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Volume 32, Number 4, April 2005

best, notable & recommended

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WERE COMPILED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY SERVICE TO CHILDREN (ALSC), AND FOR YOUNG ADULTS BY THE YOUNG ADULT SERVICES ASSOCIATION (YALSA), DIVISIONS OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOKS

YOUNGER READERS

Apples to Oregon: Being the (slightly) true narrative of how a brave pioneer father brought apples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes, and cherries (and children) across the plains. Deborah Hopkinson. Ill. Nancy Carpenter. Simon & Schuster/Anne Schwartz. 0-689-84769-6.
Baby danced the polka. Karen Beaumont. Ill. Jennifer Plecas. Dial. 0-8037-2587-6.
Guji Guji. Chih-Yuan Chen. Ill. Kane/Miller. 1-929132-67-0.
Home. Jeannie Baker. Ill. Greenwillow. 0-06-623935-4.
Hot day on Abbott Avenue. Karen English. Ill. Javaka Steptoe. Clarion. 0-395-98527-7.
If not for the cat. Jack Prelutsky. Ill.Ted Rand. Greenwillow. 0-06-059677-5.
Kitten's first full moon. Kevin Henkes. Ill. Greenwillow. 0-06-058828-4. The 2005 Caldecott Medal Book.
Knuffle bunny: A cautionary tale. Mo Willems. Ill. Hyperion. 0-7868-1870-0. A 2005 Caldecott Honor Book.
Lemons are not red. Laura Vaccaro Seeger. Ill. Roaring Brook/Neal Porter. 1-59643-008-7.
Love and roast chicken: A trickster tale from the Andes Mountains. Barbara Knutson. Ill. Carolrhoda. 1-57505-657-7.
The neighborhood Mother Goose. Nina Crews. Ill. Greenwillow. 0-06-051573-2.
Odd boy out: Young Albert Einstein. Don Brown. Ill. Houghton. 0-618-49298-4.
Polar bear night. Lauren Thompson. Ill. Stephen Savage. Scholastic. 0-439-49524-5.
The red book. Barbara Lehman. Ill. Houghton. 0-618-42858-5. A 2005 Caldecott Honor Book.
Ruby Lu, brave and true. Lenore Look. Ill. Anne Wilsdorf. Simon & Schuster/Anne Schwartz. 0-689-84907-9.
Sidewalk circus. Paul Fleischman. Ill. Kevin Hawkes. Candlewick. 0-7636-1107-7.
Teeth, tails, & tentacles: An animal counting book. Christopher Wormell. Ill. Running Press. 0-7624-2100-2.
Tiger on a tree. Anushka Ravishankar. Ill. Pulak Biswas. Farrar. 0-374-37555-0.
The turn-around, upside-down alphabet book. Lisa Campbell Ernst. Ill. Simon & Schuster. 0-689-85685-7.
Where is the green sheep? Mem Fox. Ill. Judy Horacek. Harcourt. 0-15-204907-X.
Wild about books. Judy Sierra. Ill. Marc Brown. Knopf. 0-375-82538-X.
Wow! City! Robert Neubecker. Ill. Hyperion. 0-7868-0951-5.

MIDDLE READERS

The big house. Carolyn Coman. Ill. Rob Shepperson. Front Street. 1-932425-09-8.
The boy, the bear, the baron, the Bard. Gregory Rogers. Ill. Roaring Brook/Neal Porter. 1-59643-009-5.
The cats in Krasinski Square. Karen Hesse. Ill. Wendy Watson. Scholastic. 0-439-43540-4.
César: ¡Sí, se puede! = Yes, we can! Carmen T. Bernier-Grand. Ill. David Diaz. Marshall Cavendish. 0-7614-5172-2.
Coming on home soon. Jacqueline Woodson. Ill. E. B. Lewis. Putnam. 0-399-23748-8. A 2005 Caldecott Honor Book.
The crow-girl. Bodil Bredsdorff. Trans. Faith Ingwersen. Farrar. 0-374-31247-8. A 2005 Batchelder Honor Book.
Doodler doodling. Rita Golden Gelman. Ill. Paul O. Zelinsky. Greenwillow. 0-688-16645-8.
ellington was not a street. Ntozake Shange. Ill. Kadir Nelson. Simon & Schuster. 0-689-82884-5. The 2005 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Book.
Fish. L. S. Matthews. Delacorte. 0-385-73180-9.
George vs. George: The American Revolution as seen from both sides. Rosalyn Schanzer. Ill. National Geographic. 0-7922-7349-4.
The little gentleman. Philippa Pearce. Ill. Tom Pohrt. Greenwillow. 0-06-073160-5.
Mable Riley: A reliable record of humdrum, peril, and romance. Marthe Jocelyn. Candlewick. 0-7636-2120-X. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
Merlin and the making of the king. Margaret Hodges. Ill. Trina Schart Hyman. Holiday. 0-8234-1647-X.
Mighty Jackie: The strike-out queen. Marissa Moss. Ill. C. F. Payne. Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman. 0-689-86329-2.
Millions. Frank Cottrell Boyce. HarperCollins. 0-06-073330-6.
My light. Molly Bang. Ill. Scholastic/Blue Sky. 0-439-48961-X.
The people could fly: The picture book. Virginia Hamilton. Ill. Leo and Diane Dillon. Knopf. 0-375-82405-7. A 2005 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book.
Remember: The journey to school integration. Toni Morrison. Ill. Houghton. 0-618-39740-X. The 2005 Coretta Scott King Author Award Book.
Science verse. Jon Scieszka. Ill. Lane Smith. Viking. 0-670-91057-0.
Sélavi, that is life: A Haitian story of hope. Youme Landowne. Ill. Cinco Puntos. 0-938317-84-9.
Sequoyah: The Cherokee man who gave his people writing. James Rumford. Ill. Houghton. 0-618-36947-3. A 2005 Sibert Honor Book.
The star of Kazan. Eva Ibbotson. Ill. Kevin Hawkes. Dutton. 0-525-47347-5.
The tarantula scientist. Sy Montgomery. Photos by Nic Bishop. Houghton. 0-618-14799-3. A 2005 Sibert Honor Book.
Technically, it's not my fault: Concrete poems. John Grandits. Ill. Clarion. 0-618-42833-X.
The train of states. Peter Sís. Ill. Greenwillow. 0-06-057838-6.
Walt Whitman: Words for America. Barbara Kerley. Ill. Brian Selznick. Scholastic. 0-439-35791-8. A 2005 Sibert Honor Book.
What is goodbye? Nikki Grimes. Ill. Raúl Colón. Hyperion. 0-7868-0778-4.

