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April 2006
Noodle
By Munroe Leaf; Illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans
The Fuchsia is Now By Otto Seibold
Princess Penelope Takes Charge! By Todd Mack; Illustrated by Julia Gran
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips By Michael Morpurgo
The Wright 3 By Blue Balliett; Illustrated by Brett Helquist
Rules By Cynthia Lord
The Valley of the Wolves By Laura Gellego Garcia
The Book of Everything By Guus Kuijer
The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #1: Kristy’s Great Idea By Ann M. Martin
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America By Deborah Hopkinson
Guardians of Ga’Hoole Book One: The First Collier By Kathryn Lasky
Rewind By Laura Dower
Nevermind the Goldbergs By Matthue Roth
Amalee By Dar Williams

March 2006
Good Boy Fergus! Written and Illustrated by David Shannon
Fast Food By Saxton Freyman
Do Not Open This Book! By Michaela Muntean
Chicken and Cat Written and Illustrated by Sara Varon
Fly Guy# 2: Super Fly Guy By Tedd Arnold
The Night Pirates By Peter Harris; Illustrated by Deborah Allwright
The Haunting of Freddy: Book Four in the Golden Hamster Saga By Dietlof Reiche; Illustrated by Joe Cepeda; Translated by John Brownjohn
Geronimo By Joseph Bruchac
Grey Griffins # 1: The Revenge of the Shadow King By Derek Benz and J.S. Lewis
The Road of the Dead By Kevin Brooks
The Keys to the Kingdom # 4: Sir Thursday By Garth Nix
The Tenth Power: Book Three in the Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy By Kate Constable
The Black Belt Club: Night on the Mountain of Fear By Dawn Barnes; Illustrated by Bernard Chang
Bushnell’s Submarine: The Best Kept Secret of the American Revolution By Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Trapped in Ice! An Amazing Whaling Adventure By Martin W. Sandler
Book of the Stars Trilogy Part 3: The Face in the Shadow By Erik L'Homme
King of the Middle March By Kevin Crossley-Holland
Candy By Kevin Brooks
Aquamarine By Alice Hoffman
Blister By Susan Shreve

February 2006
Five Little Ducks Illustrated by Ivan Bates
Can You See What I See? Seymour Makes New Friends By Walter Wick
Where's My Sock? By Joyce Dunbar; Illustrated by Sanja Rescek
Dinosaur Dinosaur By Kevin Lewis; Illustrated by Daniel Kirk
The Journey: Stories of Migration By Cynthia Rylant; Illustrated by Lambert Davis
Hard Hit By Ann Turner
Dirty Liar By Brian James
Montmorency and the Assassins By Eleanor Updale
Children of the Lamp Book Two: The Blue Djinn of Babylon By P.B. Kerr
Bone # 3: Eyes of the Storm By Jeff Smith
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World Was II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference By Joanne Oppenheim
Book of the Stars Trilogy Part Two: Lord Sha By Erik L'Homme
On the Run # 6: Hunting the Hunter By Gordon Korman
The Waterless Sea: Book Two in the Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy By Kate Constable
Montmorency on the Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer? By Eleanor Updale
Hidden Roots By Joseph Bruchac


December/January 2006

Dear Bunny By Michaela Morgan; Illustrated by Caroline Jayne Church
Read and Rise By Sandra L. Pinkney; Photographs by Myles C. Pinkney
Shades of Black By Sandra L. Pinkney; Photographs by Myles C. Pinkney
I Lost My Tooth in Africa By Penda Diakite; Illustrated by Baba Wague Diakite
The Biggest Valentine Ever By Steven Kroll; Illustrated by Jeni Bassett
Our House By Pam Conrad; Illustrated by Brian Selznick
Ulysses Moore # 1: The Door to Time
Taylor-Made Tales #1: The Dog’s Secret By Ellen Miles
Boyds Will Be Boyds
White Star: A Dog on the Titanic
By Marty Crisp
Book of the Stars Trilogy Part One: Quadehar the Sorcerer By Erik L’Homme

November 2005
Penelope in the Winter By Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben
A Grand Old Tree By Mary Newell DePalma
New York State of Mind By Billy Joel, Illustrated by Izak
Crackback By John Coy
Downtown Boy By Juan Felipe Herrera
The Will of the Empress By Tamora Pierce
Tell Me What You See By Zoran Drvenkar
Unexpected: Eleven Mysterious Stories Edited By Laura E. Williams
No Boys Allowed! By Marilyn Levinson
The First Americans : The Story of Where They Came From and Who They Became By Anthony Aveni
Scholastic Atlas of the Earth

