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Grades K-3
Annie and Snowball and the Cozy Nest
(Part of Annie and Snowball)
By: Cynthia Rylant
Illustrated by: Suçie Stevenson
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 10, 2009
Ages: 5 - 7
Someone is building a nest on Annie's porch. Annie can't wait to show her favorite cousin, Henry. Every day they watch the nest grow bigger and bigger.One day give small eggs appear. Annie and Henry love seeing the mother...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
Grades 3-6
Room One
A Mystery or Two
By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick / Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: June 27, 2006
Ages: 8 - 12
Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out...
Hey Batta Batta Swing!
The Wild Old Days of Baseball
By: James Charlton and Sally Cook
Illustrated by: Ross MacDonald
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 6 - 10
TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE OF BASEBALL IN THIS FUNNY, FASCINATING JOURNEY FROM THE EARLIEST GAMES TO TODAY. Discover what it was like before there was a pitching mound or players had numbers on their jerseys. Learn how Babe...
Kickoff!
By: Tiki Barber and Ronde Barber
Cover By: Kadir Nelson / with: Paul Mantell
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: October 23, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
"Hut! Hut! Go long, Tiki!"Tiki and Ronde's twelfth summer is winding down -- the nights are gettingshorter and the evenings cooler. That means two things: The first day of junior high is just a few days away, and it's almost...
Grades 6-8
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
Young Adult
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....
Uglies
By: Scott Westerfeld
Cover By: Carissa Pelleteri / Designed by: Rodrigo Corral
This edition: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publication date: February 8, 2005
Ages: above 12
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an...
Other Formats: eBook
Primary
That Book Woman
By: Heather Henson
Illustrated by: David Small
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: October 7, 2008
Ages: 4 - 8
Cal is not the readin' type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, he'd rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope. Cal does not want to sit stoney-still reading some...
Pennsylvania Winners List
Pennsylvania Reader's Choice Award 2008-2009
No Talking
By: Andrew Clements
Cover By: Brian Selznick / Illustrated by: Mark Elliott
This edition: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publication date: June 26, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
"You have the right to remain silent." However...The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's why the...
