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
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