Great Books for Giving

Holiday Season

2012

Vicki Wood, Youth Services Supervisor

Another Brother by Matthew Cordell

Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett

Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Boy + Bot by Ame Dyckman

Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey by Mimi Grey

Squid and Octopus: Friends for Always by Tao Nyeu

Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue

The Bear in the Book by Kate Banks

Animal Masquerade by Marianne Dubuc

Penny books by Kevin Henkes

Lulu books by Hilary McKay

Fiction, grades 4-6

Fiction, grades 5-8

Companion book to: The Giver, Gathering Blue, and

Messenger

Precocious readers who love an adventure

Puffling Patrol by Ted and Betsy Lewin

Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle

The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins

A Black Hole Is Not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano

First Garden: The White House Garden and

How It Grew by Robin Gourley

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham

Children's March by Cynthia Levinson

Unbeelievables: Honeybee Poems and

Paintings by Douglas Florian

Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology

Poems by Gail Carson Levine

Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart

selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Teens on Your List

Fans of Eragon and high fantasy

Sweet and Spot-on middle school drama

For your best friend or favorite twenty-something

Fascinating…and readable

Pure, philosophical entertainment

For the Brilliant Eccentric

A life lived in Africa