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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 13 hours 53 minutes 21 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 17 minutes 23 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 17 minutes 55 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 19 minutes 8 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 1 hours 49 minutes 49 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 1 hours 50 minutes 43 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 1 hours 51 minutes 36 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 1 hours 53 minutes 14 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 1 hours 54 minutes 2 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 1 hours 55 minutes 12 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 1 hours 56 minutes 18 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 1 hours 57 minutes 14 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 1 hours 58 minutes 15 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 1 hours 59 minutes 13 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 2 hours 10 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 2 hours 1 minutes 17 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 2 hours 2 minutes 2 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 2 hours 3 minutes 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 2 hours 4 minutes 15 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 2 hours 5 minutes 8 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 2 hours 6 minutes 48 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 2 hours 7 minutes 55 seconds ago)

23 December 2007 THE BEST OF 2007 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 2 hours 8 minutes 59 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 2 hours 10 minutes 4 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 2 hours 10 minutes 58 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 2 hours 12 minutes 5 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 2 hours 12 minutes 50 seconds ago)

04 November 2007 SUNRISE OVER FALLUJAH by Walter Dean Myers, Scholastic, May 2008, ISBN: 0439916240 Read the review (last modified: 186 days 20 hours 41 minutes 13 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 18 hours 2 minutes 57 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 7 hours 55 minutes 49 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 11 hours 9 minutes 22 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: 212 days 23 hours 19 minutes 56 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 13 hours 1 minutes 14 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 13 hours 37 minutes 21 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 15 hours 48 minutes 49 seconds ago)

15 September 2007 BEASTLY by Alex Flinn, HarperTeen, October 2007, ISBN: 978-0-06-087416-2 Read the review (last modified: 236 days 19 hours 28 minutes 9 seconds ago)

09 September 2007 PEAK by Roland Smith, Harcourt, May 2007, ISBN: 0-15-202417-4 Read the review (last modified: 240 days 6 hours 32 minutes 20 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: 246 days 20 hours 2 minutes 35 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: 246 days 20 hours 3 minutes 21 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: 246 days 20 hours 5 minutes 47 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 13 hours 20 minutes 4 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 8 hours 55 minutes 24 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 1 hours 48 minutes 48 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 10 hours 51 minutes 37 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 10 hours 57 minutes 50 seconds ago)

27 June 2007 SCHOOLED by Gordon Korman, Hyperion, July 2007, ISBN: 0-7868-5692-0 Read the review (last modified: 316 days 13 hours 45 minutes 33 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 14 hours 1 minutes 45 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 9 hours 20 minutes 58 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 9 hours 30 minutes 43 seconds ago)

16 June 2007 THOMAS JEFFERSON: DRAFTSMAN OF A NATION by Natalie S. Bober, University of Virginia Press, March 2007, ISBN: 978-0-8139-2632-2 Read the review (last modified: 323 days 9 hours 32 minutes 18 seconds ago)

10 June 2007 RED GLASS by Laura Resau, Delacorte Press, September 2007, ISBN: 0-385-73466-0 Read the review (last modified: 333 days 10 hours 29 minutes 2 seconds ago)

08 June 2007 MEMOIRS OF A TEENAGE AMNESIAC by Gabrielle Zevin, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, September 2007, ISBN: 0-374-34946-0; Audio CDs by Listening Library, ISBN: 0739359711 Read the review (last modified: 333 days 10 hours 36 minutes 44 seconds ago)

06 June 2007 PAINT THE WIND by Pam Munoz Ryan, Scholastic Press, September 2007, ISBN: 0-439-87362-2 Read the review (last modified: 336 days 14 hours 56 minutes 39 seconds ago)

05 June 2007 REVOLUTION IS NOT A DINNER PARTY by Ying Chang Compestine, Henry Holt, August 2007, ISBN: 0-8050-8207-7; Audio edition on CD by Listening Library, ISBN: 0739356321 Read the review (last modified: 336 days 15 hours 2 minutes 8 seconds ago)

19 May 2007 BOOT CAMP by Todd Strasser, Simon & Schuster, May 2007, ISBN: 1-4169-0848-x Read the review (last modified: 347 days 11 hours 51 minutes 11 seconds ago)

06 May 2007 ELIJAH OF BUXTON by Christopher Paul Curtis, Scholastic Press, October 2007, ISBN: 978-0-439-02344-3 Read the review (last modified: 347 days 12 hours 4 minutes 25 seconds ago)

25 April 2007 YOUR OWN, SYLVIA: A VERSE PORTRAIT OF SYLVIA PLATH by Stephanie Hemphill, Alfred A. Knopf, March 2007. ISBN: 0-385-83799-9; Lib. ISBN: 0-375-93799-6 Read the review (last modified: 379 days 9 hours 9 minutes 21 seconds ago)

17 April 2007 IF A TREE FALLS AT LUNCH PERIOD by Gennifer Choldenko, Harcourt, September 2007, ISBN: 0-15-205753-4 Read the review (last modified: 379 days 9 hours 23 minutes 56 seconds ago)

03 April 2007 THE 9/11 REPORT: A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon, Hill and Wang, 2006, ISBN: 0-8090-5738-7 Read the review (last modified: 399 days 1 hours 49 minutes 21 seconds ago)

1 April 2007 THE ABSOLUTE TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Ellen Forney, Little Brown, September 2007, ISBN: 0-316-01368-4 Read the review (last modified: 399 days 1 hours 57 minutes 44 seconds ago)

28 March 2007 BIG SLICK by Eric Luper, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, October 2007, ISBN: 0-374-30799-7 Read the review (last modified: 399 days 1 hours 58 minutes 39 seconds ago)

18 March 2007 MISTIK LAKE by Martha Brooks, Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Melanie Kroupa Books, September 2007, ISBN: 0-374-34985-1 Read the review (last modified: 416 days 15 hours 18 minutes 17 seconds ago)

18 March 2007 BLOOD BROTHERS by S.A. Harazin, Delacorte, July 2007, ISBN: 0-385-73364-9 Read the review (last modified: 416 days 15 hours 26 minutes 55 seconds ago)

11 March 2007 SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE USEFUL TO YOU by Peter Cameron, FSG/Frances Foster books, October 2007, ISBN: 0-374-30989-2 Read the review (last modified: 416 days 15 hours 44 minutes 23 seconds ago)

04 March 2007 TRUE TALENTS by David Lubar, Starscape, March 2007, ISBN: 0-765-30977-7. Read the review (last modified: 430 days 8 hours 17 minutes 13 seconds ago)

23 February 2007 DEMONKEEPER by Royce Buckingham, Putnam, May 2007, ISBN: 0-399-24649-4 Read the review (last modified: 430 days 8 hours 24 minutes 15 seconds ago)

21 February 2007 THE GUY BOOK: AN OWNER'S MANUAL by Mavis Jukes, Crown Publishers, 2002. Read the review (last modified: 430 days 8 hours 40 minutes 14 seconds ago)

9 February 2007 THE HIGHER POWER OF LUCKY by Susan Patron & Matt Phelan (ill.) Atheneum/Richard Jackson, ISBN: 1-4169-0194-9 Read the review (last modified: 444 days 19 hours 45 minutes 52 seconds ago)

7 February 2007 WHAT MY GIRLFRIEND DOESN'T KNOW by Sonya Sones, Simon & Schuster BFYR, June 2007, ISBN: 0-689-87602-5 Read the review (last modified: 444 days 19 hours 55 minutes 11 seconds ago)

4 February 2007 FREEDOM RIDERS: JOHN LEWIS AND JIM ZWERG ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by Ann Bausum, National Geographic, January 2006 Read the review (last modified: 444 days 20 hours 37 minutes 35 seconds ago)

28 January 2007 UPCLOSE: ROBERT F. KENNEDY: A TWENTIETH-CENTURY LIFE by Marc Aronson, Viking, April 2007, ISBN: 0-670-06066-5 Read the review (last modified: 460 days 21 hours 6 minutes 7 seconds ago)

28 January 2007 MENDEL'S DAUGHTER: A MEMOIR by Martin Lemelman, Free Press, October 2006, ISBN: 0-7432-9162-X Read the review (last modified: 460 days 21 hours 9 minutes 58 seconds ago)

27 January 2007 LAWN BOY by Gary Paulsen, Wendy Lamb Books, June 2007, ISBN: 0-385-74686-1 Read the review (last modified: 460 days 21 hours 15 minutes 43 seconds ago)

17 January 2007 A DROWNED MAIDEN'S HAIR: A MELODRAMA by Laura Amy Schlitz, Candlewick, September 2006, ISBN: 0-7637-2930-8 Read the review (last modified: 470 days 8 hours 14 minutes 2 seconds ago)

30 December 2006 GREETINGS FROM PLANET EARTH by Barbara Kerley, Scholastic Press, April 2007, ISBN: 0-439-80203-2 Read the review (last modified: 494 days 13 hours 33 minutes 23 seconds ago)

19 December 2006 BEFORE, AFTER AND SOMEBODY IN BETWEEN by Jeannine Garsee, Bloomsbury, July 2007, ISBN: 1-59990-022-X, Publisher recommendation: 14 and up Read the review (last modified: 504 days 23 hours 15 minutes 14 seconds ago)

1 December 2006 THE OFF SEASON by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Houghton Mifflin, June 2007, ISBN: 0-618-68695-9 Read the review (last modified: 504 days 23 hours 16 minutes 46 seconds ago)

28 November 2006 7 DAYS AT THE HOT CORNER by Terry Trueman, Harper Tempest, February 2007, ISBN: 0-06-057494-1; Libr. ISBN: 0-06-057495-X Read the review (last modified: 527 days 17 hours 4 minutes 33 seconds ago)

26 November 2006 THE BEST OF 2006 Read the review (last modified: 527 days 17 hours 10 minutes 46 seconds ago)

19 November 2006 GREAT 21ST CENTURY BOY BOOKS Read the review (last modified: 536 days 10 hours 57 minutes 39 seconds ago)