OLDER READERS

Airborn. Kenneth Oppel. HarperCollins/Eos. 0-06-053180-0. A 2005 Printz Honor Book and a 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
Al Capone does my shirts. Gennifer Choldenko. Putnam. 0-399-23861-1. A 2005 Newbery Honor Book and a 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
Becoming Naomi León. Pam Muñoz Ryan. Scholastic. 0-439-26969-5. The 2005 Schneider Family Middle School Award Book.
bird. Angela Johnson. Dial. 0-8037-2847-6. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
Boy O'Boy. Brian Doyle. Douglas & McIntyre/Groundwood. 0-375-82401-4.
Bucking the sarge. Christopher Paul Curtis. Random/Wendy Lamb. 0-385-32307-7. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
Daniel, Half Human and the good Nazi. David Chotjewitz. Trans. Doris Orgel. Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson. 0-689-85747-0. A 2005 Batchelder Honor Book and a 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
A dream of freedom: The civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968. Diane McWhorter. Ill. Scholastic. 0-439-57678-4. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
The fire-eaters. David Almond. Delacorte. 0-385-73170-1. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
Fortune's bones: The manumission requiem. Marilyn Nelson. Front Street. 1-932425-12-8. A 2005 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book.
A hat full of sky. Terry Pratchett. HarperCollins. 0-06-058660-5. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
Heck, superhero. Martine Leavitt. Front Street. 1-886910-94-4. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
Here in Harlem: Poems in many voices. Walter Dean Myers. Holiday. 0-8234-1853-7. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
Indigo's star. Hilary McKay. Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry. 0-689-86563-5.
Is this forever, or what? Poems & paintings from Texas. Ed. Naomi Shihab Nye. Greenwillow. 0-06-051178-8.
Kira-Kira. Cynthia Kadohata. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 0-689-85639-3. The 2005 Newbery Medal Book.
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy. Gary D. Schmidt. Clarion. 0-618-43929-3. A 2005 Newbery Honor Book, a 2005 Printz Honor Book, and a 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
The oracle betrayed. Catherine Fisher. Greenwillow. 0-06-057157-8. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
The outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. E. L. Konigsburg. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 0-689-86636-4. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
The race to save the Lord God Bird. Phillip M. Hoose. Farrar/Melanie Kroupa. 0-374-36173-8. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
Remember D-Day: The plan, the invasion, survivor stories. Ronald J Drez. Ill. National Geographic. 0-7922-6666-8.
The Schwa was here. Neal Shusterman. Dutton. 0-525-47182-0. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
The sea of trolls. Nancy Farmer. Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson. 0-689-86744-1. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
The shadows of Ghadames. Joëlle Stolz. Trans. Catherine Temerson. Delacorte. 0-385-73104-3. The 2005 Batchelder Award Medal.
So B. it. Sarah Weeks. HarperCollins/Laura Geringer. 0-06-623622-3. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
The teacher's funeral: A comedy in three parts. Richard Peck. Dial. 0-8037-2736-4. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights. Russell Freedman. Clarion. 0-618-15976-2. The 2005 Sibert Medal Book, a 2005 Newbery Honor Book, and a 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).
With courage and cloth: Winning the fight for a woman's right to vote. Ann Bausum. National Geographic. 0-7922-7647-7. A 2005 Best Book for Young Adults (YALSA).

NEWBERY AND CALDECOTT AWARDS

Winners of the 2005 Newbery and Caldecott awards, honoring outstanding writing and illustration of works published in the U.S. during the previous year, the most prestigious awards in children's literature, are: Kira-Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata, published by Atheneum; and Kitten's First Full Moon, by Kevin Henkes, published by Greenwillow Books.

Three Newbery Honor Books were named. They are: Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko, published by Putnam/Penguin; Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt, published by Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin; and The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, by Russell Freedman, published by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Company

Three Caldecott Honor Books were named. They are: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, illustrated and written by Mo Willems, published by Hyperion; The Red Book, illustrated and written by Barbara Lehman, published by Houghton Mifflin; and Coming on Home soon, illustrated by E. B. Lewis and written by Jacqueline Woodson, published by Putnam/Penguin.

The Newbery and Caldecott awards are administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

ALL AGES

A child's Christmas in Wales. Dylan Thomas. Ill. Chris Raschka. Candlewick. 0-7636-2161-7.
Under the spell of the moon: Art for children from the world's great illustrators. Ed. Patricia Aldana. Trans. Stan Dragland. Douglas & McIntyre/Groundwood.0-88899-559-8.

NOTABLE CHILDREN'S RECORDINGS

Al Capone does my shirts. Recorded Books. 5 cassettes.
Beethoven's wig 2: More sing-along symphonies. Rounder Kids. 1 CD.
Bucking the sarge. Listening Library, 4 cassettes or 5 CDs.
Dragon rider. Listening Library. 7 cassettes or 10 CDs.
Duck for president. Weston Woods. Book with cassette or book with CD.
Fireboat: The heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey. Live Oak Media. Book with cassette or book with CD.
Flipped. Recorded Books. 5 cassettes.
Heartbeat. Harper Children's Audio. 2 cassettes or 2 CDs.
A house of tailors. Listening Library. 2 cassettes or 3 CDs.
I lost my bear. Weston Woods. Book with cassette or book with CD.
I stink! Weston Woods. Book with cassette or book with CD.
Ida B. . . .and her plans to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and (possibly) save the world. Listening Library. 2 cassettes or 3 CDs.
The last holiday concert. Listening Library. 2 cassettes or 3 CDs.
Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel: A new work for narrator and symphony orchestra. 1 CD.
More perfect than the moon. Harper Children's Audio. 1 CD.
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! Live Oak Media. Book with cassette or book with CD.
No more nasty. Recorded Books. 3 cassettes.
Pincus and the pig: A Klezmer tale. Tzadik. 1CD.
The pot that Juan built. Weston Woods. Book with cassette or book with CD.
The Princess Diaries Volume V: Princess in pink. Listening Library, 6 cassettes or 7 CDs.
Rhinoceros tap. Workman Publishing. Book with CD.
The ruby in the smoke. Listening Library. 4 cassettes.
Sing along with Putumayo. Putumayo Kids/Putumayo World Music. 1 CD.
The teacher's funeral. Listening Library. 3 cassettes or 5 CDs.
When Marian sang. Live Oak Media. Book with cassette or book with CD.

NOTABLE CHILDREN'S VIDEOS

Diary of a worm. Weston Woods.
The dot. Weston Woods. The 2005 ALSC Carnegie Medal Winner.
Duck for president. Weston Woods.
The ErlKing. National Film Board of Canada.
Fireboat: The heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey. Spoken Arts.
I stink! Weston Woods.
Journey of the loggerhead. Environmental Media.
Let's get real. New Day Films.
Liberty's kids series. WHYY-TV/PBS.
Life on the edge: A guide to pacific coastal habitats. Earthwise Media.
Pollyanna. WGBH Boston.
The pot that Juan built. Weston Woods.
Science, please. National Film Board of Canada.
Thank you, Sarah: The woman who saved Thanksgiving. Spoken Arts.
This is the house that Jack built. Weston Woods.
Through my thick glasses. Pravda and National Film Board of Canada Co-Production.
The wheels on the bus. Weston Woods.

