by Roger Sutton
Patricia Reilly Giff, illustrations by Blanche Sims, The Beast in Ms. Rooney’s Room (Delacorte).
Judyann Ackerman Grant, illustrations by Sue Truesdell, Chicken Said, “Cluck!” (HarperCollins).
Stephanie Greene, illustrations by Martha Weston, Owen Foote, Frontiersman (Clarion); Happy Birthday, Sohpie Hartley (Clarion).
Nikki Grimes, illustrations by R. Gregory Christie, Almost Zero: A Dymonde Daniel Book (Putnam).
Betty Hicks, illustrations by Adam McCauley, Basketball Bats (Roaring Brook); Goof-Off Goalie (Roaring Brook); Swimming with Sharks (Roaring Brook).
Jennifer and Matthew Holm, Babymouse: Queen of the World! (Random House).
Kimberly Willis Holt, illustrations by Christine Davenier, Piper Reed, Navy Brat (Holt).
Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrations by Susan Gaber, Small Talk: A Book of Short Poems (Harcourt).
Johanna Hurwitz, illustrations by Lillian Hoban, Rip-Roaring Russell (HarperCollins).
Jessica Scott Kerrin, illustrations by Joseph Kelly, Martin Bridge: Ready for Takeoff! (Kids Can).
Grace Lin, Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! (Little, Brown).
Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Are Friends (HarperCollins).
Lenore Look, illustrations by LeUyen Pham, Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things (Random House).
Edward Marshall, illustrations by James Marshall, Fox and His Friends (Dial).
Megan McDonald, illustrations by Peter Reynolds, Judy Moody (series) (Candlewick).
Kate McMullan, illustrations by R. W. Alley, Pearl and Wagner: Two Good Friends (Dial).
Claudia Mills, illustrations by Heather Maione, How Oliver Olson Changed the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Else Holmelund Minarik, illustrations by Maurice Sendak, Little Bear (HarperCollins).
Peggy Parish, illustrations by Fritz Siebel, Amelia Bedelia (HarperCollins).
Sara Pennypacker, illustrations by Marla Frazee, Clementine (Hyperion).
Dav Pilkey, The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Scholastic).
James Proimos, Johnny Mutton, He’s So Him! (Harcourt).
Cynthia Rylant, illustrations by Suçie Stevenson, Henry and Mudge (Simon & Schuster).
Barbara Seuling, illustrations by Paul Brewer, Robert and the Great Pepperoni (Cricket).
Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat (Random House).
Erica Silverman, illustrations by Betsy Lewin, Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa (Harcourt).
Shelley Moore Thomas, illustrations by Jennifer Plecas, Good Night, Good Knight (Dutton).
Sarah Weeks, illustrations by Jane Manning, Pip Squeak (HarperCollins).
Mo Willems, Are You Ready to Play Outside? (Hyperion); I Am Invited to a Party! (Hyperion); Pigs Make Me Sneeze! (Hyperion).
Lisa Yee, illustrations by Dan Santat, Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) (Levine/Scholastic).
Part Three: Reading on Their Own
Jon Agee, Orangutan Tongs: Poems to Tangle Your Tongue (Hyperion); Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis!: More Palindromes (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).
Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Starting School (Viking).
Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Doubleday).
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (Little, Brown).
Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three (Holt).
Aliki, Fossils Tell of Long Ago (HarperCollins).
Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains (Simon & Schuster); Forge (Simon & Shuster).
M. T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (Candlewick); The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (Candlewick).
M. T. Anderson, illustrations by Kurt Cyrus, Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware: A Pals in Peril Tale (Beach Lane).
Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance (Crown).
Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos, Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science (Clarion).
Ruth Ashby, Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle (Peachtree).
Avi, The Traitors’ Gate (Atheneum); The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (HarperCollins).
Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker (Little, Brown).
Deidre Baker, Becca at Sea (Groundwood).
Catherine Bateson, Being Bee (Holiday House).
L. Frank Baum, illustrations by W. W. Denslow, The Wizard of Oz (Rand McNally).
Nathaniel Benchley, illustrations by Arnold Lobel, Sam the Minuteman (HarperCollins).
Franny Billingsley, Chime (Dial).
Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks (Knopf).
Nic Bishop, Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs (Houghton Mifflin); Frogs (Scholastic).
Judy Blume, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (Atheneum ); It’s Not the End of the World (Atheneum).
Louise Borden, illustrations by Niki Daly, The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands (McElderry).
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cosmic (Walden Pond).
Franklyn M. Branley, illustrations by Marc Simont, What Happened to the Dinosaurs? (HarperCollins).
Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Delacorte).
Gwendolyn Brooks, illustrations by Faith Ringgold, Bronzeville Boys and Girls (HarperCollins).
Charlotte Lewis Brown, illustrations by Phil Wilson, The Day the Dinosaurs Died (HarperCollins).
Don Brown, All Stations! Distress!: April 15, 1912, The Day the Titantic Sank (Flash Point/Roaring Brook).
