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    YA TOP FORTY

TOP TEN (OR SO)  2002 TITLES

Fiction

Alexander, Lloyd.  The Rope Trick.  New York: Dutton Childrenís Books, 2002. 0-525-47020-4. 195p. $16.99. Gr.4-7.

Armstrong, Jennifer.  Shattered: Stories of Children and War. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 0-375-81112-5. 166p. $15.95. Gr. 5-8.

Barwin, Gary. Seeing Stars. Toronto: Stoddart Kids, 2001. 0-7737-6227-2. 182p. $7.95. Gr. 7-10.

Bauer, Joan. Stand Tall. New York: G. P. Putnamís Sons, 2002. 0-399-23473-X. 182 p. $16.99. Gr. 5-9.

Bechard, Margaret.  Hanging on to Max  Brookfield, Conn: Roaring Brook Press, 2002. 0-7613-2574-3. 142 p. $17.18. Gr. 7-12.

Black, Holly. Tithe.  New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002. 0-689-84924-9.310 p. Gr. 8-12.

Brooks, Bruce. Dolores:Seven Stories About Her. NewYork:HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. 0-06-027818-8. 135p. $15-95. Gr. 8-12.

Child, Lincoln.  Utopia. New York: Doubleday, 2002. 0-385-50668-6. 385p. $24.95. Gr.10-12.

Clements, Andrew. Things not seen. New York: Philomel Books, 2002. 0399236260 : 15.99

Cohn, Rachel.  Gingerbread.  New York: Simon & Shuster, 2002.  0-689-84337-2.  172 p. $15.95.  Gr. 8-10. 

Cornwell, Bernard. Vagabond.  NY: HarperCollins, 2002.  405  pp.   0-06-621080-1.  $25.95.   Gr. 10-Adult.

Datlow, Ellen and Windling, Terri, editors.   The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest.   New York: Viking,

2002.   0-670-03526-2.   388p.  $18.99.  Gr. 9+.

Farmer, Nancy. The House of the Scorpion. New York: Richard Jackson/Atheneum, 2002. 0-689-85222-3. 380 p. $17.95. Gr. 7-12.

Ferris, Jean.  Once upon a Marigold.  San Diego:  Harcourt, 2002. 0-15-216791-9.  266 p. $17.00.  Gr 5-8.

Grimes, Nikki.  Bronx Masquerade.  New York: Dial, 2002. 0-8037-2569-8. 167 p. $16.99.  Gr. 7-12.

Halam, Ann.  Dr. Franklinís Island. New York:  Wendy Lamb Books, 2002.  0-385-90056-2.  $14.95.  Gr. 6-10. 

Hrdlitschka, Shelley. Dancing Naked. Custer, WA: Orca Book, 2002.  1-55143-210-2. 250p. $6.95. Gr. 9-12.

Johnson, Lindsay Lee.  Soul Moon Soup.  Asheville, NC: Front Street, 2002.  2002069265. 134 p. $15.95. Gr. 7-9.

Kidd, Sue Monk. Secret Life of Bees.  New York : Penguin, 2002.   0142001740. $14.00. 320 p. Gr. 9+.

Koertge, Ronald. Stoner and Spaz. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2002.  0-7636-1608-7.  169p.  $15.99.  Gr. 8-12.

McCaughrean, Geraldine. The Kite Rider.  New York: HarperCollins, 2001.  272 p.  0-06-623874-9.  $15.95. Gr. 7-12.  

Manns, Nick.  Operating Codes.  Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2001. 0-316-60465-8. 182p.  $15.95.  Gr. 5-8.

Nye, Naomi Shihab. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East.  New York: Greenwillow, 2002.  

0-06-009765-5.  $16.95.  142 p. Gr. 6+.

Placide, Jaira.  Fresh Girl.  New York:Wendy Lamb Books, 2002.  0-385-32753-6. 216p. $15.95. Gr. 9+.

Richler, Nancy.  Your Mouth Is Lovely.  New York:HarperCollins, 2002.  0-06-009677-2.  $25.95  357 p. Gr. 9-12. 

Roberts, Willo Davis.  Undercurrents. New York: Atheneum, 2002. 0-689-81671-5.  232p. $16.00.  Gr.7-10.

Rottman, S.L. Stetson.  New York: Viking, 2002. 0-670-03542-4.

Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones. Boston : Little Brown, 2002. 0-316-66634-3. 328 p.  Gr. 9+

Shaw, Susan. Black-eyed Suzie. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mill Press, 2002. 168 p. 1-56397-729-X. $15.95 Gr. 6-8.

Vande Velde, Vivian.  Heir Apparent.  San Diego:  Harcourt, Inc., 2002.  0-15-204560-0.  315p. $17.00.  Gr. 6-8.

Non-Fiction

Adoff, Jaime. The Song Sshoots Out Of My Mouth. New York: Dutton, 2002.  0525469494 : $17.99

  Benchmark Books - American Voices. New York: Marshall Cavendish 2002. American Voices from Colonial Life

0-7614-1205-0; from Revolutionary War ñ1202-6; from Opening of the West ñ1201-8; from Civil War ñ1204-2;

from World War I ñ1203-4; from World War II ñ1206-9. $22.95ea. Gr. 5+.