17 November 2006 ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY by Valerie Hobbs, FSG/Frances Foster Books, March 2007, ISBN: 0-374-30374-6 Read the review (last modified: 536 days 10 hours 58 minutes 47 seconds ago)

15 November 2006 THE WEDNESDAY WARS by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion, June 2007, ISBN: 0-618-72483-4 Read the review (last modified: 536 days 11 hours 5 minutes 59 seconds ago)

06 November 2006 FORGED IN THE FIRE by Ann Turnbull, Candlewick Press, April 2007, ISBN: 0-7636-3144-3 Read the review (last modified: 536 days 11 hours 8 minutes 47 seconds ago)

03 November 2006 OLD MOTHER BEAR by Victoria Miles, illustrated by Molly Bang, Chronicle, February 2007, ISBN: 0-8118-5033-1 Read the review (last modified: 536 days 11 hours 9 minutes 27 seconds ago)

29 October 2006 TWISTED by Laurie Halse Anderson, Viking, March 2007, ISBN: 0-670-06101-3 Read the review (last modified: 536 days 11 hours 14 minutes 5 seconds ago)

27 October 2006 FREEDOM WALKERS: THE STORY OF THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT by Russell Freedman, Holiday House, September 2006, ISBN: 0-8234-2031-0 Read the review (last modified: 559 days 13 hours 1 minutes 37 seconds ago)

23 October 2006 ON THE WINGS OF HEROES by Richard Peck, Dial, March 2007, ISBN: 0-8037-3081-6 Read the review (last modified: 561 days 8 hours 35 minutes 46 seconds ago)

22 October 2006 HARLEM SUMMER by Walter Dean Myers, Scholastic Press, March 2007, ISBN: 0-439-36843-8 Read the review (last modified: 561 days 8 hours 36 minutes 36 seconds ago)

19 October 2006 KNIGHTS OF THE HILL COUNTRY by Tim Tharp, Knopf, August 2006, ISBN: 0-375-83653-5; Libr. ISBN: 0-375-93653-X Read the review (last modified: 561 days 8 hours 38 minutes 25 seconds ago)

17 October 2005 AMERICAN BORN CHINESE by Gene Luen Yang, First Second, September 2006, ISBN: 1-59643-152-0 Read the review (last modified: 569 days 23 hours 34 minutes 11 seconds ago)

14 October 2005 HARMLESS by Dana Reinhardt, Wendy Lamb Books, February 2007, ISBN: 0-385-74699-1; Libr.ISBN: 0-385-90941-9 Read the review (last modified: 569 days 23 hours 41 minutes 14 seconds ago)

12 October 2006 HERO OF THE HIGH SEAS: JOHN PAUL JONES AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Michael L. Cooper, National Geographic, September 2006, ISBN: 0-7922-5547-X Read the review (last modified: 574 days 13 hours 50 minutes 34 seconds ago)

02 October 2006 LEMONADE MOUTH by Mark Peter Hughes, Delacorte, March 2007, ISBN: 0-385-73392-2; Libr. ISBN: 0-385-90404-9. Read the review (last modified: 584 days 18 hours 6 minutes 37 seconds ago)

17 September 2006 A TRUE AND FAITHFUL NARRATIVE by Katherine Sturtevant, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May 2006, ISBN: 0-374-37809-6 Read the review (last modified: 595 days 7 hours 55 minutes 57 seconds ago)

09 September 2006 THE NEW POLICEMAN by Kate Thompson, Greenwillow, February 2007, ISBN: 0-06-117427-0; Libr. ISBN: 0-06-117428-9 Read the review (last modified: 595 days 8 hours 3 minutes 16 seconds ago)

22 August 2006 THAT GIRL LUCY MOON by Amy Timberlake, Hyperion, September 2006, ISBN: 0-7868-5298-4. Read the review (last modified: 609 days 11 hours 55 minutes 35 seconds ago)

22 August 2006 ASK ME NO QUESTIONS by Marina Budhos, Atheneum, February 2006, ISBN: 1-4169-0351-2 Read the review (last modified: 611 days 16 hours 4 minutes 7 seconds ago)

22 August 2006 ALL OF THE ABOVE by Shelley Pearsall, Little Brown, September 2006, ISBN: 0-316-11524-X Read the review (last modified: 615 days 21 hours 55 minutes 50 seconds ago)

14 August 2006 CUPID by Julius Lester, Harcourt, January 2007, ISBN: 0-15-202056-X Read the review (last modified: 615 days 22 hours 1 minutes 43 seconds ago)

16 July 2006 RAIDERS NIGHT by Robert Lipsyte, Harper Tempest, August 2006, ISBN: 0-06-059946-4; Libr ISBN: 0-06-0599947-2 Read the review (last modified: 662 days 16 hours 38 minutes 11 seconds ago)

13 July 2006 UP BEFORE DAYBREAK: COTTON AND PEOPLE IN AMERICA by Deborah Hopkinson, Scholastic Nonfiction, April 2006, ISBN: 0-439-63901-8 Read the review (last modified: 665 days 15 hours 41 minutes 3 seconds ago)

06 July 2006 THE LIGHTNING THIEF (PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS, BOOK 1) by Rick Riordan, Hyperion/Miramax, paperback edition, April 2006, ISBN: 0-7868-3865-5 Read the review (last modified: 672 days 21 hours 42 minutes 49 seconds ago)

28 June 2006 A BAD BOY CAN BE GOOD FOR A GIRL by Tanya Lee Stone, Wendy Lamb Books, January 2006, ISBN: 0-385-74702-0, Publisher recommendation: 14 years and up Read the review (last modified: 680 days 17 hours 14 minutes 26 seconds ago)

18 June 2006 BLACK DUCK by Janet Taylor Lisle, Philomel Sleuth, May 2006, ISBN: 0-399-23963-4 Read the review (last modified: 685 days 17 hours 24 minutes 29 seconds ago)

16 June 2006 STREET PHARM by Allison van Diepen, Simon Pulse, July 2006, ISBN: 1-4169-1154-5, Publisher recommendation: 14 years and up Read the review (last modified: 692 days 13 hours 11 minutes 38 seconds ago)

7 June 2006 NOTES FROM THE MIDNIGHT DRIVER by Jordan Sonnenblick, Scholastic Press, October 2006, ISBN: 0-439-75779-7 Read the review (last modified: 701 days 15 hours 14 minutes 44 seconds ago)

29 May 2006 DIVA by Alex Flinn, Harper Tempest, October 2006, ISBN: 0-06-056843-7; Libr. ISBN: 0-06-056845-3 Read the review (last modified: 705 days 19 hours 8 minutes 59 seconds ago)

24 May 2006 SAINT IGGY by K.L. Going, Harcourt, September 2006, ISBN: 0-15-205795-1 Read the review (last modified: 714 days 20 hours 47 minutes 20 seconds ago)

21 May 2006 HIT THE ROAD by Caroline B. Cooney, Random House/Delacorte, May 2006, ISBN: 0-385-72944-8; Libr.ISBN: 0-385-90174-7 Read the review (last modified: 715 days 2 hours 11 minutes 1 seconds ago)

17 May 2006 THE RULES OF SURVIVAL by Nancy Werlin, Dial Books, September 2006, publisher recommendation: 14 and up; ISBN: 0-8037-3001-2 Read the review (last modified: 722 days 9 hours 12 minutes 30 seconds ago)

14 May 2006 SINS OF THE FATHERS by Chris Lynch, HarperCollins/Harper Tempest, September 2006, publisher's age recommendation: 14 and up, ISBN: 0-06-074037-X;Libr ISBN: 0-06-074038-8 Read the review (last modified: 725 days 18 hours 54 minutes 54 seconds ago)

05 May 2006 CRISPIN: AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD by Avi, Hyperion, September 2006, ISBN: 0-7868-5152-X Read the review (last modified: 734 days 13 hours 45 minutes 33 seconds ago)

2 March 2002 CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD by Avi, Hyperion, June 2002 Read the review (last modified: 735 days 23 hours 52 minutes 3 seconds ago)

30 April 2006 NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn, Random House/Knopf, May 2006, ISBN: 0-375-83531-8; LIB ISBN: 0-375-93531-2 Read the review (last modified: 740 days 8 hours 5 minutes 10 seconds ago)

30 April 2006 WHAT HAPPENED TO CASS MCBRIDE by Gail Giles, Little Brown, November 2006, publisher age recommendation: 15 and up, ISBN: 0-316-16638-3 Read the review (last modified: 740 days 8 hours 22 minutes 54 seconds ago)

21 April 2006 BLIND FAITH by Ellen Wittlinger, Simon and Schuster, July 2006, ISBN: 1-4169-0273-2 Read the review (last modified: 748 days 9 hours 56 minutes 59 seconds ago)

17 April 2006 ESCAPE: THE STORY OF THE GREAT HOUDINI by Sid Fleischman, Greenwillow, July 2006, ISBN: 0-06-085094-9; Libr. ISBN: 0-06-085095-7 Read the review (last modified: 752 days 21 hours 29 minutes 35 seconds ago)

01 February 2006 THE LOUD SILENCE OF FRANCINE GREEN by Karen Cushman, Clarion, August 2006, ISBN: 0-618-50455-9 Read the review (last modified: 824 days 23 hours 46 minutes 50 seconds ago)

27 December 2005 CHEW ON THIS! EVERYTHING YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FAST FOOD by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson, Houghton Mifflin, May 2006, ISBN: 0-618-71031-0 Read the review (last modified: 856 days 13 hours 31 minutes 29 seconds ago)

20 December 2005 GRAND & HUMBLE by Brent Hartinger, Harper Tempest, January 2006, ISBN: 0-06-056727-9;libr. ISBN: 0-06-056728-7 Read the review (last modified: 870 days 20 hours 53 minutes 26 seconds ago)

18 December 2005 FLY BY NIGHT by Frances Hardinge, HarperCollins, April 2006, ISBN: 0-06-087627-1; lib.ISBN: 0-06-087629-8 Read the review (last modified: 872 days 8 hours 12 minutes 57 seconds ago)

05 December 2005 THE BEST OF 2005 Read the review (last modified: 879 days 12 hours 55 minutes ago)

27 November 2005 JUST LIKE THAT by Marsha Qualey, Dial, May 2005, ISBN: 0-8037-2840-9 Read the review (last modified: 892 days 23 hours 52 minutes 57 seconds ago)

23 November 2005 DAIRY QUEEN by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Houghton Mifflin, May 2006, ISBN: 0-618-68307-0 Read the review (last modified: 892 days 23 hours 56 minutes 22 seconds ago)

04 November 2005 THE HOMEWORK MACHINE by Dan Gutman, Simon & Schuster, March 2006, ISBN: 0-689-87678-5 Read the review (last modified: 916 days 16 hours 25 minutes 56 seconds ago)

02 November 2005 10,000 DAYS OF THUNDER: A HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR by Philip Caputo, Simon & Schuster/Byron Preiss Visual Publications, September 2005, ISBN: 0-689-86231-8 Read the review (last modified: 916 days 16 hours 37 minutes 30 seconds ago)

19 October 2005 CATCH by Will Leitch, Penguin/Razorbill, December 2005, ISBN: 1-59514-069-7 Read the review (last modified: 932 days 18 hours 20 minutes 6 seconds ago)

14 October 2005 A BRIEF CHAPTER IN MY IMPOSSIBLE LIFE by Dana Reinhardt, Random House/Wendy Lamb, February 2006, ISBN: 0-385-74698-9; LIB. ISBN: 0-385-90940-3 Read the review (last modified: 937 days 13 hours 36 minutes 56 seconds ago)

04 October 2005 SPACER AND RAT by Margaret Bechard, Roaring Brook, October 2005, ISBN: 1-59643-058-3 Read the review (last modified: 947 days 23 hours 33 minutes 3 seconds ago)

23 September 2005 THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline Candlewick, Valentine's Day 2006 Read the review (last modified: 947 days 23 hours 46 minutes ago)

11 August 2005 HARRY SUE by Sue Stauffacher, Random House/Knopf, July 2005, ISBN: 0-375-83274-2, Libr.ISBN: 0-375-932747 Read the review (last modified: 999 days 10 hours 43 minutes 53 seconds ago)

29 July 2005 SHOW WAY by Jacqueline Woodson, Putnam, September 2005, ISBN: 0-399-23749-6 Read the review (last modified: 999 days 10 hours 45 minutes 22 seconds ago)

06 August 2005 BALL DON'T LIE by Matt de la Pena, Random House/Delacorte, September 2005, ISBN: 0-385-73232-5, Libr. ISBN: 0-385-90258-1 Read the review (last modified: 999 days 10 hours 46 minutes 28 seconds ago)

15 May 2005 A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT by Laura Whitcomb, Houghton Mifflin/Graphia, September 2005, ISBN: 0-618-52552-X Read the review (last modified: 999 days 10 hours 48 minutes 11 seconds ago)

29 July 2005 SUMMERTIME WALTZ by Nina Payne, illustrated by Gabi Swiatkowska, Farrar, Straus, Giroux/Frances Foster Books, May 2005, ISBN: 0-374-37291-8 Read the review (last modified: 1003 days 15 hours 43 minutes 10 seconds ago)

28 July 2005 AN INNOCENT SOLDIER by Josef Holub, translated by Michael Hofmann, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, October 2005, ISBN: 0-439-62771-0 Read the review (last modified: 1003 days 15 hours 44 minutes 25 seconds ago)

26 July 2005 FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, HarperCollins/William Morrow, May 2005, ISBN: 0-06-073132-X Read the review (last modified: 1017 days 11 hours 5 minutes 38 seconds ago)

14 July 2005 WRECKED by E.R. Frank, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/A Richard Jackson Book, October 2005, ISBN: 0-689-87383-2 Read the review (last modified: 1028 days 17 hours 44 minutes 54 seconds ago)

06 July 2005 THE OLD AFRICAN by Julius Lester, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, 80 pages, PenguinPutnam/Dial, September 2005, ISBN: 0-8037-2564-7 Read the review (last modified: 1036 days 9 hours 54 minutes 51 seconds ago)

29 June 2005 OUR ELEANOR: A SCRAPBOOK LOOK AT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S REMARKABLE LIFE by Candace Fleming, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/an Anne Schwartz Book, October 2005, ISBN: 0-689-86544-9 Read the review (last modified: 1036 days 10 hours 4 minutes 49 seconds ago)

21 June 2005 KING DORK by Frank Portman (a.k.a. Dr. Frank), Random House/Delacorte, April 2006, Ages 14 and up, ISBN: 0-385-73291-0; Libr. ISBN: 0-385-90312-X Read the review (last modified: 1052 days 17 hours 14 minutes 8 seconds ago)

11 June 2005 LET ME PLAY: THE STORY OF TITLE IX, THE LAW THAT CHANGED THE FUTURE OF GIRLS IN AMERICA by Karen Blumenthal, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, June 2005, ISBN: 0-689-85957-0 Read the review (last modified: 1062 days 8 hours 18 minutes 19 seconds ago)

08 June 2005 JOHN LENNON: ALL I WANT IS THE TRUTH by Elizabeth Partridge, Penguin/Viking, October 2005, ISBN: 0-670-05954-4 Read the review (last modified: 1065 days 18 hours 58 minutes 27 seconds ago)

21 May 2005 Captain Fact and Knowledge by Knife and Packer, Hyperion/Volo Read the review (last modified: 1083 days 21 hours 47 minutes 31 seconds ago)

19 May 2005 ME, ALL ALONE, AT THE END OF THE WORLD by M.T. Anderson, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, Candlewick, September 2005, ISBN: 0-7636-1586-2 Read the review (last modified: 1085 days 19 hours 58 minutes 16 seconds ago)

14 May 2005 RUSSELL THE SHEEP by Rob Scotton, HarperCollins, May 2005, ISBN: 0-06-059848-4; Lib.ISBN: 0-06-059849-2 Read the review (last modified: 1085 days 20 hours 9 minutes 23 seconds ago)

13 May 2005 TOTALLY JOE by James Howe, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/Ginee Seo Books, October 2005, ISBN: 0-689-83957-X Read the review (last modified: 1091 days 12 hours 1 minutes 36 seconds ago)

13 May 2005 FIRST BOY by Gary Schmidt, Holt, October 2005, ISBN: 0-8050-7859-2 Read the review (last modified: 1091 days 12 hours 13 minutes 20 seconds ago)

9 May 2005 FLUSH by Carl Hiaasen, Random House/Knopf, September 2005, ISBN: 0-375-82182-1; Lib ISBN: 0-375-92182-6 Read the review (last modified: 1095 days 18 hours 30 minutes 2 seconds ago)

7 May 2005 THE TROUBLE BEGINS by Linda Himelblau, Random House/Delacorte, November 2005, ISBN: 0-385-73273-2, Lib ISBN: 0-385-90288-3 Read the review (last modified: 1095 days 18 hours 47 minutes 18 seconds ago)

7 May 2005 INVISIBLE by Pete Hautman, Simon & Schuster, June 2005, ISBN: 0-689-86800-6 Read the review (last modified: 1095 days 18 hours 54 minutes 55 seconds ago)

1 May 2005 A ROOM ON LORELEI STREET by Mary E. Pearson, Henry Holt, June 2005, ISBN: 0-8050-7667-0 Read the review (last modified: 1095 days 19 hours 3 minutes 23 seconds ago)

25 April 2005 FADE TO BLACK by Alex Flinn, Harper Tempest, April 2005, ISBN: 0-06-056839-9, LIB ISBN: 0-06-056841-0 Read the review (last modified: 1105 days 12 hours 2 minutes 8 seconds ago)

17 April 2005 STEALING HENRY by Carolyn MacCullough, Roaring Brook/A Deborah Brodie Book, April 2005, ISBN: 1-59643-045-1 Read the review (last modified: 1105 days 12 hours 2 minutes 59 seconds ago)

06 April 2005 THE BOYFRIEND LIST (15 GUYS, 11 SHRINK APPOINTMENTS, 4 CERAMIC FROGS AND ME, RUBY OLIVER) by E. Lockhart, Random House/Delacorte, March 2005, ISBN: 0-385-73206-6; Lib. ISBN: 0-385-90238-7. Read the review (last modified: 1105 days 12 hours 4 minutes 18 seconds ago)

1 April 2005 DARK ANGEL by David Klass, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Frances Foster Books, October 2005, ISBN: 0-374-39950-6. Read the review (last modified: 1128 days 23 hours 33 minutes 48 seconds ago)

26 March 2005 FULL SERVICE by Will Weaver, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, October 2005, ISBN: 0-374-32485-9 Read the review (last modified: 1135 days 20 hours 55 minutes 43 seconds ago)

23 March 2005 MICHAEL ROSEN'S SAD BOOK by Michael Rosen, Illustrated by Quentin Blake, Candlewick Press, March 2005, ISBN: 0-7636-2597-3 Read the review (last modified: 1135 days 21 hours 3 minutes 49 seconds ago)

15 March 2005 UNDER THE PERSIMMON TREE by Suzanne Fisher Staples, Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Frances Foster Books, August 2005, ISBN: 0-374-38025-2 Read the review (last modified: 1146 days 21 hours 35 minutes 32 seconds ago)

05 March 2005 A WREATH FOR EMMETT TILL by Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Philippe Lardy, Houghton Mifflin, March 2005, ISBN: 0-618-39752-3 Read the review (last modified: 1146 days 21 hours 36 minutes 17 seconds ago)

