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Great Middle School Reads

The following is a very short list of books that will appeal to middle school readers. The term “middle school” is a problematic descriptor when it comes to identifying appropriate books because it refers to a culturally specific, often building specific, group of readers.   For our purposes “middle school” refers to children in grades 6-8, or roughly 10-14 years old. It refers to the period in a child’s life when there are more variables among like-aged children than in any other period, so the only real common denominator among all of them is the building in which they are educated.   So this list, like everything else for these kids, is uncertain and constantly evolving. The categories are based on common interests and concerns of middle schoolers, and many of the books would fit in multiple categories.

 

When the World Lets You Down

 

Doyle, Brian.  Uncle Ronald.  Groundwood, 1997.  138 pages.

 

Easton, Kelly. Walking on Air. McElderry Books, 2004. 233 pages.

 

Flake, Sharon G.  Begging for Change.  Jump at the Sun/ Hyperion, 2003.  235 pages.

 

Gaiman, Neil. The Wolves in the Walls.  HarperCollins, 2003.  56 pages.

 

Smith, Hope Anita.  The Way a Door Closes.  Henry Holt, 2003.  52 pages.

 

Williams-Garcia, Rita. No Laughter Here. HarperCollins, 2004.  133 pages.

 

 

Laughing Through The Tears

 

Gantos, Jack.  Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (and others in the series).  Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. 154 pages.

 

McKay, Hilary.  Saffy’s Angel.  U.S. Edition: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2002.  152 pages.

 

Naifeh, Ted.  Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things (and other volumes).  Oni Press, 2001.

 

Wheeler, Lisa. Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta. Jackson/Atheneum, 2004.  Unpaged.

 

Wynne-Jones, Tim.  Some of the Kinder Planets.  Orchard, 1995. 130 pages.

 

Yee, Lisa.  Millicent Min: Girl Genius.  Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press, 2003.  256 pages.

 

 

Who Am I if not My Family?

 

Avi.  Crispin: The Cross of Lead.  Hyperion, 2002.  262 pages.

 

Huser, Glen. Stitches. Groundwood, 2003.  198 pages.

 

Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart.  Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. The Chicken House/Scholastic, 2003.  534 pages.

 

Gaiman, Neil.  Coraline.  HarperCollins, 2002.  162 pages.

 

Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Pictures of Hollis Woods.  Wendy Lamb Books/Random House, 2002.  166 pages.

 

Osa, Nancy.  Cuba 15.  Delacorte Press, 2003.  277 pages.

 

Park, Linda Sue.  When My Name Was Keoko.  Clarion, 2002.  199 pages.

 

Sheth, Kashmira. Blue Jasmine. Hyperion, 2004. 186 pages.

 

Woodson, Jacqueline.  Hush.  Putnam, 2002.  181 pages.

 

 

Decisions, Decisions (That’s Not Fair!)

 

Bruchac, Joseph. The Heart of a Chief.   Dial, 1998.  153 pages.

 

Crowe, Chris.  Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case.  Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin, 2003.  128 pages.

 

DuPrau, Jeanne.  The City of Ember.  Random House, 2003.  270 pages.

 

Erlbach, Arlene.  Worth the Risk.  Free Spirit Press, 1999. 122 pages.

 

Farmer, Nancy.  The House of the Scorpion.  A Richard Jackson Book/Atheneum, 2002.  380 pages.

 

Goodall, Jane.  The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours.  A Byron Preiss Book/Scholastic Press, 2001.  80 pages.

 

Hiaasen, Carl.  Hoot.  Alfred A Knopf, 2002.  292 pages.

 

Konigsburg, E.L.  The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place.  Atheneum, 2004.  296 pages.

 

Lowry, Lois.  Messenger.   Houghton Mifflin, 2004.  169 pages.

 

Myers, Walter Dean.  Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam.  HarperCollins, 2002.  32 pages.

 

Reeve, Philip.  Mortal Engines  (The Hungry City Chronicles).  Eos/HarperCollins, 2003.  310 pages.

 

Spinelli, Jerry.  Stargirl.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 186 pages.

 

 

When You Have to be the Grown-up…

 

Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone Does My Shirts. Putnam, 2004.  240 pages.

 

Clarke, Judith.  Wolf on the Fold.   U.S. Edition: Front Street, 2002.  169 pages.

