PSLA
TITLES FOR 2005 TOP
TEN (or so!) FAVORITES
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Buckhanon, Kalisha.
Upstate: A Novel. St. Martin’s Press, 2005. 0312332688.
256p. $10.05. Grades 10+.
Caletti, Deb. Wild
Roses.
Carvell, Marlene.
Sweetgrass Basket.
Castellucci, Cecil.
Boy Proof.
Coburn, Jake. Lovesick.
Courtenay, Bryce.
The Power of One (Young Readers’ Condensed ed.).
0-385-73254-6. 291p.
$15.95. Gr. 6-12.
Crutcher,
Chris. The Sledding Hill.
Cummings, Priscilla.
Red Kayak.
Gr. 6 – 12.
Devoto, Pat Cunningham. The Summer We Got Saved.
$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,
Frank, E.
J. Wrecked.
Galloway, Gregory. As Simple As Snow.
Grant, K.M. Blood
Red Horse: Book One of the de Granville Trilogy.
Gr.
5-10.
Green,
John. Looking for
Griffin, Adele.
Where I Want to Be.
Grimes, Nikki. Dark Sons.
Hale,
Shannon.
314p. $16.95.
Gr. 5-10.
Hautman, Pete. Invisible.
Koertge, Ronald. Boy
Girl Boy.
Gr. 9+.
Krovatin, Christopher.
Heavy Metal and You.
Fiction (cont’d)
Lee, Marie Myung-Ok. Somebody’s Daughter.
Gr. 9+ .
Lester, Julius.
Day of Tears.
Lubar, David. Sleeping
Freshmen Never Lie.
$14.44. Gr. 7+.
Lynch,
Chris. Inexcusable.
Gr. 9+.
Marcantonio, Patricia Santos. Red
Ridin' in the Hood: and Other Cuentos.
2005. 0-374-36241-6. 185p.
$16.95. Gr. 3-5.
Marstan, Elsa. Figs and Fate: Stories about Growing Up in
the Arab World.
0-8076-1554-4. 135p.
$15.95. Gr. 9-12.
McNish. Cliff. Silver
Child.
Meyer,
Stephenie. Twilight.
Myers, Walter Dean.
Autobiography of My Dead Brother.
Morgan, Anna. Daughters of the
Park, Linda Sue.
Project Mulberry.
Pearson, Mary E.
A Room on
$16.95. Gr. 9-12.
Rees, Elizabeth M.
The Wedding: An Encounter with Jan van Eyck.
0-8230-0407-4.
226p. $15.95. Gr. 6-8.
Reiss, Kathryn.
Blackthorn Winter.
Riordan, Rick. The
Lightning Thief. Miramax, 2006. 0786838655. 400p.
$7.99. Gr. 9+.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Gr. 7-12.
Spillebeen,
Geert. Kipling’s Choice.
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.
Gr. 10+.
Westerfield, Scott.
Peeps.
Volponi, Paul. Black and White. Viking, 2005.
0670060062. 192p. $15.99.
Gr. 7-11.
Fiction (cont’d)
Westerfeld,
Scott. Pretties.
Wittlinger, Ellen. Sandpiper.
$16.95. Gr. 9+.
Zevin, Gabrielle. Elsewhere.
Gr. 8+.
Zusak, Markus. I am
the Messenger. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
0-375-83099-5. 357 p. $16.95. Gr.
10 +.
Bartoletti,
Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow.
0-439-35379-3. 176p.
$19.95. Gr. 7-12.
Bodanis, David.
Electric Universe: The Shocking
True Story of Electricity.
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.
Deem, James M.
Bodies from the Ash: Life and
Death in Ancient
0-618-47308-4. 50p.
$16.00. Gr. 7+.
Delise, Guy.
$19.95. Gr. 9+.
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to
Fail or Succeed.
$29.95. Gr. 10-Adult.
Fast, April.
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
Friedman, Tom. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the
Twenty-First Century.
Giroux, 2005. 0374292884.
496p. $30.00. Gr. 9+.
Giblin, James Cross. Good Brother, Bad
Brother, The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth.
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.
2005.
0684824906. 944p. $35.00. Gr. 9+.
Hakim, Joy. The
Story of Science:
1-58834-161-5. 256p.
$24.95. YA.
Haskins, Jim. African Heroes.
