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International Reading Association Teachers' Choices

2008

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara; illustrated by G. Brian Karas

2007

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (Advanced)

Water Street by Patricia Reilly Giff (Intermediate)

Porch Lies by Patricia McKissack; illustrated by André Carrilho (Intermediate)

2006

Outbreak! Plagues That Changed History by Bryn Barnard (Advanced)

Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff (Advanced)

2004

For Freedom by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Advanced)

First to Fly by Peter Busby; illustrated by David Craig (Intermediate)

2003

Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez (Advanced)

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff (Intermediate)

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (Advanced)

Left for Dead by Peter Nelson (Advanced)

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park (Advanced)

They Called Her Molly Pitcher by Anne Rockwell; illustrated by Cynthia von Buhler (Intermediate)

2002

The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi (Primary)

The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline B. Cooney (Advanced)

Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen (Advanced)

2001

Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian (Advanced)

Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff (Advanced)

The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park (Intermediate)

Weaver's Daughter by Kimberly Brukbaker Bradley (Intermediate)

2000

A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt by C. Coco De Young (Intermediate)

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka (Advanced)

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke; as told to Jennifer Armstrong (Advanced)

1999

Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen (Advanced)

If I Forget, You Remember by Carol Lynch Williams (Intermediate)

1998

Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (Advanced)

The Voices of Silence by Bel Mooney (Advanced)

Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora; illustrated by Raul Colón (Intermediate)

The Beauty of the Beast by Jack Prelutsky; illustrated by Meilo So (Intermediate)

pre 1998

With Every Drop of Blood by James Collier; contribution by Christopher Collier

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack; illustrated by J. Brian Pinkney
Search for the Shadowman by Joan Lowery Nixon

Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples

Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
Dear Levi by Elvira Woodruff; illustrated by Beth Peck