A family of forest animals learns to cope with the death of a beloved friend.
2005-2006 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harcourt
Copyright April 15, 2003
ISBN# 0-15-216636-X (HB)
Discusses the life and the work of impressionist painter Mary Cassat, as told from a child’s point of view.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Grosset & Dunlap
Copyright April 14, 2003
ISBN# 0-448-43153-X (PB, HB)
In this story, loosely based on that of Goldilocks, Goldie, who has yet to find a friend to “love with all her heart,” makes an unplanned visit to the house of some bears.
2005-2006 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by HarperCollins
Copyright April 14, 2003
ISBN# 0-06-000008-2 (PB, HB)
Maddie, Logan and other foster children at a Tennessee orphanage build a fort they can go to and call their own.
2005-2006 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Atheneum
Copyright March 31, 2003
ISBN# 0-689-84420-4 (HB)
A mission that begins as an eighth-grade project on Henry David Thoreau’s experimental living at Walden Pond becomes a life-changing experience for a group of outsider students who become budding philosophers, environmental activists, and loyal friends.
2005-2006 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Holiday House
Copyright March 31, 2003
ISBN# 0-8234-1701-8 (HB)
Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her little brother, Cody, spend the summer with their uncle, helping at a wildlife rescue center named Jackie’s Wild Seattle.
2005-2006 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harper Collins
Copyright March 31, 2003
ISBN# 0-688-17474-4 (HB)
Maxims, idioms, parental proverbs and witticisms are explained for children and the illustrations take in a child’s point of view when hearing them.
2005-2006 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Sleeping Bear
Copyright March 31, 2003
ISBN# 1-58536-106-2 (HB)
When Michael is swept off his family’s yacht, he washes up on a desert island, where he struggles to survive—until he finds he is not alone.
2005-2006 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic
Copyright February 28, 2003
ISBN# 0-439-38202-5 (HB)
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