 

Collins, Suzanne.  Gregor the Overlander.  Scholastic Press, 2003.  310 pages.

 

Ellis, Deborah.  Mud City (The final book in the Breadwinner Trilogy).  Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre, 2003.  164 pages.

 

Mizayaki, Hayao. Spirited Away, vol 1.  Viz Comics, 2002.

 

Ryan, Pam Muñoz.  Esperanza Rising.  Scholastic Press, 2000.  262 pages.

 

 

Coming of Ages, Living and Dying

 

Curtis, Christopher Paul.  Bucking the Sarge.  Wendy Lamb, 2004. 272 pages.

 

Gandolfi, Sylvana.  Aldabra. Translated from the Italian by Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2004. 160 pages.

 

Henkes, Kevin.  Olive’s Ocean.  Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2003.  224 pages.

 

Kadohata, Cynthia.  Kira-Kira.  Atheneum, 2004.  256 pages.

 

Nye, Naomi Shihab.  What Have You Lost?  Greenwillow, 1999.  205 pages.

 

Winick, Judd.  Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned.  Henry Holt, 2000.  187 pages.

 

Woodson, Jacqueline.  Locomotion.  Putnam, 2003.  128 pages.

 

 

Cool People/All Kinds of Heroes

 

Cummins, Julie.  Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott.  HarperCollins, 2001.  80 pages.

 

Fleming, Candace. Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life. An Anne Schwartz Book/Atheneum, 2003.  120 pages.

 

Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan. Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois. Harry N. Abrams, 2003.  80 pages.

 

Johnson, Angela.  The Other Side: Shorter Poems.  Orchard, 1998.  44 pages.

 

Macy, Sue. Bulls-eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley. National Geographic Society, 2001.  64 pages.    

 

Maurer, Richard. The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous Brothers.   Roaring Book Press, 2003.  127 pages.

 

Nelson, Marilyn. Carver, a Life in Poems.   Front Street, 2001.  103 pages.

 

Partridge, Elizabeth.  This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie.  Viking, 2002.  217 pages.

 

 

Survive Middle School, then Survive THIS!

 

Bredeson, Carmen.   After the Last Dog Died: The True-Life, Hair-Raising Adventure of Douglas Mawson and His 1912 Antarctic Expedition.  National Geographic, 2003.  63 pages.

 

 

Murphy, Jim.   An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.  Clarion, 2003.  165 pages.

 

Fleischman, John. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science. Houghton Mifflin, 2002.  86 pages.

 

Gaiman, Neil.  The Books of Magic.  DC Comics/Vertigo, 1993.

 

Lawlor, Laurie.  Magnificent Voyage: An American Adventurer on Captain James Cook's Final Expedition.  Holiday House, 2002.  236 pages.

 

Matthews, L. S.  Fish.  Delacorte, 2004.  183 pages.

 

Orlev, Uri. Run, Boy, Run.  Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin.  Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin, 2003.  186 pages.

 

Philbrick, Nathaniel.  Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex.  Putnam, 2002.  164 pages.

 

Ross, Val.   The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories.   Tundra, 2003.  146 pages.

 

Schyffert, Bea Uusma.   The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins.   Chronicle, 2003.  77 pages.

 

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Best Books for Young Adults

The annotated list of the 2008 nominations is available in the For Members Only section of the YALSA site.

Updated September 11, 2007

 

Fiction

 

Abdel-Fattah, Randa.   Does My Head Look Big In This?   2007.  Scholastic Orchard, $16.99 (978-0-439-91947-0).

 

Alexie, Sherman.   The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.   2007. Little, Brown, $16.99 (978-0-316-01368-0).

 

Alexie, Sherman.   Flight.   2007. Grove/Atlantic Black Cat, $13.00 (978-0-8021-7037-8).

 

Anderson, Laurie Halse.   Twisted.   2007. Penguin Group USA/ Viking, $16.99 (978-0-670-06101-3).

 

Avi.   Crispin: At the Edge of the World.   September 2006. Hyperion, $16.99 (978-0-7868-5152-2).

 

Barkley, Brad and Heather Helper.   Dream Factory.   Penguin Group USA/Dutton. 2007 (978-0-525-47802-7).

 

Bildner, Phil.   Busted.   Simon & Schuster. 2007 (978-1-4169-2424-1).