Joseph Bruchac, Code Talker (Dial).
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (Candlewick).
Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey (Little, Brown).
Meg Cabot, Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out (Scholastic).
Sarah C. Campbell, photographs by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell, Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator (Boyds Mills).
Kristin Cashore, Graceling (Harcourt).
Andrew Chaikin with Victoria Kohl, illustrations by Alan Bean, Mission Control, This Is Apollo: The Story of the First Voyages to the Moon (Viking).
Jason Chin, Redwoods (Flash Point/Roaring Brook).
Beverly Cleary, Dear Mr. Henshaw (HarperCollins).
Andrew Clements, Frindle (Simon & Schuster); Lunch Money (Simon & Schuster).
Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrations by James Ransome, Young Pelé: Soccer’s First Star (Schwartz & Wade).
James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, My Brother Sam Is Dead (Four Winds).
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Scholastic); Catching Fire (Scholastic); Mockingjay (Scholastic).
Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising (McElderry); King of Shadows (McElderry).
Audrey Couloumbis and Akila Couloumbis, War Games: A Novel Based on a True Story (Random House).
Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy (Delacorte); Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic); The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963 (Delacorte).
Karen Cushman, Catherine, Called Birdy (Clarion).
Nicola Davies, illustrations by Neal Layton, Just the Right Size: Why Big Animals Are Big and Little Animals Are Little (Candlewick).
Jean de Brunhoff, The Story of Babar (Egmont).
James M. Deem, Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past (Houghton Mifflin).
Barry Deutsch, Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword (Amulet).
Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery (Random House).
Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember (Random House); The Diamond of Darkhold (Random House).
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, The Number Devil (Holt).
Louise Erdrich, The Porcupine Year (HarperCollins).
Tom Feelings, The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo (Dial).
Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy (HarperCollins); The Long Secret (HarperCollins).
Candace Fleming
, The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary (Random House).
Brian Floca, Dinosaurs at the Ends of the Earth (DK Ink).
Douglas Florian, Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings (Harcourt).
Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain (Houghton Mifflin).
Russell Freedman, Lincoln: A Photobiography (Clarion); The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights (Clarion).
Neil Gaiman, illustrations by Dave McKean, Coraline (HarperCollins); The Graveyard Book (HarperCollins).
Jack Gantos, Hole in My Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Joey Pigza Loses Control (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Dead End in Norvelt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Alan Garner, The Owl Service (Harcourt Odyssey [orig. Collins]).
Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves (HarperCollins).
James Cross Giblin, Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth (Clarion).
Fred Gipson, Old Yeller (Perennial Classics).
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (Atheneum).
K. M. Grant, How the Hangman Lost His Heart (Walker).
Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring (Flash Point/Roaring Brook); Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates and Beyond (Flash Point/Roaring Brook).
Shannon Hale and Dean Hale, illustrations by Nathan Hale, Rapunzel’s Revenge (Bloomsbury).
Robie H. Harris, illustrations by Jan Ormerod, Goodbye Mousie (McElderry).
Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley, It’s NOT the Stork!: A Book about Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families, and Friends (Candlewick); It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (Candlewick); It’s So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (Candlewick).
Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith (Holt).
Douglas Henderson, Asteroid Impact (Dial).
Charles Higson, SilverFin: A James Bond Adventure (Hyperion).
Will Hobbs, Go Big or Go Home (HarperCollins); Wild Man Island (HarperCollins).
Terry Hokenson, The Winter Road (Front Street/Boyds Mills).
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages (Random House).
bell hooks, illustrations by Shane W. Evans, Homemade Love (Hyperion).
Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Anthony Horowitz, Stormbreaker (Philomel).
Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Will James, Smoky, the Cowhorse (Scribner).
Paul B. Janeczko, illustrations by Chris Raschka, A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms (Candlewick).
Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Steve Jenkins, Dogs and Cats (Houghton Mifflin); Prehistoric, Actual Size (Houghton Mifflin).
Ji-Li Jiang, Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (HarperColllins).
Catherine Jinks, Evil Genius (Harcourt); Genius Squad (Harcourt).
Marthe Jocelyn, How It Happened in Peach Hill (Random House).
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle (Greenwillow).
Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Holt).
Barbara Kerley, illustrations by Edwin Fotheringham, What to Do about Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! (Scholastic).
P. B. Kerr, One Small Step (McElderry).
Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Amulet/Abrams).
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book (Books of Wonder).
Jim Kjelgaard, Big Red (Holiday House).
Ellen Klages, The Green Glass Sea (Viking); White Sands, Red Menace (Viking).
Kate Klise, Grounded (Feiwel and Friends).
Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home (Holt).
Ron Koertge, Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs (Candlewick).
Kathleen Krull, illustrations by Boris Kulikov, Isaac Newton (Viking); Leonardo da Vinci (Viking); Albert Einstein (Viking).
Kathleen V. Kudlinski, illustrations by S. D. Schindler, Boy, Were We Wrong about Dinosaurs! (Dutton).
