David Almond
David Almond is the winner of the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award for Kit's Wilderness, which has also been named best book of the year by School Library Journal, Booklist, and Publishers Weekly. His first book for young readers, Skellig, is a ... [... more]
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Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Alexander has received a Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor Award, a National Book Award, and several IRA-CBC Children's Choice Awards. He is also the author of many ALA Notable Children's Books and School Library Journal Best Books of the ... [... more]
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Zilpha Keatley Snyder is a three-time Newbery Honor winner, as well as the author of several ALA Notable Children's Books, School Library Journal Best Books, and books that have received the Christopher Award and the William Allen White ... [... more]
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Lynette Hemmant
Meet Ace, Babe's great-grandson, who also gets a new cover from Knopf Paperbacks this season. " Ace: The Very Important Pig A Horn Book Fanfare Honor Book An IRA/CBC Children's Choice A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Lynette ... [... more]
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Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier is a Margaret A. Edwards Award winner, and his books repeatedly appear on the best books lists of the American Library Association, The New York Times, and School Library Journal. Robert Cormier (pronounced kor-MEER) lived all his ... [... more]
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Jan Greenberg
Jan Greenberg's books have been named an ALA Notable Book, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a Booklist Editors' Choice, an IRA Teachers' Choice, and a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book. Since childhood, Jan Greenberg's life has been ... [... more]
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Betsy Byars
Betsy Byars is a Newbery Medal winner and a National Book Award winner. Her books have appeared on the best books lists of the American Library Association, School Library Journal, and American Bookseller, among others. When she was a young girl ... [... more]
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Kimberley Griffiths Little
The Last Snake Runner Kimberley Griffiths Little The Last Snake Runner: "The novel succeeds as a fast-paced adventure and as a meditation on the consequences of a clash of dissimilar cultures."-School Library Journal [... more]
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Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka is the illustrator of over forty books, including the 2006 Caldecott Medal winner The Hello, Goodbye Window. He is also the author and illustrator of Yo! Yes? (1993), a Caldecott Honor Book that was named by School Library Journal ... [... more]
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Henry Payne
Illus. in full color. A boy and his dog listen to the world around them. "Illustrations are big and simple; the text is in verse form."--School Library Journal. Young Jeremiah never noticed it before, but now he can't seem to think of anything . [... more]
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Nneka Bennett
The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker "This impressive picture book will delight young readers as it gives a sense of this remarkable woman and the times in which she lived." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) Vision of Beauty Kathryn ... [... more]
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Sally Lucas
The dancing dinos are back, and this time, when their book turns up in a school library, they leap out and bring their musical mayhem to a kid's classroom. This fun, rhyming Step 1 reader... Dancing Dinos Go to School Sally Lucas and Margeaux ... [... more]
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