2008

• There is a Bird on My Head! by Mo Willems (and other Elephant and Piggie titles)

• Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity by Mo Willems

• Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three stories by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

• A Good Day by Kevin Henkes

• Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett

• Fly Guy series by Tedd Arnold

• Arnie the Doughnut by Laurie Keller

• See the Ocean by Estelle Condra

• My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks by Hanoch Piven

• Fred Stays with Me! by Nancy Coffelt

• The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice Harrington

• Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel

• Fancy Nancy: Bonjour Butterfly by Jane O’connor

• LaRue for Mayor: Letters from the Campaign Trail by Mark Teague

• Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (and Other Things Not to Do) by Judi Barrett

NON-FICTION

• Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre

• Ape by Martin Jenkins

• Hello, Bumblebee Bat by Darrin Lunde

• On the Farm by David Elliott (poetry)

• Save Energy by Kay Barnham

• No Talking by Andrew Clements

• Where I Live by Eileen Spinelli

• Henry's Freedom Box: a True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine

• Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford

• The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies

• The Talented Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

• Barnstormers: Game 1 (and others in series) by Loren Long and Phil Bildner

• Dead Letter (and others in Herculeah Jones mystery series) by Betsy Byars

• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

• The Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles

NONFICTION

• Lightship by Brian Floca

• Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre

• Ballerina Dreams: A True Story by Lauren Thompson

• A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston

• The World's Greatest Elephant by Ralph Helfer

• Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth by Nicola Davies

• Knut: How One Little Polar Bear Captivated the World, told by Isabella, Juliana, and Craig Hatkoff and Gerald R. Ulrich

• Every Minute on Earth: Fun Facts that Happen Every 60 Seconds by Steve Murrie

• My Dog May Be a Genius poems by Jack Prelutsky

• Helen Keller: Her Life in Pictures by George Sullivan

• Green Power by David Jefferis
   

• The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt

• Football Genius by Tim Green

• Travis and Freddy's Adventures in Vegas by Henry Johnson and Paul Hoppe

• Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

• Schooled by Gordon Korman

• Hot Hand by Mike Lupica

• Getting Air by Dan Gutman

• Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick

• Elephant Run by Roland Smith

• Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

• Messenger by Lois Lowry

• A Boy at War by Harry Mazer

• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Eholdenko

NONFICTION

• The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis

• Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits

• Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together by Herb Shoveller

• Ouch! How Your Body Makes It Through a Very Bad Day by Richard Walker
   

• All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

• Beauty Shop for Rent by Laura Bowers

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

• The Braid by Helen Frost

• Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

• The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No.1 Ladies Detective Agency) by Alexander McCall Smith

• My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow

• Peak by Roland Smith

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

NONFICTION

• American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: an Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly

• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz

• Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet

• China Shakes the World by James Kynge

• Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America by Tom Stanton

• John Adams by David McCullough

• Lincoln at Gettysburg by Gary Wills

• Marley and Me by John Grogan

• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

• The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

• One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals by Deborah Noyes

• The Pen Commandments by Steven Frank

• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

• The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis

• First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

• Sneeze! by Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel

• Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

• Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Griffin Burns

Any books by the following authors:

Elementary
Cynthia Rylant, Mo Willems, Lauren Child, Dan Gutman, Kevin Henkes, Sharon Creech

Middle School
Lois Lowry, Jacqueline Woodson, Dan Gutman, Mike Lupica

High School
Chris Crutcher, Sarah Dessen, Bill Bryson, Jodi Picoult

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