From: Dean Schneider <schneiderd>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:34:02 -0600

Here are some of my favorite books of the year. I'll just list them for now and come back to discuss some of them later on.

Picture:

Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson/illus. by James Ransome Action Jackson -- Greenberg & Jordan/Robert Andrew Parker Talkin' About Bessie -- Nikki Grimes/E.B. Lewis


Novels (Intermediate):

Dillon Dillon -- Kate Banks trouble don't last -- Shelley Pearsall What Would Joey Do? -- Jack Gantos The Same Stuff as Stars -- Katherine Paterson Surviving the Applewhites -- Stephanie Tolan


YA/Printz-type books (Fiction & Nonfiction):

House of the Scorpion -- Nancy Farmer. (NBA winner.) Hole in My Life -- Jack Gantos Island Boyz -- Graham Salisbury The Lightkeeper's Daughter -- Iain Lawrence This Land Was Made for You and Me - Elizabeth Partridge Adolph Hitler -- James Cross Giblin Postcards from No Man's Land -- Aidan Chambers


Dean Schneider Ensworth School Nashville, TN 37205 schneiderd at ensworth.com
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