NOTABLE CHILDREN'S COMPUTER SOFTWARE

I spy spooky mansion deluxe. Scholastic.
Learn to play chess with Fritz and Chesster 2: Chess in the black castle. Viva Media.
Photo puzzle builder. APTE, Inc.
Starry night: Complete space and astronomy pack. Imaginova.

MILDRED L. BATCHELDER AWARD

Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, has been awarded the 2005 Mildred L. Batchelder Award for its publication of The Shadows of Ghadames. The award is given for the most outstanding children's book originally published in a foreign language and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States. The book was written by Joëlle Stolz, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.

Two Batchelder Honor Books were selected. Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, The Crow-Girl: The Children of Crow Cove was written by Bodil Bredsdorff, translated from the Danish by Faith Ingwersen; and published by Atheneum, Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi, by David Chotjewitz, translated from the German by Doris Orgel.

The Mildred L. Batchelder Award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

NOTABLE ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES

Digital Curriculum. AIMS Multimedia. www.digitalcurriculum.com.

2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecturer

Russell Freedman, renowned author of outstanding nonfiction books for children and adults, will deliver the 2006 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture.

Each year, an individual of distinction in the field of children's literature is chosen to write and deliver a lecture that will make a significant contribution to the world of children's literature.

Certain that children underappreciate history due to uninspiring texts, Freedman set out to breathe life into what he believed was fascinating subject matter. "Freedman redefined children's nonfiction with his emphasis on original research, realistic history, and thoughtful selection of photographs," said Arbuthnot Committee Chair Jean Gaffney.

Freedman was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1988 for Lincoln: A Photobiography and received Newbery Honors for The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane in 1992 and Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery in 1994. In 1998, Freedman received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for "a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children."

The May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

BEST BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS

FICTION

Airborn. Kenneth Oppel. HarperCollins/Eos. 0-06-053180-0.
Al Capone does my shirts: A novel. Gennifer Choldenko. Putnam Publishing Group. 0-399-23861-1.
B for Buster. Iain Lawrence. Random House/Delacorte Press. 0-385-73086-1.
Behind you. Jacqueline Woodson. Penguin USA/Putnam. 0-399-23988-X.
Bird. Angela Johnson.Penguin USA/Dial Books for Young Readers. 0-8037-2847-6.
The blue girl. Charles de Lint. Penguin/Viking Children's Books. 0-670-05924-2.
The blue mirror. Kathe Koja. Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Frances Foster Books. 0-374-30849-7.>br> Bound. Donna Jo Napoli. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 0-689-86175-3.
Bucking the sarge. Christopher Paul Curtis. Random House/Wendy Lamb Books. 0-385-32307-7.
Can't get there from here. Todd Strasser. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. 0-689-84169-8.
Chanda's secrets. Allan Stratton. Firefly Books/Annick Press. 1-55037-835-X.
Chief Sunrise, John McGraw, and me. Timothy Tocher. Cricket Books. 0-8126-2711-3.
A crack in the line. Michael Lawrence. HarperCollins/Greenwillow. 0-06-072477-3.
Curse of the blue tattoo: Being an account of the misadventures of Jacky Faber. midshipman and fine lady. L.A. Meyer. Harcourt Children's Books. 0-15-205115-5.
Daniel Half Human and the good Nazi. David Chotjewitz. Trans. Doris Orgel. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 0-689-85747-0.
Doing it. Melvin Burgess. Henry Holt & Co. 0-8050-7565-8.
Donorboy. Brendan Halpin. Random House/Villard Books. 1-4000-6277-2
Double helix. Nancy Werlin. Penguin USA/Dial Books for Young Readers. 0-8037-2606-6.
Dr. Ernest Drake's dragonology: The complete book of dragons. Ed. Dugald Steer. Candlewick Press. 0-7636-2329-6.
Eagle strike: An Alex Rider adventure. Anthony Horowitz.Putnam/Philomel Books. 0-399-23979-0.
An earthly knight. Janet McNaughton. HarperCollins Children's Book Group. 0-06-008992-X.
A fast and brutal wing. Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson. Henry Holt/Roaring Brook Press. 0-59643-013-3.
Fire-eaters. David Almond. Random House/Delacorte Press. 0-385-73170-1.
Fleshmarket. Nicola Morgan. Random House/Delacorte Press. 0-385-73154-X.
Fray. Joss Whedon. Dark Horse Comics. 1-56971-751-6.
The garden. Elsie V Aidinoff. HarperCollins/ HarperTempest. 0-06-055605-6.
Godless. Pete Hautman. Simon & Schuster. 0-689-86278-4.
The golem's eye (The Bartimaeus Trilogy Book 2).Jonathan Stroud. Hyperion Books/Miramax. 0-7868-1860-3.
Gothic: Ten original dark tales Deborah Noyes. Candlewick Press. 0-7636-2243-5.
A hat full of sky. Terry Pratchett. HarperCollins Children's Book Group. 0-06-058660-5.
The haunting of Alaizabel Cray. Chris Wooding. Orchard Press. 0-439-54656-7.
Heck, superhero. Martine Leavitt. Front Street. 1-886910-94-4.
The hollow kingdom. Clare B. Dunkle. Henry Holt & Co. 0-8050-7390-6.
How I live now. Meg Rosoff. Random House/Wendy Lamb Books. 0-385-74677-6.
It's a bird. Steven T. Seagle. DC Comics/Vertigo. 1-40120-109-1.
The key to the golden firebird. Maureen Johnson. HarperCollins Children's Books. 0-06-054138-5.
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister boy. Gary D. Schmidt. Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Books. 0-618-43929-3.
Luna: A novel. Julie Anne Peters. Little Brown & Co./Megan Tingley Books. 0-316-73369-5.
Mable Riley: A reliable record of humdrum, peril, and romance. Marthe Jocelyn. Candlewick Press. 0-7636-2120-X.
Margaux with an x. Ron Koertge. Candlewick Press. 0-7636-2401-2.
Montmorency: Thief. Liar. Gentleman? Eleanor Updale. Scholastic/Orchard Books. 0-439-58035-8.
New found land: Lewis and Clark's voyage of discovery. Allan Wolf. Candlewick Press. 0-7636-2113-7.
No laughter here. Rita Williams-Garcia. HarperCollins/Amistad Press. 0-688-16247-9.
No shame No fear. Ann Turnbull. Candlewick Press. 0-7636-2505-1.
Nothing to lose. Alex Flinn.HarperCollins/Avon Tempest. 0-06-051750-6.
One of those hideous books where the mother dies. Sonya Sones. Simon & Schuster. 0-689-85820-5. The oracle betrayed. Catherine Fisher. HarperCollins/Greenwillow. 0-06-057157-8. The outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. E.L. Konigsburg. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 0-689-86636-4.
Predator's gold: A novel. Philip Reeve. HarperCollins/Eos. 0-06-072193-6. Prince across the water. Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris. Penguin USA/Philomel Books. 0-399-23897-2.
Private peaceful. Michael Morpurgo. Scholastic. 0-439-63648-5.
The realm of possibility. David Levithan. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf. 0-375-82845-1.
Rock star, susperstar. Blake Nelson. Penguin/Viking. 0-670-05933-1.
The safe-keeper's secret. Sharon Shinn. Penguin USA/Viking. 0-670-05910-2.
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood. Benjamin Alire Saenz. Cinco Puntos Press. 0-938317-81-4.
Saving Francesca. Melina Marchetta. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf. 0-375-82982-2.
The Schwa was here. Neal Shusterman. Penguin USA. 0-525-47182-0.
The sea of trolls. Nancy Farmer.Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 0-689-86744-1.
See you down the road: A novel. Kim Ablon Whitney. Random House/Knopf Books for Young Readers. 0-375-82467-7.
Sign of the Qin (Outlaws of Moonshadow Marsh. Book 1). L. G. Bass. Hyperion Books for Children. 0-7868-1918-9.
Sky: A novel in 3 sets and an encore. Roderick Townley. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 0-689-85712-8.
So B. it: A novel. Sarah Weeks. HarperCollins/Laura Geringer Books. 0-06-623622-3.
So yesterday. Scott Westerfeld. Penguin Putnam/Razorbill. 1-59514-000-X.
Splintering. Eireann Corrigan. Scholastic. 0-439-53597-2.
Sunshine. Robin McKinley. Berkley Publishing Group. 0-425-19178-8.
The teacher's funeral: A comedy in three parts. Richard Peck. Penguin/Dial Books for Young Readers. 0-8037-2736-4.
Tending to Grace. Kimberly Newton Fusco. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf. 0-375-82862-1.
Under the wolf under the dog.. Adam Rapp. Candlewick Press. 0-7636-1818-7.
The unthinkable thoughts of Jacob Green. Joshua Braff. Workman Publishing/Algonquin Books. 1-56512-420-0.
Who am I without him?: Short stories about girls and the boys in their lives. Sharon Flake.Hyperion/Jump at The Sun. 0-7868-0693-1.
The year of secret assignments. Jaclyn Moriarty. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine. 0-439-49881-3.
Yossel. April 19, 1943: A story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Joe Kubert. Simon & Schuster/Ibooks. 0-7434-7516-X.>br>

CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARDS

Toni Morrison, author of Remember: The Journey to School Integration, published by Houghton Mifflin, is the recipient of the 2005 Coretta Scott King Author Award, and illustrator Kadir Nelson is recipient of the 2005 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for Ellington Was Not a Street, published by Simon & Schuster. The Coretta Scott King Awards honor African-American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults.

Three Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books were selected: The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses, published by Margaret K. McElderry Books; Who Am I without Him?: Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives, written by Sharon G. Flake, published by Jump at the Sun; and Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson, published by Front Street.

Two Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books were selected: God Bless the Child, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr., and published by Amistad; and The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, written by Virginia Hamilton, and published by Alfred A. Knopf.

Occasionally awarded, the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award affirms new talent and offers visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration at the beginning of a career as a published children's book creator. Barbara Hathaway, author of Missy Violet and Me, published by Houghton Mifflin, is the 2005 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award winner. Frank Morrison, illustrator of Jazzy Miz Mozetta, written by Brenda C. Roberts and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux is the 2005 Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner.

The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table.

NONFICTION

Andy Warhol: Prince of pop. Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. Random House/Delacorte Press. 0-385-73056-X.
D-Day: The greatest invasion-A people's history. Dan Van Der Vat. St. Martin's Press/Bloomsbury. 1-58234-314-4.
A dream of freedom: The civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968. Diane McWhorter. Scholastic Reference. 0-439-57678-4.
George Washington, spymaster: How the Americans outspied the British and won the Revolutionary War. Thomas B Allen. National Geographic. 0-7922-5126-1.
Here in Harlem: Poems in many voices. Walter Dean Myers.Holiday House. 0-8234-1853-7.
Persepolis 2: The story of a return. Marjane Satrapi. Random House/Pantheon. 0-375-42288-9.
Promises to keep: How Jackie Robinson changed America. Sharon Robinson. Scholastic. 0-439-42592-1.
The race to save the Lord God Bird. Phillip M. Hoose. Melanie Kroupa Books. 0-374-36173-8.
The radioactive boy scout: The true story of a boy and his backyard nuclear reactor. Ken Silverstein. Random House. 0-375-50351-X.
The voice that challenged a nation: Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights. Russell Freedman. Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Books. 0-618-15976-2.
Wake up our souls: A celebration of black American artists. Tonya Bolden. Harry N. Abrams. 0-8109-4527-4.
With courage and cloth: Winning the fight for a woman's right to vote. Ann Bausum. Simon & Schuster/National Geographic. 0-7922-7647-7.
Working fire: The making of an accidental fireman. Zac Unger. Penguin USA/Penguin Press. 1-59420-001-7.
Worlds afire: the hartford circus Fire of 1944. Paul B. Janeczko. Candlewick Press. 0-7636-2235-4.

ROBERT F. SIBERT AWARD

Russell Freedman, author of The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, was named the winner of the 2005 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award for the most distinguished informational book for children. The book was published by Clarion Books.

Three Sibert Honor Books were named: Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, written by James Rumford, translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby, published by Houghton Mifflin; The Tarantula Scientist, written by Sy Montgomery with photographs by Nic Bishop, published by Houghton Mifflin; and Walt Whitman: Words for America, written by Barbara Kerley and illustrated by Brian Selznick, published by Scholastic.

The annual award is administered by the Association of Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. It is sponsored by Bound to Stay Bound Books of Jacksonville, IL, in honor of its longtime president.

PAPERBACKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS

READ 'EM & WEEP .