 

Bingham, Kelly.   Shark Girl.   Candlewick. 2007 (978-0-7636-3207-6).

 

Brande, Robin.   Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature.   2007. Random House/ Alfred A. Knopf, $15.99 (978-0-375-94349-2).

 

Brooks, Kevin.   Being.   2007.  Scholastic/Chicken House, $16.95 (978-0-439-89973-4).

 

Brooks, Martha.   Mistik Lake.   Farrar, Straus & Giroux Melanie Kroupa. 2007 (978-0-374-34985-1).

 

Bryan, Kathleen.   The Serpent and the Rose: The First Book of the War of the Rose.   2007. Tom Doherty/Tor, $14.95 (978-0-7653-1328-7).

 

Burgess, Melvin.   Bloodsong.   Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse. 2007 (978-1-4169-3616-9).

 

Caletti, Deb.   The Nature of Jade.   2007. Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (978-1-4169-1005-3).

 

Carey, Mike.   God Save the Queen.   DC Comics/Vertigo. 2007 (978-1-4012-0303-0).

 

Carey, Mike.   Re-Gifters.   2007. DC Comics/minx, $9.99 (978-1-4012-0371-9).

 

Carey, Janet Lee.   Dragon's Keep.   2007. Harcourt, $17.00 (978-0-15-205926-2).

 

Castellucci, Cecil.   Beige.   2007. Candlewick, $16.99 (978-0-7636-3066-9).

 

Clarke, Judith.   One Whole and Perfect Day.   2007. Front Street, $16.95 (978-1-932425-95-6).

 

Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan.   Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.   Random House/Alfred A. Knopf. 2007 (978-0-375-84440-9).

 

Cooney, Caroline B.   A Friend at Midnight.   2006. Random House/Delacorte, $15.95 (978-0-385-73326-7).

 

Cooper, Brenda.   The Silver Ship and the Sea.   2007. Tom Doherty/Tor, $29.95 (978-0-7653-1597-7).

 

Cross, Shauna.   Derby Girl.   Henry Holt. 2007 (978-0-8050-8023-0).

 

Crutcher, Chris.   Deadline.   2007. HarperCollins/Greenwillow, $16.99 (978-0-06-085089-0).

 

Cullen, Lynn.   I am Rembrandt's Daughter.   Bloomsbury. 2007 (978-1-59990-046-9).

 

De Crecy, Nicolas.   Glacial Period.  2007.   NBM Publishing/Comicslit, $16.95 (978-1-56163-483-5).

 

Dowd, Siobhan.   A Swift Pure Cry.   2007. Random House/David Fickling, $16.99 (978-0-385-75108-7).

 

Dubosarsky, Ursula.   The Red Shoe.   2007.  Roaring Brook Neal Porter, $16.95 (978-1-59643-265-9).

 

Duey, Kathleen.   Skin Hunger.   Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 2007 (978-0-689-84093-7).

 

Ellsworth, Loretta.   In Search of Mockingbird.   2007. Henry Holt, $16.95 (978-0-8050-7236-5).

 

Friesen, Gayle.   For Now.   Kids Can Press. 2007 (978-1-55453-133-2).

 

Giles, Gail.   Right Behind You.   2007. Little, Brown, $15.99 (978-0-316-16636-2).

 

Gipi.   Notes for a War Story.   Spectrum.  Roaring Brook/First Second. 2007 (978-1-59643-261-1).

 

Grey, Christopher.   Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant.   September 2006. Simon and Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $16.95 (978-1-4169-0543-1).

 

Hartinger, Brent.   Split Screen: Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies/Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies.   2007.  HarperCollins/HarperTeen, $16.99 (978-0-06-082408-2).

 

Haydon, Elizabeth.   The Thief Queen's Daughter: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme.   2007. Tom Doherty/Starscape, $17.95 (978-0-7653-0868-9).

 

Herrick, Steven.   The Wolf.   2007. Front Street, $17.95 (978-1-932425-75-8).

 

Hoffman, Mary.   The Falconer's Knot.   2007. Bloomsbury, $16.95 (978-1-59990-056-8).

 

Hopkins, Ellen.   Glass.   Simon & Schuster/Margaret McElderry. 2007 (978-1-4169-4090-6).

