Children's Book Lists - 2000

PRIMARY GRADES (Grades K-3)
Don't Miss These!	Family Share	Picture Books	Beginning Readers	First Chapter Books
INTERMEDIATE GRADES (Grades 4-6)
Don't Miss These!	Family Share	Group I	Group II	Group III

The 1999 list and an edited version of the 1998 list are still available.

Here is an explanation of the Dewey Decimal system
and of call numbers used in the Children's Department.

PRIMARY GRADES SUGGESTED READING - 2000

DON'T MISS THESE!
JE BANG	When Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry
JE BLOOM	Wolf!
JE COLE	Buttons
JE DALY	Jamela's Dress
JE DePAOLA	26 Fairmount Avenue
JE FAULCONER	Arianna and the Strawberry Tea
JE FEIFFER	Bark, George
JE KAJIKAWA	Yoshi's Feast
JE LESTER	Hooway for Wodney Wat
JE MOLLEL	My Rows and Piles of Coins
JE PINKNEY	The Ugly Duckling
JE TABACK	Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
JE UPDIKE	A Child's Calendar
JE WIESNER	Sector 7

FAMILY SHARE BOOKS
	The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury
J BRAMAN	Kids Around the World Create!
J COPSEY	Children Just Like Me
J ERLBACH	Happy Birthday, Everywhere!
JE FLEISCHMAN	Weslandia
JE HOBERMAN	And To Think That We Thought We'd Never Be Friends
JE HOLLYER	Wake Up, World!
JE JAKOBSEN	My New York
JE LEEDY	Celebrate the 50 States
JE LEIGH	Learning to Swim in Swaziland

PICTURE BOOKS ^*(other books with the same characters)
JE AARDEMA	Koi and the Kola Nuts
JE ADLER	A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart (series)
JE ALDA	Hurry, Granny Annie
JE BAER	This Is the Way We Eat Our Lunch
JE BARRETT	The Things That Are Most in the World
JE 398 BEELER	Throw Your Tooth on the Roof
JE BENSON	Washington, D.C.: A Scrapbook
JE BUNTING	I Have an Olive Tree
JE CARTER	A Big Trip for the Morrisons
JE CLIMO	The Persian Cinderella
JE DONALDSON	The Gruffalo
JE DORROS	This Is My House
JE GOODE	The Dinosaur's New Clothes
JE GRAVES	Frank Was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance
JE KRAUS	Mort the Sport
JE MAHY	Simply Delicious!
JE MEDDAUGH	The Best Place
JE MORIMOTO	The Two Bullies
JE O'MALLEY	Leo Cockroach - Toy Tester
JE PAK	Dear Juno
JE PARASKEVAS	Hoppy and Joe
JE PEARSON	Where Does Joe Go?
JE POLACCO	Luba and the Wren
JE PRICEMAN	How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
JE RAY	Basket Moon
JE SAMUELS	Aloha, Delores
JE SCHNEIDER	Uncle Lester's Hat
JE SIERRA	Tasty Baby Belly Buttons
JE SKORPEN	We Were Tired of Living in a House
JE SPIER	People
JE STANLEY	Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise^*
JE SWEENEY	Me On the Map
JE TILDES	Calico's Cousins: Cats From Around the World^*
JE WALLACE	City Pig
JE WINCH	The Old Woman Who Loved to Read
JE YOLEN	Welcome to the Sea of Sand
JE YORINKS	Harry and Lulu

