School Library Journal Best Books for 2006

Freedman: Adventures of Marco Polo

Lupton: Adventures of Odysseus

McCarthy: Aliens are coming!

Stanley: Bella at midnight (10-14)

Van Leeuwen: Benny & beautiful baby Delilah

Lewis: Black cat bone (10-14)

Carbone: Blood on the river (10-14)

Zusak: Book thief (12-16) (Prinz honor book)

Frost: Braid (12-16)

Patent: Buffalo and the Indians

Child: But, excuse me, that is my book

Himmelman: Chickens to the rescue

Pennypacker: Clementine

Draper: Copper sun (14-18) (C.S. King author award)

Murdock: Dairy queen (12-16)

Winter: Dizzy

Fleishman: Escape!

Shusterman: Everlost (12-16)

Levine: Fairest

Klass: Firestorm (14-18)

Fradin: 5,000 miles to freedom (10-14)

Wiesner: Flotsam  (Caldecott medal 2007)

Hardinge: Fly by night

Boyce: Framed

Freedman: Freedom walkers

Larson: Hattie big sky (12-16) (Newberry honor book)

Fisher: How high can a dinosaur count?

Krull: Isaac Newton (11-15)

Smith: John, Paul, George & Ben

Turner: King of Attolia (10-14)

Hughes: Langston Hughes (C.S.King illus. honor book)

Reeve: Larklight of revenge of the white spiders! (10-14)

Knudsen: Library lion

Henkes: Lilly's big day

Banks: Max's words

DiCamillo: Miraculous journey of Edward Tulane

Stevenson: Moon

Weatherford: Moses (Caldecott honor book) (C. S. King illus. award)

Pitzer: Not afraid of dogs

Sis: Play, Mozart, play!

Anderson: Pox party (Prinz honor book)

Child: Princess and the pea

Montgomery: Quest for the tree kangaroo (10-14) (Sibert information book honor book)

Walker: Remember Little Bighorn (10-14)

Look: Ruby Lu, empress of everything

Best: Sally Jean, the bicycle queen

Sturtevant: True and faithful narrative (12-16)

Hopkinson: Up before daybreak

Bruchac: Wabi (12-14)

Morrison: Wildfire (10-14)

Roy: Yellow star (10-14)

To see if the Cougar Ridge library has a title of interest, return to the home page and click on Library catalog.