Browse Books by Year

2013 List | 2012 List | 2011 List

Current List In Progress

Click here to see all the titles.

diversity

WAITING FOR NORMAL

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Connor
Author's First Name: 
Leslie
Publisher: 
Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: 
2008

Her mother’s mental illness, a friend’s cancer, and her own dyslexia don’t keep 12-year-old Addie from looking on the bright side of life even though home is a trailer and she misses her stepfather and two younger sisters.

THE BOY WHO DARED: A NOVEL BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF A HITLER YOUTH

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Bartoletti
Author's First Name: 
Susan Campbell
Publisher: 
Scholastic
Publication Date: 
2008

As 17-year-old Helmuth Hubener awaits the executioner, he recalls the actions that led to his death sentence: listening to English language radio and spreading pamphlets in Nazi Germany in the early 1940s.

SHE TOUCHED THE WORLD: LAURA BRIDGMAN, DEAF-BLIND PIONEER

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Alexander
Author's First Name: 
Sally Hobart
Second Author's First Name: 
Robert
Second Author's Last Name: 
Alexander
Publisher: 
Clarion
Publication Date: 
2008

 Deaf and blind from the age of three, Laura Bridgman's education in the 1840's laid the foundation for Helen Keller's successes some 50 years later. One of the co-authors of this fascinating biography is blind and partially deaf herself.

 

 

PLANTING THE TREES OF KENYA: THE STORY OF WANGARI MAATHAI

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Nivola
Author's First Name: 
Claire A.
Publisher: 
Frances Foster
Publication Date: 
2008

What can one person do? This inspirational picture book biography answers that question by showing how Wangari Maathai, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, led others to plant three million trees and reforest the arid soil of Kenya.

DONOVAN'S DOUBLE TROUBLE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
DeGross
Author's First Name: 
Monalisa
Illustrator's First Name: 
Amy
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Bates
Publisher: 
Amistad
Publication Date: 
2008

Firm friendships and a supportive family help Donavan face two big hurdles in fourth grade: understanding math and adjusting to his injured uncle's return from war.

CHICKEN FEATHERS

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Cowley
Author's First Name: 
Joy
Illustrator's First Name: 
David W.
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Elliott
Publisher: 
Philomel
Publication Date: 
2008

A talking chicken, a thieving fox, a new baby, and a 10-year-old boy star in this bucolic romp enlivened by agreeable old-fashioned pencil drawings that convey Josh's concern and affection for his world.

Syndicate content