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Most of these titles were suggested by the children in the upper school. They should be available either in the Bank Street Library or your local public library. The titles in bold are new to the list this year. Many of the authors listed below have written several fine books. Be sure to try some of their other titles.
--Lisa Von Drasek, Children's Librarian, Bank Street College
AUTHOR
TITLE
Abelove, Joan Go and Come Back Almond, David Skellig; Fire-Eaters Adams, Douglas Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Richard Watership Down Alexander, Lloyd The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen;
The High King;
Tha Arkadians Ames, Mildred Anna to the Infinite Power Anderson, Laurie Halse Speak Anderson, M. T. Whales on Stilts Armstrong, Jennifer Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary
True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance;
Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil WarAvi The Barn;
Nothing But the Truth;
Who Was that Masked Man Anyway?;
Crispin: The Cross of Lead Babbitt, Natalie The Search for Delicious Bartoletti, Susan Campbell Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow Bauer, Joan Rules of the Road (and other titles) Bauer, Marion Dane On My Honor Bawden, Nina Granny the Pag Bausum, Ann With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote;
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on The Front Lines of Civil Rights Movement Beatty, Patricia Charley Skedaddle;
Turn Homeward Hannalee Bell, Hilari The Goblin Wood Bellairs, John - any of his mysteries Bennett, James Dakota Dream Betancourt, Jeanne My Name in Brain Brian Birdsall, Jeanne The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy Blackwood, Gary The Shakespeare Stealer Blumenthal, Karen Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America Bolden, Tonya Marchita: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl Bolden, Tonya Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists Bond, Nancy Truth to Tell Borden, Louise The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H. A. Rey Brande, Robin. Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature Braun, Lillian Jackson The Cat Who… (mystery series) Brennan, Herbie Faerie Wars Broach, Elise Shakespeare's Secret Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Brooks, Bruce The Moves Make the Man Bruhac, Joseph Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two Byars, Betsy The "Blossoms" series;
The Dark Stairs Calhoun, Dia Firegold Cameron, Peter Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You Card, Orson Scott Ender's Shadow (series) Carmi, Daniella Samir and Yonatan Carroll, Jim The Basketball Diaries Childress, Alice A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl (series) Choldenko, Gennifer Al Capone Does My Shirts Choi, Sook Nyul Year of Impossible Goodbyes Chotjewitz, David Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None Christopher, John The White Mountains (trilogy) Cleaver, Vera Where the Lilies Bloom Clement-Davies, David Fire Bringer Cole, Brock The Goats Collier, James Lincoln With Every Drop of Blood Coman, Carolyn What Jamie Saw Conly, Jane Crazy Lady Cooney, Carolyn The Face on the Milk Carton;
Goddess of Yesterday Cormier, Robert The Bumblebee Flies Anyway;
The Chocolate War Cottonwood, Joe Quake! Couloumbis, Audrey Getting Near to Baby Creech, Sharon Walk Two Moons Crichton, Michael Jurassic Park;
The Terminal Man Crutcher, Chris Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Curtis, Christopher Paul The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963;
Bud, Not Buddy Cushman, Karen Catherine, Called Birdy;
The Midwife's Apprentice Dahl, Roald Boy Danziger, Paula The Cat Ate My Gymsuit Dash, Joan The Longitude Prize;
The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller Dessen, Sarah This Lullaby Deuker, Carl Heart of a Champion Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities Dickinson, Peter The Ropemaker Donnelly, Jennifer A Northern Light Duncan, Lois Locked in Time;
Stranger with My Face Ende, Michael The Neverending Story Engle, Margarita and Qualls, Sean The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano Erdrich, Louise The Game of Silence Farmer, Nancy The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm;
A Girl Named Disaster; The Sea of Trolls Farrell, Jeanette Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Diseases Feiffer, Jules The Man in the Ceiling;
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears Fenner, Carol Yolonda's Genius Ferris, Jean Once Upon a Marigold Fine, Anne Up On Cloud Nine Fisher, Catherine The Oracle Betrayed Flake, Sharon G. The Skin I'm In;
