Richie's Picks: Great Books for Children and Young Adults

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18 October 2008 THIS FULL HOUSE by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Harper Teen/The Bowen Press, January 2009, 478p.; ISBN: 978-0-06-158304-9; Libr ISBN: 978-0-06-158305-6 Read the review (last modified: 18 days 20 hours 43 minutes 5 seconds ago)

13 October 2008 HONDA: THE BOY WHO DREAMED OF CARS by Mark Weston, illustrated by Katie Yamasaki, Lee & Low Books, September 2008, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-60060-246-7 Read the review (last modified: 32 days 6 hours 6 minutes 10 seconds ago)

11 October 2008 SCAT by Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, January 2009, 371p., ISBN: 978-0-375-83486-8; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-375-93486-5 Read the review (last modified: 37 days 6 hours 33 minutes 44 seconds ago)

30 August 2008 IF I GROW UP by Todd Strasser, Simon and Schuster, February 2009, 224 p., ISBN: 1-4169-2523-6 Read the review (last modified: 74 days 11 hours 23 minutes 34 seconds ago)

01 August 2008 THE 39 CLUES: BOOK ONE: THE MAZE OF BONES by Rick Riordan, Scholastic, September 9, 2008, 182p., ISBN: 0-545-06039-7 Read the review (last modified: 109 days 17 hours 5 minutes 1 seconds ago)

29 July 2008 LOVE & LIES: MARISOL'S STORY by Ellen Wittlinger, Simon & Schuster BFYR, July 2008, 256p., ISBN: 1-4169-1623-7 Read the review (last modified: 112 days 9 hours 8 minutes 49 seconds ago)

24 July 2008 A RIVER OF WORDS: THE STORY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, July 2008, 32p. ISBN: 978-0-8028-5302-8 Read the review (last modified: 112 days 9 hours 14 minutes 19 seconds ago)

14 July 2008 GUARDIAN by Julius Lester, Harper/Amistad, October 2008, 130p. ISBN: 978-0-06-155890-0; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-06-155891-7 Read the review (last modified: 112 days 9 hours 16 minutes 12 seconds ago)

08 July 2008 THE JUVIE THREE by Gordon Korman, Hyperion, September 2008, 249p., ISBN: 978-1-4231-0158-1 Read the review (last modified: 134 days 18 hours 2 minutes 30 seconds ago)

02 July 2008 WAR IS...: SOLDIERS, SURVIVORS, AND STORYTELLERS TALK ABOUT WAR edited by Marc Aronson and Patty Campbell, Candlewick Press, September 2008, 200p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-3625-8 Read the review (last modified: 139 days 15 hours 40 minutes 8 seconds ago)

08 June 2008 OUR WHITE HOUSE: LOOKING IN, LOOKING OUT by created by 108 renowned authors and illustrators, Candlewick Press, September 2008, 242p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-2067-7 Read the review (last modified: 163 days 22 hours 22 minutes 20 seconds ago)

06 June 2008 CHAINS by Laurie Halse Anderson, Simon & Schuster, October 2008, 314p., ISBN: 1-4169-0585-5 Read the review (last modified: 163 days 22 hours 29 minutes 35 seconds ago)

03 June 2008 HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: DREAMS TAKING FLIGHT by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Amy June Bates, September 2008, 40p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-7129-0 Read the review (last modified: 169 days 16 hours 18 minutes 12 seconds ago)

02 June 2008 WAITING FOR NORMAL by Leslie Connor, HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen, February 2008, 290p., ISBN: 978-0-06-0189088-9; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-06-089089-6 Read the review (last modified: 169 days 16 hours 19 minutes 12 seconds ago)

25 May 2008 THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE: SUPERNOVAE, DARK ENERGY, AND BLACK HOLES (Scientists in the Field series) by Ellen Jackson, photos and illustrations by Nic Bishop, Houghton Mifflin, May 2008, 60p., ISBN: 978-0-618-56325-8 Read the review (last modified: 177 days 18 hours 50 minutes 17 seconds ago)

23 May 2008 DOOLEY TAKES THE FALL by Norah McClintock, Red Deer Press, 2008, 314p. ISBN: 978-0-88995-403-8 Read the review (last modified: 177 days 18 hours 57 minutes 29 seconds ago)

15 May 2008 THE LAST EXIT TO NORMAL by Michael Harmon, Knopf, March 2008, 273p., ISBN: 0-375-84098-2; Libr. ISBN: 0-375-94098-7 Read the review (last modified: 187 days 22 hours 20 minutes 9 seconds ago)

12 May 2008 THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins, Scholastic Press, October 2008, 407p., ISBN: 0-439-02348-3 Read the review (last modified: 190 days 22 hours 45 minutes 56 seconds ago)

04 May 2008 THE TRIALS OF KATE HOPE by Wick Downing, Houghton Mifflin, April 2008, 329 p., ISBN: 978-0-618-89133-7 Read the review (last modified: 196 days 15 hours 50 minutes 47 seconds ago)

19 April 2008 SHIFT by Jennifer Bradbury, Atheneum, May 2008, 245p., ISBN: 1-4169-4732-9 Read the review (last modified: 213 days 11 hours 34 minutes 52 seconds ago)

15 April 2008 THE LINCOLNS: A SCRAPBOOK LOOK AT ABRAHAM AND MARY by Candace Fleming, Schwartz & Wade Books, October 2008, 176 pages, ISBN: 978-0-375-83618-3; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-375-93618-0 Read the review (last modified: 215 days 21 hours 58 minutes 53 seconds ago)

11 April 2008 TEN MILE RIVER by Paul Griffin, Dial, June 2008, 196p. ISBN: 978-0-8037-3284-1 Read the review (last modified: 215 days 21 hours 59 minutes 26 seconds ago)