America E. R. Frank. Simon Pulse. 0-689-85772-1.
Baby Alicia is dying. Lurlene McDaniel. Bantam, Doubleday, Dell. 0-553-29605-1
Blankets: An illustrated novel. Craig Thompson. Top Shelf Productions. 1-891830-43-0.
Chanda's secrets. Allan Stratton. Annick Press. 1-55037-834-1.
The color of absence: 12 stories about loss and hope. Ed. James Howe. Simon Pulse. 0-689-85667-9.
Comfort. Carolee Dean. Houghton Mifflin/Graphia. 0-618-43912-9.
Crank. Ellen Hopkins. Simon Pulse. 0-689-86519-8.
Dancing naked. Shelley Hrdlitschka. Orca. 1-55143-210-2.
Empress of the world. Sara Ryan. Penguin USA. 0-14-250059-3.
Going for the record. Julie A. Swanson. Eerdmans. 0-8028-5273-4.
Hanging on to Max. Margaret Bechard. Simon Pulse. 0-689-86268-7.
Imani all mine. Connie Porter. Houghton Mifflin. 0-618-05678-5.
Name me nobody. Lois-Ann Yamanaka. Hyperion. 0-7868-1466-7.
Necessary roughness. Marie G. Lee. HarperTrophy. 0-06-447169-1.
A solitary blue. Cynthia Voigt. Aladdin. 0-689-86360-8.
Stone water. Barbara Gilbert. Front Street. 1-886910-12-X.
Strangers in paradise: High school! Terry Moore. Abstract Studio. 1-892597-07-1.
A time for dancing. Davida Hurwin. Puffin. 0-14-038618-1.
Weeping willow. Ruth White. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 0-374-48280-2.
What hearts. Bruce Brooks. HarperCollins/HarperTrophy. 0-06-447127-6.
When Kambia Elaine flew in from Neptune. Lori Aurelia Williams. Simon & Schuster. 0-689-84593-6.
Who will tell my brother? Marlene Carvell. Hyperion. 0-7868-1657-0.
You don't know me. David Klass. HarperTempest. 0-06-447378-3.

ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL

Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly of Weston Woods Studios, producers of The Dot, in association with FableVision, are the 2005 recipients of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video. The video is based on the book by Peter H. Reynolds and is narrated by Thora Birch, with music by Jerry Dale McFadden. "The warmth and simplicity of Reynolds' minimalist art is beautifully enlivened in this animated adaptation," said Carnegie Award Chair Elizabeth Simmons.

The award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

GATEWAY TO FAERIE

Beast. Donna Jo Napoli. Simon Pulse. 0-689-87005-1.
Beauty sleep. Cameron Dokey. Simon Pulse. 0-7434-2221-X.
Deerskin. Robin McKinley. Ace. 0-441-00069-X.
Enchantment. Orson Scott Card. Ballantine. 0-345-41688-0.
The essential bordertown. Ed. Terri Windling and Delia Sherman. Tor. 0-312-86703-4.
An exchange of gifts. Anne McCaffrey. Wildside. 1-880448-44-0.
Fables: Legends in exile. Bill Willingham. DC Comics. 1-56389-942-6.
Faerie tales. Ed. Martin Greenberg and Russell Davis. DAW. 0-7564-0182-8.
Fire and hemlock. Diana Wynne Jones. HarperTrophy. 0-06-447352-X.
Goose chase. Patrice Kindl. Puffin. 0-14-230208-2.
Just Ella. Margaret Peterson Haddix. Aladdin. 0-689-83128-5.
Midnight pearls. Debbie Viguie. Simon Pulse. 0-689-85557-5.
Nobody's son. Sean Stewart. Harcourt/Magic Carpet. 0-15-202259-7.
Once upon a marigold. Jean Ferris. Harcourt Brace. 0-15-205084-1.
The Rumpelstiltskin problem. Vivian Vande Velde. Scholastic. 0-439-30529-2.
Snow. Tracy Lynn. Simon Pulse. 0-689-85556-7.
Spindle's end. Robin McKinley. Ace. 0-441-00865-8.
The storyteller's daughter. Cameron Dokey. Simon Pulse. 0-7434-2220-1.
Tithe: A modern fairy tale. Holly Black. Simon Pulse. 0-689-86704-2.
Vogelein: Clockwork faerie. Jan Irwin. Fiery Studios. 0-9743110-0-6.
Zel. Donna Jo Napoli. Puffin. 0-14-130116-3.

MARGARET A. EDWARDS AWARD

Francesca Lia Block is the 2005 recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, honoring her lifetime contribution in writing for young adult readers. Her books, all published by HarperCollins, Weetzie Bat (1989), Witch Baby (1991), Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (1992), Missing Angel Juan (1993), and Baby Be-Bop (1996), deal with complex issues that teenagers face.

The Margaret A. Edwards Award is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, and sponsored by School Library Journal.

OWN YOUR FREAK

Alt. Ed. Catherine Atkins. Puffin. 0-14-240235-4.
Big mouth & ugly girl. Joyce Carol Oates. HarperCollins. 0-06-447347-3.
Black mirror. Nancy Werlin. Puffin. 0-14-250028-3.
The Catcher in the rye. J. D. Salinger. Little Brown & Co. 0-316-76948-7.
Courtney Crumrin and the night things. Ted Naifeh. Oni. 1-929998-60-0.
Define "normal." Julie Anne Peters. Little Brown. 0-316-73489-6.
Elsewhere. Will Shetterly. Harcourt/Magic Carpet. 0-15-205209-7.
Fat kid rules the world. K.L. Going. Puffin. 0-14-240208-7.
The geography club. Brent Hartinger. HarperTempest. 0-06-001223-4.
Gingerbread. Rachel Cohn. Simon Pulse. 0-689-86020-X.
The gospel according to Larry. Janet Tashjian. Laurel Leaf. 0-440-23792-0.
Hidden talents. David Lubar. Tom Doherty/Starscape. 0-7653-4265-0.
Lucy the giant. Sherri L. Smith. Laurel Leaf. 0-440-22927-8.
The misfits. James Howe. Aladdin. 0-689-83956-1.
More than a label: Why what you wear and who you're with doesn't define who you are. Aisha Muharrar. Free Spirit. 1-57542-110-0.
On the fringe. Ed. Don R. Gallo. Puffin. 0-14-250026-7.
Razzle. Ellen Wittlinger. Simon Pulse. 0-689-85600-8.
Shattering glass. Gail Giles. Simon Pulse. 0-689-85800-0.
Son of the mob. Gordon Korman. Hyperion. 0-7868-1593-0.
Stargirl. Jerry Spinelli. Random House. 0-440-41677-9.
Stoner & Spaz. Ron Koertge. Candlewick. 0-7636-2150-1.
Surviving the Applewhites. Stephanie S. Tolan. HarperTrophy. 0-06-441044-7.
Whale talk. Chris Crutcher. Laurel Leaf. 0-440-22938-3.
What happened to Lani Garver? Carol Plum-Ucci. Harcourt. 0-15-205088-4.
Wonder when you'll miss me. Amanda Davis. Perennial. 0-060-53426-5.

