Children's Book Lists - 1999

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

An edited version of last year's list is still available.
Here's an explanation of the Dewey Decimal system
and of call numbers used in the Children's Department.

PRIMARY GRADES SUGGESTED READING - 1999

DON'T MISS THESE!
J 398.2 CALMENSON	The Teeny Tiny Teacher
J 629.47 GRAHAM	The Best Book of Spaceships
J 398.2 JOHNSTON	Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella
JE KALMAN	Next Stop, Grand Central
J 811.54 KUSKIN	The Sky Is Always in the Sky
JE LASKY	The Emperor's Old Clothes
J 551.57 BENTLEY	Snowflake Bentley
J 781.65 ELLINGTON	Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
J 624.2 STURGES	Bridges Are to Cross
JE WELLS	Yoko

FAMILY SHARE BOOKS
JE ANNO	All in a Day
J 629.45 ARMSTRONG	One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong
J BUNTING	Some Frog!
J 811.54 CARLSTROM	Northern Lullaby
JE 523.3 COLE	The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System
J 782.4216 GUTHRIE	This Land is Your Land
JE HEPWORTH	Bug Off!
J 523.8 MITTON	The Zoo in the Sky
JE OSBORNE JE PPB OSBORNE	Moonhorse
J 745.5 ROSS	Crafts for Kids Who Are Wild About Outer Space
J 793.73 STEINER	Look-Alikes
J 759.13 O'KEEFFE	My Name is Georgia

PICTURE BOOKS ^*(other books with the same characters)
JE 623.13 EARHART	A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart
JE 595.78 ARNOSKY	Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing Butterflies & Moths
JE 398.2 AYLESWORTH	The Gingerbread Man
JE BARRETT	The Things That Are Most in the World
JE BRADMAN	It Came From Outer Space
JE 629.4 BRANLEY	Floating in Space
JE BUNTING	The Butterfly House
JE CLEMENT	Grandpa's Teeth
JE CONRAD	Call Me Ahnighito
JE COTE	Flip-Flops
JE CURTIS	The Bat Boy & His Violin
JE DePAOLA	Big Anthony: His Story
JE EDWARDS	Honk!
JE 398.24 EHLERT	Moon Rope
JE FLEMING	Westward Ho, Carlotta!
JE GIBBONS	The Planets
JE 398.208 GOBLE	Her Seven Brothers
JE HADDON	The Sea of Tranquillity
JE 398.243 HONG	How the Ox Star Fell From Heaven
JE KARLINS	Music Over Manhattan
JE KETTEMAN	Heat Wave
JE 910 LEEDY	Blast-off to Earth!
JE LORBIECKI	Sister Anne's Hands
JE McELLIGOTT	Uncle Frank's Pit
JE MILGRIM	Here in Space
JE NOLEN	Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm
JE NOVAK	The Robobots
JE 811.54 NUMEROFF	Sometimes I Wonder If Poodles Like Noodles
JE O'NEILL	Loud Emily
JE POLACCO	Meteor!
JE RATHMANN	10 Minutes Till Bedtime
JE SADLER	Alistair and the Alien Invasion^*
JE SCHOBERLE	Beyond the Milky Way
JE SHANNON	A Bad Case of Stripes
JE STANLEY	Raising Sweetness
JE STEIG	Pete's a Pizza
JE TILDES	Calico's Cousins: Cats from Around the World^*
JE VAGIN	Insects from Outer Space
JE WIESNER	June 29, 1999
JE WILLIS	Earthlets, as Explained by Professor Xargle^*

BEGINNING READERS ^*(other books with the same characters)
JE READER ADLER	Young Cam Jansen and the Ice Skate Mystery^*
JE READER ALBEE	The Dragon's Scales
JE READER BOLAND	A Dog Named Sam
JE READER BUCK	Oh, Cats!
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 Mystery of the U.F.O.^*
J BAKER	Digby and Kate and the Beautiful Day^*
J BERENSTAIN J PPB BERENSTAIN	The Berenstain Bears and the Perfect Crime (Almost)^*
J BROWN	Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club^*
J CHRISTOPHER	The Dog That Called the Pitch
J COX	Third Grade Pet
J DANZIGER	Amber Brown is Feeling Blue
J 629.45 DEEDRICK	Astronauts
J 629.45 DONNELLY	Moonwalk: The First Trip to the Moon
J ETRA	Aliens for Lunch
J GIFF	Mary Moon is Missing
J GREENE	Show and Tell
JE READER HOWE	Pinky and Rex and the School Play^*
J HURWITZ	Starting School
J KELLER	Angela's Top-Secret Computer Club
J KING-SMITH	Mr. Ape
J KLINE	Song Lee and the "I Hate You" Notes^*
J LARSON	Cody and Quinn, Sitting in a Tree^*
JE READER LAWLOR	The Worst Kid Who Ever Lived on Eighth Avenue
J LEVY	Something Queer in Outer Space^*
J 813.54 LONDON	Tell Me a Story (series)
J PPB OSBORNE	Tonight on the Titanic^*
J PARK	Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy^*
J PINKWATER	Mush, A Dog From Space
JE READER QUACKENBUSH	Who Said There's No Man in the Moon? A Story of Jules Verne
J ROY	The Falcon's Feathers (A to Z Mystery series)
J RYLANT	The Cobble Street Cousins in Aunt Lucy's Kitchen^*
J 629.45 SIPIERA	Project Apollo
JE STEVENSON	Mud Flat April Fool^*
J 520.92 TOMBAUGH	Clyde Tombaugh and the Search for Planet X
J WHITE	The Flight of the Union
J WILLNER-PARDO	Jumping Into Nothing
J WILLNER-PARDO	Spider Storch's Music Mess^*