  Carles, Julie and Jordana Jacobs.  The Yarn Girlsí Guide to Simple Knits. New York: Clarkson Potter (Random House), 2002. 

$30.00 0-609-60880-0  Grades 6+

  Ferllini, Roxana. Silent Witness: How Forensic Anthropology Is Used to Solve the Worldís Toughest Crimes. Buffalo:

Firefly Books, 2002. 1-55297-624-6. 192p. $24.94. Gr. 9+.

  Granfield, Linda.  Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion. Toronto: Stoddart Kids., 2001. 0-7737-3319-1.  48p. 

$16.95 Gr. 6+.

  Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan.  Action Jackson. Brookfield, CT: Roaring Brook, 2002. 0-7613-2770-3  $16.95.  All ages.

  Herbert, Janis.  The American Revolution for Kids: A History with 21 Activities. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2002. 

1-55652-456-0. 139p.  $14.95. Gr. 5-8.

  Heyen, William.  September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond.  SilverSpring, MD: Etruscan Press, 2002.  0-9718-2280-8.  441p.  $19.  Gr. 8+.

  Irwin, John P.  Another River, Another Town:  A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat ñ 1945.  New York:Random

House, 2002.  0-375-50775-2.  $21.95.  176 p. Gr 6-12. 

  Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: a World History. New York : Walker and Co., 2002. 0-8027-1373-4.  338 p. Gr. 9+.

  Leavy, Jane.  Sandy Koufax: A Leftyís Legend. NY: HarperCollins, 2002. 282 p.  0-06-019533-9.  $23.95.  Gr. 9+.

  Lee, Gus.  Chasing Hepburn: A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Familyís Fight for Freedom.  New York:

Harmony, 2002.  0-609-60876-2. 532 p. $24.95.  Gr. 10-12. 

  Murgatroyd, Sarah.  The Dig Tree: A Story of Bravery, Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier.

New York: Broadway Books, 2002. 0-7679-0828-7. 355p.  $24.95. Gr. 9-12.

  OíConnor, Jane.  The Emperorís Silent Army:  Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China. New York: Viking, 2002.

0-670-03512-2. 48p. $17.99.  Gr. 5-8.

  Partridge, Elizabeth. This Land Was Made for You and Me. New York: Viking, 2002. 0-670-03535-1. $21.99.  Gr. 7-12.

(National Book Award Finalist)

  Pinsky, Robert & Maggie Dietz. Poems to Read. New York: W. W. Norton. 2002. 0-393-01074-0. $27.95.  Gr. 9+.

  Rogasky, Barbara. Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust. New York:Holiday House, 1988, 2002. 256 p. 0-8234-1612-7.

$27.50. Gr. 6-12.

  Spangenburg, Ray and Kit Moser.  Life on Other Worlds.  New York: Franklin Watts, 2002. 0-531-11895-9. 112p.

$25.12. Gr. 5-8.   Series: Out of This World. 

REFERENCE

Benson, Sonia G. Korean War: Almanac and Primary Sources.  Detroit: UXL, 2002.  0-7876-5691-7.  302p. 1 vol, 

$55.00. Gr. 7-12.  Series: Korean War Library.

Biography Today General Series 2001 Annual Cumulation. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2002. 0-7808-0456-2. 458p.

$58.00. Gr. 4+.

Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America.  5 vol. Detroit: UXL- Gale Group, 2002.

0-7876-5676-3.   $215.00.     Gr. 7-12.

Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. Danbury:Grolier, 2002. 0-7172-5698. 4Vol. $399.00. Gr. 9-12.

Great American Writers: Twentieth Century.  New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2002. 0-7614-7240-1. 13 vols. $657. Gr. 9-12+.

Grolier Pro-Con Series. Danbury: Grolier, 2002. Set 0-7172-5638-3. $309.00. Gr. 9+. (note: reviewed on 2001 list)

Hillstrom, Kevin and Laurie Collier.  Experiencing the American Civil War: Novels, Nonfiction Books, Short Stories,

Poems, Plays, Films and Songs.  Detroit: UXL, 2002. 406p. in 2 vols, 0-7876-5585-6 (set).  $99.00. Gr. 7-12.

Leventhal, Fred, ed. Twentieth Century Britain: An Encyclopedia. Rev. ed. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.  592 p.,

0-8204-5108-8.  $55.95. Gr. 10+.

Nolan, Cathal J. Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 4 vol. $475 

0-313-30741-5. Gr. 9+.

Presidents From . . .  Washington Through Monroe (0-313-31387-3); T. Roosevelt Through Coolidge (0-313-31388-1);

Hoover Through Truman (0-313-31441-1); Reagan Through Clinton (0-313-31411-X): Debating the Issues in

Pro and Con Primary Documents.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.  $59.95 each. Gr. 10+

Teeple, John B. Timelines of World History. London: DK Publishing, 2002. 0-7894-8926-0. $40.00.  Gr. 8+.

UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography. Laura B. Tyle, ed.  Detroit: UXL, 2003. 10 vols, 0-7876-6465-0 (set) $425.00.Gr. 7-12.

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