Books with Potential (November 2007)

(2006). Disney Dossiers Files from the Characters of Walt Disney Studios. New York:Disney Press.

(2007). Click: One Nove Ten Authors. New York: Scholastic, Inc.(2007). Do Not Open An Encyclopedia of the World’s Best Kept Secrets. New York:

Dorling Kindersley, Inc.(2006). Pick Me Up Stuff You Need to Know. New York: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.(2007). Everything You Need to Know. New York: Kingfisher Books.Agee, Jon. (2006). Why Did The Chicken Cross the Road?. New York: Dial.Alexander, Elizabeth & Marily Nelson. (2007). Miss Crandall’s school for young ladies &

little misses of color. Illus. Floyd Cooper . Honesdale: Wordsong/Boyd Mills.Alexie, Sherman. (2007). The absolutely true diary of a part-time indian. Illus. Ellen

Forney. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company.Anderson, M. T. (2006). The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. Boston: Candlewick

Press.Armstrong, Jennifer. (2006). The American Story: 100 True Stories from American History.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf.Babbitt, Natalie. (2007). Jack Plank Tells Tales. New York: Michael di Capua Books/

Scholastic.Barry, Dave & Ridley Pearson. (2007). Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. New York:

Hyperion Books for Children.Bishop, Nic. (2007). Spiders. New York: Scholastic Press.Blumenthal, Karen. (2005). Let me Play: The Story of Title IX. New York: Atheneum

Books.Borden, Louise. (2005). The Journey That Saved Curious George. Illus. Allan Drummond.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.Brown, Don. (2004). Odd Boy Out Young Albert Einstein. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

Company.Brown, Don. (2006). Young Jim Thorpe: Bright Path. Brookfield: Roaring Brook.Bruchac, Joseph. (2006). Jim Thorpe Original All-American. New York: Dial.Burns, Loree Griffin. (2007). Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean

Motion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.Caldwell, Dave. (2006). Speed Show: How Nascar Won the Heart of America. New York:

Kingfisher Books.Carson, Mary Kay. (2007). Weather Projects for Young Scientists. Chicago: Chicago

Review Press.Carson, Mary Kay. (2007). Emi and the Rhino Scientist. Illus. Tom Uhlman. Boston:

Houghton Mifflin Company.Carter, David A & James Diaz. (1999). The Elements of Pop-Up. : Little Simon/Simon

& Schuster.Carter, David A. (2007). 600 Black Dots. New York: Little Simon/Simon & Schuster.

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Compestine, Ying Chang. (2007). Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party. New York: HenryHolt.

Compestine, Ying Chang. (2007). Revolution is Not a Dinner Party. New York: HenryHolt and Company, LLC .

Crowley , Suzanne. (2007). The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous. NewYork: Greenwillow Books.

Curtis, Christopher Paul. (2007). Elijah of Buxton. New York: Scholastic, Inc.Cushman, Karen. (2006). The Loud Silence of Francine Green. New York: Clarion

Books.David, Laurie & Cambria Gordon. (2007). The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming.

New York: Orchard Books.dePaola, Tomie. (2007). Tomie dePaola’s Front Porch Tales and & North Country

Whoppers. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.DiTerlizzi, Tony & Holly Black. (2007). Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles. New York:

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.Evans, Kate. (2007). Weird Weather Everything You Didn’t Want to Know about Climate

Change But Probably Should Find Out. Toronto: Groundwood Books.Farndon, John. (2007). Oil. New York: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.Fleischman, Paul . (2007). Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A worlwide Cinderella. Illus. Julie

Paschkis. New York: Henry Holt.Fleischman, Sid. (2006). Escape The Story of the Great Houdini. New York: Greenwillow

Books.Fortey, Jacqueline. (2007). Great Scientists. New York: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.Freedman, Russell. (2006). The Adventures of Marco Polo. New York: Arthur Levine/

Scholastic Press.Galford, Ellen. (2007). Julius Caesar: the boy who conquered an empire. Washington:

National Geographic Society.Gallo, Donald. (2003). destination unexpected. Boston: Candlewick Press.Gee, Joshua. (2007). Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Truth! About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters,

and More. New York: Scholastic, Inc.Giblin, James Cross. (2005). Good Brother Bad Brother. New York: Clarion Books.Giblin, James Cross. (2007). The Many Rides of Paul Revere. New York: Scholastic

Press.Gonyea, Mark. (2005). A Book about Design: Complicated Doesn’t Make it Good. New

York: Henry Holt.Gore, Al. (2007). An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warning. New York:

Viking.Grady, Denise. (2006). Deadly Invaders: Virus Outbreaks Around the World, from Marburg

Feer to Avian Flu. New York: Kingfisher Books.Grandits, John. (2004). technically, it’s not my fault. New York: Clarion Books.Grandits, John. (2007). Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems. New York: Clarion Books.Green, John. (2006). An Abundance of Katherines. New York: Dutton Books/Penguin

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Hamilton, Virginia. (2007). The People Could Fly: The Picture Book. Illus. Leo and DianeDillon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Harness, Cheryl. (2007). The remarkable rough-riding life of Theodore Roosevelt and the riseof Empire America. Washington: National Geographic Society.