INTERMEDIATE GRADES SUGGESTED READING - 1999

DON'T MISS THESE!
J FLEISCHMAN Bandit's Moon

JE KELLER The Scrambled States of America

J KLISE Regarding the Fountain:
A Tale in Letters, of Liars and Leaks

J 813.54 LOWRY Looking Back: A Book of Memories

J PARK
J PPB PARK Mick Harte Was Here

J PECK A Long Way from Chicago

J SACHAR Holes

J 398 Van LAAN With a Whoop and a Holler:
A Bushel of Lore From Way Down South

FAMILY SHARE BOOKS
J 821.008 CLASSIC Classic Poetry

J 730 CURLEE Rushmore

J 917.3 FALLEN USA From Space

J 569 PEALE The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones

J 973.009 KRULL Lives of the Presidents:
Fame, Shame, (and What the Neighbors Thought)

J 525 RIDE The Third Planet: Exploring Earth From Space

J 152.198 WICK Walter Wick's Optical Tricks

GROUP I ^#Nutmeg Book Award nominee ^*Other books with these characters
J AUCH	I Was a Third Grade Science Project
J CLEMENTS J PPB CLEMENTS	Frindle^#
J COVILLE	My Teacher Is An Alien
J DUFFY	Spotlight on Cody^*
J GILSON J PPB GILSON	Wagon Train 911^#
J GREENE	Owen Foote, Soccer Star^*
J GUTMAN J PPB GUTMAN	The Million Dollar Shot^#
J 629.47 HAWKES	The Fantastic Cutaway Book of Spacecraft
J HESSE	Just Juice
J HEST	The Great Green Notebook of Katie Robers Who Just Turned 12 on Monday^*
J HILDICK	The Serial Sneak Thief^*
J KARR	The Great Turkey Walk
J KING-SMITH J PPB KING-SMITH	Harriet's Hare
J LeGUIN	Jane on Her Own^*
J 001.9 MARSH	Unidentified Flying Objects and Extraterrestrial Life
J NAMIOKA	Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family^*
J NIXON	Aggie's Home^*
J PATON WALSH	The Green Book
J PILKEY	Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets^*
J RYLANT J PPB RYLANT	Gooseberry Park^#
J SACHAR	Marvin Redpost: Class President^*
J SCIESZKA	Summer Reading Is Killing Me!^*
J SERVICE	Stinker From Space^*
J SHELDON	My Brother Is a Visitor From Another Planet^*
J SOBOL	"My Name Is Amelia"
J PPB WARNER	The Outer Space Mystery^*

GROUP II ^#Nutmeg Book Award nominee ^*Other books with these characters
J ASIMOV	Norby and the Terrified Taxi^*
J AVI	Poppy and Rye^*
J 629.45 BAIRD	Space Camp: The Great Adventure for NASA Hopefuls
J BRITTAIN	Shape-Changer
J 796.332 BUCKLEY	America's Greatest Game: The Real Story of Football and the NFL
J BYARS	Disappearing Acts^*
J CONRAD	Zoe Rising^*
J CUSHMAN J PPB CUSHMAN	The Ballad of Lucy Whipple^#
J FRANKLIN J PPB FRANKLIN	Lone Wolf^#
J HURWITZ	A Llama in the Library
J KEHRET	Searching for Candlestick Park
J KORMAN	Nosepickers from Outer Space
J MAHY	The Greatest Show Off Earth
J MEAD	Junebug and the Reverend^*
J MOSS	Amelia Takes Command^*
J MYERS	The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy (series)
J NAPOLI	On Guard
J NAYLOR	The Girls' Revenge^*
J NIXON J PPB NIXON	Search for the Shadowman^#
J 522 SCOTT	Adventure in Space: The Flight to Fix the Hubble
J STEVENSON	The Unprotected Witness^*
J STRASSER	Close Call
J VOIGT	Bad, Badder, Baddest^*
J WHITE	Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady (series)
J WOODRUFF J PPB WOODRUFF	Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail^#
J WRIGHT	Too Many Secrets
J YEP	The Case of the Lion Dance
J YOLEN	Merlin: The Young Merlin Trilogy^*

Group III ^#Nutmeg Book Award nominee ^*Other books with these characters
J ALEXANDER	Gypsy Rizka
J AUCH	Journey to Nowhere
J AVI	Perloo the Bold
YA BUNTING YA PPB BUNTING	SOS Titanic
YA Cooney	Burning Up
J CREECH J PPB CREECH	Walk Two Moons
J DANZIGER J PPB DANZIGER	P.S. Longer Letter Later
J DeFELICE	The Ghost of Fossil Glen
J Van DRAANEN	Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man
J GAUTHIER	A Year With Butch and Spike
J GILDEN YA GILDEN	The Pumpkins of Time
J GRIFFIN	The Other Shepards
J HADDIX	Among the Hidden
J HESSE J PPB HESSE	The Music of Dolphins^#
YA HOBBS	The Maze
J HUGHES J PPB HUGHES	Team Picture
J JACQUES	Marlfox^*
J JENNINGS	Faith and the Rocket Cat^*
J KLAUSE	Alien Secrets
J LAWRENCE	The Wreckers^*
J LEVINE J PPB LEVINE	Ella Enchanted^#
J MAGUIRE	Five Alien Elves^*
YA NAPOLI	Sirena
YA PIERCE	Daja's Book^*
YA PULLMAN	The Golden Compass^*
J RINALDI	Cast Two Shadows
J SKURZYNSKI	Virtual War
J SLEATOR	The Boxes
YA SLEATOR	The Night the Heads Came
J SLOTE	Omega Station
J WISLER	The Mind Trap
J WOLFF	Bat 6
J WOODRUFF	The Orphan of Ellis Island: A Time Travel Adventure

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Updated July 14, 1999