PSLA TITLES FOR 2005                       TOP TEN (or so!) FAVORITES

 

 
Fiction

 

 

 

 

Buckhanon, Kalisha.  Upstate: A Novel.  St. Martin’s Press, 2005.  0312332688.  256p.  $10.05.  Grades 10+.

 

Caletti, Deb.  Wild Roses.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.  0-689867-66-2.  296p.  $15.95.  Gr. 9+.

 

Carvell, Marlene.  Sweetgrass Basket.  New York: Dutton, 2005.   0-525-47547-8.  243p.  $15.99.  Gr. 9-12.

 

Castellucci, Cecil.  Boy Proof.  Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2005.  0-7636-233-4.  203p.  $15.99.  Gr. 9-12.

 

Coburn, Jake.  Lovesick.  New York:  Dutton, 2005.  0-525-4783-1.  228p.  $16.99.  Gr. 9+.

 

Courtenay, Bryce.  The Power of One (Young Readers’ Condensed ed.).  New York: Random House, 2005.

0-385-73254-6.  291p.  $15.95.  Gr. 6-12.

 

Crutcher, Chris.  The Sledding Hill.  New York: Greenwillow Books, 2005.  0-06-050243-6.  230p.  $15.99.  Gr. 7-12.

 

Cummings, Priscilla.  Red Kayak. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2004.  0-525-47317-3.  209p.  $15.99.

Gr. 6 – 12.

 

Devoto, Pat Cunningham. The Summer We Got Saved.   New York: Warner Books, 2005.  0-446-57696-4.  411p. 

$23.95.  Adult/Young Adult.

 

Duble, Kathleen Benner.  The Sacrifice.  McElderry, 2005.  978-0-689-87650-9; 0-689-87650-5.  165p.  $15.95.

Gr. 6-9.

 

Flake, Sharon. Bang!  New York: Hyperion, 2005.  289p.  0-7868-1844-1.  $16.99.  Gr. 9-12.

 

Frank, E. J.  Wrecked.  New York: Atheneum, 2005.  0-689-87383-2.  247p.  $15.95.  Gr. 9-12.

 

Galloway, Gregory.  As Simple As Snow.  New York: Putnam, 2005.  0-399-15231-8.  308p.  $23.95.  Gr.  9+.

 

Grant, K.M.  Blood Red Horse: Book One of the de Granville Trilogy. Walker, 2005.  0802789609. 288p.  $16.95. 

Gr. 5-10.

 

Green, John.  Looking for Alaska.  New York:  Dutton Books.  2005.  0-525-47506-0.  221p.  $15.99.  Gr. 11-adult.

 

Griffin, Adele.  Where I Want to Be.  New York: Putnams, 2005.  0-399-23783-6.  150p.  $14.99.  7-10. 

 

Grimes, Nikki.  Dark Sons.  New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2005.  078681888-3.  216p.  $15.99.  Gr. 7+.

 

Hale, Shannon.  Princess Academy.  New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, Children’s Books, 2005.  1-58234-993-2.

             314p.  $16.95.  Gr. 5-10.

 

Hautman, Pete.  Invisible.  New York: Simon & Schuster,  2005.  0-689-86800-6.  149p.  $15.95.  Gr. 7-10.

 

Koertge, Ronald.  Boy Girl Boy.  Orlando, FL: Harcourt Children’s Books, 2005.  0-152053-25-5.  164p.  $16.00.

Gr. 9+.

 

Krovatin, Christopher.  Heavy Metal and You.  New York: PUSH, 2005.  0-439-73648-x. 186p.  $16.95.  Gr. 11+.

 

Fiction (cont’d)

 

 

Lee, Marie Myung-Ok.  Somebody’s Daughter.  Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.  0-8070-8388-7.  264p.  $23.95. 

Gr.  9+ .

 

Lester, Julius.  Day of Tears.  New York: Jump at the Sun, 2005.  0-7868-0490-4.  177p.  $13.59.  Gr. 7+.

 

Lubar, David.  Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie.  New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2005.  0-525-47311-4.  279p. 

            $14.44.  Gr. 7+.

 

Lynch, Chris.  Inexcusable.  New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.  0-689-84769-0.  165p. $ 16.95.  

Gr. 9+.

 

Marcantonio, Patricia Santos.  Red Ridin' in the Hood: and Other Cuentos.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

            2005.  0-374-36241-6.  185p.  $16.95.  Gr. 3-5.

 

Marstan, Elsa.  Figs and Fate: Stories about Growing Up in the Arab World.  New York: George Braziller, 2005. 

0-8076-1554-4.  135p.  $15.95.  Gr. 9-12.