BEGINNING READERS ^*(other books with the same characters)
JE READER ADLER	Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery^*
JE READER ANHOLT	Stone Girl, Bone Girl
JE READER AVI	Abigail Takes the Wheel
JE READER BERNIER-GRAND	Juan Bobo: Four Folktales from Puerto Rico
JE READER BULLER	Space Rock
JE READER CAPUCILLI	Bathtime for Biscuit^*
JE READER CAZET	Minnie and Moo Go to the Moon^*
JE READER COSBY	Shipwreck Saturday
JE READER DUBOWSKI	Pirate School
JE READER DUSSLING	Pink Snow and Other Weird Weather
JE READER 629.8 FOWLER	It Could Still Be a Robot
JE READER 818.54 HALL	Creepy Riddles
JE READER HOPKINS	Blast Off! Poems About Space
JE READER KOONTZ	Chicago and the Cat at the Country Fair^*
JE READER KRENSKY	My Loose Tooth
JE READER LEONARD	Get the Ball, Slim
JE READER LITTLE	Emma's Magic Winter
JE READER McDONALD	Beezy Magic^*
JE READER MAITLAND	The Bookstore Ghost
JE READER MARZOLLO	Jed and the Space Bandits
JE READER MILES	The Three Little Pigs
JE READER MILLS	Gus and Grandpa and the Two-Wheeled Bike^*
JE READER MONJO	The Drinking Gourd
JE READER ROCKLIN	The Case of the Missing Birthday Party
JE READER RYLANT	Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night^*
JE READER RYLANT	Mr. Putter & Tabby Take the Train^*
JE READER RYLANT	Poppleton Forever^*
JE READER SHEA	First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers
JE READER SHARMAT	Nate the Great and Me: The Case of the Fleeing Fang^*
JE READER SKOFIELD	Detective Dinosaur: Lost and Found^*
JE READER VAN LEEUWEN	Amanda Pig and Her Best Friend Lollipop^*
JE READER WALKER	The 18 Penny Goose
JE READER 636.7 WALKER-HODGE	Surprise Puppy!
JE READER YOLEN	Commander Toad and the Voyage Home^*
JE READER ZIEFERT	A Polar Bear Can Swim: What Animals Can and Cannot Do

FIRST CHAPTER BOOKS
J ADLER	Cam Jansen and the Barking Treasure Mystery^*
J BAKER	Digby and Kate^*
J BANKS	Howie Bowles, Secret Agent
J BARTLETT	Seal Island School
J READER BECHTOLD	Buster, The Very Shy Dog
J PPB BERENSTAIN	The Berenstain Bears Go Hollywood^*
J BROWN	Muffy's Secret Admirer^*
J CAMERON	Gloria's Way^*
J CHRISTOPHER	The Captain Contest
J / J PPB DANZIGER	You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown^*
J 641.6 DOOLEY	Everybody Cooks Rice
J GIFF	Mary Moon is Missing^*
J GILSON	Bug in a Rug
JE READER HOWE	Pinky and Rex Go To Camp^*
J KELLER	Angela's Top-Secret Computer Club
J KLINE	Horrible Harry Goes to the Moon^*
J KLINE	Molly's in a Mess
J 796.2 LANKFORD	Hopscotch Around the World (series)
J LARSON	Cody and Quinn, Sitting in a Tree^*
J 599.884 LEWIN	Gorilla Walk
J MILLER	Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Dog
J OSBORNE	Dingoes at Dinnertime^*
J PARK	Junie B. Jones Is (Almost) a Flower Girl^*
J QUACKENBUSH	Danger in Tibet^*
J ROY	The Jaguar's Jewel^*
J RYLANT	Some Good News^*
J SACHS	Jojo & Winnie
J SCHEFFLER	Rinaldo on the Run^*
JE STEVENSON	Mud Flat Spring^*
J WILLNER-PARDO	Spider Storch's Desperate Deal^*

INTERMEDIATE GRADES SUGGESTED READING - 2000

DON'T MISS THESE!
YA COULOUMBIS Getting Close to Baby

J CURTIS Bud, Not Buddy

J HOLM Our Only May Amelia

ES J JENKINS The Top of the World:
Climbing Mount Everest

J 900 KNIGHT Talking Walls

J LEVINE Dave at Night

JE McGILL Molly Bannaky

ES J YOLEN The Mary Celeste:
An Unsolved Mystery from History

FAMILY SHARE BOOKS and BOOKS FOR ALL AGES
J 741.62 WINGS Wings of an Artist

J 379.2 BRIDGES Through My Eyes

J MACAULAY Rome Antics

J 641.59 VEZZA Passport on a Plate

J 979.8 BROWN Children of the Midnight Sun

J 759.13 LAWRENCE The Great Migration:
An American Story

J 821.914 McNAUGHTON Wish You Were Here (And I Wasn't)