October 2005
Beasty Bath By Robert Nuebecker
Clifford’s Christmas Treasury By Norman Bridwell
A Doll for Navidades By Esmeralda Santiago; Illustrated by Enrique O. Sanchez
Can You See What I See? The Night Before Christmas By Walter Wick
Cinderella Retold and Illustrated by Barbara McClintock
Eating Up Gladys By Margot Zemach; Illustrated by Kaethe Zemach
Nacho and Lolita By Pam Muñoz Ryan; Illustrated by Claudia Rueda
If You Decide to Go to the Moon By Faith McNulty; Illustrated by Steven Kellogg
The Knight Who Took All Day By James Mayhew
The Pirate Princess and Other Fairy Tales By Neil Philip; Illustrated by Mark Weber
The Young Hans Christian Andersen By Karen Hesse; Illustrated by Erik Blegvad
If Dogs Were Dinosaurs By David M. Schwartz; Illustrated by James Warhola
The Girl With the Broken Wing By Heather Dyer; Illustrated by Peter Bailey
Portraits Book One: Dancing Through the Fire By Kathryn Lasky
Portraits Book Two: Of Shadows and Flowers By Anna Kirwan
An Innocent Soldier By Josef Holub; Translated by Michael Hofmann
A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray By Ann M. Martin
The Truth Cookie By Fiona Dunbar
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time By Lisa Yee
Inkspell By Cornelia Funke
Kringle By Tony Abbott
Birdwing By Rafe Martin
Built to Last By George Sullivan
Here Today By Ann M. Martin
Read and Learn Bible The American Bible Society
Becoming Naomi Leon
By Pam Muñoz Ryan

September 2005
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? By Jane Yolen; Illustrated by Mark Teague
David Smells! A Diaper David Book Written & Illustrated By David Shannon
A Was Once An Apple Pie By Edward Lear, Adapted & Illustrated by Suse MacDonald
The Deep Blue Sea By Audrey Wood, Illustrated by Bruce Wood
A Good Night Walk By Elisha Cooper
Ella Takes the Cake By Carmela D’Amico, Illustrated by Steven D’Amico
Superhero By Marc Tauss
Hi, Fly Guy! By Tedd Arnold
You Are Not Alone: Teens Talk About Life After the Death of a Parent By Lynne Hughes, Founder and Director of Comfort Zone Camp
The Land of Elyon Book 2: Beyond the Valley of the Thorns By Patrick Carman
Jinx on the Divide By Elizabeth Kay
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie By Jordan Sonnenblick
Poison By Chris Wooding
Egypt: In Spectacular Cross-Section By Stewart Ross, Illustrated by Stephen Biesty
Undercover Girl # 1: Secrets By Christine Harris
Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure By P.B. Kerr
The Ravenmaster’s Secret By Elvira Woodruff
The Moonlight Man By Betty Ren Wright
The Game of Sunken Places By M.T. Anderson
The Collector’s Edition: The Adventures of Captain Underpants Written and Illustrated by Dav Pilkey
Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot Vs. The Uranium Unicorns From Uranus Written by Dav Pilkey Illustrated by Martin Ontiveros

July/August 2005
Math Potatoes: Mind-Stretching Brain Food By Greg Tang, illus. by Harry Briggs
Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Imperial China By Joanna Cole, illus. by Bruce Degen
The Fairytale Cake By Mark Sperring, illus. by Jonathan Langley
Penelope at the Farm By Anne Gutman, illus. by Georg Hallensleben
When an Elephant Comes to School By Jan Ormerod
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods: Book Three in the Underland Chronicles By Suzanne Collins
Peter Raven Under Fire By Michael Molloy
The Pity Party: 8th Grade in the Life of Me, Cass By Alison Pollet
Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors By Jenny Nimmo
Learning the Game By Kevin Waltman
Johnny Hazzard By Eddie De Oliveira
Friends: Stories About New Friends, Old Friends, and Unexpectedly True Friends Edited by Ann M. Martin and David Levithan
The Legend of the Wandering King By Laura Gallego Garcia, translated by Dan Bellm Bone #2: The Great Cow Race By Jeff Smith
Scholastic Pocket Dictionary
Scholastic Pocket Thesaurus
Scholastic Pocket World Atlas
Scholastic First Picture Dictionary

