All these books were
published in 1998.
Picture
Books (12)
Bunting, Eve So
Far from the Sea (Clarion)
Karas, G. Brian The Windy Day (Simon)
Keller, Laurie The Scrambled States of America (Holt)
Lewin, Ted The Storytellers (Lothrop)
London, Jonathan Phantom of the Prairie (Sierra Club)
Meade, Holly John Willy and Freddy McGee
(Marshall Cavendish)
Polacco, Patricia Thank You, Mr. Falker (Philomel)
Santiago, Chiori Home to Medicine Mountain (Childrens
Book Press)
Shannon, David No, David! (Scholastic/Blue Sky)
Shulevitz, Uri Snow (Farrar)
Wells, Rosemary Yoko (Hyperion)
Yolen, Jane Raising Yoders Barn (Little)
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Large-Print,
Early Reader Books (1)
(Fiction books with
large print and limited vocabulary, hence useful for the early reader)
Isadora, Rachel Caribbean Dream (Putnam)
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Emergent-Reader
Transitional Books (2)
(Fiction books with
numerous pictures in which the text conveys meaning independent
of the illustrations; useful for the newly-fluent reader as a transition
to longer books)
Hood, Susan Too-Tall Paul, Too-Small
Paul (Millbrook Press)
Walker, Sally The 18 Penny Goose (HarperCollins)
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Fiction
(11)
(Books of prose that
may have some basis in fact but which are primarily a product of
the authors imagination)
Block, Francesca Lia I Was a Teenage Fairy (HarperCollins)
Cormier, Robert Heroes (Delacorte)
Ferris, Jean Bad (Farrar)
Flake, Sharon The Skin Im In (Hyperion/Jump
at the Sun)
Miklowitz, Gloria Masada (Eerdmans)
Paulsen, Gary Soldiers Heart (Delacorte)
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
(Levine)
Ryan, Pam Riding Freedom (Scholastic)
Sachar, Louis Holes (Farrar)
Warner, Sally Sort of Forever (Knopf)
Wilson, Diane I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade (Orchard)
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Story
Collection (2)
(A collection of
fictional short stories by one or more authors)
Fraustino, Lisa Dirty Laundry (Viking)
Johnson, Angela Gone from Home (Dorling Kindersley)
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000
- General Works / Computers
(0)
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100
- Philosophy and Psychology
(1)
Wick, Walter Optical Tricks (Scholastic)
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200
- Religions (3)
Manushkin, Fran Miriams Cup (Scholastic)
Mayer, Marianna Pegasus (Morrow)
Swartz, Nancy In Our Image: Gods First Creatures
(Jewish Lights)
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300
- Social Sciences (10)
Ancona, George Fiesta Fireworks (Lothrop)
Bell, Ruth Changing Bodies, Changing Lives (Times
Books)
Cave, Kathryn W Is for World (Silver)
Ford, Michael Outspoken (Morrow)
Horton, Chris The Encyclopedia of Cars (7 vol.) (Chelsea
House)
Jackson, Ellen Turn of the Century (Charlesbridge)
Kuklin, Susan Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child
Slavery (Holt)
Lester, Julius From Slave Ship to Freedom Road (Dial)
Myers, Walter Amistad (Dutton)
Parker, David Stolen Dreams (Lerner)
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398.2
- Folklore (5)
Babbit, Natalie (reteller) Ouch! (HarperCollins)
Beeler, Selby Throw Your Tooth on the Roof (Houghton)
Bodkin, Odds The Crane Wife (Harcourt/Gulliver)
Demi The Greatest Treasure (Scholastic)
San Souci, Robert Cendrillon (Simon)
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400
- Languages (1)
Lester, Alison Alice and Aldo (Houghton)
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500
- Pure Sciences (11)
Arnold, Caroline El Niño (Clarion)
Arnosky, Jim Watching Desert Wildlife (National Geographic
Society)
Brett-Surman, Michael James Gurney (Greenwich Workshop)
Hooper, Meredith The Drop in My Drink (Viking)
Huck, Charlotte A Creepy Countdown (Greenwillow)
Johnson, Stephen City by Numbers (Viking)
Schwartz, David G is for Googol (Tricycle Press)
Scott, Elaine Close Encounters (Hyperion)
Swinburne, Stephen Moon in Bears Eyes (Millbrook
Press)
Wright-Frierson, Virginia An Island Scrapbook (Simon)
Yolen, Jane Welcome to the Ice House (Putnam)
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600
- Applied Science and Technology
(7)
Bingham, Caroline Monster Machines (Dorling Kindersley)
Lauber, Patricia The True-or-False Book of Cats (National
Geographic Society)
Macaulay, David The New Way Things Work (Houghton)
McMillan, Bruce Salmon Summer (Houghton)
Platt, Richard Incredible Body (Dorling Kindersley)
Rosen, Michael Down to Earth (Harcourt)
Sturges, Philemon Bridges Are to Cross (Putnam)
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700
- Arts (6)
Cooke, Mervyn The Chronicle of Jazz (Abbeville)
Hamilton, Jake Special Effects in Film and Television
(Dorling Kindersley)
Igus, Toyomi I See the Rhythm (Childrens Book Press)
Marcus, Leonard A Caldecott Celebration (Walker)
Morris, Ann Play (Lothrop)
Reynolds, David Star Wars: Incredible Cross-Sections
(Dorling Kindersley)
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800
- Literature (5)
Clinton, Catherine I, Too, Sing America (Houghton)
Florian, Douglas Insectiopedia: Poems and Paintings
(Harcourt)
George, Kristine Old Elm Speaks (Clarion)
Philip, Neil War and the Pity of War (Clarion)
Wood, Nancy Sacred Fire (Doubleday)
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900
- Geography and History (13)
Ballard, Robert D. Ghost Liners (Little)
Blumberg, Rhoda Whats the Deal? (National Geographic
Society)
Deem, James Bodies from the Bog (Houghton)
Hastins, James African Beginnings (Lothrop)
Jenkins, Steve Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
(Houghton)
Kaplan, William One More Border (Groundwood)
McKee, Timothy No More Strangers Now (Dorling Kindersley)
Peacock, Louise Crossing the Delaware (Atheneum)
Rabinovici, Schoschana Thanks to My Mother (Dial)
Reinhard, Johan Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden (National
Geographic Society)
Rockwell, Anne Our Earth (Harcourt/Silver Whistle)
Sis, Peter Tibet (Farrar)
Yolen, Jane House, House (Marshall Cavendish)
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920 - Biography -
Autobiography (10)
Anderson, William Lauras Album (HarperCollins)
Carlson, Laurie Boss of the Plains (Dorling Kindersley)
Cummings, Pat Talking with Adventures (National Geographic
Society)
Freedman, Russell Martha Graham (Clarion)
Gollub, Matthew Cool Melons Turn to Frogs! The
Life and Poems of Issa (Lee & Low)
Krull, Kathleen Lives of the Presidents (Harcourt)
Lobel, Anita No Pretty Pictures (Greenwillow)
Martin, Jacqueline Snowflake Bentley (Houghton)
Partridge, Elizabeth Restless Spirit (Viking)
Pinkney, Andrea Duke Ellington (Hyperion)
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This list (along with annotations,
reading and interest levels, and curriculum connections for each
title) is available in The Dragon Lode, 18/2, Spring
2000, pp. 60-70. For your convenience,
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of this article is available for $2.50. This issue is also now
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- 1998).
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