 

McNish. Cliff.  Silver Child.  Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 2005.  1-575058-25-1.  192p.  $15.95.  Gr. 4-8.

 

Meyer, Stephenie.  Twilight.  New York: Little, Brown, 2005.   0-316-16017-2.  498p. $17.99.  Gr. 9-12.

 

Myers, Walter Dean.  Autobiography of My Dead Brother.  New York: HarperTempest, 2005.  0-06-058292-8.  212p.  $16.89.  Gr. 7+.

 

Morgan, Anna.  Daughters of the Ark.  Toronto:  Second Story Press, 2005.  1-896764-92-4.  230p.  $7.95.  Gr. 4-7.

 

Park, Linda Sue.  Project Mulberry.  New York: Clarion Books, 2005.  0-618-47786-1. 188p.  $16.00.  Gr. 4-8.

 

Pearson, Mary E.  A Room on Lorelei Street. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2005.  0-8050-7667-0.  266p.

            $16.95.  Gr. 9-12.

 

Rees, Elizabeth M.  The Wedding:  An Encounter with Jan van Eyck.  New York:  Watson-Guptill, 2005.

 0-8230-0407-4.  226p.  $15.95.  Gr. 6-8.

 

Reiss, Kathryn.  Blackthorn Winter. New York: Harcourt, 2006.  0-15-205479-0.  335p.  $17.00.  Gr. 9-12.

 

Riordan, Rick.  The Lightning Thief.  Miramax, 2006.  0786838655.  400p.  $7.99.  Gr. 9+.

 

Rowling, J.K.  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. New York: Scholastic, 2005.  0-439-78454-9.  652p.  $29.99.

            Gr. 7-12.

 

Spillebeen, Geert.  Kipling’s Choice.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.  0-618-43124-1.  147p.  $16.00.  Gr. 7-12.

 

Tan, Amy.  Saving Fish From Drowning. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2005.  0-399-15301-2.  474p.  $26.95.  Gr. 11+.

 

Turner, James.  Nil the Land Beyond Belief. San Jose, CA: SLG Publishing. 2005.  1-593620-20-9.  240p.  $12.95. 

Gr. 10+.

 

Westerfield, Scott.  Peeps.  New York: Penguin Group, 2005.  1-59514-031-X.  312p.  $16.99.  9-12.

 

Volponi, Paul.  Black and White.  Viking, 2005.  0670060062.  192p.  $15.99.  Gr. 7-11. 

 

Fiction (cont’d)

 

 

Westerfeld, Scott.  Pretties.  New York: Simon Pulse, 2005.  0-689-86539-2.  370p.  $6.99.  Gr. 8-11.

 

Wittlinger, Ellen. Sandpiper. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005.  0-689868-02-2.  227p.

$16.95.  Gr. 9+.

 

Zevin, Gabrielle.  Elsewhere.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.  0-374-32091-8.  275p.  $16.00. 

            Gr. 8+.

 

Zusak, Markus.  I am the Messenger. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.  0-375-83099-5. 357 p.  $16.95. Gr. 10 +.

 


 

 
                                   

Non-Fiction

 

 

 

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.  Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow.  New York: Scholastic, 2005. 

0-439-35379-3.  176p.  $19.95.  Gr. 7-12.

 

Bissinger, Buzz.  Three Nights in August --Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager. Boston:

            Houghton Mifflin, 2005.  0-618-40544-5.  280p.  $25.00.  Adult.

 

Bodanis, David.  Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity. New York, NY: Crown, 2005.

1-4000-4550-9.308 p.  $24.00.  Gr. 8+.

 

Davis, Sampson, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt with Sharon Draper.  We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success.  New York: Penguin Group, 2005.  0-525-47407-2.  194p.  $16.99.  Gr. 7–10.

 

Deem, James M.   Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2005.

0-618-47308-4.  50p.  $16.00.   Gr. 7+.

 

Delise, Guy.   Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea.  Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2005. 1896597890.  176p. 

            $19.95.  Gr. 9+.

 

Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Viking, 2005.  0-670-03337-5.  575p.  

            $29.95.  Gr. 10-Adult. 

 

Fast, April.  Iraq Series.  New York:  Crabtree Publishing Co., 2005.  32p.  $23.92 ea.  Gr. 4-6.

Iraq:  the People.  0-7787-9319-2.

Iraq:  the Culture.  0-7787-9320-6.

Iraq:  the Land.  0-7787-9318-4.       

 

Fleming, Candace.  Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt’s Remarkable Life.  NY: Atheneum, 2005.

0-689-86544-9.  174p.  $19.95.  Gr. 4-8.