6X: The Uncensored Confessions By Nina Malkin
Disappearance: A Premonitions Mystery By Jude Watson
Vampire Plagues #1: London 1850 By Sebastian Rooke
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray By Chris Wooding
Birdland By Tracy Mack
The World Before This One By Rafe Martin

May/June 2005
The Subway Mouse By Barbara Reid
Dad, Are You the Tooth Fairy? By Jason Alexander, illus. by Ron Spears
Rin, Rin, Rin, Do, Re, Mi: A Picture Book in Spanish and English Words and Music By Jose-Luis Orozco, illus. by David Diaz
Five Little Sharks Swimming in the Sea By Steve Metzger, illus. by Laura Bryant
Pirate Girl By Cornelia Funke, illus. by Kerstin Meyer
It’s Graduation Day! By Grace Maccarone, illus. by Tammie Lyon
My Daddy and Me By Amy E. Sklansky, illus. by Ard Hoyt
The Fire Within By Chris D’Lacey
When Guinea Pigs Fly By James Proimos and Andy Rheingold, illus. by James Proimos
Raven’s Gate: Book One of the Gatekeepers By Anthony Horowitz
Plastic Angel By Nerissa Nields
Absolutely, Positively Not By David Larochelle
Heavy Metal and You By Christopher Krovatin
Hook, Line, & Sinker: A Beginner’s Guide to Fishing, Boating, and Watching Water Wildlife
Written and illus. by Jim Arnosky
Scholastic Book of Firsts By Jim Buckley Jr., illus. by David Sheldon
Next Summer: A Summer Boys Novel By Hailey Abbott
Where We Are, What We See: Poems, Stories, Essays, and Art From the Best Young Writers and Artists in America
Guardians of Ga’Hoole #7: The Hatchling
By Kathryn Lasky
Inkheart
By Cornelia Funke
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane: Book Two in the Underland Chronicles By Suzanne Collins
Chasing Vermeer By Blue Balliett
The Young Man and the Sea By Rodman Philbrick
The Beast By Walter Dean Myers
The Wolving Time By Peter Jennings
The Fish in Room 11 By Heather Dyer

April 2005
The Quiltmaker's Journey by Jeff Brumbeau, illus. by Gail De Marcken
Counting in the Garden by Kim Parker
The Red Bird by Astrid Lindgren, illus. by Marit Tornqvist
Chameleon, Chameleon by Joy Cowley, illus. by Nic Bishop
One Smart Goose by Caroline Jayne Church
The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill
Montmorency on the Rocks: Doctor, Aristocrat, Murderer? By Eleanor Updale
The Kazillion Wish by Nick Place, illus. by Ross Collins
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp by Philip Pullman, illus. by Sophy Williams
Freddy to the Rescue: Book Three in the Golden Hamster Saga by Dietlof Reiche
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Maia of Thebes, 1463 B.C. by Ann Turner
Anacaona, Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 by Edwidge Danticat
On the Run #1: Chasing the Falconers by Gordon Korman
The Year of Secret Assignments Jaclyn Moriarty
Splintering by Eireann Corrigan
First Person Fiction: Finding My Hat by John Son
First Person Fiction: The Stone Goddess by Minfong Ho

March 2005
Zen Shorts
by Jon J Muth
Katie's Sunday Afternoon by James Mayhew
The Wheels on the Race Car by Alexander Zane, illus. by James Warhola
The Animal Rescue Store by Elisabeth Swados, illus. by Anne Wilson
No More Cookies! By Paeony Lewis, illus. by Brita Granström
What's Going On In There? By Geoffrey Grahn
Never Cry Woof! By Jane Wattenberg Candy by Kevin Brooks
The Keys to the Kingdom #3: Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix
The Waterless Sea: Book Two in the Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy by Kate Constable Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family by Barry Denenberg
Avril Crump and Her Amazing Clones by Angela Woolfe
Deliver Us From Normal by Kate Klise
Ghost Ship by Dietlof Reiche
Good-Bye and Keep Cold by Jenny Davis
The Great Brain Book by H.P. Newquist
Max's Mystical Logbook by Marissa Moss
The Black Belt Club #1: Seven Wheels of Power by Dawn Barnes
Bad Dog #1 and #2 by Martin Chatterton