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

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MOLE MUSIC by David McPhail, Henry Holt

FRANK WAS A MONSTER WHO WANTED TO DANCE by Keith Graves, Chronicle

AND TO THINK THAT I THOUGHT THAT WE'D NEVER BE FRIENDS by Maryann Hoberman, ill. by Kevin Hawkes, Crown

A LUCKY THING by Alice Schertle, ill. by Wendell Minor, Harcourt

WESLANDIA by Paul Fleischman, ill. by Kevin Hawkes, Candlewick Press

SECTOR 7 by David Wiesner, Houghton Mifflin

SWINE LAKE by James Marshall, ill. by Maurice Sendak, HarperCollins

TOESTOMPER AND THE CATERPILLARS by Sharleen Caldicott, Houghton Mifflin

WILD CHILD by Lynn Plourde, ill. by Greg Couch, Simon & Schuster

WIND CHILD by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, ill. by The Dillons, HarperCollins

PIONEER CHURCH by Carolyn Otto, ill. by Megan Lloyd, Henry Holt

ZAGAZOO by Quentin Blake, Orchard

Fiction:

BUD, NOT BUDDY, by Christopher Paul Curtis, Delacorte

SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by JK Rowling, Arthur A. Levine Books

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS by JK Rowling, Arthur A. Levine Books

SKELLIG by David Almond, Delacorte Press

MONSTER by Walter Dean Myers, HarperCollins

BREAKING RANK by Kristen Randle, Morrow

KING OF SHADOWS by Susan Cooper, McElderberry Books

DAVE AT NIGHT by Gail Carson Levine, HarperCollins

ELSKE by Cynthia Voigt, Atheneum

THE BEETLE AND ME: A LOVE STORY by Karen Romano Young, Greenwillow

UNBROKEN by Jessie Haas, HarperCollins

A IS FOR AARRGH by William Brooke, HarperCollins

MARY, BLOODY MARY by Carolyn Meyer, Harcourt

Nonfiction:

THE HISTORY OF US (2nd edition) by Joy Hakim, Oxford University Press