 

Frank, Mitch.  Understanding the Holy Land: Answering Questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.  New

            York: Viking, 2005.  0-670-06032-1.  152p.  $15.29.  Gr. 6-10.

 

Friedman, Tom.  The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.  New York: Farrar, Straus and

            Giroux, 2005.  0374292884.  496p.  $30.00.  Gr. 9+.

Giblin, James Cross.  Good Brother, Bad Brother, The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth.  New York:

            Clarion Books, 2005.  0-6180-9642-6.  244p.  $22.00.  Gr. 6-9.

 

Goodwin, Doris Kearns.  Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.  New York: Simon & Schuster,

2005.   0684824906.  944p. $35.00.  Gr. 9+.

 

Hakim, Joy. The Story of Science: Newtown at the Center. Washington, D.C.:  Smithsonian Books, 2005.

1-58834-161-5.  256p.  $24.95.  YA.

 

Haskins, Jim.  African Heroes.  Hoboken, NJ:  John Wiley & Sons, 2005.  0-471-46672-7.  163p.  $24.95.  Gr. 5-8.

 

Hatch, Robert and William.  The Hero Project: How We Met Our Greatest Heroes and What We Learned From

    Them.  New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2006.  0-07-144904-3.  204p.  $14.95.  Gr. 6+.

 

Non-Fiction (cont’d)

 

 

Hunt, Irmgard A. On Hitler’s Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood. New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2005.  0-06-053217-3.  275p.  $25.95.  Gr. 10-Adult.

 

Janeczko, Paul.  A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press,

2005.  61p. $17.95.  All ages.

 

Johnson, Dolores.  Onward: A Photobiography of African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson.  Washington,

            D.C.: National Geographic, 2006.  0-7922-7914-X.  64p.  $17.95.  Gr. 5-8.

 

Kennedy, Caroline.  A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children.  New York: Hyperion,  2005. 

            0786851112.  144p.  $19.95.  All ages.

 

Krull, Kathleen.  Leonardo da Vinci.  Giants of Science Series.  New York: Viking, 2005.  067005920X.  $15.99.

124p. Gr. 4-8.

 

Lehman, Carolyn.  Strong at Heart:  How it Feels to Heal from Sexual Abuse.  New York:  Farrar, Strauss and

            Giroux.  2005.  0-374-37282-9.  $25.25.  Gr. 9+.

 

Millman, Isaac.  Hidden Child.  New York, NY: Frances Foster, 2005.  0-374-33071-9.  73p.  $18.00.  Gr. 4-8.

 

O’Connor, Ian.  The Jump: Sebastian Telfair and the High Stakes Business of High School Ball.  Rodale, 2005. 

1594861072.  307p.  $23.95.  Gr. 9+.

 

Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry.  Arnold Rampersad, Ed.  Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2006.  0195125630.

            424p.  $32.50.  Gr. 6+.

 

Preston, Diana.  Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima.  Walker & Company, 2005.  0-8027-1445-5.

400p.  $27.00.  Gr. 11+.

 

Sheehan, Sean. Genocide (Face the Facts).  Chicago: Raintree, 2005.  0-410-91070-9.  56p.  Gr. 6-8. 

 

Steinhofel, Andreas.  The Center of the World.  New York: Delacorte Press, 2005.  0-385729-43-X.  467p.  $16.95. 

            Gr 9+.

 

Strand, Mark. 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century. New York: Norton, 2005.  0-393-05894-8.  320p.  $24.95.

            Gr. 10-12.

 

Terkel, Studs.  And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey. New York: The New Press, 2005.

1-59558-003-4.  352p.  $25.95.  YA.

 

Thayer, Ernest L.  Casey At The Bat.  New York: Kids Can Press, 2006.  1-55337-827-X.  42p.  $16.95.  Gr. 4-12.

 

Vaccine. (Exploring Science and Medical Discoveries Series).  Naff, Clay Farris, Ed.  Detroit: Greenhaven. 2005.  

0-7377-1969-9.  239p.  $34.95.  Gr. 9-12.

 

Walls, Jeannette.  The Glass Castle.  New York: Scribner, 2005.  0743247531.  288p.  $25.00.  Gr. 9+.

 

Young, Dwight.  Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office From the Files of the National Archives. Washington

            D.C.: National Geographic, 2005.  0-7922-4185-1.  191p.  $16.96.  Gr. 6+.


 

 
Reference

 

 

Defining Moments Series.   Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2005.  $44.00 ea.  Gr. 9+.

 

Derks, Scott and Tony Smith.  The Value of a Dollar: Colonial Era to the Civil War, 1600-1865.  Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2005.  1-59237-094-2.  436p.  $145.  Gr. 7-12+.

