C&I 435 - Children's Literature

New & Notable Books
2009


Picture Books

 

Abbie in Stitches by Cynthia Cotten
Abe's Fish A Boyhood Tale of Abraham Lincoln by Jen Bryant
Beauty and the Beaks by Mary Jane Auch
Buffalo Song by Joseph Bruchac
Cora Cooks Pancit by Dorina Lazo Gilmore
Cowboy Sam and Those Confounded Secrets by Kitty Griffin and K. Combs
Dad, Jackie, and Me. by Myron Uhlberg
The Errant Knight by Ann Tompert
Flotsam by David Wiesner
Gimme Cracked Corn and I will Share by Kevin O'Malley
The Greatest Potatoes by Penelope Stowell
Granite Baby by Lynne Bertrand

Happy Birthday to You: How Two Kentucky Kindergarten Teachers Wrote The Most Famous Song In The World by Margot Theis Raven & illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet

Horse Song by Ted and Betsy Lewin
I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote by Linda Arms White
The Last Brother: A Civil War Tale by Trinka Hakes Noble
LaRue for Mayor by Mark Teague

Marvelous Mercer by Shea Megale

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The Moon Over Star by Dianna Hutts Aston
My Chincoteague Pony by Susan Jeffers
Night Boat to Freedom by Margot Theis Raven
Pappy's Handkerchief by Devin Scillian
Riding to Washington by Gwenyth Swain
Seeing the Elephant A Story of the Civil War by Pat Hughes
Seven Miles to Freedom by Janet Halfmann
Stealing Home by Robert Burleigh
Super Dog, The Heart of a Hero by Caralyn Buchner and Mark Buehner
Tea for Ruby by Sarah Ferguson
Thump, Quack, Moo by Doreen Cronin
Waynetta and the Cornstalk : a Texas fairy tale by Helen Ketterman

 

Informational Books

 

A Is For Abigail: An Almanac Of Amazing American Women by Lynne Cheney
Abe's Honest Words The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Doreen Rappaport
America at War: Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins Edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins
A Million Dots by Andrew Clements
Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World by Cynthia Chin-Lee
Ballpark: The Story of America's Baseball Fields by Lynn Curlee
The Beautiful World that God Made by Rhonda Gowler Greene
A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero by Gina Capaldi
Count On Us by Amy Nathan
Down the Colorado John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer by Deborah Kogan Ray
Farmer George Plants a Nation by Peggy Thomas
Forest Explorer, A Life Sized Field Guide by Nic Bishop  
The Forever Forest Kids Save a Tropical Treasure by Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedom
Franklin and Eleanor by Cheryl Harness
Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas by Cheryl Bardoe
Helen's Eyes, A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan by M. F. Delano
How we Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate by Lynne Cherry
Look-Alikes Around the World An Album of Amazing Postcards by Joan Steiner
Mom and Dad Are Palindromes by Mark Shulman and Adam McCauley
Monarch and Milkweed by Helen Frost and Leonid Gore
Of Numbers and Stars The Story of Hypatia by D. Anne Love
Patience Wright: America's First Sculptor, and Revolutionary Spy by
Pegi Deitz Shea
Rachel Carson Preserving A Sense of Wonder by Thomas Locker and Joseph Bruchac
The Secret World of Walter Anderson by Hester Bass
A Seed Is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston & Sylvia Long
Sitting Bull Remembers by Ann Turner
Skillet Bread, Sourdough, and Vinegar Pie: Cooking in Pioneer Days by Loretta Ichord
Stearling Home Jackie robinson: Against the Odds by Robert Burleigh
Thanks a Million by Nikki Grimes
What to do About Alice by Barbara Kerley
The Wolves are Back by Jean Craighead George
You can, toucan, math : word problem-solving fun by David A. Adler
You're on Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt by Judith St. George

 

Novels

 

AL CAPONE SHINES MY SHOES
by Gennifer Choldenko
All the Way Home - Patricia Reilly Giff

Book of A Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

Broken Song by Kathryn Lasky
Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon
Don't Talk to Me About the War by David A. Adler

Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

FAITH, HOPE, AND IVY JUNE
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages

Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park
The Magician's Boy by Susan Cooper

Mozart Question by Michael Foreman

Mutiny's Daughter by Ann Rinaldi
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewa
On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall

Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park

Raleigh's Page by Alan Armstrong
Tasting the Sky : a Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams
Water Street by Patricia Reilly Giff

 

 

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