Title

Author

Comments

Baseball Saved Us

Ken Mochizuki

Picture Book

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate Dicamillo

Buffalo Soldiers: The Story of Emanuel Stance

Robert Miller

Picture Book

Catherine, Called Birdy

Karen Cushman

Daniel's Story

Carol Matas

Dive: My Adventures in the Deep Frontier

Sylvia Earle

Nonfiction

Ella Enchanted

Gail Levine

Fantasy

Gold Dust

Chris Lynch

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Robert O'Brien

Fantasy

Our Only May Amelia

Jennifer Holm

Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan Laflesche Picotte

Jeri Ferris

Biography

One Unhappy Horse

C.S. Adler

Painters of the Caves

Patricia Lauber

Nonfiction

Phoeniz Rising

Karen Hesse

Pink and Say

Patricia Polacco

Picture Book

She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!

Kathryn Lasky

Picture Book

Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays

Peg Kehret

Short Stories

Smoky Night

Eve Bunting

Picture Book

The Star Fisher

Laurence Yep

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Deborah Hopkinson

Picture Book

The Fighting Ground

Avi

The Gawgon and the Boy

Lloyd Alexander

The Great Fire

Jim Murphy

Nonfiction

The Janitor's Boy

Andrew Clements

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

Virginia Hamilton

The Pinballs

Betsy Byars

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

Jon Scieszka

Toughboy and Sister

Kirkpatrick Hill

When the Whippoorwill Calls

Candice Ransom

Picture Book

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Kimberly Holt