02 March 2005 FALLEN ANGELS by Walter Dean Myers, Scholastic, 1988 Read the review (last modified: 1146 days 21 hours 37 minutes 12 seconds ago)

25 February 2005 HITLER YOUTH: GROWING UP IN HITLER'S SHADOW by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Scholastic Nonfiction, February 2005, ISBN: 0-439-35379-3 Read the review (last modified: 1146 days 21 hours 38 minutes 2 seconds ago)

22 February 2005 THE SLEDDING HILL by Chris Crutcher, HarperCollins/Greenwillow, May 2005, ISBN: 0-06-050243-6 Read the review (last modified: 1146 days 21 hours 39 minutes 28 seconds ago)

13 February 2005 RUNNER by Carl Deuker, Houghton Mifflin, May 2005, ISBN: 0-618-54298-1 Read the review (last modified: 1170 days 15 hours 50 minutes 7 seconds ago)

2 February 2005 SHELF LIFE by Robert Corbet, Walker & Co., March 2005, ISBN: 0-8027-8959-5 Read the review (last modified: 1170 days 15 hours 56 minutes 42 seconds ago)

1 February 2005 Classic Pick: CHINESE HANDCUFFS by Chris Crutcher, Greenwillow, 1989, ISBN: 0-688-08345-5 Read the review (last modified: 1192 days 19 hours 54 minutes 33 seconds ago)

28 January 2005 BLACK AND WHITE by Paul Volponi, Viking, May 2005, ISBN: 0-670-06006-2 Read the review (last modified: 1192 days 20 hours 3 minutes 25 seconds ago)

24 January 2005 THE LIBERATION OF GABRIEL KING by K.L. Going, Putnam, June 2005, ISBN: 0-399-23991-X Read the review (last modified: 1192 days 20 hours 15 minutes 6 seconds ago)

19 January 2005 PINNED by Alfred C. Martino, Harcourt, March 2005, ISBN: 0-15-205355-7 Read the review (last modified: 1205 days 1 hours 59 minutes 44 seconds ago)

19 January 2005 THE GOLEM'S EYE: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Two by Jonathan Stroud, Hyperion/Miramax, September 2004, ISBN: 0-7868-1860-3 Read the review (last modified: 1205 days 2 hours 6 minutes 42 seconds ago)

18 December 2004 WORKING FIRE: THE MAKING OF AN ACCIDENTAL FIREMAN by Zac Unger, The Penguin Press, March 2004, ISBN: 1-59420-001-7 Read the review (last modified: 1205 days 2 hours 12 minutes 10 seconds ago)

12 December 2004 DONORBOY by Brendan Halpin, Random House/Villard, August 2004, paperback, ISBN: 1-4000-6277-2 Read the review (last modified: 1205 days 2 hours 12 minutes 58 seconds ago)

1 December 2004 DAY OF TEARS: A NOVEL IN DIALOGUE by Julius Lester, Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, April, 2005, ISBN: 0-7868-0490-4 Read the review (last modified: 1205 days 2 hours 14 minutes 3 seconds ago)

25 November 2004 THE BEST OF 2004 Read the review (last modified: 1205 days 2 hours 16 minutes 3 seconds ago)

24 November 2004 SAMMY & JULIANA IN HOLLYWOOD by Benjamin Alire Saenz, Cinco Puntos Press, August 2004, ISBN: 0-938317-81-4 Read the review (last modified: 1261 days 18 hours 39 minutes 23 seconds ago)

27 October 2004 THE VOICE THAT CHALLENGED A NATION: MARIAN ANDERSON AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS by Russell Freedman. Clarion, May 2004. 128 pages. ISBN: 0-618-15976-2 Read the review (last modified: 1289 days 1 hours 50 minutes 16 seconds ago)

26 October 2004 THE PURPLE EMPEROR by Herbie Brennan, Bloomsbury, October 2004, ISBN: 1-58234-880-4 Read the review (last modified: 1290 days 1 hours 46 minutes ago)

22 October 2004 LOOKING FOR ALASKA by John Green, Penguin Group/Dutton, March 2005, ISBN: 0-525-47506-0 Read the review (last modified: 1294 days 10 hours 16 minutes 49 seconds ago)

16 October 2004 CANDY by Kevin Brooks, Scholastic/The Chicken House, March 2005, ISBN: 0-439-68327-0 Read the review (last modified: 1300 days 10 hours 54 minutes 59 seconds ago)

15 October 2004 DANIEL HALF HUMAN AND THE GOOD NAZI by David Chotjewitz, translated by Doris Orgel, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/Richard Jackson, October 2004, ISBN: 0-689-85747-0 Read the review (last modified: 1300 days 10 hours 59 minutes 9 seconds ago)

12 October 2004 PONZI: THE MAN AND HIS LEGENDARY SCHEME by Mitchell Zuckoff, Random House, March 2005, ISBN: 0-4000-6039-7 Read the review (last modified: 1300 days 21 hours 30 minutes 14 seconds ago)

09 October 2004 A MAZE ME: POEMS FOR GIRLS by Naomi Shihab Nye, HarperCollins/Greenwillow, March 2005, 128 pages, ISBN: 0-06-058189-1, Lib.ISBN: 0-06-058190-5 Read the review (last modified: 1306 days 23 hours 4 minutes 40 seconds ago)

30 September 2004 WITH COURAGE AND CLOTH: WINNING THE FIGHT FOR A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO VOTE by Ann Bausum, National Geographic, September 2004, 112 pages, ISBN: 0-7922-7647-7 Read the review (last modified: 1316 days 19 hours 43 minutes 52 seconds ago)

28 September 2004 IT'S YOUR WORLD--IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, CHANGE IT: ACTIVISM FOR TEENAGERS by Mikki Halpin, Simon Pulse, September 2004, paperback ISBN: 0-689-87448-0 Read the review (last modified: 1318 days 22 hours 14 minutes 7 seconds ago)

28 September 2004 OUR ONLY MAY AMELIA (Newbery Honor book) by Jennifer L. Holm. HarperCollins, 1999. 247 pages. $15.95. ISBN: 0-06-027822-6; Lib. ISBN: 0-06-028354-8. Read the review (last modified: 1318 days 22 hours 25 minutes 5 seconds ago)

18 September 2004 NEVER MIND! A TWIN NOVEL by Avi & Rachel Vail, HarperCollins, May 2004, ISBN: 0-06-054314-0; LIB. ISBN: 0-06-054315-9 Read the review (last modified: 1325 days 11 hours 46 minutes 47 seconds ago)

12 September 2004 NO SHAME, NO FEAR by Ann Turnbull, Candlewick Press, October 2004, ISBN: 0-7636-2505-1 Read the review (last modified: 1325 days 11 hours 48 minutes 4 seconds ago)

03 September 2004 EMAKO BLUE by Brenda Woods, Putnam, July 2004, ISBN: 0-399-24006-3 Read the review (last modified: 1341 days 16 hours 25 minutes 22 seconds ago)

02 August 2004 OFFSIDES by Erik E. Esckilsen, Houghton Mifflin, September 2004, ISBN 0-618-46284-8 Read the review (last modified: 1375 days 9 hours 44 minutes 16 seconds ago)

31 July 2004 THE LITTLE GENTLEMAN by Philippa Pearce, illustrated by Tom Pohrt, HarperCollins/Greenwillow, September 2004, ISBN: 0-06-073160-5, ISBN Library: 0-06-073161-3 Read the review (last modified: 1375 days 11 hours 14 minutes 53 seconds ago)

18 July 2004 IDA B...AND HER PLAN TO MAXIMIZE FUN, AVOID DISASTER, AND (POSSIBLY) SAVE THE WORLD by Katherine Hannigan, HarperCollins/Greenwillow, September 2004, Ages 9-14, ISBN 0-06-073024-2, LIBRARY ISBN: 0-06-073025-0 Read the review (last modified: 1388 days 18 hours 55 minutes 17 seconds ago)

12 July 2004 B FOR BUSTER by Iain Lawrence, Random House/Delacorte, June 2004, ISBN: 0-385-73086-1; ISBN Library: 0-385-90108-9 Read the review (last modified: 1396 days 11 hours 28 minutes 20 seconds ago)

04 July 2004 RED KAYAK by Priscilla Cummings, Penguin Group/Dutton Children's Books, September 2004, Ages 10-14, ISBN: 0-525-47317-3 Read the review (last modified: 1404 days 23 hours 37 seconds ago)

30 June 2004 A Discussion: Hero, or Poorly-Written Character?: Anthony the Librarian from CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE by Todd Strasser, Simon & Schuster, April 2004, ISBN 0-689-84169-8 Read the review (last modified: 1404 days 23 hours 13 minutes 51 seconds ago)

20 June 2004 HECK, SUPERHERO by Martine Leavitt, Front Street, May 2004, ISBN 1-886910-94-4 Read the review (last modified: 1418 days 12 hours 38 minutes 48 seconds ago)

19 June 2004 THE SIMPLE GIFT by Steven Herrick, Simon Pulse, April 2004, mass market paperback, $6.99, ISBN: 0-689-86867-7 Read the review (last modified: 1419 days 18 hours 11 minutes 20 seconds ago)

15 June 2004 ANDY WARHOL: PRINCE OF POP by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan, Random House/Delacorte, October 2004, includes 32 page color insert, ISBN: 0-385-73056-X; Library ISBN: 0-385-90079-1 Read the review (last modified: 1423 days 8 hours 24 minutes 25 seconds ago)

13 May 2004 SO B. IT: A NOVEL by Sarah Weeks, HarperCollins/Laura Geringer Books, May 2004, ISBN: 0-06-623622-3; ISBN Library: 0-06-623623-1 Read the review (last modified: 1425 days 20 hours 10 minutes 22 seconds ago)

07 June 2004 WALT WHITMAN: WORDS FOR AMERICA by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, October 2004, 56 pages, ISBN: 0-439-35791-8 Read the review (last modified: 1431 days 3 minutes 11 seconds ago)