ALL KINDS OF CREEPY

30 days of night. Steve Niles. IDW. 0-9719775-5-0.
Abarat. Clive Barker. HarperCollins. 0-06-059637-6.
Be afraid, be very afraid: The book of scary urban legends. Jan Harold Brunvand. W. W. Norton. 0-393-32613-6.
Being dead. Vivian Vande Velde. Harcourt. 0-15-204912-6.
Cirque du Freak (The saga of Darren Shan Book 1). Darren Shan. Little Brown. 0-316-90571-2.
Coraline. Neil Gaiman. HarperTrophy. 0-06-057591-3.
Dangerous girls. R. L. Stine. Avon Books. 0-06-053082-0.
Dr. Franklin's island. Ann Halam. Dell. 0-440-23781-5.
Dreadful sorry. Kathryn Reiss. Harcourt. 0-15-205087-6.
Full tilt. Neal Shusterman. Simon Pulse. 0-689-87325-5.
I know what you did last summer. Lois Duncan. Dell. 0-440-22844-1.
It. Stephen King. Signet. 0-451-16951-4.
Lovely bones. Alice Sebold. Back Bay. 0-316-16881-5.
Shattered mirror. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. Laurel Leaf. 0-440-22940-5.
The silence of the lambs. Thomas Harris. St. Martin's. 0-312-92458-5
Sorcerers of the nightwing (Ravencliff Series Book 1). Geoffrey Huntington. Regan. 0-06-001426-1.
Soul taker. Celia Rees. Hodder. 0-340-87817-7.
Tenderness. Robert Cormier. Delacorte. 0-385-73133-7.
Thirteen: 13 tales of horror. Ed. T. Pines. Scholastic. 0-590-45256-8.
Watchers. Dean Koontz. Berkley. 0-425-18880-9.

TOP TEN BEST BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Airborn. Kenneth Oppel.HarperCollins/Eos. 0-06-053180-0.
Bucking the sarge. Christopher Paul Curtis. Random House/Wendy Lamb Books. 0-385-32307-7.
Private peaceful. Michael Morpurgo. Scholastic. 0-439-63648-5.
The race to save the Lord God Bird. Phillip M. Hoose. Melanie Kroupa Books. 0-374-36173-8.
The realm of possibility. David Levithan. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf. 0-375-82845-1.
Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood. Benjamin Alire Saenz. Cinco Puntos Press. 0-938317-81-4.
Saving Francesca. Melina Marchetta. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf. 0-375-82982-2.
So B. it: A novel. Sarah Weeks. HarperCollins/Laura Geringer Books. 0-06-623622-3.
The unthinkable thoughts of Jacob Green. Joshua Braff. Workman/Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 1-56512-420-0.
Under the wolf, under the dog. Adam Rapp. Candlewick Press. 0-7636-1818-7.

BEST AUDIOBOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Abomination. Robert Swindells, narrated by Amanda Hulme. Bolinda. 3 CDs. 1-7403-0909-X.
Al Capone does my shirts: A novel. Gennifer Choldenko, narrated by Johnny Heller. Recorded Books. 5 cassettes. 1-4025-6409-0.
Aleutian sparrow. Karen Hesse, narrated by Sarah Jones. Listening Library. 1 cassette. 0-8072-7961-3.
Battle of Jericho. Sharon M. Draper, narrated by J. D. Jackson. Recorded Books. 6 cassettes. 1-4025-6485-6.
Becoming Naomi Leon. Pam Munoz Ryan, narrated by Annie Kozuch. Listening Library. 3 cassettes. 1-4000-9088-1.
Blind beauty. K. M. Peyton, narrated by Nicki Praull. Bolinda. 6 cassettes. 1-7409-4250-8.
The cat ate my gymsuit. Paula Danziger, narrated by Caitlin Brodnick, and the Full Cast Audio Family. Full Cast Audio. 3 CDs. 1-9320-7656-5.
The Dons. Archimede Fusillo, narrated by Dino Marnika. Bolinda. 4 CDs. 1-7409-3125-4.
Fault line. Janet Tashjian, narrated by Clara Bryant and Jason Harris. Listening Library. 3 cassettes. 0-8072-2082-5.
First part last. Angela Johnson, narrated by Khalipa Oldjohn and Kole Kristi. Listening Library. 1 cassette. 1-4000-9066-0.
Flipped. Wendelin Van Draanen, narrated by Andy Paris and Carine Montertrand. Recorded Books. 5 cassettes. 1-4025-7307-3.
Girl underground. Morris Gleitzman, narrated by Mary-Anne Fahey. Bolinda. 3 CDs. 1-7409-3526-8.
Golem's eye. Jonathan Stroud, narrated by Simon Jones. Listening Library. 10 cassettes. 0-8072-1979-7.
Grand canyons. Donald Davis. August House. 1 CD. 9-8748-3739.
Grim Tuesday (Keys to the Kingdom series). Garth Nix, narrated by Allan Corduner. 4 cassettes. 0-8072-1728-X.
A hat full of sky. Terry Pratchett, narrated by Stephen Briggs. Harper Collins Audio. 8 CDs. 0-0607-4768-4.
Jennifer Government. Max Barry, narrated by Michael Kramer. Books on Tape. 1 CD.Keesha's house. Helen Frost, narrated by multiple readers. Recorded Books. 2 cassettes. 1-4025-9930-7.
Kite rider. Geraldine McCaughrean, narrated by Cynthia Bishop and the Full Cast Audio family. Full Cast Audio. 6 CDs. 1-9320-7638-7.
Life of Pi. Yann Martel, narrated by Jeff Woodman. HighBridge Audio. 7 cassettes. 1-5651-1779-4.
Mister Monday (Keys to the Kingdom series). Garth Nix, narrated by Allan Corduner. Listening Library. 5 cassettes. 0-8072-1657-7.
Montmorency: Thief, liar, gentleman? Eleanor Updale, narrated by Stephen Fry. Listening Library. 3 cassettes. 0-8072-2370-0.
No time like show time. Michael Hoeye, narrated by Campbell Scott. Listening Library. 0-8072-0887-6. 1 cassette.
Peter and the starcatchers. Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, narrated by Jim Dale. Brilliance Audio. 7 CDs. 1-5935-5979-8.
Pirates. Celia Rees, narrated by Jennifer Wiltsie. Listening Library. 6 cassettes. 0-8072-2073-6.
Pool boy. Michael Simmons, narrated by Chad Lowe. Listening Library. 3 cassettes. 0-8072-2323-9.
The river between us. Richard Peck, narrated by Lina Patel with Daniel Passer. Listening Library. 3 cassettes. 1-4000-8626-4.
Ruby in the smoke. Phillip Pullman, narrated by Anton Lesser. Listening Library. 4 cassettes. 1-4000-8512-8.
The shadow in the north. Philip Pullman, read by Anton Lesser. Listening Library. 6 cassettes. 1-4000-8971-9.
Shooter. Walter Dean Myers, narrated by Chad Coleman, Bernie McInerny, and Michelle Santopietro. Recorded Books. 3 CDs. 1-4025-8492-X. Tape. 6 cassettes. 0-7366-9102-4.
The three documents that made America: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the U.S.A. & the Bill of Rights. Written and read by Sam Fink, documents read by Terry Bregy. Audio Bookshelf. 2 CDs. 0-9741711-2-3.
Walking the Choctaw Road. Choctaw Storyteller Tim Tingle. Cinco Puntos Press. 0-9383-1782-2.
The wee free men. Terry Pratchett, narrated by Stephen Briggs. Harper's Children Audio. 7 cassettes. 0-0605-6625-6.