Mark Kurlansky, illustrations by S. D. Schindler, The Cod’s Tale (Putnam); The Story of Salt (Putnam).
Tom Lalicki, Grierson’s Raid: A Daring Cavalry Strike Through the Heart of the Confederacy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Patricia Lauber, illustrations by Douglas Henderson, Living with Dinosaurs (Simon & Schuster).
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Atheneum).
Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted (HarperCollins).
C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (HarperCollins).
Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown).
Cynthia Lord, Touch Blue (Scholastic).
David Macaulay, Built to Last (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
David Macaulay with Richard Walker, The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body (Lorraine/Houghton Mifflin).
Patricia MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall (HarperCollins).
Margaret Mahy, The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance (Atheneum).
Sandra Markle, Outside and Inside Dinosaurs (Atheneum); Outside and Inside Woolly Mammoths (Walker).
Ann M. Martin, Everything for a Dog (Feiwel).
William Mayne, Earthfasts (Dutton).
Emily Arnold McCully, Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Hilary McKay, Forever Rose (McElderry).
Kierin Meehan, Hannah’s Winter (Kane/Miller).
Claudia Mills, Alex Ryan, Stop That! (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Lizzie at Last (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); Makeovers by Marcia (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
A. A. Milne, illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, Winnie-the-Pooh (Dutton).
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (Modern Library).
Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot (Scientists in the Field) (Houghton Mifflin).
Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Clarion).
Meja Mwangi, The Mzungu Boy (Groundwood).
Walter Dean Myers, Scorpions (HarperCollins).
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Agony of Alice (Atheneum); Alice in Lace (Atheneum).
Kadir Nelson, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (Hyperion).
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrations by R. Gregory Christie, Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal (Carolrhoda).
Mark A. Norell and Lowell Dingus, A Nest of Dinosaurs: The Story of Oviraptor (Doubleday).
Naomi Shihab Nye, illustrations by Terre Maher, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls (Greenwillow).
Scott O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins (Houghton Mifflin).
Scott O’Grady with Michael French, Basher Five-Two: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O’Grady (Doubleday).
Mary O’Hara, My Friend Flicka (HarperCollins).
Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (Knopf).
Kenneth Oppel, Airborn (Eos/HarperCollins).
Linda Sue Park, illustrations by Istvan Banyai, Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems) (Clarion); Keeping Score (Clarion).
Ruth Park, Playing Beatie Bow (Atheneum).
Rosanne Parry, Heart of a Shepherd (Random House).
Elizabeth Partridge, John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (Viking); Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary (Viking).
Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia (HarperCollins); Flip-Flop Girl (Dutton); The Great Gilly Hopkins (HarperCollins).
James Patterson, The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel (Little, Brown).
Gary Paulsen, Hatchet (Simon & Schuster);
Lawn Boy (Random House); Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books (Delacorte).
Philippa Pearce, Tom’s Midnight Garden (HarperCollins).
Kit Pearson, A Handful of Time (Viking).
Richard Peck, A Season of Gifts (Dial); A Year Down Yonder (Dial).
Robert Newton Peck, Hang for Treason (Doubleday).
Lynne Rae Perkins, All Alone in the Universe (Greenwillow); The Broken Cat (Greenwillow).
Matt Phelan, The Storm in the Barn (Candlewick).
Licoln Peirce, Big Nate: In a Class By Himself (HarperCollins).
Dav Pilkey, The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Scholastic).
Daniel Pinkwater, Looking for Bobowicz (HarperCollins).
Terry Pratchett, Nation (HarperCollins); The Wee Free Men (HarperCollins).
Jack Prelutsky, illustrations by Brandon Dorman, Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face and Other Poems: Some of the Best of Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow).
Jack Prelutsky, illustrations by James Stevenson, Something Big Has Been Here (Greenwillow); My Dog May Be a Genius (Greenwillow).
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (Knopf).
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling (Collier).
Philip Reeve, A Darkling Plain (HarperCollins); Mortal Engines (HarperCollins).
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief (Disney/Hyperion).
Ken Roberts, illustrations by Leanne Franson, The Thumb in the Box (Groundwood).
Fred Rogers, Going to the Dentist (Putnam).
J. K. Rowling, illustrations by Mary GrandPré, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Scholastic).
Marisabina Russo, Grandpa Abe (Greenwillow).
Pam Muños Ryan, Peter Sís, The Dreamer (Scholastic).
Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart, Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs (Candlewick).
Louis Sachar, Holes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (Harcourt).
Alice Schertle, illustrations by Petra Mathers, Button Up!: Wrinkled Rhymes (Harcourt).
Laura Amy Schlitz, A Drowned Maiden’s Hair (Candlewick).
Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrations by Robert Byrd, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village (Candlewick).
Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic).
Dr. Seuss, Bartholomew and the Oobleck (Random House).
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty (Puffin).
Margery Sharp, The Rescuers (Little, Brown).
Steve Sheinkin, The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery (Flash Point/Roaring Brook).