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Library Wish List Contact Laura O’Brien with ideas or additions at 274-4994 Non Fiction for Children 100 Best Books for Children By Anita Silvey The Winter People By Joseph Bruchac Ages 11-15 Spiders’ Secrets DK Publishing Ages 7-11 Buried in Ice By Owen Beattie Ages 9-12 You Wouldn’t Want to Explore with Sir Francis Drake A Pirate You’d Rather Not Know By David Stuart Ages 7-12 Fiction Picture Books Pink Magic By Donna Jo Napoli Ages 4-7 Know What I Saw? By Aileen Fischer Ages 3-6 Reptiles are my Life By Megan McDonald Ages 4-10 A story of two best friends becoming three. Horace and Morris Join the Chorus (but what about Dolores) By James Howe 3-7 Three best friends decide to try out for the school chorus but one does not make it. Lessons in friendship follow. Ignis By Gina Wilson Ages 8-12 On his search to find his fire this dragon meets friends and shares wonderful times. But will he ever become a fire breathing dragon? Porcupining A Prickly Love Story By Lisa Wheeler Ages 4-9 A porcupine looking for love and friendship finds what he is looking for in a petting zoo. The Wedding By Eve Bunting Ages 3-7 This wedding tale told with farmyard animals includes late guests, missteps and plenty of singing. The Sea Chest By Toni Buzzeo Ages 6-12 A child who lives on an isolated lighthouse island finds a sea chest and her life changes forever. Kamishibai Man By Allen Say Ages 6-12 This is the tale of a Japanease man who uses a unique storytelling style to remind people of their roots. Pascual and the Kitchen Angels By Tomie dePaola Ages 5-9 A special boy becomes the cook for his local friars with some help from the kitchen angels. The 100^th Customer By Byung-Gyu Kim & K. T. Hao Ages 4-7 The Quiltmaker’s Journey By Jeff Brumbeau & Gail de Marcken Ages 6-12 Earth to Audrey By Susan Hughes & Stephane Poulin Ages 7-12 Emma Kate By Patricia Polacco Ages 8-12 The Story Goes On By Aileen Fisher Ages 3-6 The Silly Book By Stoo Hample Ages 3-6 Seaman’s Journal On the Trail with Lewis and Clark By Patricia Reeder Eubank Ages 4-9 Our Apple Tree By Gorel Kristina Naslund Ages 5-8 The Shopping Expedition By Andre Amstutz Ages 5-7 The Pea Blossom By Amy Lowry Poole Ages 8-11 Zoo in the Sky By Macqueline Mitton Ages 8-11 Turkeys Together By Carol Wallage Ages 5-6 Best Little Wingman By Janet Allen Ages 7-11 Poetry Corn Chowder By James Stevenson Ages 4-7 Spectacular Science: A Book of Poems By Lee Bennett Hopkins Ages 4-7 Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices By Paul Fleischman Ages 7-12 Place My Words Are Looking For By Paul B. Janeczko Ages 7-12 Fiction Chapter Books A Dog’s Life The Autobiography of a Stray By Ann M. Martin Ages 9-14 This is a story of survival, heartbreak and hope as you view life from the eyes of a dog born stray. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane By Kate DiCamillo Ages 9-12 The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming By Chitra Banerjee Divakarmni Ages 9-12 The Bicycle Man By David F. Dudley Ages 9-12 The Cloud Chamber By Joyce Maynard Ages 11-14 Chasing Vermeer By Blue Balliett Ages 10-13 The Wright 3 By Blue Balliett Ages 10-13 His Dark Materials Book I The Golden compass By Phillip Pullman Ages 9-13 His Dark Materials Book II The Subtle Knife By Phillip Pullman Ages 9-13 His Dark Materials Book III The Amber Spyglass By Phillip Pullman Ages 9-13 The Sacrifice By Kathleen Benner Duble Ages 9-12 Escaping Into the Night By D. Dina Friedman Ages 9-13 Willow Run By Patricia Reilly Giff Ages 9-13 Criss Cross By Lynne Rae Perkins Ages 10+ Blackthorn Winter A Murder Mystery By Kathryn Reiss Leo the Late Bloomer By Robert Kraus Ages 4-6 When I Was Young in the Mountains By Cynthia Rylant Ages 7-9 Wanderer By Sharon Creech Ages 9-12 The Valley of Secrets By Charmain Hussey Ages 9-12 The Secret of Castle Cant By K.P. Bath Ages 9-12 Once Upon a Marigold By Jean Ferris Ages 9+ All of a Kind Family By Sydney Taylor Ages 6-11 Gifts from the Sea By Natalie Kinsey-Warnock Ages 8-12 Biographies Rosa By Nikki Giovanni Ages 8-11 Picture book about Rosa Parks Don’t Tell the Girls A Family Memoir By Patricia Reilly Giff Ages 8-11 Chapter book Buzz Aldrin Reaching for the Moon By Buzz Aldrin Ages 8-11 Picture book Odd Boy Out Young Albert Einstein By Don Brown Ages 5-9 Picture book Triumph on Everest A Photobiography of Sir Edmund Hillary By Broughton Coburn Ages 10-14 Picture book with photographs A Covered Wagon Girl The Diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1850 Edited by Christy Steele with Ann Hodgson Ages 9-11 Chapter book with photographs Despite All Obstacles La Salle and the Conquest of the Mississippi By Joan Elizabeth Goodman Ages 9-14 Picture book Into the Woods John James Audubon Lives His Dream By Robert Burleigh Ages 6-10 Picture book The Librarian of Basra A True Story from Iraq By Jeanette Winter Ages 5-10 Picture book We loved this book and highly recommend it! How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning By Rosalyn Schanzer Ages 6-11 Picture book We loved this book and highly recommend it! A Farm Through Time By Eric Thomas and Angela Wilkes Ages 7-11 Picture book Dali and the Path of Dreams By Anna Obiols Ages 5-9 Picture book - Captures the creative genius of Salvador Dali as a painter, jeweler, illustrator and director. Dickens His Work and His World By Michael Rosen Ages 9-12 Chapter book A biography of Charles Dickens with wonderful paintings. Talkin’ About Bessie The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Colema By Niki Grimes Ages 9-11 Picture book Roberto Clemente Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates By Jonah Winter Ages 5-11 Picture book Sports, multicultural, heroic rags to riches story. Authors by Request An Inside Look at Your Favorite Writers By James Campbell and Cathy Collison Ages 9-12 Chapter book The Boy Who Drew Birds A Story of John James Audubon By Jacqueline Davies Ages 5-11 Picture book Great drawings, good text. Outdoor Books Beachcombing Exploring the Seashore By Jim Arnosky Ages 5-9 How To Books Transformed How Everyday Things Are Made By Bill Slavin Ages 4-14 Follow raw materials to the finished products to see how everyday objects are made. Great illustrations.

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