J 936 MILLARD A Street Through Time

J SMITH Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms

GROUP I ^#Nutmeg Book Award nominee ^*Other books with these characters
J AXWORTHY	Anni's India Diary^*
J BYARS	Me, Tarzan
J CLEARY	Ramona's World^*
J 980 COBB	This Place is High (series)
J CONFORD	Diary of a Monster's Son
J / J PPB DELANEY	Deep Doo-Doo^#
HS J DUFFEY	Cody Unplugged^*
J 627 EARLE	Dive!
J GREENE	Owen Foote, Frontiersman^*
J / J PPB GUTMAN	Million Dollar Shot
J HOWE	Bunnicula Strikes Again!^*
J HUGHES	Play Ball!^*
J KING-SMITH	Charlie Muffin's Miracle Mouse
J KLISE	Letters From Camp
J / J PPB MacDONALD	No More Nice^#
J MAHY	The Good Fortunes Gang^*
J NAMIOKA	Yang the Eldest and His Odd Jobs^*
J NIXON	Aggie's Home^*
J PILKEY	The Adventures of Captain Underpants^*
J / JPPB RYAN	Riding Freedom^#
J SACHAR	Marvin Redpost: Class President^*
J SCHAEFFER	Mei Fuh: Memories From China
J SCIESZKA	It's All Greek to Me^*
J SOBOL	Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander^*
J / J PPB WARDLAW	101 Ways to Bug Your Parents^#
J / J PPB WARNER	Mystery of the Pirate's Map^*

GROUP II ^#Nutmeg Book Award nominee ^*Other books with these characters
J AVI	Ereth's Birthday^*
J BYARS	Dead Letter^*
J CARRIS	Beware the Ravens, Aunt Morbelia^*
J CLEMENTS	The Landry News
J COVILLE	Song of the Wanderer^*
J ERDRICH	The Birchbark House
J GORMAN	Dork in Disguise
J GUTMAN	Babe & Me
J HORVATH	The Trolls
J KARR	Man of the Family
J KEHRET	The Secret Journey
J 636.7 KEHRET	Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays
J / J PPB KLASS	A Shooting Star^#
J LASKY	Alice Rose & Sam
J LEE	F is for Fabuloso
J LEVINE	Cinderellis and the Glass Hill
J LINDBERGH	Travel Far, Pay No Fare
J LOFTING	The Story of Doctor Doolittle^*
J LOWRY	Zooman Sam^*
J McKISSACK	Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love (series)
J MAGUIRE	The Good Liar
J MILLS	You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman
J MOSS	Luv, Amelia, Luv, Nadia^*
J NAYLOR	Peril in the Bessledorf Parachute Factory^*
J SEABROOKE	The Vampire in My Bathtub
J WOODRUFF	Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad^*
J WOODRUFF	Dear Napoleon, I Know You're Dead, But...
J WRIGHT	Moonlight Man
	The Case of the Firecrackers^*
J YEP	The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung: A Chinese Miner (series)

Group III ^#Nutmeg Book Award nominee ^*Other books with these characters
	Talking With Adventurers
J ALEXANDER	Gypsy Rizka
J ALMOND	Skellig
J BARRETT	Anna of Byzantium
J BODETT	Williwaw!
YA COONEY	What Janie Found^*
J CREECH	The Wanderer
J DANZIGER	Snail Mail No More^*
J / J PPB DeFELICE	The Ghost of Fossil Glen^#
YA / J PPB FLETCHER	Shadow Spinner
J FRITZ	Homesick
J GAUTHIER	Club Earth^*
J GAUTHIER	A Year With Butch and Spike
J HAAS	Unbroken
J HADDIX	Just Ella
YA HOBBS	Jason's Gold
J JACQUES	The Legend of Luke^*
J MORGENSTERN	Secret Letters from 0 to 10
YA PPB PIERCE	Magic Steps^*
J PULLMAN	Firework-Maker's Daughter
J RINALDI	Cast Two Shadows
J SKURZYNSKI	Rage of Fire
J SLEATOR	Rewind
J SMITH	Jaguar
J SNYDER	Runaways
J / J PPB SOTO	Pacific Crossing
J / J PPB VAN DRAANEN	Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief^*#

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Updated June 7, 2000