4 April 2008 AIN'T NOTHING BUT A MAN: MY QUEST TO FIND THE REAL JOHN HENRY by Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson, National Geographic, January 2008, 64p. ISBN: 978-1-4263-0000-4 Read the review (last modified: 215 days 22 hours 40 seconds ago)

03 April 2008 THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY by Siobhan Dowd, RH/David Fickling Books, February 2008, 324p. ISBN: 978-0-375-84976-3 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 31 minutes 21 seconds ago)

31 March 2008 GHOST OF SPIRIT BEAR by Ben Mikaelsen, HarperCollins, June 2008, 154p. ISBN: 978-0-06-009007-4 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 32 minutes 14 seconds ago)

24 March 2008 SWEETHEARTS by Sara Zarr, Little Brown, April 2008, 217p. ISBN: 0-316-01455-9 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 33 minutes 6 seconds ago)

17 March 2008 LITTLE BROTHER by Cory Doctorow, Tor, May 2008, 365p. ISBN: 0-7653-1985-3 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 34 minutes 44 seconds ago)

03 March 2008 THE UNDERNEATH by Kathi Appelt with drawings by David Small, Atheneum, May 2008, 314p. ISBN: 1-4169-5058-3 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 35 minutes 33 seconds ago)

26 February 2008 THE WILLOUGHBYS by Lois Lowry, Houghton Mifflin, March 2008, 174p. ISBN: 0-618-97974-3 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 36 minutes 44 seconds ago)

23 February 2008 DIAMOND WILLOW by Helen Frost, FSG/Frances Foster Books, April 2008, 112p. ISBN: 0-374-31776-3 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 37 minutes 49 seconds ago)

20 February 2008 THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS by E. Lockhart, Hyperion, March 2008, 345p. ISBN: 0-7868-3818-3 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 38 minutes 44 seconds ago)

09 February 2008 THE TROUBLE BEGINS AT 8: A LIFE OF MARK TWAIN IN THE WILD, WILD WEST by Sid Fleischman, Greenwillow, July 2008, 200p. ISBN: 978-0-06-134431-2 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 39 minutes 46 seconds ago)

08 February 2008 ZEN TIES by Jon J. Muth, Scholastic Press, February 2008, 40p. ISBN: 0-439-63425-3 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 40 minutes 44 seconds ago)

05 February 2008 TRACKING TRASH: FLOTSAM, JETSAM, AND THE SCIENCE OF OCEAN MOTION by Loree Griffin Burns (Scientists in the Field series), Houghton Mifflin, 2007, 58p. ISBN: 0-618-58131-6 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 41 minutes 41 seconds ago)

01 February 2008 PLANTING THE TREES OF KENYA: THE STORY OF WANGARI MAATHAI by Claire A. Nivola, FSG/Frances Foster Books, April 2008, 32p. ISBN: 0-374-39918-2 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 42 minutes 48 seconds ago)

01 February 2008 PEELED by Joan Bauer, Putnam, May 2008, 248p. ISBN: 978-0-399-23475-0 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 43 minutes 33 seconds ago)

30 January 2008 THE WOLVES ARE BACK by Jean Craighead George, illustrated by Wendell Minor, Dutton, April 2008, 32p. ISBN: 0-525-47947-3 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 44 minutes 31 seconds ago)

28 January 2008 HONEYBEE by Naomi Shihab Nye, Greenwillow, March 2008, 176p., ISBN: 978-0-06-085590-7; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-06-085591-4 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 45 minutes 46 seconds ago)

08 January 2008 TROUBLE by by Gary D. Schmidt, Clarion, April 2008. ISBN: 978-0-618-92766-1 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 46 minutes 38 seconds ago)

06 January 2008 HE FORGOT TO SAY GOODBYE by Benjamin Alire Saenz, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, June 2008, ISBN: 1-4169-4963-1 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 48 minutes 18 seconds ago)

26 December 2007 THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX by Mary E. Pearson, Holt, April 2008, ISBN: 0-8050-7668-9 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 49 minutes 25 seconds ago)

23 December 2007 THE BEST OF 2007 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 50 minutes 30 seconds ago)

14 December 2007 WRITE NAKED by Peter Gould, Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 2008, ISBN: 978-0-374-38483-8 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 51 minutes 34 seconds ago)

08 December 2007 JANE ADDAMS: CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin, Clarion, 2006, ISBN: 0-618-50436-2 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 52 minutes 29 seconds ago)

08 December 2007 M.L.K.: JOURNEY OF A KING by Tonya Bolden, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007, ISBN: 0-8109-5476-1 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 53 minutes 36 seconds ago)

10 December 2007 HURRICANE SONG by Paul Volponi, Viking, June 2008, ISBN: 978-0-670-06160-0 Read the review (last modified: 226 days 23 hours 54 minutes 22 seconds ago)

04 November 2007 SUNRISE OVER FALLUJAH by Walter Dean Myers, Scholastic, May 2008, ISBN: 0439916240 Read the review (last modified: 381 days 18 hours 22 minutes 44 seconds ago)

31 October 2007 TWELVE ROUNDS TO GLORY: THE STORY OF MUHAMMAD ALI by Charles R. Smith Jr., illustrated by Bryan Collier, Candlewick, November 2007, ISBN: 978-7636-1692-2. Read the review (last modified: 385 days 15 hours 44 minutes 29 seconds ago)

25 October 2007 THOREAU AT WALDEN by John Porcellino from the writings of Henry David Thoreau; with an introduction by D.B. Johnson, Hyperion/The Center for Cartoon Studies, April 2008, ISBN: 1-4231-0038-7 (hardcover); 1-4231-0039-5 (paperback) Read the review (last modified: 391 days 5 hours 37 minutes 20 seconds ago)