PURA BELPRÉ AWARD

Five Belpré Honor Books were named. For narrative: Cuba 15, written by Nancy Osa and published by Delacorte Press; and My Diary from Here to There/Mi Diario de Aquí Hasta Allá, written by Amada Irma Pérez and published by Children's Book Press. For illustration: First Day in Grapes illustrated by Robert Casilla, written by L. King Pérez, and published by Lee & Low Books; The Pot That Juan Built, illustrated by David Diaz, written by Nancy Andrews-Goebel and published by Lee & Low Books; and Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, illustrated by Yuyi Morales, written by Kathleen Krull, and published by Harcourt.

Named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian from the New York Public Library, the Pura Belpré Award was established in 1996. It is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. It is co-sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the America Library Association, and the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking (REFORMA), an American Library Association Affiliate.

QUICK PICKS FOR RELUCTANT YOUNG ADULT READERS

Airborn. Kenneth Oppell. HarperCollins. 0-06-053181-9.
Albino animals. Kelly Milner-Halls. Darby Creek. 1-58196-012-3.
Avril Lavigne: The unofficial book. Joe Thorley. Virgin Publishing. 1-85227-0497.
Bar code tattoo. Suzanne Weyn. Scholastic. 0-43-939562-3.
Be more chill. Ned Vizzini. Hyperion/Miramax. 0-7868-0995-7.
Beauty trix for cool chix: Easy-to-Make lotions, potions, and spells to bring out a beautiful you. Caroline Naylor. Watson-Guptill. 0-8230-6957-5.Behind you. Jacqueline Woodson. Penguin Putnam. 0-399-23988-X.
Blue is for nightmares. Laurie F Stolarz. Llewellyn. 0-73-870391-5.
Break the surface (Watching Alice series). Daniel Parker and Lee Miller. Penguin/Razorbill. 1-59514-001-8.
Can't get there from here. Todd Strasser. Simon & Schuster. 0-8118-4033-6.
Choppers: heavy metal art. Mike Seate. Motorbooks International. 0-7603-2053-5.
Confessions of a backup dancer. Tucker Shaw. Simon & Schuster/Aladdin. 0-689-87075-2.
CosmoGirl quiz book: All about you. Sterling/Hearst. 1-58816-381-4.
Crank. Ellen Hopkins. Simon & Schuster. 0-689-86519-8.
Dr. Ernest Drake's dragonology. Candlewick. 0-7363-2329-6.
Draw your own manga: All the basics. Haruno Nagatomo. Kodansha America. 4-7700-2951-9.
Eagle strike. Anthony Horowitz. Penguin/Philomel. 0-399-23979-0.
Emako blue. Brenda Woods. Penguin Putnam. 0-399-24006-3.
Found: The best lost, tossed, and forgotten items from around the world. Davy Rothbart. Simon & Schuster/Fireside. 0-7432-5114-8.
Fray. Joss Whedon. Dark Horse Comics. 1-56971-751-6.
Fruits basket series: Volume 1. Natsuki Takaya. Tokyopop. 1-59182-603-9.
Fruits basket series: Volume 2. Natsuki Takaya. Tokyopop. 1-59182-604-7.
Fruits basket series: Volume 3. Natsuki Takaya. Tokyopop. 1-59182-605-5.
Fruits basket series: Volume 4. Natsuki Takaya. Tokyopop. 1-59182-606-3.
Fruits basket series: Volume 5. Natsuki Takaya. Tokyopop. 1-59182-607-1.
Guitar girl. Sarra Manning. Dutton. 0-525-47234-7.
Have board, will travel. Jamie Brisick. Harper Entertainment. 0-06-056359-1
Hellsing series: Volume 1. Kohta Hirano. Dark Horse Comics.1-59307-056-X.
Hellsing series: Volume 2. Kohta Hirano. Dark Horse Comics.1-59307-057-8.
Hellsing series: Volume 3. Kohta Hirano. Dark Horse Comics.1-59307-202-3.
Hellsing series: Volume 4. Kohta Hirano. Dark Horse Comics.1-59307-259-7.
Hit squad. James Heneghan. Orca. 1-55143-269-2.
In the paint: Tattoos of the NBA and the stories behind them. Andrew Gottlieb. Hyperion. 0-7868-8868-7.
Jason and Kyra. Dana Davidson. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun. 0-7868-1851-4.
Kat's fall. Shelley Hrdlitschka. Orca. 1-55143-312-5.
Last chance Texaco. Brent Hartinger. Harper Collins. 0-06-050912-0.
LeBron James: The rise of a star. David Lee Morgan. Gray. 1-886228-74-4.
Letting go of Bobby James, or how I found my self of steam. Valerie Hobbs. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux/Frances Foster. 0-374-34384-5.
Maria Shaw's star gazer: Your soul searching, dream seeking, make something happen guide to the future. Maria Shaw. Llewellyn. 0-7387-0422-9.
Monster garage: How to customize damn near everything. Lee Klancher. Motorbooks International/MBI Publishing. 0-7603-1748-8.
Nascar now. Timothy Miller and Steve Milton. Firefly. 1-55297-829-X.
NBA's greatest. John Hareas. Dorling Kindersley. 0-7894-9977-0.
Nothing to lose. Alex Flinn. Harper/Tempest. 0-06-051751-4.
One of those hideous books where the mother dies. Sonya Sones. Simon & Schuster. 0-689-84169-8.
Overdrive. Eric Walters. Orca. 1-55143-318-4.
Paradise city (The Big Empty series). J.B. Stephens. Penguin/Razorbill. 1-59514-007-7.
Playing in traffic. Gail Giles. Roaring Brook. 1-59643-005-2.

MICHAEL L. PRINTZ AWARD

Meg Rosoff is the winner of the 2005 Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature for young adults for her novel, How I Live Now, published by Random House/Wendy Lamb Books. The award is named for the late Michael Printz, a Topeka, KS, school librarian known for discovering and promoting quality books for young adults.

Three Printz Honor Books were named: Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel, published by HarperCollins/EOS; Chandra's Secrets, by Allan Stratton, published by Annick Press; and Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt, published by Houghton Mifflin/Clarion.

The Michael L. Printz Award is administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association, and sponsored by Booklist magazine.