07 June 2004 UNDER THE WOLF, UNDER THE DOG by Adam Rapp, Candlewick, October 2004, Age 14 and up, ISBN: 0-7636-1818-7 Read the review (last modified: 1432 days 45 minutes 29 seconds ago)

31 May 2004 BIRD by Angela Johnson, Penguin Group/Dial, October 2004, 132 pages, ISBN: 0-8037-2847-6 Read the review (last modified: 1438 days 14 hours 10 minutes 8 seconds ago)

29 May 2004 THE TEACHER'S FUNERAL: A COMEDY IN THREE PARTS by Richard Peck, Dial, October 2004, ISBN: 0-8037-2736-4 Read the review (last modified: 1440 days 13 hours 21 minutes ago)

27 May 2004 BIOFUEL POWER OF THE FUTURE: NEW WAYS OF TURNING ORGANIC MATTER INTO ENERGY by Chris Hayhurst, (The Library of Future Energy series), Rosen Publishing Group, 2003. 64 pages. 18-point type. ISBN: 0-8239-3659-7 Read the review (last modified: 1443 days 1 hours 43 minutes 45 seconds ago)

24 May 2004 THE SEA OF TROLLS by Nancy Farmer, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/Richard Jackson, September 2004, ISBN: 0-689-86744-1 Read the review (last modified: 1446 days 50 minutes 34 seconds ago)

23 May 2004 NOBODY PARTICULAR and THE TRUTH ABOUT SPARROWS
NOBODY PARTICULAR: ONE WOMAN'S FIGHT TO SAVE THE BAYS by Molly Bang, Holt, 2000, 45 pages, ISBN: 0-8050-5396-4 Read the review (last modified: 1446 days 21 hours 28 minutes 26 seconds ago)

19 May 2004 WAKE UP OUR SOULS: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS by Tonya Bolden, Harry N. Abrams Inc., published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, February 2004, 128 pages, ISBN: 0-8109-4527-4 Read the review (last modified: 1450 days 9 hours 44 minutes 38 seconds ago)

16 May 2004 BUCKING THE SARGE by Christopher Paul Curtis, Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, September 2004, ISBN: 0-385-32307-7; ISBN Library: 0-385-0159-3 Read the review (last modified: 1454 days 1 hours 5 minutes 41 seconds ago)

13 May 2004 FACE RELATIONS: ELEVEN STORIES ABOUT SEEING BEYOND COLOR edited by Marilyn Singer, Simon & Schuster, June 2004, ISBN: 0-689-85637-7 Read the review (last modified: 1456 days 18 hours 9 minutes 25 seconds ago)

10 May 2004 THE RACE TO SAVE THE LORD GOD BIRD by Phillip Hoose, Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 2004, ISBN: 0-374-36173-8 Read the review (last modified: 1459 days 16 hours 25 minutes 20 seconds ago)

07 May 2004 HOW I FOUND THE STRONG: A CIVIL WAR STORY by Margaret McMullan, Houghton Mifflin, April 2004, ISBN: 0-618-35008-X Read the review (last modified: 1462 days 12 hours 39 minutes 18 seconds ago)

03 May 2004 SING A SONG OF TUNA FISH: HARD-TO-SWALLOW STORIES FROM THE FIFTH GRADE by Esmé Raji Codell, Hyperion, January 2005, ISBN: 0-7868-5509-6 Read the review (last modified: 1465 days 22 hours 3 minutes 28 seconds ago)

29 April 2004 SPLINTERING by Eireann Corrigan, Scholastic Press, April 2004, ISBN: 0-439-53597-2 Read the review (last modified: 1465 days 22 hours 5 minutes 3 seconds ago)

16 April 2004 SEA OF GLORY: AMERICA'S VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY, THE U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION, 1838-1842 by Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, November 2003, ISBN: 0-670-03231-X Read the review (last modified: 1471 days 21 hours 45 minutes 29 seconds ago)

22 April 2004 THE RADIOACTIVE BOY SCOUT: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein, Random House, March 2004, ISBN: 0-375-50351-X Read the review (last modified: 1478 days 58 minutes 43 seconds ago)

18 April 2004 A HEART DIVIDED by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld, Random House/Delacorte, March 2004, ISBN: 0-385-32749-8; 0-385-90039-2 Read the review (last modified: 1481 days 16 hours 25 minutes 5 seconds ago)

12 April 2004 SO YESTERDAY by Scott Westerfeld, PenguinPutnam/Razorbill, September 2004, ISBN: 1-59514-000-X Read the review (last modified: 1487 days 11 hours 14 minutes 48 seconds ago)

11 April 2004 ORPHEA PROUD by Sharon Dennis Wyeth, Random House/Delacorte, November 2004, ISBN: 0-385-32497-9; Lib.0-385-90175-5 Read the review (last modified: 1488 days 15 hours 24 minutes 16 seconds ago)

07 April 2004 SIGN OF THE QIN: OUTLAWS OF MOONSHADOW MARSH, BOOK 1 by L.G. Bass, Hyperion, April 2004, ISBN 0-7868-1918-9 Read the review (last modified: 1492 days 22 hours 2 minutes 32 seconds ago)

03 April 2004 HANK AARON AND THE HOME RUN THAT CHANGED AMERICA by Tom Stanton, HarperCollins/William Morrow, March 2004, ISBN 0-06-057976-5 Read the review (last modified: 1496 days 22 hours 32 seconds ago)

28 March 2004 RATS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY & HABITAT OF THE CITY'S MOST UNWANTED INHABITANTS by Robert Sullivan, Bloomsbury, April 2004, ISBN 1-58234-385-3 Read the review (last modified: 1502 days 10 hours 6 minutes 21 seconds ago)

24 March 2004 LIZZIE BRIGHT AND THE BUCKMINSTER BOY by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion Books, May 2004, ISBN 0-618-43929-3 Read the review (last modified: 1506 days 11 hours 32 minutes 45 seconds ago)

17 March 2004 THE GARDEN by Elise V. Aidinoff, Harper Tempest, May 2004, ISBN 0-06-055605-6 Read the review (last modified: 1513 days 19 hours 20 minutes 32 seconds ago)

15 March 2004 THE BOOK OF DEAD DAYS by Marcus Sedgwick, Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, October 2004, ISBN 0-385-73055-1; Lib 0-385-90158-5 Read the review (last modified: 1515 days 22 hours 5 minutes 58 seconds ago)

14 March 2004 INVENTING ELLIOT by Graham Gardner, Dial Books, March 2004, ISBN 0-8037-2964-2 Read the review (last modified: 1516 days 6 hours 54 minutes 4 seconds ago)

12 March 2004 THE YEAR OF SECRET ASSIGNMENTS by Jaclyn Moriarty, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine Books, February 2004, ISBN 0-439-49881-3 Read the review (last modified: 1516 days 7 hours 37 seconds ago)

07 March 2004 SAVING FRANCESCA by Melina Marchetta, Random House/Knopf, October 2004, ISBN 0-375-82982-2; lib. 0-375-92982-7 Read the review (last modified: 1516 days 7 hours 1 minutes 53 seconds ago)

04 March 2004 THE WHAT TO EXPECT BABY-SITTER'S HANDBOOK by Heidi Murkoff with Sharon Mazel, Workman, January 2004, ISBN 0-7611-2845-X Read the review (last modified: 1526 days 10 hours 30 minutes ago)

21 February 2004 NAMES WILL NEVER HURT ME by Jaime Adoff, Dutton, April 2004, ISBN 0-525-47175-8 Read the review (last modified: 1538 days 9 hours 58 minutes 37 seconds ago)

20 February 2004 MOSQUE by David Macaulay, Houghton Mifflin, October 2003, ISBN 0-618-24034-9 Read the review (last modified: 1538 days 10 hours 11 minutes 54 seconds ago)

18 February 2004 WHO AM I WITHOUT HIM?: SHORT STORIES ABOUT GIRLS AND THE BOYS IN THEIR LIVES by Sharon G. Flake, Hyperion/Jump in the Sun, May 2004, ISBN 0-7868-0693-1 Read the review (last modified: 1541 days 16 hours 47 minutes 55 seconds ago)

12 February 2004 NOTHING TO LOSE by Alex Flinn, Harper Tempest, March 2004, ISBN 0-06-051750-6 Read the review (last modified: 1545 days 23 hours 49 minutes 7 seconds ago)

27 January 2004 CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE by Todd Strasser, Simon & Schuster, April 2004, ISBN 0-689-84169-8 Read the review (last modified: 1561 days 22 hours 37 minutes 59 seconds ago)

25 January 2004 TENDING TO GRACE by Kimberly Newton Fusco, Random House/Knopf, May 2004, ISBN 0-375-82862-1 Read the review (last modified: 1561 days 22 hours 39 minutes 17 seconds ago)

22 January 2004 DOING IT by Melvin Burgess, Henry Holt, June 2004, ISBN 0-8050-7565-8 Read the review (last modified: 1561 days 22 hours 40 minutes 5 seconds ago)

14 January 2004 THE CHEATING CULTURE: WHY MORE AMERICANS ARE DOING WRONG TO GET AHEAD by David Callahan, Harcourt, January 2004, ISBN 0-15-101018-8 Read the review (last modified: 1561 days 22 hours 40 minutes 57 seconds ago)

04 January 2004 BEGGING FOR CHANGE by Sharon G. Flake, Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, June 2003, ISBN 0-7868-0601-X Read the review (last modified: 1561 days 22 hours 44 minutes 15 seconds ago)

22 December 2003 STARING DOWN THE DRAGON by Dorothea N. Buckingham, Sydney Press, March 2003, ISBN 0-9724577-3-9 Read the review (last modified: 1561 days 22 hours 45 minutes 7 seconds ago)

