great books for giving winter 2012

Great Books for Giving

Holiday Season

2012

Vicki Wood, Youth Services Supervisor

Another Brother by Matthew Cordell

Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett

Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Boy + Bot by Ame Dyckman

Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey by Mimi Grey

Squid and Octopus: Friends for Always by Tao Nyeu

Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue

The Bear in the Book by Kate Banks

Animal Masquerade by Marianne Dubuc

Penny books by Kevin Henkes

Lulu books by Hilary McKay

Fiction, grades 4-6

Fiction, grades 5-8

Companion book to: The Giver, Gathering Blue, and

Messenger

Precocious readers who love an adventure

Puffling Patrol by Ted and Betsy Lewin

Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle

The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins

A Black Hole Is Not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano

First Garden: The White House Garden and

How It Grew by Robin Gourley

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham

Children's March by Cynthia Levinson

Unbeelievables: Honeybee Poems and

Paintings by Douglas Florian

Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology

Poems by Gail Carson Levine

Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart

selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Teens on Your List

Fans of Eragon and high fantasy

Sweet and Spot-on middle school drama

For your best friend or favorite twenty-something

Fascinating…and readable

Pure, philosophical entertainment

For the Brilliant Eccentric

A life lived in Africa