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All Aboard for Dreamland!
By: Melanie Harby
Illustrated by: Geraldo Valerio
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: June 3, 2008
Ages: 2 - 5
All aboard for Dreamland! Hear the whistle blow! All aboard for Dreamland! Hurry Up! Hop on! Let's go!Hop aboard for a topsy-turvy ride through Wiggletown, Giggletown, and all the drowsy towns on the way to sleep. Geraldo...
Going, Going, Gone!
And Other Silly Dilly Sports Songs
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: David Catrow
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2009
Ages: 3 - 8
Calling all silly dilly fans!Get ready to take a giant time-out for laughs, 'cause the bestselling creators of Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs and Are You Quite Polite? Silly Dilly Manners Songs are back...
Teen
The Nature of Jade
By: Deb Caletti
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: March 25, 2008
Ages: above 12
I am not my illness. "Girl with Anxiety," "Trauma of the Week" -- no. I hate stuff like that. Everyone, everyone has their issue. But the one thing my illness did make me realize is how necessary it is to ignore the dangers of...
Unwind
By: Neal Shusterman
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: November 6, 2007
Ages: above 14
Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family's strict religion....
City of Bones
(Part of Mortal Instruments, The)
By: Cassandra Clare
Cover By: Cliff Nielsen
This edition: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 14
Their hidden world is about to be revealed.... When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers...
Intermediate
Cracker!
The Best Dog in Vietnam
By: Cynthia Kadohata
Cover By: Shane Rebenschied
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: February 6, 2007
Ages: above 10
CRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS:a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She's a Big Deal, and she likes...
Tween
Cracker!
The Best Dog in Vietnam
By: Cynthia Kadohata
Cover By: Shane Rebenschied
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: February 6, 2007
Ages: above 10
CRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS:a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She's a Big Deal, and she likes...
Arizona Winners List
2011 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee
Tween
Palace of Mirrors
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Cover By: Ali Smith
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: September 30, 2008
Ages: 10 - 14
"Somewhere in the world I have a tiara in a little box. It is not safe for me to wear it...It is not safe for me even to tell anyone who I really am. But I know -- I have always known."Cecilia knows that she is not just...
Chains
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
Cover By: Christopher Silas Neal
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 21, 2008
Ages: above 10
If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth,...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Intermediate
The Sky Inside
By: Clare B. Dunkle
Cover By: Sammy Yuen Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publication date: March 25, 2008
Ages: above 12
Martin lives in a perfect world. Every year, a new generation of children arrives on a conveyor belt to meet their parents. Every spring, the residents of this suburb take down the snow they've stuck to their windows and put...
