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  BOOKS ON WRITING
  Story Sparklers
Debbie Dadey & Marcia Thornton Jones
  You Can Write Children's Books
Tracey Dils
  The Magazine Article
Peter P Jacobi
  Bird By Bird
Anne Lamott
  How To Write A Children's Book And Get It Published
Barbara Seuling
  Checking Your Grammar
Marvin Terban
  Punctuation Power
Marvin Terban
  On Writing Well (nonfiction)
William Zinsser


  PICTURE BOOKS
  Not Normam
Kelly Bennett
  Duck! Rabbit!
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
  Little Pea
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
  Artichoke Boy
Scott Mickelson
  Bean Thirteen
Matthew McEllicott
  Comets, Stars the Moon and Mars
Douglas Floriam
  Crossing Bok Chitto
Tim Tingle
  Farmer George Plants a Nation
Peggy Thomas
  How I Learned Geography
Uri Shulevitz
  Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot
Margaret Theis Raven
  Monkey with a Tool Belt
Chris Monroe
  One Potato, Two Potato
Cynthia DeFelice
  The Toy Farmer
Andrew Pelletier
  Violet the Pilot
Steve Breen
  The Pumpkin Runner
Marsha Diane Arnold
  My Car
Byron Barton
  Farm Flu
Teresa Bateman
  Altoona Baboona
Junie Bynum
  I Will Never Not Ever Eat A Tomato
Lauren Child
  Mrs. Wishy-Washy
Joy Cowley
  Miss Rumphius
Barbara Cooney
  Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type
Doreen Cronin
  Pet Wash
Dayle Ann Dodds
  Are You My Mother?
P D Eastman
  Potty
Mylo Freeman
  Millions Of Cats
Wanda Gag
  The Beautiful World That God Made
Rhonda Gowler
  Chrysanthemum
Kevin Henkes
  When Jessie Came Across The Sea
Amy Hest
  Toot And Puddle
Holly Hobbie
  The Carrot Seed
Ruth Krause
  A Porcupine Named Fluffy
Helen Lester
  Angelo
David Macaulay
  Snowflake Bentley
Jacqueline Briggs Martin
  Widget
Lyn Rossiter McFarland
  I Stink!
Katie and Jim McMullen
  Officer Buckle And Gloria
Peggy Rathman
  Santa's New Suit
Laura Roder
  The Christmas Alphabet
Robert Sabuda
  Chewy Louie
Howie Schneider
  A Bad Case Of Stripes
David Shannon
  George Washington's Cows
David Small
  Pete's A Pizza
William Steig
  The Red Heels
Robert D. San Souci
  So You Want To Be President?
Judith St. George
  Silly Sally
Audrey Wood
  Bear Snores On
Karma Wilson
  Owl Moon
Jane Yolen


  GREAT NOVELS, MIDDLE GRADE AND YOUNG ADULT
  Hattie Big Sky
Kirby Larson
  How to Steal a Dog
Barbara O'Connor
  When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead
  Faith, Hope & Ivy June
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Jacqueline Kelly
  Playing with Matches
Brian Katcher
  Sweethearts
Sara Zarr
  How Not to be Popular
Jennifer Ziegler
  Blue
Joyce Moyer Hostetter
  Ghost Soldier
Elaine Marie Alphin
  Savvy
Ingrid Law
  Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor
  The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
  The Boy in Striped Pajamas
John Boyne
  Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
  Waiting for Normal
Leslie Connor
  13 Little Blue Envelopes
Maureen Johnson
  Bella At Midnight
Diane Stanley
  Candyfloss
Jacqueline Wilson
  Dairy Queen
Katherine Murdock
  Each Little Bird that Sings
Deborah Wiles
  Eggs
Jerry Spinelli
  Knights of the Hill Country
Tim Tharp
  Lawn Boy
Gary Paulsen
  Peaches trilogy
Jodi Lynn Anderson
  The Christmas Pearl
Dorothea Frank
  The Old Willis Place
Mary Downing Hahn
  The Penderwicks
Jeanne Birdsall
  The Witch's Boy
Michael Gruber
  What the Moon Saw
Laura Resau
  Wing Nut
M J Auch
  The Golly Sisters Go West
Betsy Cromer
  The Elevator Family
Douglas Evans
  Surviving Brick Johnson
Laurie Myers
  Charlotte's Web
E B White
  Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko
  Catherine, Called Birdy
Karen Cushman
  Matilda Bone
Karen Cushman
  The Midwife's Apprentice
Karen Cushman
  The Whipping Boy
Sid Fleischman
  Nory Ryan's Song
Patricia Reilly Giff
  When Zachary Beaver Came To Town
Kimberley Willis Holt
  The Great Turkey Walk
Kathleen Karr
  Lost In Cyberspace
Richard Peck
  The Witch Of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
  Wringer
Jerry Spinelli
  Surviving The Applewhites
Stephanie Tolan
  Hank Zipzer Series
Henry Winkler, Lin Oliver
  Millicent Min, Girl Genius
Lisa Yee
  Hope Was Here
Joan Bauer
  Stand Tall
Joan Bauer
  A Year Down Yonder
Richard Peck
  Fair Weather
Richard Peck
  Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli