ALL THE WORLD by Liz Garton Scanlon and Marla Frazee, ill. Simon & Schuster/Beach Lane, September 2009, 40p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-8580-8 

ALMOST ASTRONAUTS: 13 WOMEN WHO DARED TO DREAM by Tanya Lee Stone, Candlewick Press, February 2009, 134p. ISBN: 978-0-7636-3611-1

ANYTHING BUT TYPICAL by Nora Raleigh Baskin, Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, March 2009, 195p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-6378-3

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Little Brown, October 2009, 640p., ISBN: 978-0-316-04267-3 

BRING ME SOME APPLES AND I'LL MAKE YOU A PIE: A STORY ABOUT EDNA LEWIS by Robbin Gourley, Clarion, 48p., January 2009, ISBN: 978-0-618-15836-2

BUG BOY by Eric Luper, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2009, 256p., ISBN: 978-0-374-31000-4

THE CATS OF ROXVILLE STATION by Jean Craighead George and Tom Pohrt, ill., Dutton, May 2009, 192p., ISBN: 978-0-525-42140-5

CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER by James Swanson, Scholastic Press, February 2009, 196p., ISBN: 978-0-439-90354-7

COLD HANDS, WARM HEART by Jill Wolfson, Henry Holt, April 2009, 256p., ISBN: 978-0-8050-8282-1

CROSSING STONES by Helen Frost, FSG/Frances Foster Books, October 2009, 184p., ISBN: 978-0-374-31653-2

CROWS AND CARDS by Joseph Helgerson, Houghton Mifflin, April 2009, 344p., ISBN: 978-0-618-88395-0 

DINOTHESAURUS: PREHISTORIC POEMS AND PAINTINGS by Douglas Florian, Atheneum, March 2009, 48p., ISBN: 978--1-4169-7978-4 

DOPE SICK by Walter Dean Myers, Harper Teen, February 2009, 186p., ISBN: 978-0-06-151477-6; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-06-121478-3 

THE DUST OF 100 DOGS by A.S. King, Flux, February 2009, 320p., ISBN: 978-0-7387-1426-4  

EVERY HUMAN HAS RIGHTS: A PHOTOGRAPHIC DECLARATION FOR KIDS National Geographic, 2009, 48p., ISBN: 978-1-4263-0510-8 

FLYGIRL by Sherri L. Smith, Putnam, January 2009, 288p., ISBN: 978-0-399-24709-5

GHOSTS OF WAR: MY TOUR OF DUTY by Ryan Smithson, Harper Teen, April 2009, 307p., ISBN: 978-0-06-166468-7; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-06-166470-0

GOING BOVINE by Libba Bray, Delacorte, September 2009, 496p., ISBN: 978-0-385-73397-7 

THE GREAT AND ONLY BARNUM: THE TREMENDOUS, STUPENDOUS LIFE OF SHOWMAN P. T. BARNUM by Candace Fleming, Random House/Schwartz & Wade, September 2009, 160p., ISBN: 978-0-375-87197-2 

HIGHWAY ROBBERY by Kate Thompson, Greenwillow, June 2009, 117p., ISBN: 978-0-06-173034-4 

HOMESTRETCH by Paul Volponi, Atheneum, September 2009, 160p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-3987-0

I AND I: BOB MARLEY by Tony Medina and Jesse Joshua Watson, Lee & Low, April 2009, 48p., ISBN: 978-1-60060-257-3

IF AMERICA WERE A VILLAGE: A BOOK ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES by David J. Smith and Shelagh Armstrong, ill., Kids Can Press, August 2009, 32p., 978-1-55453-344-2

IF I GROW UP by Todd Strasser, Simon and Schuster, February 2009, 224 p., ISBN: 1-4169-2523-6

IF I STAY by Gayle Forman, Dutton, April 2009, 208p., ISBN: 978-0-525-42103-0

IS IT STILL CHEATING IF I DON'T GET CAUGHT? by The Ethics Guy, Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D., Roaring Brook/Flash Point, April 2009, 160p., paperback ISBN: 978-1-59643-306-9

JUMPED by Rita Williams-Garcia, Harper Teen, March 2009, 167p., ISBN: 978-0-06-076091-5 

JUMPING OFF SWINGS by Jo Knowles, Candlewick, August 2009, 240p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-3949-5

KALEIDOSCOPE EYES by Jen Bryant, Knopf, May 2009, 272p., ISBN: 978-0-375-84048-7

LEVIATHAN by Scott Westerfeld and Keith Thompson, ill., Simon Pulse, October 2009, 448p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-7173-3

LOUIE! by Will Hillenbrand, Philomel, March 2009, 40p., ISBN: 978-399-24707-1THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Jerry Pinkney, Little Brown, September 2009, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-316-01356-7

THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Yoko Tanaka, Candlewick, September 2009, 208p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-4410-9

MARCHING FOR FREEDOM: WALK  TOGETHER, CHILDREN, AND DON'T YOU GROW WEARY by Elizabeth Partridge, Viking,  October 2009, 80p., ISBN: 978-0-670-01189-6

MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD by Francisco X. Stork, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, March 2009, 312p., ISBN: 978-0-545-05474-4

NO! by David McPhail, Roaring Brook, March 2009, 40p., ISBN: 978-1-59643-288-8

THE NUMBER GARDEN by Sara Pinto, Bloomsbury, March 2009, 26p. lift the flap board book, ISBN: 978-1-99990-048-3 

OPERATION REDWOOD by S. Terrell French, Amulet, Earth Day 2009, 368p., ISBN: 978-0-8109-8354-0

OPERATION YES by Sara Lewis Holmes, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, September 2009, 256p., ISBN: 978-0-545-10795-2 

THE ORANGE HOUSES by Paul Griffin, Dial, June 2009, 160p., ISBN: 978-0-8037-3346-6

OTIS by Loren Long, Philomel, September 2009, 40p., gouache and pencil, ISBN: 978-0-399-25248-8 

POND CIRCLE by Betsy Franco and Stefano Vitale, ill., McElderry Books, June 2009, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-4021-0 

POP by by Gordon Korman, HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray, August 2009, 272p., ISBN: 978-0-06-174228-6; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-06-174230-9 

PROJECT SWEET LIFE by Brent Hartinger, Harper Teen, February 2009, 282p., ISBN: 978-0-06-082411-2  

PURPLE HEART by Patricia McCormick, HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, September 2009, 198p., ISBN: 978-0-06-173090-0 

REALITY CHECK by Peter Abrahams, Harper Teen, April 2009, 330p., ISBN: 978-0-06-122766-0 

RECYCLE THIS BOOK: 100 TOP CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHORS TELL YOU HOW TO GO GREEN edited by Dan Gutman, Yearling, March 2009, 267p., ISBN: 978-0-385-73721-0  

REMEMBER LITTLE ROCK by Paul Robert Walker, National Geographic, January 2009, 64p., ISBN: 978-1-4263-0402-6  

RETURN TO SENDER by Julia Alvarez, Knopf, January 2009, 325p., ISBN: 978-0-375-85838-3 

THE RISE AND FALL OF SENATOR JOE MCCARTHY by James Cross Giblin, Clarion Books, December 2009, 304p., ISBN: 978-0-618-61058-7

RIVER OF DREAMS: THE STORY OF THE HUDSON RIVER by Hudson Talbott, Putnam Juvenile, January 2009, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-399-24521-3

THE ROAR by Emma Clayton, Chicken House, April 2009, 496p., ISBN: 978-0-439-92593-8

THE ROCK AND THE RIVER by Kekla Magoon, Aladdin, January 2009, 290p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-7582-3

SCAT by Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, January 2009, 371p., ISBN: 978-0-375-83486-8; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-375-93486-5

A SEASON OF GIFTS by Richard Peck, Dial, September 2009, 176p., ISBN: 978-0-8037-3082-3 

THE SMART ALECK'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY by Adam Selzer, Delacorte, December 2009, 336p., ISBN: 978-0-385-73650-3; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-385-90613-5

STITCHES: A MEMOIR by David Small, W.W. Norton & Co., September 2009, 344p., ISBN: 978-0-393-06857-3 

SUBWAY RIDE by Heather Lynn Miller and Sue Rama, ill., Charlesbridge, July 2009, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-58089-111-0

TALES OF THE MADMAN UNDERGROUND by John Barnes, Viking, June 2009, 532p., ISBN: 978-0-670-06081-8

THIS FULL HOUSE by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Harper Teen/The Bowen Press, January 2009, 478p.; ISBN: 978-0-06-158304-9; Libr ISBN: 978-0-06-158305-6

THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF CHARLEY DARWIN by Carolyn Meyer, Harcourt, January 2009, 272p., ISBN: 978-0-15-206194-4

TSUNAMI! by Kimiko Kajikawa and Ed Young, ill. Philomel, February 2009, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-399-25006-4

VIOLA IN REEL LIFE by Adriana Trigiani, Harper Teen, September 2009, 288p., ISBN: 978-0-06-145102-7

WAITING TO SCORE by J.E. MacLeod, WestSide Books, February 2009, 200p., ISBN: 978-1-934813-01-0 

WE WERE HERE by Matt de la Pena, Delacorte, October 2009, 368p, ISBN: 978-0-385-73667-1; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-385-73667-1

WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead, Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, July 2009, 208p., ISBN: 978-0-385-73742-5; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-385-90664-7