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PAINT THE WIND by Pam Munoz Ryan, Scholastic Press, September 2007, ISBN: 0-439-87362-2 

PARTY by Tom Leveen, Random House Books for Young Readers, April 2010, 240p., ISBN: 978-0-375-86436-0; Libr. ISBN: 978-0-375-96436-7

THE PASSIONATE EYE: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega Harper Entertainment, April 2001  

THE PATRON SAINT OF BUTTERFLIES by Cecilia Galante, Bloomsbury, April 2008, 292p., ISBN: 1-59990-249-4 

PEAK by Roland Smith, Harcourt, May 2007, ISBN: 0-15-202417-4  

PEELED by Joan Bauer, Putnam, May 2008, 248p. ISBN: 978-0-399-23475-0

PERFECT SQUARE by Michael Hall, Greenwillow, March 2011, 40p., ISBN: 978-0-06-191513-0 

PHINEAS GAGE: A GRUESOME BUT TRUE STORY ABOUT BRAIN SCIENCE by John Fleischman, Houghton Mifflin, 2002

PICTURES OF HOLLIS WOODS by Patricia Reilly Giff, Wendy Lamb Books, September 2002

PIE by Sarah Weeks, Scholastic Press, October 2011, 192p., ISBN: 978-0-545-27011-3  

PINNED by Alfred C. Martino, Harcourt, March 2005, ISBN: 0-15-205355-7 

PIRATES! by Celia Rees, Bloomsbury, October 2003, ISBN 1-58234-816-2

PLANTING THE TREES OF KENYA: THE STORY OF WANGARI MAATHAI by Claire A. Nivola, FSG/Frances Foster Books, April 2008, 32p. ISBN: 0-374-39918-2  

PLEASE IGNORE VERA DIETZ by A.S. King, Knopf, October 2010, 304p., ISBN: 978-0-375-86586-2; ISBN: 978-0-375-89617-0

PLUNKED by Michael Northrop, Scholastic Press, March 2012, 256p., ISBN: 978-0-545-29714-1

POETREES by Douglas Florian, Beach Lane/Simon & Schuster, March 2010, 48p., ISBN: 978-1-4169-8672-0 

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

PONZI: THE MAN AND HIS LEGENDARY SCHEME by Mitchell Zuckoff, Random House, March 2005, ISBN: 0-4000-6039-7  

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

PREP by Jake Coburn, PenguinPutnam/Dutton, August 2003, ISBN 0-525-47135-9

PRESS HERE by Herve Tullet, Handprint/Chronicle Books, April 2011, 56p., ISBN: 978-0-8118-7954-5

PREVIOUSLY by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Bruce Ingman, Candlewick, August 2007, ISBN: 978-0-7636-3542-8 (Recommended Picture Books for Older Readers) 

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

PRUDENCE WANTS A PET by Cathleen Daly and Stephen Michael King, ill., Roaring Brook, June 2011, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-59643-468-4

THE PURPLE EMPEROR by Herbie Brennan, Bloomsbury, October 2004, ISBN: 1-58234-880-4 

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

THE QUEEN OF FRANCE by Tim Wadham and Kady MacDonald Denton, ill., Candlewick, March 2011, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-4102-3 

QUEEN OF HEARTS by Martha Brooks, Farrar Straus and Giroux, August 2011, 214p., ISBN: 978-0-374-34985-1

THE QUIET BOOK by Deborah Underwood and Renata Liwska, ill. Houghton Mifflin, April 2010, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-547-21567-9

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

THE RACE TO SAVE THE LORD GOD BIRD by Phillip Hoose, Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 2004, ISBN: 0-374-36173-8 

RADICAL READS: 101 YOUNG ADULT NOVELS ON THE EDGE by Joni Richards Bodart

THE RADIOACTIVE BOY SCOUT: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor by Ken Silverstein, Random House, March 2004, ISBN: 0-375-50351-X 

