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Home > Awards > Master Index > ALA/ALSC Notable Children's Books



ALA/ALSC Notable Children’s Books

 

2008

 

Younger Readers

The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll by Patricia McKissack; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

All Ages

Good Sports by Jack Prelutsky; illustrated by Chris Raschka

 

2007

 

Younger Readers

The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon by Mini Grey

Duck & Goose by Tad Hills

Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson; illustrated by James Ransome

Aliens Are Coming! by Meghan McCarthy

Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra; illustrated by Edward Koren

Middle Readers

Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins; illustrated by Paul Zelinsky

Older Readers

The Killer's Tears by Anne-Laure Bondoux; translated by Y. Maudet

Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

The Pull of the Ocean by Jean-Claude Mourlevat; translated by Y. Maudet

The Legend of Bass Reeves by Gary Paulsen

House of the Red Fish by Graham Salisbury

Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop

All Ages

Porch Lies by Patricia McKissack; illustrated by André Carrilho

 

2006

Younger Readers

Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey

Doña Flor by Pat Mora; illustrated by Raul Colón

Middle Readers

Whittington by Alan Armstrong; illustrated by S.D. Schindler

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

The Trouble Begins by Linda Himelblau

Babymouse: Queen of the World! by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm

The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli

Central Heating by Marilyn Singer; illustrated by Meilo So

Older Readers

The Tequila Worm by Viola Canales

Flush by Carl Hiaasen

Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury

Harry Sue by Sue Stauffacher

The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson

 

2005

Younger Readers

Wild About Books by Judy Sierra; illustrated by Marc Brown

Middle Readers

The People Could Fly: The Picture Book by Virginia Hamilton; illustrated by Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon, Ph.D.

Fish by L.S. Matthews

Older Readers

The Fire-Eaters by David Almond

Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

The Shadows of Ghadames by Joellë Stolz

 

2004

Middle Readers

The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau

Older Readers

Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa

 

2003

Younger Readers

Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry

Middle Readers

Up on Cloud Nine by Anne Fine

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

Older Readers

Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez

Where the Action Was by Penny Colman

Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline B. Cooney

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park


2002

Middle Readers

Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone

Woody Guthrie by Bonnie Christensen

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Older Readers

Heaven Eyes by David Almond

The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson

Vincent Van Gogh by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan


2001

Middle Readers

Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff

Only Passing Through by Anne Rockwell; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

Space Race by Sylvia Waugh

Older Readers
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond

Ghost Boy by Iain Lawrence

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman


2000

Younger Readers

Two Bullies by Junko Morimoto

Emeline at the Circus by Marjorie Priceman

Tasty Baby Belly Buttons by Judy Sierra; illustrated by Meilo So

Middle Readers

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Strudel Stories by Joanne Rocklin

Older Readers
Skellig by David Almond

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

 

1999

Middle Readers

Bandit's Moon by Sid Fleischman; illustrated by Jos A. Smith

Joan of Arc by Josephine Poole; illustrated by Angela Barrett

Older Readers

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong

My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt

Holes by Louis Sachar

 

1998

Fiction

Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff

Nonfiction

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

 

1997

Younger Readers

The Squiggle by Carole Lexa Schaefer; illustrated by Pierr Morgan

Older Readers

Cold Shoulder Road by Joan Aiken

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Big Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution by Jerry Stanley

Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

 

1996

Middle Readers

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

In a Circle Long Ago: A Treasury of Native Lore from North America by Nacny Van Laan; illustrated by Lisa Desimini

Older Readers

Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Homefront in World War II by Penny Colman

Under the Mermaid Angel by Martha Moore

 

pre 1996

I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

Wise Child by Monica Furlong

Anthony Burns by Virginia Hamilton

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Number the Stars by Loius Lowry

A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry

Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples