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School Library Journal Best Books of the Year


2007

Into the Woods by Lyn Gardner; illustrated by Mini Grey

How it Happened in Peach Hill by Marthe Jocelyn

Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

What They Found by Walter Dean Myers

Red Glass by Laura Resau

2006

How High Can a Dinosaur Count? by Valorie Fisher

Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins; illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson

Aliens Are Coming! by Meghan McCarthy
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

2005

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Traction Man Is Here! by Mini Grey

Anne Frank by Josephine Poole; illustrated by Angela Barrett

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

2004

Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

Wild About Books by Judy Sierra; illustrated by Marc Brown

The Unseen by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

2003

Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

The Dark Horse by Marcus Sedgwick

Tadpole by Ruth White

2002

Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age by Raymond Briggs

When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

Snow by Manya Stojic

Earthborn by Sylvia Waugh

2001

Vincent Van Gogh by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury

Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen

2000

Kit's Wilderness by David Almond

Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman

Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff

Ghost Boy by Iain Lawrence

Wake Up House!: Rooms Full of Poems by Dee Lillegard; illustrated by Don Carter

I Was A Rat! by Philip Pullman; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

Rain by Manya Stojic

Space Race by Sylvia Waugh

pre-2000

Wanted...Mud Blossom by Betsy Byars

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

A Bone From a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson

Flour Babies by Anne Fine

Whirligig by Paul Fleischman

Anthony Burns by Virginia Hamilton

Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton

Tex by S.E. Hinton

Ace: The Very Important Pig by Dick King-Smith; illustrated by Lynette Hemmant

Martin's Mice by Dick King-Smith; illustrated by Jez Alborough

Alien Secrets by Annette Curtis Klause

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

See You Around, Sam! by Lois Lowry

A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry

Letters from the Inside by John Marsden

Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park

A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck

Blue Skin of the Sea by Graham Salisbury

Cat Running by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White