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Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year


2007

The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray

A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan

2006

The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon by Mini Grey

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

2005

Tiger, Tiger by Lynne Reid Banks

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman; illustrated by Peter Bailey

I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

2004

The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing But the Seuss by Charles Cohen

Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis

Bing: Get Dressed by Ted Dewan
Bing: Paint Day by Ted Dewan

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

Lucy Rose: Here's the Thing About Me by Katy Kelly; illustrated by Adam Rex
Halibut Jackson by David Lucas

Fish by L.S. Matthews

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon

2002

Chewing the Cud by Dick King-Smith

New York's Bravest by Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

2001

Heaven Eyes by David Almond

The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier

Woody Guthrie by Bonnie Christensen

Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence

Desser the Best Ever Cat by Maggie Smith

pre-2001

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

Flour Babies by Anne Fine

Whirligig by Paul Fleischman

The Robber and Me by Josef Holub; translated by Elizabeth D. Crawford

Johnny Voodoo by Dakota Lane

Letters from the Inside by John Marsden

Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park

Father Water, Mother Woods by Gary Paulsen and Ruth Wright Paulsen

Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

Holes by Louis Sachar

Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

The Year Without Michael by Susan Beth Pfeffer