Richie's Picks: Great Books for Children and Young Adults

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19 April 2008 SHIFT by Jennifer Bradbury, Atheneum, May 2008, 245p., ISBN: 1-4169-4732-9 Read the review (last modified: 18 days 19 hours 19 minutes 38 seconds ago)

15 April 2008 THE LINCOLNS: A SCRAPBOOK LOOK AT ABRAHAM AND MARY by Candace Fleming, Schwartz & Wade Books, October 2008, 176 pages, ISBN: 978-0-375-83618-3; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-375-93618-0 Read the review (last modified: 21 days 5 hours 43 minutes 40 seconds ago)

11 April 2008 TEN MILE RIVER by Paul Griffin, Dial, June 2008, 196p. ISBN: 978-0-8037-3284-1 Read the review (last modified: 21 days 5 hours 44 minutes 12 seconds ago)

4 April 2008 AIN'T NOTHING BUT A MAN: MY QUEST TO FIND THE REAL JOHN HENRY by Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson, National Geographic, January 2008, 64p. ISBN: 978-1-4263-0000-4 Read the review (last modified: 21 days 5 hours 45 minutes 26 seconds ago)

03 April 2008 THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY by Siobhan Dowd, RH/David Fickling Books, February 2008, 324p. ISBN: 978-0-375-84976-3 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 16 minutes 7 seconds ago)

31 March 2008 GHOST OF SPIRIT BEAR by Ben Mikaelsen, HarperCollins, June 2008, 154p. ISBN: 978-0-06-009007-4 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 17 minutes 1 seconds ago)

24 March 2008 SWEETHEARTS by Sara Zarr, Little Brown, April 2008, 217p. ISBN: 0-316-01455-9 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 17 minutes 52 seconds ago)

17 March 2008 LITTLE BROTHER by Cory Doctorow, Tor, May 2008, 365p. ISBN: 0-7653-1985-3 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 19 minutes 30 seconds ago)

03 March 2008 THE UNDERNEATH by Kathi Appelt with drawings by David Small, Atheneum, May 2008, 314p. ISBN: 1-4169-5058-3 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 20 minutes 18 seconds ago)

26 February 2008 THE WILLOUGHBYS by Lois Lowry, Houghton Mifflin, March 2008, 174p. ISBN: 0-618-97974-3 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds ago)

23 February 2008 DIAMOND WILLOW by Helen Frost, FSG/Frances Foster Books, April 2008, 112p. ISBN: 0-374-31776-3 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 22 minutes 36 seconds ago)

20 February 2008 THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS by E. Lockhart, Hyperion, March 2008, 345p. ISBN: 0-7868-3818-3 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 23 minutes 31 seconds ago)

09 February 2008 THE TROUBLE BEGINS AT 8: A LIFE OF MARK TWAIN IN THE WILD, WILD WEST by Sid Fleischman, Greenwillow, July 2008, 200p. ISBN: 978-0-06-134431-2 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 24 minutes 33 seconds ago)

08 February 2008 ZEN TIES by Jon J. Muth, Scholastic Press, February 2008, 40p. ISBN: 0-439-63425-3 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 25 minutes 31 seconds ago)

05 February 2008 TRACKING TRASH: FLOTSAM, JETSAM, AND THE SCIENCE OF OCEAN MOTION by Loree Griffin Burns (Scientists in the Field series), Houghton Mifflin, 2007, 58p. ISBN: 0-618-58131-6 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 26 minutes 28 seconds ago)

01 February 2008 PLANTING THE TREES OF KENYA: THE STORY OF WANGARI MAATHAI by Claire A. Nivola, FSG/Frances Foster Books, April 2008, 32p. ISBN: 0-374-39918-2 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 27 minutes 35 seconds ago)

01 February 2008 PEELED by Joan Bauer, Putnam, May 2008, 248p. ISBN: 978-0-399-23475-0 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 28 minutes 20 seconds ago)

30 January 2008 THE WOLVES ARE BACK by Jean Craighead George, illustrated by Wendell Minor, Dutton, April 2008, 32p. ISBN: 0-525-47947-3 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 29 minutes 18 seconds ago)

28 January 2008 HONEYBEE by Naomi Shihab Nye, Greenwillow, March 2008, 176p., ISBN: 978-0-06-085590-7; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-06-085591-4 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 30 minutes 31 seconds ago)

08 January 2008 TROUBLE by by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion, April 2008. ISBN: 978-0-618-92766-1 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 31 minutes 24 seconds ago)

06 January 2008 HE FORGOT TO SAY GOODBYE by Benjamin Alire Saenz, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, June 2008, ISBN: 1-4169-4963-1 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 33 minutes 4 seconds ago)

26 December 2007 THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX by Mary E. Pearson, Holt, April 2008, ISBN: 0-8050-7668-9 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 34 minutes 11 seconds ago)

23 December 2007 THE BEST OF 2007 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 35 minutes 17 seconds ago)

14 December 2007 WRITE NAKED by Peter Gould, Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 2008, ISBN: 978-0-374-38483-8 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 36 minutes 20 seconds ago)

08 December 2007 JANE ADDAMS: CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin, Clarion, 2006, ISBN: 0-618-50436-2 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 37 minutes 16 seconds ago)

08 December 2007 M.L.K.: JOURNEY OF A KING by Tonya Bolden, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007, ISBN: 0-8109-5476-1 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 38 minutes 23 seconds ago)

10 December 2007 HURRICANE SONG by Paul Volponi, Viking, June 2008, ISBN: 978-0-670-06160-0 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 7 hours 39 minutes 8 seconds ago)

04 November 2007 SUNRISE OVER FALLUJAH by Walter Dean Myers, Scholastic, May 2008, ISBN: 0439916240 Read the review (last modified: 187 days 2 hours 7 minutes 29 seconds ago)

31 October 2007 TWELVE ROUNDS TO GLORY: THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD ALI by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier, Candlewick, November 2007, ISBN: 978-7636-1692-2. Read the review (last modified: 190 days 23 hours 29 minutes 14 seconds ago)

25 October 2007 THOREAU AT WALDEN by John Porcellino from the writings of Henry David Thoreau; with an introduction by D.B. Johnson, Hyperion/The Center for Cartoon Studies, April 2008, ISBN: 1-4231-0038-7 (hardcover); 1-4231-0039-5 (paperback) Read the review (last modified: 196 days 13 hours 22 minutes 7 seconds ago)

22 October 2007 RINGSIDE, 1925: VIEWS FROM THE SCOPES TRIAL by Jen Bryant, Knopf, February 2008, ISBN: 0-375-84074-8; LIBR ISBN: 0-375-94047-2 Read the review (last modified: 199 days 16 hours 35 minutes 39 seconds ago)

04 October 2007 THIS IS WHAT I DID: by Ann Dee Ellis, Little Brown, July 2007, ISBN: 0-316-01363-3 Read the review (last modified: 213 days 4 hours 46 minutes 12 seconds ago)

28 August 2007 THE BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS by F.E. Higgins, Feiwel and Friends, October 2007, ISBN: 0-312-36844-5 Read the review (last modified: 222 days 18 hours 27 minutes 31 seconds ago)

19 September 2007 WHY WAR IS NEVER A GOOD IDEA by Alice Walker, illustrated by Stefano Vitale, September 2007, ISBN: 978-0-06-075386-3 Read the review (last modified: 231 days 19 hours 3 minutes 39 seconds ago)

18 September 2007 TO DANCE: A BALLERINA'S GRAPHIC NOVEL by Siena Cherson Siegel with artwork by Mark Siegel, Aladdin Paperbacks, 2006, ISBN: 1-4169-2687-9 Read the review (last modified: 232 days 21 hours 15 minutes 5 seconds ago)

15 September 2007 BEASTLY by Alex Flinn, HarperTeen, October 2007, ISBN: 978-0-06-087416-2 Read the review (last modified: 237 days 54 minutes 25 seconds ago)

09 September 2007 PEAK by Roland Smith, Harcourt, May 2007, ISBN: 0-15-202417-4 Read the review (last modified: 240 days 11 hours 58 minutes 38 seconds ago)

26 August 2007 PREVIOUSLY by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Bruce Ingman, Candlewick, August 2007, ISBN: 978-0-7636-3542-8 (Recommended Picture Books for Older Readers) Read the review (last modified: 247 days 1 hours 28 minutes 52 seconds ago)

26 August 2007 THE HEARTS OF HORSES by Molly Gloss, Houghton Mifflin, November 2007, ISBN: 0-618-79990-7 Read the review (last modified: 247 days 1 hours 29 minutes 38 seconds ago)

21 August 2007 THE ULTIMATE WEAPON: THE RACE TO DEVELOP THE ATOMIC BOMB by Edward T. Sullivan, Holiday House, June 2007, ISBN: 08234-1855-3 Read the review (last modified: 247 days 1 hours 32 minutes 5 seconds ago)

30 July 2007 EMMA-JEAN LAZARUS FELL OUT OF A TREE by Lauren Tarshis, Dial, March 2007, ISBN: 978-0-8037-3164-6 Read the review (last modified: 283 days 18 hours 46 minutes 21 seconds ago)

11 July 2007 GYM CANDY by Carl Deuker, Houghton Mifflin, September 2007, ISBN: 0-618-77713-X Read the review (last modified: 302 days 14 hours 21 minutes 42 seconds ago)

08 July 2007 RALEIGH'S PAGE by Alan Armstrong, Random House, September 2007, ISBN: 978-0-375-83319-9; Libr.ISBN: 978-0-375-93319-6 Read the review (last modified: 304 days 7 hours 15 minutes 4 seconds ago)

01 July 2007 A MORE PERFECT CONSTITUTION: 23 PROPOSALS TO REVITALIZE OUR CONSTITUTION AND MAKE AMERICA A FAIRER COUNTRY by Larry J. Sabato, Walker, October 2007, ISBN: 0-8027-1621-0 Read the review (last modified: 312 days 16 hours 17 minutes 55 seconds ago)

29 June 2007 IN THE SPACE LEFT BEHIND by Joan Ackermann, HarperTeen/Laura Geringer, ISBN: 978-0-06-072255-5, ISBN: 0-374-30989-2 Read the review (last modified: 312 days 16 hours 24 minutes 7 seconds ago)

27 June 2007 SCHOOLED by Gordon Korman, Hyperion, July 2007, ISBN: 0-7868-5692-0 Read the review (last modified: 316 days 19 hours 11 minutes 50 seconds ago)

21 June 2007 LAIKA a graphic novel by Nick Abadzis, First Second, September 2007, ISBN: 1-59643-101-6 Read the review (last modified: 316 days 19 hours 28 minutes 1 seconds ago)

20 June 2007 HOLDUP by Terri Fields, Roaring Brook, April 2007, ISBN: 1-56343-219-5 Read the review (last modified: 323 days 14 hours 47 minutes 15 seconds ago)

19 June 2007 BLUE LIPSTICK: CONCRETE POEMS by John Grandits, Clarion, May 2007, ISBN: 0-618-56860-3 (hardcover) 0-618-85132-1 (paperback). Read the review (last modified: 323 days 14 hours 56 minutes 59 seconds ago)