21 December 2003 DAN'S ANGEL: A DETECTIVE'S GUIDE TO THE LANGUAGE OF PAINTINGS by Alexander Sturgis, illustrated by Lauren Child, Kane/Miller, September 2003, ISBN 1-929132-47-6 Read the review (last modified: 1600 days 15 hours 10 minutes 19 seconds ago)

12 December 2003 SICKENED: THE MEMOIR OF A MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY CHILDHOOD by Julie Gregory, Random House/Bantam, September 2003, ISBN 0-553-80307-7 Read the review (last modified: 1609 days 18 hours 36 minutes 3 seconds ago)

04 December 2003 EAST by Edith Pattou, Harcourt, September 2003, ISBN 0-15-204563-5 Read the review (last modified: 1617 days 23 hours 22 minutes 49 seconds ago)

30 November 2003 Richie's Picks: Best of 2003 Read the review (last modified: 1621 days 16 hours 29 minutes 6 seconds ago)

28 November 2003 THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY by David Levithan, Random House/Knopf, August 2004, ISBN 0-375-82845-1 Read the review (last modified: 1621 days 17 hours 43 minutes 19 seconds ago)

November 2003 Complete Best Books for Young Adults Nominations Read the review (last modified: 1636 days 8 hours 31 minutes 38 seconds ago)

15 November 2003 DRIFT by Manuel Luis Martinez, St. Martin's Press/Picador, March 2003, ISBN 0-312-30995 Read the review (last modified: 1636 days 15 hours 4 minutes 31 seconds ago)

05 November 2003 BLIZZARD'S WAKE by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, October 2002, ISBN 0-689-85220-7 Read the review (last modified: 1642 days 8 hours 5 minutes 54 seconds ago)

29 October 2003 BLANKETS: AN ILLUSTRATED NOVEL by Craig Thompson, Top Shelf, July 2003, ISBN 1-891830-43-0 Read the review (last modified: 1653 days 18 hours 35 minutes 50 seconds ago)

23 October 2003 COSECHANDO ESPERANZA: LA HISTORIA DE CÉSAR CHÁVEZ por Kathleen Krull, ilustrado por Yuyi Morales, Harcourt/Libros Viajeros, ISBN 0-15-204755-7; 0-15-201437-3 Read the review (last modified: 1659 days 9 hours 28 minutes 59 seconds ago)

18 October 2003 UNCOMMON FAITH by Trudy Krisher, Holiday House, October 2003, ISBN 0-8234-1791-3 Read the review (last modified: 1662 days 8 hours 13 minutes 38 seconds ago)

09 October 2003 THE OUTCASTS OF 19 SCHUYLER PLACE by E.L. Konigsburg, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, February 2004, ISBN 0-689-86636-4 Read the review (last modified: 1662 days 8 hours 19 minutes 56 seconds ago)

05 October 2003 FIGHT ON: MARY CHURCH TERRELL'S BATTLE FOR INTEGRATION by Dennis Brindell Fradin & Judith Bloom Fradin, Clarion Books, ISBN 0-618-13349-6 Read the review (last modified: 1677 days 9 hours 29 minutes 4 seconds ago)

14 September 2003 BOY MEETS BOY by David Levithan, Random House/Knopf, September 2003, ISBN 0-375-82400-6 Read the review (last modified: 1683 days 15 hours 50 minutes 46 seconds ago)

08 September 2003 THE CRYING ROCKS by Janet Taylor Lisle, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, October 2003, ISBN 0-689-03014-2 Read the review (last modified: 1683 days 15 hours 52 minutes 6 seconds ago)

17 August 2003 THE CANNING SEASON by Polly Horvath, Farrar Straus Giroux, May 2003, ISBN 0-374-39956-5 Read the review (last modified: 1719 days 13 hours 40 minutes 59 seconds ago)

23 July 2003 CLOSE TO SHORE: THE TERRIFYING SHARK ATTACKS OF 1916 by Michael Capuzzo, Crown Publishers, April 2003, ISBN 0-375-82231-3 Read the review (last modified: 1719 days 13 hours 42 minutes 22 seconds ago)

20 July 2003 OUT OF ORDER by A.M. Jenkins, Harper Tempest, August 2003, ISBN 0-06-623968-0 Read the review (last modified: 1719 days 13 hours 43 minutes 24 seconds ago)

05 May 2003 WIZARDS OF THE GAME by David Lubar, Penguin Putnam/Philomel, April 2003, ISBN 0-399-23706-2 Read the review (last modified: 1719 days 13 hours 44 minutes 52 seconds ago)

Richie's Picks Teen Literature Gathering in the Sierras August 1-7, 2004
Come join us for a week of hiking, swimming, sharing meals, and daily discussions of 2004's hottest new YA literature. Read the review (last modified: 1758 days 22 hours 5 minutes 3 seconds ago)

14 July 2003 G IS FOR GOATS by Patricia Polacco, PenguinPutnam/Philomel, May 2003, ISBN 0-399-24018-7 Read the review (last modified: 1760 days 16 hours 11 minutes 8 seconds ago)

02 July 2003 BEN FRANKLIN'S ALMANAC: BEING A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE GOOD GENTLEMAN'S LIFE by Candace Fleming, Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, September 2003, ISBN 0-689-83549-3 Read the review (last modified: 1772 days 9 hours 26 minutes 56 seconds ago)

30 June 2003 JAKE, REINVENTED by Gordon Korman, Hyperion, September 2003, ISBN 0-7868-1957-X Read the review (last modified: 1774 days 12 hours 28 minutes 6 seconds ago)

25 June 2003 A Discussion of Will Weaver's CLAWS Read the review (last modified: 1778 days 1 hours 6 minutes 31 seconds ago)

25 June 2003 IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY: THE STORY OF AMERICA'S BILL OF RIGHTS by Russell Freedman, Holiday House, October 2003, ISBN 0-8234-1585-6 Read the review (last modified: 1779 days 7 hours 25 minutes 38 seconds ago)

08 June 2003 INSIDE OUT by Terry Trueman, Harper Tempest, August 2003, ISBN 0-06-623962-1 Read the review (last modified: 1796 days 8 hours 33 minutes 53 seconds ago)

02 June 2003 THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND (Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1) by Jonathan Stroud, Hyperion/Miramax, September 2003, ISBN 0-7868-1859-X Read the review (last modified: 1802 days 9 hours 9 seconds ago)

26 May 2003 FAULTLINE by Janet Tashjian, Henry Holt, September 2003, ISBN 0-8050-7200-4 Read the review (last modified: 1809 days 10 hours 21 minutes 12 seconds ago)

22 May 2003 ZIGZAG by Ellen Wittlinger, Simon & Schuster, August 2003, ISBN 0-689-84996-6 Read the review (last modified: 1813 days 2 hours 57 minutes 28 seconds ago)

18 May 2003 PREP by Jake Coburn, PenguinPutnam/Dutton, August 2003, ISBN 0-525-47135-9 Read the review (last modified: 1817 days 22 hours 22 minutes 53 seconds ago)

13 May 2003 PIRATES! by Celia Rees, Bloomsbury, October 2003, ISBN 1-58234-816-2 Read the review (last modified: 1822 days 10 hours 35 minutes 9 seconds ago)

07 May 2003 THE GLASS CAFÉ (or THE STRIPPER AND THE STATE; How My Mother Started a War With The System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous) by Gary Paulsen, Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, June 2003, ISBN 0-385-32499-5 Read the review (last modified: 1822 days 10 hours 41 minutes 14 seconds ago)

05 May 2003 THE RIVER BETWEEN US by Richard Peck, Penguin Putnam/Dial, September 2003, ISBN 0-8037-2735-6 Read the review (last modified: 1824 days 12 hours 31 minutes 16 seconds ago)

27 April 2003 THE GOBLIN WOOD by Hilari Bell, HarperCollins/EOS, April 2003, ISBN 0-06-051371-3 Read the review (last modified: 1838 days 1 hours 3 minutes 8 seconds ago)

23 April 2003 COAL: A HUMAN HISTORY by Barbara Freese, Perseus, February 2003, ISBN 0-7382-0400-5 Read the review (last modified: 1842 days 23 hours 47 minutes 14 seconds ago)

18 April 2003 HAIL TO THE CHIEFS: PRESIDENTIAL MISCHIEF, MORALS, & MALARKEY FROM GEORGE W. TO GEORGE W. by Barbara Holland, The Permanent Press, ISBN 1-57962-081-7 Read the review (last modified: 1847 days 18 hours 27 minutes 24 seconds ago)

13 April 2003 SKUD by Dennis Foon, Groundwood, March 2003, ISBN 0-88899-536-9 Read the review (last modified: 1851 days 7 minutes 54 seconds ago)

6 April 2003 RUNAWAY GIRL: THE ARTIST LOUISE BOURGEOIS by by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan, Abrams, March 2003, ISBN 0-8109-4237-2 Read the review (last modified: 1851 days 8 minutes 57 seconds ago)

29 March 2003 ACCELERATION by Graham McNamee, Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, October 2003, ISBN Trd. 0-385-73119-1/Lib. 0-385-90144-5 Read the review (last modified: 1867 days 9 hours 59 minutes 40 seconds ago)

20 March 2003 THE FIRST PART LAST by Angela Johnson, Simon & Schuster, June 2003, ISBN 0-689-84922-2 Read the review (last modified: 1876 days 9 hours 24 minutes 9 seconds ago)

22 February 2003 SLUMMING by Kristen D. Randle, Harper Tempest, July 2003, ISBN: 0-06-001022-3 Read the review (last modified: 1882 days 15 hours 7 minutes 24 seconds ago)

8 February 2003 FAT KID RULES THE WORLD by K. L. Going, Penguin Putnam, June 2003, ISBN: 0-399-23990-1 Read the review (last modified: 1882 days 15 hours 8 minutes 16 seconds ago)

30 January 2003 CLAWS by Will Weaver, Harper Tempest, March 2003, ISBN:0-06-009473-7 Read the review (last modified: 1882 days 15 hours 9 minutes 12 seconds ago)