Hodgkins, Fran . (2007). The Whale Scientists. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.Holmes, Sara Lewis. (2007). Letters from Rapunzel. New York: HarperCollins

Publishers.Hoose, Phillip. (2001). We Were There, Too!. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.Jackson, Ellen. (2002). Looking For Life In The Universe: The Search For Extraterrestrial

Intelligence. Illus. Nic Bishop. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.Janeczko, Paul. (2004). Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Cipher, and Secret Coding.

Boston: Candlewick Press.Jenkins, Steve. (2007). Living Color. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.Kalwell, Joan, edit. (2007). Dear Author. New York: Philomel Books.Kerley, Barbara. (2001). The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins. Illus. Brian Selznick.

New York: Scholastic Press.Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody & Stacy Allison. (2006). Ladies First: 40 Daring American

Women Who Were Second to None. Washington: National Geographic Society.Kramer, Ann. (2007). Anne Frank: the young writer who told the world her story.

Washington: National Geographic Society.Krull, Kathleen. Houdini World’s Greatest Mystery Man and Escape King. Illus. Eric

Velasquez. New York: Walker & Company.Krull, Kathleen. (2006). Giants of Science: Sigmund Freud. Illus. Boris Kulikov. New

York: Viking Press.Masiello, Ralph. (2006). Ralph Masiello’s Ocean Drawing Book. Watertown:

Charlesbridge Publishing.Meng, Cece. (2007). The wonderful thing about hiccups. Illus. Janet Pedersen. New York:

Clarion Books.Montgomery, Sy. (2004). Search for the Golden Moon Bear. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

Company.Montgomery, Sy. (2006). Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of

New Guinea. Illus. Nic Bishop. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.Nagda, Ann Whitehead. (2007). Cheetah Math: Learning about Division from Baby

Cheetah. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC .Nel, Philip. (2007). The Annotated Cat: Under the Hats of Seuss and His Cats. New York:

Random House.Nelson, Marilyn . A Wreath for Emmett Till. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.Panchyk, Richard. (2005). Galileo and His Life for Kids 25 Activities. Chicago: Chicago

Review Press.Pearson, Anne. (2007). Ancient Greece. New York: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.Peet, Mal. (2007). Tamar: A Nove of Espionage. Passion, and Betrayal. Boston:

Candlewick Press.

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Pennypacker, Sara. (2006). Clementine. Illus. Marla Frazee. New York: HyperionBooks.

Pinkwater, Daniel. (2007). The Neddiad. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.Ray, Deborah Kogan. (2007). Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed

Explorer. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.Reef, Catherine. (2006). e.e. cummings: A Poet’s life. New York: Clarion Books.Rehak, Melanie. (2007). Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. San

Diego: Harcourt, Inc.Rex, Adam. (2006). Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich and Other Stories You’re Sure to Like,

Because They’re All About Monsters, and Some of Them are About Food. San Diego:Harcourt, Inc.

Sabuda, Robert & Matthew Reinhart. (2007). Encyclopedia Prehistoica: Mega Beasts.Boston: Candlewick Press.

Schlosser, Eric & Charles Wilson. (2006). chew on this: Everything that You Don’t Wantto Know about Fast Food. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Schmemann, Serge. (2006). when the wall came down. New York: Kingfisher Books.Schmidt, Gary D. (2007). The Wednesday Wars. New York: Clarion Books.Schubert, Leda. (2006). Ballet of the Elephants. Illus. Robert Andrew Parker. Brookfield:

Roaring Brook.Sebag-Montefoire, Poppy. (2007). China. New York: Dorling Kindersley, Inc.Selznick, Brian. (2007). The Invention of Hugo Carbret. New York: Scholastic Press.Siegel, Sienna Cherson. (2006). to dance: a ballerina’s graphic novel. Illus. Mark Siegel.

New York: Atheneum Books.Stauffacher, Sue. (2007). Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson. Illus. Greg

Couch. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.Stein, David Ezra. (2007). Monster Hug. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.Stewart, Trenton Lee. (2007). The Mysterious Benedict Society. Boston: Little, Brown, &

Company.Tan, Shaun. (2007). The Arrival. New York: Arthur Levine/Scholastic Press.Van Der Meer, Ron. (2007). How Many Spectacular Paper Sculptures. New York: Robin

Corey Books.Wiesner, David. (2006). Flotsam. New York: Clarion Books.Winter, Jonah. (2006). Dizzy. Illus. Sean Qualls. New York: Arthur Levine/Scholastic

Press.Yang, Gene Luen. (2006). American Born Chinese. New York: FirstSecond.Young, Dwight. (2005). Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of

National Archives. Washington: National Geographic Society.

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