Top Ten (or so) Titles of 1999

PSLA Media Selection and Review

Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune. HarperCollins, 1999. 0-06-019491-X. $26.00. Grades 9+

Almond, David. Skellig. Delacorte, 1999. 15.95 0-3853-2653-X (Grades 4-7)

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak. Farrar, $16 0-374-37152-0.

Atkins, Catherine. When Jeff Comes Home. Putnam, 1999. $17.99 0-3992- 3366-0 (Grades 8-12)

Banks, Sara Harrell. Abraham's Battle : A Gettysburg Novel. Atheneum, 1999. 0-689-81779-7. $15. Grades 4-7

Calhoun, Dia. Firegold. Winslow, $15.95(1-890817-10-4). (Grades 7+)

Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Shadow. Tor; dist. by St. Martin's, $24.95 0-312-86860-X (Grades 7+)

Couloumbis, Audrey. Getting Near to Baby. Putnam, 1999. 0-3992-3389-X $17.99

Fleischman, Paul. Mind's Eye. Holt, $15.95 (0-8050-06314-5). (Grade 6+)

Gilmore, Kate. Exchange Student. Houghton Mifflin, 1999. 0-3955-7511-7 $15.00 (Gr. 6+)

Hoffman, Alice. Local Girls. Putnam, 1999. 0-399-14507-9. $22.95. (Grades 7-12)

Holt, Kimberly Willis, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Holt, 1999. $16.95 0-8050-6116-9 (Grades 5-9)

Joyce, Graham. Dark Sister. Tor,1999. 0-3128-6632-1 $22.95 (For mature young adults)

Levine, Gail Carson. Dave at Night. Harpercollins, 1999. $15.95 0-0602- 8153-7 Grades (Grades 4-8)

Mead, Alice. Soldier Mom. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. 374-34124-5 $16.00. (Grades 5-9)

Meyer, Carolyn. Mary, Bloody Mary. Harcourt, $16(0-15-201906-5. (Grades 5-10)

Morris, Gerald. The Squire, His Knight & His Lady. Houghton Mifflin, 1999. $15.00 0-3959-1211-3 (Grades 5-9)

Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. illus. HarperCollins, $15.95 (0-06-028077-8); lib. ed., $15.98 (0-06-028078-6).

Nolan, Han. A Face in Every Window. Harcourt Brace, 1999. 0-15-201915-4. $16.00. (Grades 7+)

Porter, Connie. Imani All Mine. Houghton, $23 (0-395-83808-8).

Shusterman, Neal. Downsiders. Simon & Schuster,$16.95 (0-689-80375-3).

Skurzynski, Gloria. Spider's Voice. Atheneum, 1999. 0-689-82149-2. $16.95. (Grades 8+).

Sleator, William. Rewind. Dutton, 1999. 118 pp. 0-525-46130-2. $15.99 (Grades 5-7)

Vande Velde, Vivian. Never Trust a Dead Man. Harcourt, $17 (0-15-201899-9).

Zindel, Paul. Rats. Hyperion,1999. 0786803398. $15.99. 203p. (Grade 5-9)

Nonfiction

Bailey, Gerald. Talking to Animals. Element, 1999. 1-90188-197-0. $ 4.95 paper. (Grades 4-12)

Best American Sports Writing of the Century. David Halberstam, editor. Houghton Mifflin, 1999. ISBN 0-395-94514-3. $18. (High School)

Codell, Esme Raji. Educating Esme: the Diary of a Teacher's First Year. Algonquin Books, 1999. 1-56512-225-9. $17.95. (Grades 7+)

Garner, Eleanor Ramrath. Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany. Peachtree/Freestone, $14.95 (1-56145-193-2). (Grades 6+)

Larson, Erik. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. Crown, 1999. 0-6096-0233-0 $25

Mah, Adeline Yen. Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter. Delacorte, 1999. 0-385-32707-2. $16.95. (Grades 5-10)

McCartney, Scott. ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer. $23 Walker & Co, 1999. 0-8027-1348-3

Namioka, Lensey. Ties that Bind, Ties that Break. Delacorte, 1999. ISBN 0-385-32666-1. $15.95. 5-10.

Neimark, Anne. E. Wild Heart: The Story of Joy Adamson, the Author of Born Free. Harcourt Brace, 1999. 0-15-201368-7. $17.00 (Grades 7+)

Wetzel, Dan and Don Yaeger. Sole Influence: Basketball, Corporate Greed, and the Corruption of America's Youth. Warner. 2000. ISBN 0-446- 52450-6. $24.95. (High School+)

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