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| All the Water in the World |
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George Ella Lyon
Publishers Weekly Pattern-driven digital illustrations pair with concrete verse to express water's cycli...More |
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| A Ball for Daisy |
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Chris Raschka
School Library Journal PreS-Gr 2-Ever the minimalist, Raschka continues to experiment with what is essential...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| Blackout |
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John Rocco
Book list It's a scenario many kids are probably all too familiar with: a young boy wants to play, but ol...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| Bring on the Birds |
Susan Stockdale
Book list This picture book celebrates the diversity of birds by presenting their varied physical features an...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| Chirchir Is Singing |
Kelly Cunnane
Publishers Weekly Cunnane returns to the Kenyan setting of her 2006 picture book, For You Are a Kenyan Child...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| Dot |
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Patricia Intriago
School Library Journal PreS-Gr 1-In this whimsical book about opposites, each dot acts as a visual analogy. ...More |
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| 2012 (Younger) |
| Grandpa Green |
Lane Smith
Publishers Weekly In this reflective tale, Smith (It's a Book) departs from his customary irony to muse ...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| Harry and Hopper |
Margaret Wild
Publishers Weekly Redheaded Harry and his spotted dog, Hopper, are constant companions, accomplices ("A...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| I Broke My Trunk |
Mo Willems
Book list Elephant and Piggie remain in the storytelling mode of We Are in a Book! (2010). After showing up w...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| I Want My Hat Back |
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Jon Klassen
Book list Klassen, who illustrated Caroline Stutson's Cats' Night Out (2010), pens his first story in...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| King Jack and the Dragon |
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Peter Bently
Book list Three boys in various stages of diaperdom build a cardboard castle in the back garden and fight dra...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| Little White Rabbit |
Kevin Henkes
Publishers Weekly Move over, "sunshine." Ogburn and Raschka give families a whole new vocabulary w...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| Me...Jane |
Patrick McDonnell
School Library Journal PreS-Gr 2-In this tender homage to the famous primatologist, McDonnell gives readers ...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| Mouse and Lion |
Rand Burkert
Book list *Starred Review* In this beautiful Aesop retelling from a mother-and-son team, a tiny grass mouse t...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| Naamah and the Ark at Night |
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti
School Library Journal PreS-Gr 2-In most books about Noah, his wife plays a supporting role, if any, but Bar...More |
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| 2012 (Younger Readers) |
| Over and Under the Snow |
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Kate Messner
Book list Gliding through the woodland on skis, a girl and her father watch for signs of animals. A squirrel&...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| Breaking Stalin's Nose |
Eugene Yelchin
School Library Journal Gr 5-7-Velchin skillfully combines narrative with dramatic black-and-white illustrati...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| E-mergency! |
Tom Lichtenheld
Publishers Weekly Picture books often get by on a single comic device, but Lichtenheld (Goodnight, Goodnight...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems |
Kristine O'Connell George
School Library Journal Gr 1-4-Jessica shares the struggles of being the big sister in this collection of 34 ...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| Inside Out and Back Again |
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Thanhha Lai
School Library Journal Gr 4-6-A story based on the author's childhood experiences. Ha is 10 when Saigon ...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| Junonia |
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Kevin Henkes
Publishers Weekly In this introspective story about a child's search for a rare shell, Henkes (Bird Lake...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| The Lily Pond |
Annika Thor
Choice Pons was an important operatic presence in the US and Europe during the 1930s and '40s, and at las...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| Migrant |
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Maxine Trottier
Book list In a migrant-family story rarely told, this touching picture book stays true to a young child's...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| No Ordinary Day |
Deborah Ellis
Publishers Weekly Ellis (the Breadwinner trilogy) again brings an individual humanity to newspaper headlines...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| The Third Gift |
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Linda Sue Park
School Library Journal K-Gr 2-A boy tells of the long walks he takes with his father, who collects pearls of...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| The Trouble with May Amelia |
Jennifer L. Holm
Publishers Weekly Anyone interested in learning to write crowd-pleasing historical fiction for elementary sc...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| Underground |
Shane Evans
School Library Journal Gr 1-3-A stellar introduction to the Underground Railroad, narrated by a group of sla...More |
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| 2012 (Middle Readers) |
| The Unforgotten Coat |
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Book list With both humor and sorrow, this chapter book tells a contemporary refugee story in which illegal i...More |
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| 2012 (Older Readers) |
| Anya's Ghost |
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Vera Brosgol
School Library Journal Gr 7 Up-Anya is a Russian girl who wants to fit in with her American classmates. She ...More |
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| 2012 (Older Readers) |
| Between Shades of Gray |
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Ruta Sepetys
Publishers Weekly Through the pained yet resilient narration of 15-year-old Lina, a gifted artist, this taut...More |
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| 2012 (Older Readers) |
| Bluefish |
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Pat Schmatz
School Library Journal Gr 7-9-Eighth-grader Travis, tall and quiet, is beginning his first year in a new sch...More |
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| 2012 (Older Readers) |
| Dead End in Norvelt |
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Jack Gantos
Book list Looks like a bummer of a summer for 11-year-old Jack (with a same-name protagonist, it's tempti...More |
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| 2012 (Older Readers) |
| Drawing from Memory |
Allen Say
Publishers Weekly Retooling some of the material in his autobiographical middle-grade novel The Ink-Keeper&#...More |
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| 2012 (Older Readers) |
| The Elephant Scientist |
Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson
School Library Journal Gr 5-8-O'Connell traveled to Africa in 1992 to observe wild animals; the trip tur...More |
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| 2012 (Older Readers) |
| Flyaway |
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Lucy Christopher
Book list *Starred Review* Like her father and grandfather, 13-year-old Isla seems to have a mystical connect...More |
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| 2012 (Older Readers) |
| Hidden |
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Helen Frost
Book list Though Wren and Darra have never even made eye contact, they share a secret history that changed bo...More |
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| 2012 (Older Readers) |
| A Monster Calls: A Novel |
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Patrick Ness
School Library Journal Gr 7 Up-Conor O'Malley, 13, is having a difficult time. At school, he copes with ...More |
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