The House of the Scorpion Fleischman, Paul The Borning Room;
Bull Run; Whirligig Fleischman, Sid The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story Fleming, Candace Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life;
Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life Fletcher, Susan Shadow Spinner Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain Fox, Paula Slave Dancer;
Monkey Island;
One Eyed Cat Fradin, Dennis Brindell and Judith Bloom Fradin Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement; Fight On! Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration Frank, Anne Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Freedman, Russell Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life; The LIfe and Death of Crazy Horse; In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Eleanor Roosevelt, a Life of Discovery
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson and the Sruggle for Equal Rights Frost, Helen Keesha's House Funke, Cornelia The Thief Lord; Inkheart Gantos, Jack Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Giblin, James Cross When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS; Charles A. Lindbergh : A Human Hero Giff, Patricia Reilly Nory Ryan's Song;
Pictures of Hollis Woods Golding, William Lord of the Flies Goodall, Jane The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours Gordon, Sheila Waiting for the Rain Govenar, Alan (Editor) Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter Gratz, Alan Samurai Shortstop Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan Chuck Close, Up Close;
Frank O. Gehry: Outside In Greene, Bette Summer of My German Soldier Grey, Christopher Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant Griffin, Adele The Other Shepards Guy, Rosa The Friends Haddix, Margaret Among the Hidden (series) Hahn, Mary Downing Stepping on the Cracks Hale, Shannon Book of a Thousand Days; Princess Academy Hamilton, Virginia Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush;
Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed;
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales;
Plain City Hautzig, Esther Endless Steppe Henkes, Kevin Olive's Ocean Hesse, Karen Witness; Letters from Rifka; Phoenix Rising Holm, Jennifer L. Our Only May Amelia Holt, Kimberly Willis My Louisiana Sky (and other titles) Head, Ann Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones Hiaasen, Carl Flush ; Hoot Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders Hobbs, Will Far North (and other titles) Hopkinson, Deborah Up before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America Hoose, Phillip We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History; The Race to Save the Lord God Bird Howe, James Totally Joe Hughes, Mark Peter Lemonade Mouth Jacobson,Sid and Colon, Ernie The 9/11 Report: A Grpahic Adaptation Jacques, Brian Redwall series Jiang, Ji-Li Red Scarf Girl : A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution James, Mary Frankenlouse Jimenez, Francisco Breaking Through Johnson, Angela Toning the Sweep Jones, Dianna Wynne Hexwood Juby, Susan Alice, I Think Kerr, M. E. Deliver Us From Evie Klass, David California Blue Konigsburg, E. L. The View from Saturday; The Outcasts of 19 Schulyer Place Klause, Annette Curtis Alien Secrets Laird, Elizabeth Kiss the Dust Larson, Kirby Hattie Big Sky Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird Levine, Gail Carson Dave at Night L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time (series);
And Both Were Young Lenski, Lois Indian Captive Lipsyte, Robert The Brave;
The Contender;
One Fat Summer Lisle, Janet Taylor Forest Lobel, Anita No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War London, Jack White Fang;
Call of the Wild Lowry, Lois The Giver Lynch, Chris Shadow Boxer MacLachlan, Patricia Baby Mack, Tracy Birdland/td> Maguire, Gregory Seven Spiders Spinning Mahy, Margaret The Other Side of Silence Marsh, Katherine Night Tourist McCaughrean, Geraldine The Pirate's Son McKee, Tim No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa McGraw, Eloise The Moorchild Meyer, Carolyn Mary, Bloody Mary Meyer, L.A. Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy Mori, Kyoko Shizuko's Daughter Mochizuki, Ken Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story Mosher, Richard Zazoo Murdock, Catherine Gilbert Dairy Queen Murphy, Jim The Great Fire;
Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America; An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of
the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Mwangi, Meja The Mzungu Boy Myers, Walter Dean Scorpions;
Somewhere in the Darkness;
Monster;