 

Hornby, Nick.   Slam.   Penguin Group USA/Putnam. 2007 (978-0-399-25048-4).

 

Jenkins, A.M.   Repossessed.   2007. HarperCollins/HarperTeen, $15.99 (978-0-06-083568-2).

 

Jinks, Catherine.   Evil Genius.   2007. Harcourt, $17.00 (978-0-15-205988-0).

 

Jocelyn, Marthe.   How It Happened in Peach Hill.   2007. Random House/Wendy Lamb, $15.99 (978-0-375-83701-2).

 

Johnson, Maureen.   Girl at Sea.   2007.  HarperCollins/HarperTeen, $16.99 (978-0-06-054144-6).

 

Johnson, Peter.   What Happened.   Boyds Mills/Front Street. 2007 (978-1-932425-67-3).

 

Jolin, Paula.   In The Name Of God.   2007.  Roaring Brook, $16.95 (978-1-59643-211-6).

 

Jones, Lloyd.   Mister Pip.   Dell Publishing/Dial Press. 2007 (978-0-385-34106-6).

 

Jones, Patrick.   Chasing Tail Lights.   2007. Walker, $16.95 (978-0-8027-9628-8).

 

Joyce, Graham.   TWOC: Taken Without Owner's Consent.   2007. Penguin Group USA/Viking, $16.99 (978-0-670-06090-0).

 

Kadohata, Cynthia.   Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam.   Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 2007 (978-1-4169-0637-7).

 

Kantor, Melissa.   The Breakup Bible.   2007. Hyperion, $15.99 (978-0-7868-0962-2).

 

Kay, Guy Gavriel.   Ysabel.   2007. ROC, $24.95 (978-0-451-46129-2).

 

Key, Watt.   Alabama Moon.   2007. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $16.00 (978-0-374-30184-2).

 

Klass, David.   Firestorm.   September  2006. Farrar, Straus & Giroux Frances Foster, $17.00 (978-0-374-32307-3).

 

Klein, Lisa.   Ophelia: A Novel.   October 2006. Bloomsbury, $16.95 (978-1-58234-801-8).

 

Knox, Elizabeth.   Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet.   2007. Farrar, Straus & Giroux Frances Foster, $19.00 (978-0-374-31854-3).

 

Knowles, Jo.   Lessons from a Dead Girl.   Candlewick. 2007 (978-0-7636-3279-3).

 

Koertge, Ron.   Strays.   2007.  Candelwick, $16.99 (978-0-7636-2705-8).

 

Kostick, Conor.   Epic.   2007. Penguin Group USA Viking, $17.99 (978-0-670-061792).

 

Lanagan, Margo.   Red Spikes.   2007. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf, $16.99 (978-0-375-84320-4).

 

Lat.   Town Boy.   2007. Roaring Brook/First Second, $16.95 (978-1-59643-331-1).

 

Lester, Julius.   Cupid A Tale of Love and Desire.   2007. Harcourt/Silver Whistle, $17.00 (978-0-15-202056-9).

 

Llewellyn, Sam.   The Return of Death Eric.   October 2006. Walker, $16.95 (978-0-8027-8951-8).

 

Lockhart, E.   Dramarama.   2007. Hyperion, $15.99 (978-0-7868-3815-8).

 

Lyga, Barry.   The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl.   October 2006. Houghton Mifflin, 16.95 (978-0-618-72392-8).

 

Lyga, Barry.   Boy Toy.   2007. Houghton Mifflin, $16.95 (978-0-618-72393-5).

 

MacCready, Robin Merrow.   Buried.   September 2006. Penguin Group USA Dutton, $16.99 (978-0-525-47724-2).

 

Marillier, Juliet.   Wildwood Dancing.   2007. Random House Children's Books/Knopf Books for Young Readers, 16.99 (978-0-375-83364-9).

 

Marr, Melissa.   Wicked Lovely.   2007. HarperCollins/HarperTeen, $16.99 (978-0-06-121465-3).

 

McCaughrean, Geraldine.   The White Darkness.   2007.  HarperCollins/HarperTeen, 16.99 (978-0-06-089035-3).

 

McGhee, Alison.   Falling Boy.   2007. Picador, $13.00 (978-0-312-42592-0).

 

McNeal, Laura and Tom.   The Decoding of Lana Morris.   2007. Random House, $15.99 (978-0-375-83106-5).

