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Great books for giving winter 2012
- 1. Great Books for Giving Holiday Season 2012 Vicki Wood, Youth Services Supervisor
- 2. Another Brother by Matthew Cordell
- 3. Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
- 4. Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
- 5. Boy + Bot by Ame Dyckman
- 6. Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey by Mimi Grey
- 7. Squid and Octopus: Friends for Always by Tao Nyeu
- 8. Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue
- 9. The Bear in the Book by Kate Banks
- 10. Animal Masquerade by Marianne Dubuc
- 11. Penny books by Kevin Henkes
- 12. Lulu books by Hilary McKay
- 15. Companion book to: The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger
- 16. Precocious readers who love an adventure
- 17. Puffling Patrol by Ted and Betsy Lewin
- 18. Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
- 19. The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins
- 20. A Black Hole Is Not a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
- 21. First Garden: The White House Garden and How It Grew by Robin Gourley
- 22. We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson
- 23. Unbeelievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
- 24. Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems by Gail Carson Levine
- 25. Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart selected by Mary Ann Hoberman
- 26. Teens on Your List
- 28. Fans of Eragon and high fantasy
- 29. Sweet and Spot-on middle school drama
- 30. For your best friend or favorite twenty-something
- 34. For the Brilliant Eccentric
- 35. A life lived in Africa
Editor's Notes
- Middle-schooler Madeline's hippie parents have been kidnapped from Hornby Island, Canada, by foxes, and Madeline, upon discovering that she can understand animal languages, hires two rabbit detectives to find them.
- 10 yr old August, told from multiple characters viewpoints
- Companion book to: The Giver, Gathering blue, and Messenger. Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
- After ordinary, 12-year-old September is told her help is needed in Fairyland, she is instructed by the Marquess to retrieve a talisman from the enchanted woods, which leads her to unexpected adventure and friendship.
- Discusses the events of the 4,000 African American students who marched to jail to secure their freedom in May 1963.
- Don’t own
- Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis, but when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Grade 9+
- In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents. Grade 7-12
- Grades 4-8 Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
- Madeleine Hanna breaks out of her straight-and-narrow mold when she enrolls in a semiotics course and falls in love with charismatic loner Leonard Morten, a time which is complicated by the resurfacing of man who is obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is his destiny. (Mitchell)