10 January 2003 DESTINATION UNEXPECTED: Short Stories edited by Donald R. Gallo, Candlewick Press, May 2003 (0-7636-1764-4) Read the review (last modified: 1882 days 15 hours 10 minutes 4 seconds ago)

9 January 2003 FLIGHT OF THE FISHERBIRD by Nora Martin, Bloomsbury, May 2003 (1-58234-814-6) Read the review (last modified: 1882 days 15 hours 11 minutes 12 seconds ago)

15 May 2002 A CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE by Ann Martin, Scholastic Press, October 2002 Read the review (last modified: 1882 days 15 hours 15 minutes 2 seconds ago)

30 December 2002 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER by by James Cross Giblin, Clarion Books, April 2002 Read the review (last modified: 1956 days 17 hours 5 minutes 50 seconds ago)

24 December 2002 FAERIE WARS by Herbie Brennan, Bloomsbury, March 2003 Read the review (last modified: 1962 days 21 hours 1 minutes 9 seconds ago)

17 December 2002 HOW ANGEL PETERSON GOT HIS NAME AND OTHER OUTRAGEOUS TALES ABOUT EXTREME SPORTS by Gary Paulsen, Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, January 2003 Read the review (last modified: 1969 days 15 hours 41 minutes 43 seconds ago)

8 December 2002 STRAVAGANZA: CITY OF MASKS by Mary Hoffman, Bloomsbury, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 1978 days 14 minutes 50 seconds ago)

28 November 2002 LOCOMOTION by Jacqueline Woodson, Putnam, January 2003 Read the review (last modified: 1981 days 19 hours 8 minutes 53 seconds ago)

24 November 2002 FRICTION by E.R. Frank, Richard Jackson/Atheneum, May 2003 Read the review (last modified: 1981 days 19 hours 9 minutes 43 seconds ago)

24 November 2002 THE CITY OF EMBER by Jeanne DuPrau, Random House, May 2003 Read the review (last modified: 1981 days 19 hours 10 minutes 46 seconds ago)

20 November 2002 Richie's Picks: Best of 2002 Read the review (last modified: 1996 days 15 hours 33 minutes 45 seconds ago)

17 November 2002 TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HEARTLESS GIRL by Martha Brooks, Melanie Kroupa Books/FSG, March 2003 Read the review (last modified: 1999 days 18 hours 29 minutes 46 seconds ago)

16 November 2002 LEFT FOR DEAD: A YOUNG MAN'S SEARCH FOR JUSTICE FOR THE USS INDIANAPOLIS by Pete Nelson, Preface by Hunter Scott, Random House/Delacorte Press, May 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2000 days 14 hours 59 minutes 31 seconds ago)

15 November 2002 SAHARA SPECIAL by Esmé Raji Codell, Hyperion, July 2003 Read the review (last modified: 2001 days 12 hours 37 minutes 17 seconds ago)

8 November 2002 KEESHA'S HOUSE by Helen Frost, FSG/Frances Foster Books, April 2003 Read the review (last modified: 2010 days 42 minutes 18 seconds ago)

6 November 2002 BUDDHA BOY by Kathe Koja, FSG/Frances Foster Books, March 2003 Read the review (last modified: 2010 days 9 hours 48 minutes 26 seconds ago)

4 November 2002 KISSING KATE by Lauren Myracle, Dutton, April 2003 Read the review (last modified: 2010 days 10 hours 20 seconds ago)

3 November 2002 SURVIVING THE APPLEWHITES by Stephanie S. Tolan, HarperCollins, August 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2013 days 20 hours 47 minutes 15 seconds ago)

29 October 2002 KING OF THE MILD FRONTIER: AN ILL-ADVISED AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Chris Crutcher, Greenwillow, April 2003 Read the review (last modified: 2018 days 13 hours 41 minutes 24 seconds ago)

27 October 2002 DROP CITY by T. Coraghessan Boyle, Viking Press, March 2003 Read the review (last modified: 2020 days 15 hours 45 minutes 46 seconds ago)

16 October 2002 HUSH by Jacqueline Woodson, Putnam, January 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2021 days 16 hours 32 minutes 13 seconds ago)

13 October 2002 SHOOTING MONARCHS by John Halliday, Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry Books, March 2003 Read the review (last modified: 2034 days 11 hours 8 minutes 5 seconds ago)

13 October 2002 THE CHEAT by Amy Goldman Koss, Dial Books, February 2003 Read the review (last modified: 2034 days 11 hours 16 minutes 39 seconds ago)

7 October 2002 THE GATE-KEEPERS: INSIDE THE ADMISSIONS PROCESS OF A PREMIER COLLEGE by Jacques Steinberg, Viking, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2041 days 7 hours 36 minutes 39 seconds ago)

02 October 2002 GIRL IN A CAGE by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris, Philomel/Putnam, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2045 days 9 hours 52 minutes 27 seconds ago)

02 October 2002 NORTHERN EXPOSURES by Eric Walters, HarperCanada, 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2045 days 9 hours 54 minutes 22 seconds ago)

8 September 2002 THE LIGHTKEEPER'S DAUGHTER by Iain Lawrence, Delacorte Press, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2063 days 21 hours 24 minutes 26 seconds ago)

21 August 2002 GOLD IN THE WATER: THE TRUE STORY OF ORDINARY MEN AND THEIR EXTRAORDINARY DREAM OF OLYMPIC GLORY by P. H. Mullen, St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books Read the review (last modified: 2088 days 25 minutes 26 seconds ago)

20 August 2002 A NORTHERN LIGHT by Jennifer Donnelly, Harcourt, April 2003 Read the review (last modified: 2088 days 10 hours 1 seconds ago)

18 August 2002 WITH THEIR EYES: SEPTEMBER 11TH--THE VIEW FROM A HIGH SCHOOL AT GROUND ZERO edited by Annie Thoms, Harper Tempest, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2088 days 10 hours 13 minutes 6 seconds ago)

13 August 2002 DUNK by David Lubar, Clarion, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2088 days 10 hours 22 minutes 42 seconds ago)

6 August 2002 WHAT HAPPENED TO LANI GARVER by Carol Plum-Ucci, Harcourt, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2099 days 11 hours 58 minutes 16 seconds ago)

30 July 2002 PICTURES OF HOLLIS WOODS by Patricia Reilly Giff, Wendy Lamb Books, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2100 days 19 hours 10 minutes 20 seconds ago)

7 August 2002 JOHN LEWIS: FROM FREEDOM RIDER TO CONGRESSMAN by Christine M. Hill, Enslow Publishers, July 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2100 days 19 hours 11 minutes 4 seconds ago)

9 Apr 2002 AIMEE by Mary Beth Miller, Dutton, May 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2100 days 19 hours 12 minutes 22 seconds ago)

4 August 2002 OUT OF THE FIRE by Deborah Froese, Sumach Press, March 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2104 days 19 hours 11 minutes 48 seconds ago)

3 August 2002 LAMB: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BIFF, CHRIST'S CHILDHOOD PAL by Christopher Moore, HarperCollins/William Morrow, March 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2105 days 3 hours 13 minutes 21 seconds ago)

26 July 2002 WARCHILD by Karin Lowachee, Warner Aspect, April 2002 (Mass Market Paperback) Read the review (last modified: 2109 days 11 hours 33 minutes 46 seconds ago)

25 July 2002 HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY AND NEVER BE FOUND by Sara Nickerson, illustrations by Sally Wern Comport, HarperCollins, April 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2113 days 23 hours 6 minutes 11 seconds ago)

21 July 2002 PHINEAS GAGE: A GRUESOME BUT TRUE STORY ABOUT BRAIN SCIENCE by John Fleischman, Houghton Mifflin, 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2113 days 23 hours 11 minutes 16 seconds ago)

15 July 2002 THE DIVINE WIND: A LOVE STORY by Gary Disher, Arthur Levine Books/Scholastic, May 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2124 days 12 hours 13 minutes 14 seconds ago)

10 July 2002 MELTDOWN: A RACE AGAINST NUCLEAR DISASTER AT THREE MILE ISLAND by Wilborn Hampton, Candlewick Press, October 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2125 days 20 hours 44 minutes 35 seconds ago)

5 May 2002 SEEING THE BLUE BETWEEN: ADVICE AND INSPIRATION FOR YOUNG POETS compiled by Paul B. Janeczko, Candlewick, April 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2125 days 20 hours 46 minutes 56 seconds ago)

Thu, 11 Apr 2002 BIG MOUTH & UGLY GIRL by Joyce Carol Oates, HarperTempest, May 2002 , Read the review (last modified: 2125 days 20 hours 48 minutes 22 seconds ago)

Mar 18, 2002 THE KITE RIDER by Geraldine McCaughrean, HarperCollins, June 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2125 days 20 hours 53 minutes 45 seconds ago)

3 July 2002 THE HUNTING OF THE LAST DRAGON by Sherryl Jordan, HarperCollins, June 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2136 days 17 hours 48 minutes 38 seconds ago)

23 June 2002 REVENGE OF THE WHALE: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WHALESHIP ESSEX by Nathaniel Philbrick, Putnam, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2146 days 13 hours 53 minutes 31 seconds ago)

22 June 2002 MARTYN PIG by Kevin Brooks, The Chicken House, May 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2146 days 13 hours 55 minutes 13 seconds ago)

NEW YORK, 4 May 2002, BookExpo America HOOT by Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2146 days 13 hours 57 minutes 4 seconds ago)

New York, LaGuardia Airport, 6 May 2002 BEFORE WE WERE FREE by Julia Alvarez, Knopf, August 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2146 days 13 hours 58 minutes 47 seconds ago)

7 June 2002 19 VARIETIES OF GAZELLE: POEMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST by Naomi Shihab Nye, Greenwillow, April 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2158 days 10 hours 42 minutes 41 seconds ago)

