English 4950 • Dr. William P. Banks • Spring 2005 • Books
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 ¥  Books for Review
 ¥   Realistic Fiction
 ¥   Picture Books

Because of Winn-Dixie (Kate DiCamillo)

Bronx Masquerade (Nikki Grimes)

Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis)

Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)

Forged by Fire (Sharon Draper)

Frindle (Andrew Clement)

Girl Named Disaster, A (Nancy Farmer)

Miracle’s Boys (Jacquelyn Woodson)

Misfits, The (James Howe)

Missing May (Cynthia Rylant)

Pictures of Hollis Woods (Patricia Reilly Giff)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred Taylor)

Scorpions (Walter Dean Myers)

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Virginia Hamilton)

Tangerine (Edward Bloor)

The Report Card (Andrew Clement)

Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech)

Wanderer, The (Sharon Creech)

Wringer (Jerry Spinelli)

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Judith Viorst)

Anansi the Spider (Gerald McDermott)

And to Think that It Happened on Mulberry Street (Dr. Seuss)

Between Earth & Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places

Blues Journey (Walter Dean Myers)

Boy Called Slow, A (Joseph Bruchac)

Boy Who Swallowed Snakes, The (Laurence Yep)

Bubba & Beau Meet the Relatives (Kathy Appelt)

Butter Battle Book, The (Dr. Seuss)

Cats in Krasinski Square, The (Karen Hesse)

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (Doreen Cronin)

Fox Song (Joseph Bruchac)

Frog Prince, Cont., The (Jon Scieska)

Goin' Someplace Special (Patricia McKissack)

Golem (David Wisniewski)

Hair - Pelitos (Sandra Cisneros)

Harlem (Walter Dean Myers)

Hush (Minfong Ho)

Jumanji (Chris Van Allsburg)

Keeping Quilt, The (Patricia Palacco)

Knufflebunny: A Cautionary Tale (Mo Willems)

Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story (Ed Young)

Mirette on the High Wire (Emily Arnold McCully)

Muffaro’s Beautiful Daughters (John Steptoe)

My Friend Rabbit (Eric Rohmann)

Oliver Buttons Is a Sissy (Tommy DePaola)

Olivia (Ian Falconer)

Owl Moon (Jane Yolen)

Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog, The (Mo Willems)

Shell Woman & The King, The (Laurence Yep)

Sissy Duckling, The (Harvey Fierstein)

Smokey Night (Eve Bunting)

Snowy Day, The (Ezra Jack Keats)

Tar Beach (Faith Ringgold)

Through My Eyes (Ruby Bridges)

Westlandia (Paul Fleischman)

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears (Verna Aardema)

Yeh-Shan (A Cinderella Story) (Ai-Ling Louie)

Yellow Star, The (Carmen Deedy)

 ¥   Fantasy/Science Fiction

Artimis Fowl, Book 1 (Eoin Colfer)

Coraline (Neil Gaimen)

Ella Enchanted (Gail Levine)

Eragon (Christopher Paolini)

Gathering Blue (Lois Lowry)

Giver, The (Lois Lowry)

Golden Compass, The (Phillip Pullman)

Hero and the Crown, The (Robin McKinley)

Jumper (Steven Gould)

Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The (C. S. Lewis)

Phantom Tollbooth, The (Norton Juster)

Series of Unfortunate Events: A Bad Beginning (Lemony Snickett)

Subtle Knife, The (Phillip Pullman)

Various, The (Steve Augarde)

Whipping Boy, The (Sid Fleischman)

Wrinkle in Time, A (Madeleine L’Engle)

 ¥  Children's Classics

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)

Boxcar Children, The (Gertrude Chandler Warner)

Caddie Woodlawn (Carol Ryrie Brink)

Charlotte’s Web (E. B. White)

Heidi (Johanna Spyri)

House at Pooh Corner, The (A. A. Milne)

Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

Little Princess, A (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

Secret Garden, The (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Stuart Little (E. B. White)

Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)

Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne)

 ¥   Historical Fiction

Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Avi)

Fever, 1793 (Laurie Halse Anderson)

Johnny Tremain (Esther Forbes)

Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)

Sarah, Plain and Tall (Patricia MacLachlan)

The Midwife’s Apprentice (Karen Cushman)

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The (Avi)

Witch of Blackbird Pond, The (Elizabeth George Speare)

 ¥   Biography/Biographical Fiction

Lincoln: A Photobiography (Russell Freedman)

Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life (Russell Freedman)

Wright Brothers, The (Russell Freedman)

 ¥   Humor/Mystery

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E. L. Konigsburg)

Long Way Home, A (Richard Peck)

Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Louis Sachar)

Storytime (Edward Bloor)

View from Saturday, The (E. L. Konigsburg)

Wayside School is Falling Down (Louis Sachar)

Westing Game, The (Ellen Raskin)

Year Down Yonder, A (Richard Peck)

 ¥   Poetry

Carver: A Life in Poems (Marilyn Nelson)

Dancing Teepees ( Virginia Dancing Hawk Snee)

Joyful Noise (Paul Fleischman)

Light in the Attic, A (Shel Silverstein)

Now We Are Six (A. A. Milne)

Out of the Dust (Karen Hesse)

Visit to William Blake’s Inn, A (Nancy Willard)

When We Were Very Young (A. A. Milne)

Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein)

Witness (Karen Hesse)

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