Hatch, Robert and William. The
Hero Project: How We Met Our Greatest Heroes and What We Learned From
Them.
Non-Fiction (cont’d)
Hunt, Irmgard A. On Hitler’s Mountain: Overcoming
the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood.
Janeczko, Paul.
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday
Guide to Poetic Forms.
2005. 61p.
$17.95. All ages.
Johnson, Dolores.
Onward: A Photobiography of
African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson.
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.
0786851112.
144p.
$19.95. All ages.
Krull, Kathleen. Leonardo
da Vinci. Giants of Science Series.
124p. Gr. 4-8.
Lehman, Carolyn.
Strong at Heart: How it Feels to Heal from Sexual Abuse.
Giroux. 2005.
0-374-37282-9. $25.25. Gr. 9+.
Millman, Isaac.
Hidden Child.
O’Connor,
Ian. The Jump: Sebastian Telfair and
the High Stakes Business of High School Ball. Rodale, 2005.
1594861072. 307p.
$23.95. Gr. 9+.
424p. $32.50.
Gr. 6+.
Preston, Diana. Before
the Fallout: From Marie Curie to
400p. $27.00.
Gr. 11+.
Sheehan, Sean. Genocide (Face the Facts).
Steinhofel, Andreas. The Center of the World.
Gr
9+.
Strand, Mark. 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth
Century.
Gr.
10-12.
Terkel, Studs. And
They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.
1-59558-003-4. 352p.
$25.95. YA.
Thayer, Ernest L.
Casey At The Bat.
Vaccine. (Exploring Science and Medical Discoveries Series). Naff,
Clay Farris, Ed.
0-7377-1969-9. 239p.
$34.95. Gr. 9-12.
Walls, Jeannette.
The
Young, Dwight. Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval
Office From the Files of the National Archives.
D.C.:
National Geographic, 2005.
0-7922-4185-1. 191p. $16.96.
Gr. 6+.
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Defining Moments
Series.
Derks, Scott
and Tony Smith. The Value of a Dollar: Colonial Era to the Civil War, 1600-1865.
Drugs and Society.
The Lincoln Library of Greek & Roman
Mythology. Timothy and Susan Gall, Ed. Cleveland:
Press,
2006. 0-912168-21-8. 5 vol.
$199. Gr. 4-12.
$165.00. Gr. 7-12.
Popular Contemporary Writers. Michael D. Sharp, Ed.
11
volumes. $495.95. Gr. 9+.
Super, John C. The Fifties in
Teen Finance
Series.
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.
World War I: A Student Encyclopedia. Spencer C. Tucker, Ed..
1-85109-879-8. 5 vols.
2,454p. $485.00 Gr. 9-12.
Professional
Bowman, J.H. Essential
Dewey.
Doll, Carol A. Collaboration and the School Library Media
Specialist.
0-8108-5117-2. 119p.
$26.95. Professional.
Harada, Violet H. and Joan M. Yoshina. Assessing
Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners.
Libraries
Unlimited, 2005. $40.00.
0-8389-898-5.
161p. $34.96.
Hughes-Hassel, Sandra and Jacqueline C. Mancall. Collection Management for Youth: Responding to
the Needs of Learners.
Knowles,
Elizabeth and Martha Smith. Boys and
Literacy: Practical Strategies for Librarians, Teachers and Parents.
Lathrop, Ann. Guiding Students from Cheating and Plagiarism to Honesty and Integrity.
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.
Teacher
Idea Press, 2005. 1-59158-080-3. 146p.
$25.92. AD.
Woolls, Blanche and David V. Loertscher. The
Association,
2005. 0-8389-0883-7. 399p. $ 45.00. Professional.
Committee Members:
Virginia Bardi, New Hope-Solebury High School
Jeannie Bellavance,
Pat Bender,
Candace Blessing,
Sarah Braxton,
Mary Buxton,
Nancy Chrismer,
Tiffany Clark,
Donna Darmofal,
Ilene Goldis,
Eleanor Howe,
Susan Krenicky,
Sandra Krieg, The
Elizabeth McChesney,
Erika Miller,
Susan Mowery,
Pat Naismith,
B. J. Neary,
Constance Roupp,
Mary Schwander, New Hope-Solebury High School
Michelle Stone,
Joyce Valenza,
Barbara Wray,
Rosanne Zajko,