11 June 2002 LOOKING FOR RED by Angela Johnson, Simon and Schuster, May 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2158 days 10 hours 43 minutes 26 seconds ago)

24 May 2002 DOLORES: SEVEN STORIES ABOUT HER by Bruce Brooks, HarperCollins, April 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2158 days 10 hours 44 minutes 21 seconds ago)

6 June 2002 CATALYST by Laurie Halse Anderson, Viking, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2162 days 8 hours 11 minutes 16 seconds ago)

13 May 2002 FEED by M.T. Anderson, Candlewick, October 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2162 days 8 hours 14 minutes 5 seconds ago)

Saturday, 11 May 2002JINX by Margaret Wild, Walker & Co., August 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2162 days 8 hours 15 minutes 30 seconds ago)

Wed. 8 May 2002 THE THIEF LORD by Cornelia Funke, Chicken House, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2162 days 8 hours 17 minutes 7 seconds ago)

21 May 2002 GOONEY BIRD GREENE by Lois Lowry, Houghton Mifflin, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2162 days 8 hours 19 minutes 21 seconds ago)

3 June 2002 THE YEAR OF THE HANGMAN by Gary Blackwood, Dutton, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2167 days 42 minutes 20 seconds ago)

28 May 2002 SONNY'S WAR by Valerie Hobbs, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, September 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2172 days 22 hours 52 seconds ago)

19 May 2002 GOOD FOR THE EYES: Some 2002 Picture Books
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Sat, 13 Apr 2002 SUMMER READING: New Children's and Young Adult Paperbacks for 2002: Two memories of books on the beach-- Read the review (last modified: 2194 days 40 minutes 14 seconds ago)

Mon, 15 Apr 2002 THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION by Nancy Farmer, Jackson/Atheneum, October 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2199 days 11 hours 56 minutes 52 seconds ago)

Sun, 21 Apr 2002 Richie's Picks: 100 GREAT BOOKS ABOUT FOOD AND NUTRITION
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Thu, 18 Apr 2002 SHATTERING GLASS by Gail Giles, Millbrook/Running Brook Press, March 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2199 days 12 hours 1 minutes 58 seconds ago)

Fri, 5 Apr 2002 Richie's Picks: Earth Day Books

"...How I love this peaceful place,
This healing place,
This place with wings..."--Joanne Rand

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Wed, 3 April 2002 BREAKING POINT by Alex Flinn, Harper Tempest, May 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2227 days 15 hours 55 minutes 28 seconds ago)

Fri Mar 29, 2002 THE BIG BURN by Jeanette Ingold, Harcourt, June 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2233 days 7 hours 11 minutes ago)

Mar 17, 2002 Richie's Picks: Three Classic YA's that I'm Embarrassed to Admit that I'd Never Read Before Now: Read the review (last modified: 2244 days 21 hours 5 minutes 17 seconds ago)

3/15/2002 RETRO MOCK PRINTZ BALLOT Read the review (last modified: 2246 days 2 hours 49 minutes 44 seconds ago)

3/3/2002 STONER AND SPAZ by Ron Koertge, Candlewick Press, May 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2257 days 16 hours 1 minutes 33 seconds ago)

2/10/2002 101 Great Reads--Fiction and Poetry for Middle Grade students Read the review (last modified: 2259 days 15 hours 24 minutes 20 seconds ago)

2/28/2002 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LARRY by Janet Tashjian, Henry Holt, November 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2259 days 15 hours 53 minutes 14 seconds ago)

2/21/2002 THE SIGHT by David Clement-Davies, Dutton, March 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2259 days 15 hours 54 minutes 39 seconds ago)

2/17/2002 From UNCOMMON TRAVELER to UNDAUNTED COURAGE--100 GREAT BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES: Read the review (last modified: 2272 days 20 hours 11 minutes 16 seconds ago)

2/12/2002 The California Young Reader Medal Program 2003 Nominees Read the review (last modified: 2273 days 9 hours 23 minutes 35 seconds ago)

2/5/2002 100 PICTURE BOOKS THAT I COULD READ A DOZEN TIMES IN A ROW Read the review (last modified: 2284 days 20 hours 37 minutes 17 seconds ago)

2/4/2002 A HOLE IN THE WORLD by Sid Hite, Scholastic Press, September 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2285 days 15 hours 14 minutes 8 seconds ago)

1/22/2002 SIMON SAYS by Elaine Marie Alphin, Harcourt, May 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2298 days 22 hours 24 minutes 27 seconds ago)

1/4/2002 HOW I BECAME A WRITER & OGGIE LEARNED TO DRIVE by Janet Taylor Lisle, Philomel Books, April 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 12 hours 42 minutes 14 seconds ago)

n/a THINGS NOT SEEN by Andrew Clements, Philomel Books, March 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 36 minutes 5 seconds ago)

STRAYDOG n/a by Kathe Koja, Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus and Giroux, April 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 36 minutes 10 seconds ago)

n/a GINGERBREAD by Rachel Cohn, Simon & Schuster, March 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 36 minutes 14 seconds ago)

1/17/2002 BRONX MASQUERADE by Nikki Grimes, Penguin Putnam, January 2002 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 36 minutes 17 seconds ago)

1/30/2001 You Don't Know Me by David Klass, Frances Foster Books, March 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 36 minutes 50 seconds ago)

6/19/2001 Witness by Karen Hesse, Scholastic Press, September 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 37 minutes 48 seconds ago)

6/8/2001 WITCH CHILD by Celia Rees, Candlewick, July (Friday the Thirteenth) 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 38 minutes 1 seconds ago)

6/22/2001 WHAT MY MOTHER DOESN'T KNOW by Sonya Sones, Simon & Schuster, October 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 38 minutes 23 seconds ago)

1/17/2001 WHALE TALK by Chris Crutcher, Greenwillow Books, April 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 38 minutes 36 seconds ago)

6/15/2001 VICKY ANGEL by Jacqueline Wilson, Delacorte Press, September 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 38 minutes 48 seconds ago)

1/20/01 TRUE BELIEVER by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Atheneum, February 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 38 minutes 54 seconds ago)

3/14/2001 TOUCHING SPIRIT BEAR by Ben Mikaelsen, Harper Collins Children's Books, February, 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 39 minutes 1 seconds ago)

1/21/2001 THE SCHOOL STORY by Andrew Clements/Illustrated by Brian Selznick, Simon & Schuster, June 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 39 minutes 39 seconds ago)

n/a THE PASSIONATE EYE: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega, Harper Entertainment, April 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 39 minutes 59 seconds ago)

2/26/2001 THE LAND, by Mildred D. Taylor, Phyllis Fogelman Books, September 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 40 minutes 26 seconds ago)

n/a THE DINOSAURS OF WATERHOUSE HAWKINS by Barbara Kerley, Illustrated by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, September 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 41 minutes 6 seconds ago)

n/a SUN DANCE WATER DANCE by Jonathan London, Illustrated by Greg Couch, Dutton, June 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 41 minutes 30 seconds ago)

6/4/2001 SPELLBOUND by Janet McDonald, Frances Foster Books, October 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 42 minutes 10 seconds ago)

n/a THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS by Ann Brashares, Delacorte Press, September 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 42 minutes 21 seconds ago)

6/19/2001 SEEK by Paul Fleischman, Cricket Books, September 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 42 minutes 41 seconds ago)

n/a ROOSTER by Beth Nixon Weaver, Winslow Press , May 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 42 minutes 52 seconds ago)

6/30/2001 RAZZLE by Ellen Wittlinger, Simon & Schuster, September 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 43 minutes 17 seconds ago)

6/4/2001 Richie's Picks: Exciting New Picture Books at Book Expo America 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 43 minutes 35 seconds ago)

2/11/2001 NOTES FROM A LIAR AND HER DOG by Gennifer Choldenko, Putnam, May 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 43 minutes 53 seconds ago)

n/a THE MISFITS, by James Howe, Atheneum, October 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 44 minutes 10 seconds ago)

n/a MEMORY BOY by Will Weaver, Harper Collins, March 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 44 minutes 26 seconds ago)

5/24/2000 GIVE A BOY A GUN by Todd Strasser, Simon & Schuster BFYR, September 2000 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 45 minutes 19 seconds ago)

1/06/2001 DON'T PAT THE WOMBAT by Elizabeth Honey, Knopf, June 2000 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 46 minutes 37 seconds ago)

6/29/2001 CORAM BOY by Jamila Gavin, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 46 minutes 52 seconds ago)

1/21/2001 CASTAWAYS OF THE FLYING DUTCHMAN by Brian Jacques, Philomel, March 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2299 days 13 hours 47 minutes 10 seconds ago)

5/27/2001 BENNO'S BEAR by N.F. Zucker, Dutton Children's Books, October 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2300 days 6 hours 3 minutes 52 seconds ago)

2/23/2001 BOOK! BOOK! BOOK! by Deborah Bruss, Illustrated by Tiphanie Beeke, Arthur A. Levine Books May 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2300 days 6 hours 4 minutes 12 seconds ago)

2/19/2001 ARTEMIS FOWL by Eoin Colfer, Hyperion Books/Talk Miramax Books, May 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2301 days 7 hours 7 minutes 51 seconds ago)

5/23/2001 FAIR WEATHER by Richard Peck, Dial Books, October 2001, 10 & up Read the review (last modified: 2301 days 7 hours 7 minutes 51 seconds ago)

12/22/2001 Richie's Picks: Best of 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2301 days 12 hours 29 minutes 55 seconds ago)

12/20/00 Richie's Picks: Best of 2000 Read the review (last modified: 2301 days 12 hours 36 minutes 25 seconds ago)

March 2001 THE GYPSIES NEVER CAME by Stephen Roos, Simon & Schuster, March 2001 Read the review (last modified: 2301 days 12 hours 41 minutes 49 seconds ago)

12/30/1999 THE BEST OF 1999 Read the review (last modified: 2319 days 18 hours 55 minutes 52 seconds ago)

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