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The Best of 2013

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PICTURE BOOK FICTION 

 

BATTLE BUNNY by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett; Matthew Myers, ill., Simon & Schuster, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-4424-3673-1 

 

BULLY by Laura Vaccaro, Roaring Brook/Neal Porter, 36p., ISBN: 978-1-59643-630-5 

  

THE CAT, THE RAT, AND THE BASEBALL BAT by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, ill., Square Fish, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-250-02774-0 

  

DAISY GETS LOST by Chris Raschka, Schwartz & Wade, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-449-81741-4 

  

THE DARK by Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen, ill. Little Brown, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-316-18748-0 

  

EVERYONE CAN LEARN TO RIDE A BICYCLE by Chris Raschka, Random House/Schwartz & Wade, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-375-87007-1 

  

LITTLE RED WRITING by Joan Holub and Melissa Sweet, ill. Chronicle, 36p., ISBN: 978-0-8118-7869-2 

 

MR. TIGER GOES WILD by Peter Brown, Little Brown, 48p., ISBN: 978-0-316-20063-9 

  

MR. WUFFLES! by David Wiesner, Clarion, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-618-75661-2 

  

THAT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA! by Mo Willems, Balzer and Bray, 48p., ISBN: 978-0-06-220309-6

  

Personal favorite: MR. WUFFLES!

 

PICTURE BOOK NONFICTION 

  

THE BOY WHO LOVED MATH: THE IMPROBABE LIFE OF PAUL ERDŐS by Deborah Heiligman and LeUyen Pham, ill, Roaring Brook, 48p., ISBN: 978-1-5964-3307-

  

BUGS IN MY HAIR! by David Shannon, Blue Sky Press, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-545-14313-4 

  

EAT LIKE A BEAR by April Pulley Sayre and Steve Jenkins, ill., Henry Holt, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-8050-9039-0 

  

FLIGHT OF THE HONEY BEE by Raymond Huber and Brian Lovelock, ill., Candlewick, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-6760-3 

  

THE GREAT AMERICAN DUST BOWL by Don Brown, Houghton Mifflin, 80p., ISBN: 978-0-547-81550-3 

  

MARCH: BOOK ONE by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, ill., Top Shelf Productions, 128p., ISBN: 978-1-60309-300-2 

  

ON A BEAM OF LIGHT: A STORY OF ALBERT EINSTEIN by Jennifer Berne and Vladimir Radunsky, Chronicle, 56p., ISBN: 978-0-8118-7235-5 

  

A SPLASH OF RED: THE LIFE AND ART OF HORACE PIPPIN by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet, ill., Knopf, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-375-86712-5 

  

THE TREE LADY: THE TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE TREE-LOVING WOMAN CHANGED A CITY FOREVER by H. Joseph Hopkins and Jill McElmurry, ill., Beach Lane/Simon and Schuster, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-4424-1402-0 

  

WHO SAYS WOMEN CAN'T BE DOCTORS? THE STORY OF ELIZABETH BLACKWELL by Tanya Lee Stone and Marjorie Priceman, ill., Henry Holt, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-8050-9048-2 

 

FICTION 

   

COUNTING BY 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan, Dial, 384p., ISBN: 978-0-8037-3855-3 

   

FAR FAR AWAY by Tom McNeal, Knopf, 384p., ISBN: 978-0-375-84972-6 

  

P.S. BE ELEVEN by Rita Williams-Garcia, Amistad, 288p., ISBN: 978-0-06-193862-7 

  

THE THING ABOUT LUCK by Cynthia Kadohata, Atheneum, 288p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-1882-0 

  

THE TRUE BLUE SCOUTS OF SUGAR MAN SWAMP by Kathi Appelt, Atheneum, 384p., ISBN: 978-1-4424-2105-9 

   

ZERO TOLERANCE by Claudia Mills, Farrar Straus Giroux, 240p., ISBN: 978-0-374-3312-6

  

Personal favorite: COUNTING BY 7s

 

YA FICTION 

 

THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING by Robyn Schneider, HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen, 352p., ISBN: 978-0-06-221713-4 

 

ELEANOR & PARK by Rainbow Rowell, St. Martin's Griffin, 336p., ISBN: 978-1-250-01257-9 

   

FANGIRL by Rainbow Rowell, St. Martin's Griffin, 448p., ISBN: 978-1-250-03095-5 

 

WINGER by Andrew Smith, Simon & Schuster, 448p., ISBN: 978-1-4424-4492-8

  

NONFICTION 

 

ANGEL ISLAND: GATEWAY TO GOLD MOUNTAIN by Russell Freedman, Clarion, 96p., ISBN: 978-0-547-90378-1 

  

THE DOLPHINS OF SHARK BAY (SCIENTISTS IN THE FIELD) by Pamela S. Turner and Scott Tuason, photo., Houghton Mifflin, November 2013, 80p., ISBN: 978-0-547-71638-1 

  

IMPRISONED: THE BETRAYAL OF JAPANESE AMERICANS DURING WORLD WAR II by Martin W. Sandler, Walker, August 2013, 176p., ISBN: 978-0-8027-2277-5 

  

LINCOLN'S GRAVE ROBBERS by Steve Sheinkin, Scholastic Press, January 2013, 224p., ISBN: 978-0-545-40572-0

  

Personal favorite: LINCOLN'S GRAVE ROBBERS

  

POETRY 

 

WHAT THE HEART KNOWS: CHANTS, CHARMS & BLESSINGS by Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski, ill., Houghton Mifflin, October 2013, 80p., ISBN: 978-0-544-10616-1 

 

 

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