RAH, RAH RADISHES! A VEGETABLE CHANT by April Pulley Sayre, Beach Lane Books, June 2011, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-4424-2141-7

RAIDERS NIGHT by Robert Lipsyte, Harper Tempest, August 2006, ISBN: 0-06-059946-4; Libr ISBN: 0-06-0599947-2

THE RAIN TRAIN by Elana de Roo and Brian Lovelock, ill., Candlewick, March 2011, 32p., ISBN: 978-0-7636-5313-2

RALEIGH'S PAGE by Alan Armstrong, Random House, September 2007, ISBN: 978-0-375-83319-9; Libr.ISBN: 978-0-375-93319-6

RATS: OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY & HABITAT OF THE CITY'S MOST UNWANTED INHABITANTS by Robert Sullivan, Bloomsbury, April 2004, ISBN 1-58234-385-3

RAZZLE by Ellen Wittlinger, Simon & Schuster, September 2001

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

THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY by David Levithan, Random House/Knopf, August 2004, ISBN 0-375-82845-1

RECOVERY ROAD by Blake Nelson, Scholastic Press, March 2011, 320p., ISBN: 978-0-545-10729-7

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

RED GLASS by Laura Resau, Delacorte Press, September 2007, ISBN: 0-385-73466-0

RED KAYAK by Priscilla Cummings, Penguin Group/Dutton Children's Books, September 2004, Ages 10-14, ISBN: 0-525-47317-3 

RED SLED by Lita Judge, Atheneum, November 2011, 36p., ISBN: 978-1-4424-2007-6

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

RETRO MOCK PRINTZ BALLOT

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

REVENGE OF THE WHALE: THE TRUE STORY OF THE WHALESHIP ESSEX by Nathaniel Philbrick, Putnam, September 2002

REVOLUTION IS NOT A DINNER PARTY by Ying Chang Compestine, Henry Holt, August 2007, ISBN: 0-8050-8207-7; Audio edition on CD by Listening Library, ISBN: 0739356321 

RIDING INVISIBLE: AN ADVENTURE JOURNAL by Sandra Alonzo and Nathan Huang, ill. Disney/Hyperion, March 2010, 240p., ISBN: 978-1-4231-1898-5

RINGSIDE, 1925: VIEWS FROM THE SCOPES TRIAL by Jen Bryant, Knopf, February 2008, ISBN: 0-375-84074-8; LIBR ISBN: 0-375-94047-2  

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

THE RIVER BETWEEN US by Richard Peck, Penguin Putnam/Dial, September 2003, ISBN 0-8037-2735-6

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

A RIVER OF WORDS: THE STORY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, July 2008, 32p. ISBN: 978-0-8028-5302-8

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

ROBERT F. KENNEDY: A TWENTIETH-CENTURY LIFE (UPCLOSE SERIES) by Marc Aronson, Viking, April 2007, ISBN: 0-670-06066-5 by Marc Aronson, Viking, April 2007, ISBN: 0-670-06066-5

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

ROOSTER by Beth Nixon Weaver, Winslow Press , May 2001

A ROOM ON LORELEI STREET by Mary E. Pearson, Henry Holt, June 2005, ISBN: 0-8050-7667-0

ROSE SEES RED by Cecil Castellucci, Scholastic Press, August 2010, 208p., ISBN: 978-01-545-06079-0

THE RULES OF SURVIVAL by Nancy Werlin, Dial Books, September 2006, publisher recommendation: 14 and up; ISBN: 0-8037-3001-2

RUNAWAY GIRL: THE ARTIST LOUISE BOURGEOIS by by Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan, Abrams, March 2003, ISBN 0-8109-4237-2

RUNNER by Carl Deuker, Houghton Mifflin, May 2005, ISBN: 0-618-54298-1

RUSSELL THE SHEEP by Rob Scotton, HarperCollins, May 2005, ISBN: 0-06-059848-4; Lib.ISBN: 0-06-059849-2