 

Drugs and Society.  Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2005.  0-7614-7597-4.  3 volumes.  $249.95.  Gr.9+.

 

The Lincoln Library of Greek & Roman Mythology. Timothy and Susan Gall, Ed. Cleveland: Lincoln Library

            Press, 2006.  0-912168-21-8.  5 vol.  $199.  Gr. 4-12.

 

Middle East Conflict Reference Library.  Zerbonia, Ralph G. Ed.  Detroit: UXL, 2006.  0-7876-9455-X.  4 vol. 

            $165.00.  Gr. 7-12.

 

Popular Contemporary Writers.  Michael D. Sharp, Ed.  Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2005.  0-7614-7601-6. 

            11 volumes.  $495.95.  Gr. 9+.

 

Super, John C.  The Fifties in America.  Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2005.  3v., 1186p.  $331.  Gr. 7-A.

 

Teen Finance Series.  Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2005.  $58.00 ea.  Gr. 9+.

Savings and Investment Information for Teens.  Deering, Kathryn R., Ed.  0-7808-0781-2.  370p.

Cash and Credit Information for Teens.  Deering, Kathryn R., Ed.  0-7808-0780-4.  407p.  $58.00.

 

U.S.A. Twenties.  Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2005.  0-7172-6013-5.  6 vol.  $125.00.  Gr. 7+.

 

World War I: A Student Encyclopedia.  Spencer C. Tucker, Ed..  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2005. 

1-85109-879-8.  5 vols.  2,454p.  $485.00  Gr. 9-12.

 

 

Professional

 

Bowman, J.H.  Essential Dewey. New York: Neal Schuman, 2005.  1-55570-544-8.  155p.  $55.00.

 

Doll, Carol A.  Collaboration and the School Library Media Specialist.  Lanham, MA:  Scarecrow, 2005. 

0-8108-5117-2.  119p.  $26.95.  Professional.

 

Harada, Violet H. and Joan M. Yoshina.  Assessing Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners.  Westport, CN:

            Libraries Unlimited, 2005.  $40.00.

 

Harris, Frances Jacobson.  I Found it on the Internet: Coming of Age Online.  Chicago:  ALA Editions, 2005. 

0-8389-898-5.    161p.  $34.96.

 

Hughes-Hassel, Sandra and  Jacqueline C. Mancall.   Collection Management for Youth: Responding to the Needs of Learners. Chicago: ALA, 2005.  0-8389-0894-2.  103p.  $34.96.

 

Knowles, Elizabeth and Martha Smith.  Boys and Literacy: Practical Strategies for Librarians, Teachers and Parents. 

            Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2005.  1-59158-212-1.  164p.  $37.80.

 

Lathrop, Ann. Guiding Students from Cheating and Plagiarism to Honesty and Integrity.  Westport, CT: Libraries

Unlimited, 2005.  1-59158-275-X.  264p.  $35.00.

 

 

Professional (cont’d)

 

 

Miller, Steve.  Developing and Promoting Graphic Novel Collections.   Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2005. 

1-55570-461-1.  128p.  $49.95.

 

Sobol, Joseph Daniel.  The House Between Earth and Sky:  Harvesting new American       Folktales.  Portsmouth, NH: 

            Teacher Idea Press, 2005.  1-59158-080-3.  146p.  $25.92.  AD.

 

Woolls, Blanche and David V. Loertscher.  The Whole School Library Handbook.   Chicago: American Library

            Association, 2005.  0-8389-0883-7.  399p. $ 45.00.  Professional.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Committee Members:

Virginia Bardi, New Hope-Solebury High School

Jeannie Bellavance, Gwynedd-Mercy Academy

Pat Bender, Upper School Librarian, The Shipley School

Candace Blessing, Ephrata High School

Sarah Braxton, Juniata Valley High School

Mary Buxton, Academy of Notre Dame

Nancy Chrismer, Juniata High School

Tiffany Clark, Merion Mercer Academy

Donna Darmofal, Scranton Preparatory School

Ilene Goldis, Radnor High School

Eleanor Howe, Pine-Richland High School

Susan Krenicky, Phoenixville Area Middle School

Sandra Krieg, The Haverford School

Elizabeth McChesney, Greenville High School

Erika Miller, Plymouth Whitemarsh High School

Susan Mowery, Upper Dublin High School

Pat Naismith, Springfield High School (Del Co)

B. J. Neary, Abington Senior High School

Constance Roupp, Harlan Rowe Middle School

Mary Schwander, New Hope-Solebury High School

Michelle Stone, Sandy Run Middle School

Joyce Valenza, Springfield Township High School

Barbara Wray, Sayre Middle School

Rosanne Zajko, Ancillae-Assumpta Academy