A Sampler of 2014’s Best Children’s Books:

FICTION

The Crossover

By Kwame Alexander

Published March 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Night Gardener

By Jonathan Auxier

Published May 2014 by Harry N. Abrams

Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood

By Varsha Bajaj

Published March 2014 by Albert Whitman & Company

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place

By Julie Berry

Published September 2014 by Roaring Brook Press

Caminar

By Skila Brown

Published March 2014 by Candlewick Press

The Madman of Piney Woods

By Christopher Paul Curtis

Published September 2014 by Scholastic

Saving Lucas Biggs

By Marisa de los Santos & David Teague

Published May 2014 by HarperCollins

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

By Karen Foxlee

Published January 2014 by Knopf Books for Young Readers

The Key that Swallowed Joey Pigza

By Jack Gantos

Published September 2014 by Farrar Straus Giroux

Ice Whale

By Jean Craighead George

Published April 2014 by Dial Books

The Fourteenth Goldfish

By Jennifer L. Holm

Published August 2014 by Random House

WinterFrost

By Michelle Houts

Published September 2014 by Candlewick

Dash

By Kirby Larson

Published August 2014 by Scholastic

The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher

By Dana Alison Levy

Published July 2014 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Half a Chance

By Cynthia Lord

Published February 2014 by Scholastic

Rain Reign

By Ann M. Martin

Published October 2014 by Feiwel & Friends

Gracefully Grayson

By Ami Polonsky

Published November 2014 by Disney / Hyperion

Nanny X

By Madelyn Rosenberg

Published August 2014 by Holiday House

The Last Wild

By Piers Torday

Published January 2014 by Puffin Books

Revolution

By Deborah Wiles

Published May 2014 by Scholastic

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