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali Naidoo, Beverley The Other Side of Truth Napoli, Donna Jo The Magic Circle; Breath Nicholson, William The Wind Singer (series) Nix, Garth Sabriel (series) Nelson, Theresa Earthshine;
The Beggar's Ride Nelson, Marilyn Carver: A Life in Poems
A Wreath for Emmett TillNixon, Joan Lowery A Dangerous Promise November, Sharyn Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy Orwell, George 1984 Park, Linda Sue When My Name Was Keoko: A Novel of Korea in World War II Partridge, Elizabeth Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange Paterson, Katherine Lyddie;
Jacob I Have Loved;
The Great Gilly Hopkins Pattou, Edith East Paulsen, Gary Hatchet;
Brian's Winter Peck, Robert A Day No Pigs Would Die Peck, Richard The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
A Year Down Yonder
The River Between UsPhilbrick, W. Rodman Freak the Mighty Pierce, Tamora Terrier
Trickster's ChoicePinkney, Andrea Davis Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Potok, Chaim The Chosen Pratchett, Terry Wintersmith
The Wee Free MenPullman, Philip The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials Book One (series) Raskin, Ellen The Westing Game Rhue, Morton The Wave Rinaldi, Ann In My Father's House;
Wolf By the Ears Riordan, Rick The Lightning Thief Rosoff, Meg How I Live Now Ryan, Pam Muñoz Esperanza Rising Sachar, Louis Holes Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye Salisbury, Graham Blue Skin of the Sea;
Under the Blood Red Sun Schmidt, Gary D. The Wednesday Wars Scieszka, Jon (Editor) Guys Write for Guys Read Selznick, Brian The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel Sharenow, Robert, Rick My Mother the Cheerleader Sheth, Kasmira Keeping Corner Shusterman, Neal Unwind Sidman,Joyce This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness Sirof, Harriet Because She's My Friend Sleator, William The House of Stairs;
Interstellar Pig Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Smith, K. Skeeter Smith, Robert Kimmel Bobby Baseball Sonnenblick, Jordan, Notes from the Midnight Driver Sones, Sonya Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy Soto, Gary A Summer Life Speare, Elizabeth George Witch of Blackbird Pond Spiegelman, Art Maus I and Maus II Spinelli, Jerry Maniac Magee Staples, Suzanne Shabanu Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men Stroud, Jonathan The Amulet of Samarkand: Bartimaeus Trilogy Tan, Amy The Joy Luck Club Tan, Shaun The Arrival Tashjian, Janet The Gospel According to Larry Taylor, Laini Fairies of Dreamdark
Taylor, Mildred Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry;
The Land Temple, Frances Grab Hands and Run;
The Ramsay Scallop
Thimmesh, Catherine Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
Thompson, Kate The New Policemen Greenwillow Tillage, Leon Walter Leon's Story Tolan, Stephanie S. Surviving the Applewhites Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings (series) Turner, Megan Whalen The King of Attolia Twain, Mark Adventures of Tom Sawyer Uris, Leon Exodus Ursu, Anne The Shadow Thieves Voigt, Cynthia Bad Girls;
When She Hollers Wardlaw, Lee 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents Warren, Andrea Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story Weaver, Will Farm Team Wienheimer,Beckie Converting Kate
Wiesel, Elie Night White, Ruth Belle Prater's Boy Wilson, Diane I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade Wolff, Virginia Euwer Bat 6 /tr>
Make LemonadeWoodson, Jacqueline I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This;Locomotion Wrede, Patricia C. and Caroline Stevermer Sorcery & Cecelia, Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot Wright, Richard Black Boy Yee, Lisa Standford Wong Flunks Big-Time Yolen, Jane The Devil's Arithmetic; Armageddon Summer Zevin, Gabrielle Elsewhere Zindel, Paul The Pigman;
Loch And, here are some other authors to look for: Alexie, Sherman LeGuin, Ursula Alverez, Julia Lowery, Lois Avi Lubar, David Beatty, Patricia Lynch, Chris Bridgers, Sue Ellen Marsden, John Brooks, Bruce Mazer, Norma Brooks, Terry McCaffrey, Anne Burnford, Sheila McKinley, Robin Christopher, John Morey, Walt Chabon, Michael Nix, Garth Cisneros, Sandra Nolan, Han Colman, Hila O'Neal, Zibby Conford, Ellen Paterson, Katherine Cooper, Susan Paulson, Gary Cormier, Robert Peck, Richard Crutcher, Chris Peck, Robert Newton Duncan, Lois Peyton, K. M. Garden, Nancy Preussler, Otfried Green, Bette Sebestyn, Quida Hinton, S.E. Staples, Suzanne Fisher Holland, Isabelle Sutcliff, Rosemary Johnston, Norma Verne, Jules Jones, Adrienne Voight, Cynthia Kerr, M. E. Westall, Robert Konigsburg, E. L. Williams-Garcia, Rita Koertge, Ron Yep, Lawrence Korman, Gorden Yolen, Jane L 'Engle, Madeleine Zindel, Paul
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