate Banks | Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux | 0-374-31786-0 | 16.00 |
| Feed the Children First: Irish Memories of the Great Hunger | Mary E. Lyons | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-84226-0 | 17.00 |
| Flood | James Heneghan | Frances Foster Books/Farrar,Straus and Giroux | 0-374-35057-4 | 16.00 |
| Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth | Sally M. Walker | Carolrhoda Books/Lerner | 1-57505-536-8 | 17.95 |
| Girl in a Cage | Jane Yolen | Philomel/Penguin Putnam | 0-399-23627-9 | 18.99 |
| If the World Were A Village: A Book about the World's People | David J. Smith | Kids Can | 1-55074-779-7 | 15.95 |
| Kite Rider, The | Geraldine McCaughrean | HarperCollins |
0-06-623874-9 0-06-623875-7 |
15.95 |
| Laura Secord: A Story of Courage | Janet Lunn | Tundra Books | 0-88776-538-6 | 16.95 |
| Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution | Steve Jenkins | Houghton | 0-618-16476-6 | 16.00 |
| Loser | Jerry Spinelli | Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins | 0-06-000193-3 | 15.99 |
| No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance | Doreen Rappaport | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-0984-6 | 17.99 |
| Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science | John Fleishman | Houghton | 0-618-05252-6 | 16.00 |
| Pictures of Hollis Woods | Patricia Reilly Giff | Wendy Lamb Books/Random House | 0-385-32655-6 | 15.95 |
| Ruby Holler | Sharon Creech | Joanna Cotler Books/HarperCollins |
0-06-027732-7 0-06-027733-5 |
16.99 |
| Saffy's Angel | Hilary McKay | Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-84933-8 | 16.00 |
| Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam | Diane Stanley | HarperCollins | 0-688-17135-4 | 16.99 |
| Same Stuff as Stars, The | Katherine Paterson | Clarion/Houghton | 0-618-24744-0 | 15.00 |
| Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes | Wendelin Van Draanen | Alfred A. Knopf | 0-375-81175-3 | 15.95 |
| Stone in My Hand, A | Cathryn Clinton | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-1388-6 | 15.99 |
| Straydog | Kathe Koja | Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux | 0-374-37278-0 | 16.00 |
| Surviving the Applewhites | Stephanie S. Tolan | Harper Collins |
0-06-623602-9 0-06-623603-7 |
15.99 |
| Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America | Tonya Bolden | Harry N. Abrams | 0-8109-4496-0 | 24.95 |
| Thief Lord, The | Cornelia Junke | The Chicken House/Scholastic | 0-439-40437-1 | 16.95 |
| Thieves of Ostia, The A Roman Mystery | Caroline Lawrence | Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook | 0-7613-1582-9 | 15.95 |
| Time Stops for No Mouse | Michael Hoeye | Putnam | 0-399-23878-6 | 14.99 |
| What Would Joey Do? | Jack Gantos | Farrar Straus and Giroux | 0-374-39986-7 | 16.00 |
| When My Name was Keoko | Linda Sue Park | Clarion/Houghton | 0-618-13335-6 | 16.00 |
| Winter People, The | Joseph Bruchac | Dial/Penguin Putnam | 0-8037-2694-5 | 16.99 |
| Zulu Dog | Anton Ferreira | Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux | 0-374-39223-4 | 16.00 |
| Young Adult (Generally Children 12 and Up) | ||||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| Ashes of Roses | Mary Jane Auch | Henry Holt | 0-8050-6686-1 | 16.95 |
| Big Mouth & Ugly Girl | Joyce Carol Oates | HarperCollins |
0-06-623756-4 0-06-623758-0 |
16.99 |
| Born Confused | Tanuja Desai Hidier | Scholastic Press | 0-439-35762-4 | 16.95 |
| Bronx Masquerade | Nikki Grimes | Dial/Penguin Putnam | 0-8037-2569-8 | 16.99 |
| Catalyst | Laurie Halse Anderson | Viking/Penguin Putnam | 0-670-03566-1 | 17.99 |
| Corner of the Universe, A | Ann M. Martin | Scholastic Press | 0-439-38880-5 | 15.95 |
| David Livingstone | Frances Freedman | World Almanac |
0-8368-5015-7 0-8368-5175-7 |
26.60 |
| Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster | Albert Marrin | Dutton/Penguin Putnam | 0-525-46922-2 | 17.99 |
| Gingerbread | Rachel Cohn | Simon & Schuster | 0-689-84337-2 | 15.95 |
| Hole in My Life | Jack Gantos | Farrar Straus Giroux | 0-374-39988-3 | 16.00 |
| House of the Scorpion, The | Nancy Farmer | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-85222-3 | 17.95 |
| Hush | Jacqueline Woodson | Putnam | 0-399-23114-5 | 15.99 |
| Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas: Further, Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson | Louise Rennison | HarperCollins |
0-06-623656-8 0-06-623695-9 |
15.99 |
| Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, The | James Cross Giblin | Clarion/Houghton | 0-395-90371-8 | 21.00 |
| Looking for Life in the Universe: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence | Ellen Jackson | Houghton | 0-618-12894-8 | 16.00 |
| Looking for Red | Angela Johnson | Simon & Schuster | 0-689-83253-2 | 15.95 |
| Mississippi Trial, 1955 | Chris Crowe | Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Putnam | 0-8037-2745-3 | 17.99 |
| My Heartbeat | Garret Freymann-Weyr | Houghton | 0-618-14181-2 | 15.00 |
| Patrol | Walter Dean Myers | HarperCollins | 0-06-028363-7 | 16.95 |
| Postcards from No Man's Land | Aidan Chambers | Dutton/Penguin Putnam | 0-525-46863-3 | 19.99 |
| Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex | Nathaniel Philbrick | Putnam | 0-399-23795-X | 16.99 |
| Shattering Glass | Gail Giles | Roaring Brook Press/Millbrook |
0-7613-1581-0 0-7613-2601-4 |
15.95 |
| Six Days in October | Karen Blumenthal | Atheneum/Simon & Schuster | 0-689-84276-7 | 17.95 |
| Sonny's War | Valerie Hobbs | Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux | 0-374-37136-9 | 16.00 |
| Stoner & Spaz | Ron Koertge | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-1608-7 | 15.95 |
| This Land was Made for You and Me | Elizabeth Partridge | Viking/Penguin Putnam | 0-670-03535-1 | 21.99 |
| Thursday's Child | Sonya Hartnett | Candlewick Press | 0-7636-1620-6 | 15.99 |
| Wild Man Island | Will Hobbs | HarperCollins | 0-688-17473-6 | 15.95 |
| Poetry | ||||
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN | Price |
| Body Eclectic. The | Patrice Vecchione | Henry Holt | 0-8050-6935-6 | 16.95 |
| Love to Langston | Tony Medina | Lee & Low Books | 1-58430-041-8 | 16.95 |
| Peacock and Other Poems | Valerie Worth | Farrar Straus Giroux | 0-374-35766-8 | 15.00 |
| Scranimals | Jack Prelutsky | Greenwillow/HarperCollins |
0-688-17819-7 0-688-17820-0 |
16.99 |
| Summersaults | Douglas Florian | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | 0-06-029267-9 | 15.95 |
| Wild Wings: Poems for Young People | Jane Yolen | Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press | 1-56397-904-7 | 17.95 |
| Wings on the Wind: Bird Poems | Kate Kiesler | Clarion/Houghton | 0-618-13333-X | 14.00 |
| 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East | Naomi Shihab Nye | Greenwillow/HarperCollins | 0-06-009765-5 | 16.95 |
Added/Updated 04/01/04
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