 

Michaels, Rune.   Genesis Alpha.   2007. Simon & Schuste/Ginee Seo, $14.99 (978-1-4169-1886-8).

 

Mieville, China.   Un Lun Dun.  2007. Random House Del Rey, $17.95 (978-0-345-49516-7).

 

Millar, Martin.   The Good Fairies of New York.   2007.  Soft Skull Press, $13.95 (978-1-933368-36-8).

 

Morgenroth, Kate.   Echo.   2007.  Simon & Shuster, $15.99 (978-1-4169-1438-9).

 

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.   The Off Season.   2007. Houghton Mifflin, $16 (978-0-618-68695-7).

 

Myers, Walter Dean.   What They Found: love on 145th street.   2007. Random House/Wendy Lamb, $15.99 (978-0-385-32138-9).

 

Olmstead, Robert.   Coal Black Horse.   2003.  Algonquin, $23.95 (978-1-56512-521-6).

 

Peck, Richard.   On the Wings of Heroes.   2007. Penguin Group USA/Dial, $16.99 (978-0-8037-3081-6).

 

Peet, Mal.   The Penalty.   2007. Candlewick, $16.99 (978-0-7636-3399-8).

 

Peet, Mal.   Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal.   2007. Candlewick, $17.99 (978-0-7636-3488-9).

 

Picoult, Jodi.   Nineteen Minutes.   2007. Simon & Schuster/Atria, $26.95 (978-0-7434-9672-8).

 

Pinkwater, Daniel.   The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization.   2007. Houghton Mifflin, $16 (978-0-618-59444-3).

 

Pressler, Mirjam.   Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.   Macki, Erik J.  Front Street. 2007 (978-1-932425-84-0).

 

Rabb, Margo.   Cures For Heartbreak.   2007.  Random House/Delacorte, $18.99 (978-0-385-90414-8).

 

Reinhardt, Dana.   Harmless.   2007. Random House/Wendy Lamb, $15.99 (978-0-385-74699-1).

 

The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural.   Edited by Deborah Noyes.   2007. Candlewick, $16.99 (978-0-7636-2906-9).

 

Rowling, J.K.   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.   2007. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, $34.99 (978-0-545-01022-1).

 

Ryan, P.E.   Saints of Augustine.   HarperCollins/HarperTeen. 2007 (978-0-06-085810-0).

 

Sandell, Lisa Ann.   Song of the Sparrow.   2007. Scholastic, $16.99 (978-0-439-91848-0).

 

Scholastic Inc.   Click.   2007. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, $16.99 (978-0-439-41138-7).

 

Schmidt, Gary D.   The Wednesday Wars.   Clarion. 2007 (978-0-618-72483-3).

 

Sedgwick, Marcus.   My Swordhand is Singing.   2007. Random House/Wendy Lamb, $15.99 (978-0-375-84689-2).

 

Selznick, Brian.   The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel.   2007. Scholastic, $22.99 (978-0-439-81378-5).

 

Shakespeare, William.   Romeo and Juliet. Adapted by Richard Appignanesi.   2007. Abrams/Amulet, $9.95 (978-0-8109-9325-9).

 

Shusterman, Neal.   Everlost.   October 2006. Simon & Schuster, 16.95 (978-0-689-87237-2).

 

Smith, Cynthia Leitich.   Tantalize.   2007. Candlewick, $16.99 (978-0-7636-2791-1).

 

Smith, Roland.   Peak.   Harcourt. 2007 (978-0-15-202417-8).

 

Sonnenblick, Jordan.   Notes from the Midnight Driver.   October 2006. Scholastic, $16.99 (978-0-439-75779-9).

 

Stinson, Kathy.   101 Ways To Dance.   2007.  Second Story Press, $9.95 (978-1-897187-10-4).

 

Strasser, Todd.   Boot Camp.   Simon & Schuster. 2007 (978-1-4169-0848-7).

 

Tan, Shaun.   The Arrival.   2007. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, $19.99 (978-0-439-89529-3).

 

Taylor, Laini.   Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer.   2007.  Penguin Group USA/Putnam, $17.99 (978-0-399-24630-2).

 

Thompson, Kate.   The New Policeman.   2007. HarperCollins/Greenwillow, $16.99 (978-0-06-117427-8).

 

Tomlinson, Heather.   The Swan Maiden.   2007. Henry Holt, $16.95 (978-0-8050-8275-3).

 

Trueman, Terry.   7 Days at the Hot Corner.   2007. HarperCollins, $15.99 (978-0-06-057494-9).

 

Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa.   Haters.  October 2006. Little, Brown, $16.99 (978-0-316-01307-9).

 

van de Ruit, John.   SPUD: A Wickedly Funny Novel.   2007. Penguin Group USA/Razorbill, $16.99 (978-1-59514-170-5).

 

Wahl, Mats.   The Invisible.   Translated by Katarina E. Tucker.  2007. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $16.00 (978-0-374-33609-7).

 

Wallace, Rich.   One Good Punch.   2007. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf, $15.99 (978-0-375-81352-8).

 

Weinheimer, Beckie.   Converting Kate.   2007. Penguin Group USA Viking, $16.99 (978-0-670-06152-5).

 

Wemmlinger, Raymond.   Booth's Daughter.   2007. Front Street, $17.99 (978-1-932425-86-4).

 

Wiess, Laura.   Such a Pretty Girl.   2007. Simon and Schuster/MTV, $12.00 (978-1-4165-2183-9).

 

Wittlinger, Ellen.   Parrotfish.   2007.  Simon & Schuster, $16.99 (978-1-4169-1622-2).

 

Zarr, Sara.   Story of a Girl.   2007. Little, Brown, $16.99 (978-0-316-01453-3).

 

Zevin, Gabrielle.   Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.   2007. Farrar Straus Giroux, $17.00 (978-0-374-34946-2).

 

Nonfiction

Barakat, Ibtisam.   Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood.   2007. Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Melanie Kroupa, $16.00 (978-0-374-35733-7).

 

Beah, Ishmael.   A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.   2007. Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Sarah Crichton, $22.00 (978-0-374-10523-5).

 

Crisler, Curtis L.   Tough Boy Sonatas.   2007. Boyds Mills Press/Wordsong, $19.95 (978-1-932425-77-2).

 

The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss. Edited by Claire Nouvian.   2007.    University of Chicago Press, $45 (978-0-226-59566-5).

 

Faith and Doubt: An Anthology of Poems. Edited by Patrice Vecchione.   2007. Henry Holt, $16.95 (978-0-8050-8213-5).

 

Gourley, Catherine.   War, Women, and the News: How Female Journalists Won the Battle to Cover World War II.   2007. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, $21.99 (978-0-689-87752-0).

 

Helfer, Andrew.   Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography.   November 2006. Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Hill & Wang, 15.95 (978-0-8090-9504-9).

 

Hemphill, Stephanie.   Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath.   2007. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf, $15.99 (978-0-375-83799-9).

 

Kirkpatrick, Katherine.   The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter.   2006.  Holiday House, $16.95 (978-0-8234-1973-9).

 

Lutes, Jason.   Houdini: The Handcuff King.   2007. Hyperion, $16.99 (978-0-7868-3902-5).

 

Miller, Joe.   Cross-X.   October 2006. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.00 (978-0374-13194-4).

 

Montgomery, Sy.   Quest For The Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition To The Cloud Forest of New Guinea.   October 2006. Houghton Mifflin Company, $18.00 (978-0618-49641-9).

 

Neimark, Anne E.   Up Close: Johnny Cash.   2007. Penguin Group USA/Viking, $15.99 (978-0-670-06215-7).

 

Raddatz, Martha.   The Long Road Home A Story of War and Family.   2007. Penguin Group USA/Putnam Adult, $24.95 (978-0-399-15382-2).

 

Reef, Catherine.   e.e. cummings: a poet's life.   November 2006. Clarion, $21.00 (978-0-618-56849-9).

 

Rodriguez, Deborah.   Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil.   2007. Random House, $24.95 (978-1-4000-6559-2).

 

Siegel, Siena Cherson.   To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel.   September 2006. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum, $17.95 (978-0-689-86747-7).

 

Sis, Peter.   The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain.   Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Frances Foster. 2007 (978-0-374-34701-7).

 

Vincent, Erin.   Grief Girl: My True Story.   2007.  Random House/Delacorte, $15.99 (978-0-385-73353-3).


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