Pulling princes. Tyne O'Connell. Bloomsbury USA. 1-58234-957-6.
Ripley's believe it or not. Mint Publishing/Ripley. 1-893951-73-1.
Rock star, superstar. Blake Nelson. Viking. 0-670-05933-1.
Royally jacked. Niki Burnham. Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse. 0-689-86668-2.
Ruby Gloom's keys to happiness. Clam Lynch. Abrams. 0-8109-5036-7.
Shooter. Walter Dean Myers. Harper Collins/Amistad. 0-06-029519-8.
So What? The good, the mad, and the ugly: The official Metallica illustrated chronicles. Broadway Books. 0-7679-1881-9.
Summer boys. Hailey Abbott. Scholastic. 0-439-54020-8.
Takedown. Joyce Sweeney. Marshall Cavendish. 0-7614-5175-7.
Technically, it's not my fault: Concrete poems. John Grandits. Clarion. 0-618-42833-X.
Teen queens and has-beens (Truth or Dare series). Cathy Hopkins. Simon & Schuster. 0-689-87129-5.
Teen titans: A kid's game. Geoff Johns. DC Comics. 1-4012-0308-6.
Ten days in the dirt: Spectacle of off-road motorcycling. Russ Rohrer. Motorbooks International. 0-7603-1803-4.
Ten things to do before i die. Daniel Ehrenhaft. Random House/Delacorte. 0-385-73007-1.
The au pairs. Melissa De La Cruz. Simon & Schuster. 0-68-987066-3.T
The big empty (The Big Empty series). J. B. Stephens. Penguin/Razorbill. 1-59514-006-9.
The book of bunny suicides. Andy Riley. Penguin/Plume. 0-452-28518-6.
The boy who couldn't die. William Sleator. Abrams/Amulet. 0-81094-824-9.
The chocolate lover (The Missing Persons series). M.E. Rabb. Penguin/Speak. 0-14-250042-9.
The clique. Lisi Harrison. Little, Brown. 0-316-70129-7.
The fallen (The Nine Lives of Chloe King series). Celia Thomson. Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse. 0-689-86658-5.
The homer book. Harper Collins/Perennial. 0-06-073884-7.
The insiders. J. Minter. Bloomsbury. 1-58234-895-2.
The official movie plot generator: 27,000 hilarious movie plot combinations. Jason Heimberg and Justin Heimberg. Brothers Heimberg Publishing. 0-9740439-1-5.
The Princess of pop (Truth or Dare series). Cathy Hopkins. Simon & Schuster. 0-689-87002-7.
The rose queen (The Missing Persons series). M.E. Rabb. Penguin/Speak. 0-14-250041-0.
The secret hour. Scott Westerfeld. Harper Collins/Eos. 0-06-051951-7.
The stolen (The Nine Lives of Chloe King series). Celia Thomson. Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse. 0-689-86659-3.
The unsuspecting gourmet (The Missing Persons series). M. E. Rabb. Penguin/Speak. 0-14-250044-5.
The venetian policeman (The Missing Persons series). M. E. Rabb. Penguin/Speak. 0-14-250043-7.
There's a god on the mic: The true 50 greatest MCs. Kool Moe Dee. Thunder's Mouth Press. 1-56025-5331.
They broke the law-you be the judge: True cases of teen crime. Thomas Jacobs. Free Spirit. 1-57542-134-8.
Things change. Patrick Jones. Walker. 0-8027-8901-3.
Thunderbowl. Lesley Choyce. Orca. 1-55143-277-3.
TTYL. Lauren Myracle. Abrams/Amulet. 0-8109-4821-4.
Ultimate special forces. Hugh McManners. Dorling Kindersley. 0-7894-9973-8.
Unbelievable: The life, death, and afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. Cheo Hodari Coker. Three Rivers Press. 0-609-80835-4.
Unexpected development. Marlene Perez. Roaring Brook. 1-59643-006-0.
Unscripted. Ken Leiker. Simon & Schuster. 0-7434-7761-8
Vegan virgin valentine. Carolyn Mackler. Candlewick. 0-7636-2155-2.
VX: 10 Years of vibe photography. Rob Kenner and George Pitts. Abrams/Vibe Books. 0-8109-4546-0.
Walk On water (Watching Alice series). Daniel Parker and Lee Miller. Penguin/Razorbill. 1-59514-002-6.
White lies and barefaced truths. (Truth or Dare series). Cathy Hopkins. Simon & Schuster. 0-689-87003-5.
Who am i without him? A short story collection about girls and the boys in their lives. Sharon Flake. Hyperion. 0-7868-0693-1.
Wide open: A life in supercross. Jeremy McGrath. Harper Entertainment. 0-06-053727-2.
YM's the best of say anything. Random House/Bantam. 0-553-37601-2.
You are so cursed. Naomi Nash. Dorchester/Leisure. 0-8439-5310-1.

TOP TEN QUICK PICKS FOR RELUCTANT YOUNG ADULT READERS

The Book of bunny suicides. Andy Riley. Penguin/Plume. 0-452-28518-6.
The boy who couldn't die. William Sleator. Abrams/Amulet. 0-81094-824-9.
Confessions of a backup dancer. Tucker Shaw. Simon and Schuster/Aladdin. 0-689-87075-2.
Emako blue. Brenda Woods. Penguin Putnam. 0-399-24006-3.
Fruits basket series: Volume 1. Natsuki Takaya. Tokyopop. 1-59182-603-9.
Fruits basket series: Volume 2. Natsuki Takaya. Tokyopop. 1-59182-604-7.
Fruits basket series: Volume 3. Natsuki Takaya. Tokyopop. 1-59182-605-5.
Fruits basket series: Volume 4. Natsuki Takaya. Tokyopop. 1-59182-606-3.
Fruits basket series: Volume 5. Natsuki Takaya. Tokyopop. 1-59182-607-1.
In the paint: Tattoos of the NBA and the stories behind them. Andrew Gottlieb. Hyperion. 0-7868-8868-7.
Monster garage: How to customize damn near everything. Lee Klancher. Motorbooks International/ MBI Publishing. 0-7603-1748-8.
The official movie plot generator: 27,000 hilarious movie plot combinations. Jason Heimberg and Justin Heimberg. Brothers Heimberg Publishing. 0-9740439-1-5.
VX: 10 years of vibe photography. Rob Kenner and George Pitts. Abrams/Vibe Books. 0-8109-4546-0.
Who am i without him? A short story collection about girls and the boys in their lives. Sharon Flake. Hyperion. 0-7868-0693-1.

SELECTED VIDEOS AND DVDS FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Girl wrestler. Women Make Movies.
In my own skin: The complexity of living as an Arab American. Arab Film Distribution.
Let's get real. The Respect for All Project/Women's Educational Media.
Powershift. The Video Project.
Wet dreams & false images. New Day Films.
What's going on (ten-part series). Zenger Media.