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An Unfair Advantage The Best Selections for ALL Grade Levels More than 17,000 Junior Library Guild members trust our JLG membership makes it easy to manage the grade-level mix of your selections. Our member librarians have seen, season after season, collection. Books are offered in reading levels from pre-K through young year after year, that we provide them with great books—ones that adult. Additional levels focusing on special interests such as sports, go on to win awards, collect starred or favorable reviews, and earn fantasy and science fi ction, biographies, and graphic novels are available industry honors. In short, JLG selects the same books you would to help round out your collection. choose on your own. You can also take advantage of one of JLG’s Collection Development But the JLG editorial team has an unfair advantage—we get to Packages—combinations of reading levels that are specifi cally tailored read the best books of the year before they’re published. Publishers, for Elementary, Middle/Junior High, or High School readers. Whatever large and small, provide us with the opportunity to read and review your budget, there’s a package available to provide your library the most more than 3,000 manuscripts every year. After thinning that down complete coverage possible. And because no one knows your needs to the very best 336 selections, we are able to join the publishers’ better than you, all packages are completely customizable. initial print runs (all JLG books are fi rst editions) and provide For a complete description of JLG’s Collection Development Packages, you with new titles soon after they are released. see page 39. Your JLG membership allows you to get tomorrow’s award winners today. By the time The House in the Night was awarded the 2009 Caldecott Medal, it had already been on JLG members’ shelves for fi ve months.
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JLG Selects the Titles Destined for Future Awards!
We’ve been asked more than once if our editorial staff has a crystal ball in This means that by the time the awards are announced, JLG members their offi ce. Why? Because time and again, year after year, the titles they are ahead of the game—because most of the winners will already be on choose go on to earn the industry’s most highly esteemed accolades. In their shelves. (Remember, we select them before they’re honored with fact, more than 95 percent of our carefully selected books later receive these distinctions.) What’s more, many previous award winners are also other major awards or favorable reviews. available in our backlist for as low as $5.00 each.
Just a few of our recent award winners: The John Newbery Medal, 2009 The Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2009 The Graveyard Book (Winner) Chains (Winner) The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom (Honor Book) The Schneider Family Book Award, 2009 The Randolph Caldecott Medal, 2009 Waiting for Normal (Winner, Middle School) The House in the Night (Winner) The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, 2009 A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Honor Book) A Curse Dark as Gold (Winner) The Michael L. Printz Award, 2009 The National Book Award, Young People’s Literature, 2008 The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume II, Chains (Finalist) The Kingdom on the Waves (Honor Book) The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Finalist) The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Honor Book) Nation (Honor Book) The Charlotte Zolotow Award, 2009 Tender Morsels (Honor Book) How to Heal a Broken Wing (Winner) In a Blue Room (Honor Book) The Coretta Scott King Award, 2009 A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Honor Book) Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane (Illustrator Honor) Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad (Honor Book) The Pura Belpré Award, 2009 The Butter Man (Highly Commended) The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom (Winner) The Chicken of the Family (Highly Commended) What Do You Do with a Rebozo? (Illustrator Honor) The Sydney Taylor Book Award, 2009 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, 2008 Brooklyn Bridge (Winner, Older Readers) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Winner, Fiction and Poetry) NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfi ction, 2009 The Arrival (Special Citation) The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary (Honorable Mention) Nic Bishop Frogs (Honor Book, Nonfi ction) Washington at Valley Forge (Honorable Mention) Shooting the Moon (Honor Book, Fiction and Poetry) A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero (Recommended Book) A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Recommended Book)
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JLG Selects the Titles JLG Picks the Best Books— Destined for Future Awards! Time After Time
Want more proof that we choose our books before they go on to win industry honors? Take a look at this time line detailing the chain of events for just two of our selections. Note their publication dates, the dates they were shipped from Junior Library Guild, and the numerous starred reviews and awards they later received.
Selected by JLG Publication Date JLG Shipping Date 9/07 5/08 7/08
Kirkus Reviews, Kirkus Reviews, Best The Randolph Starred Review, 4/08 Children’s Books, Caldecott Medal, 1/09 11/08 School Library Journal, 2008 Booklist Editors’ Choice, Starred Review, 4/08 2008 Publishers Top of the List, Weekly Best Books of Youth Picture Book, 1/09 Booklist, Starred the Year, 11/08 Review, 4/08 ALA Notable Children’s Books, 1/09
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review, 5/08 The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson, illustrated by Beth Krommes
Selected by JLG Publication Date JLG Shipping Date 6/08 9/08 12/08
Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library’s Starred Review, 8/08 “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing,” 11/08 Booklist, Starred Horn Book The John Newbery Review, 9/08 Fanfare, 12/08 Medal, 1/09 KLIATT, Starred Booklist Editors’ Review, 9/08 Choice, 1/09 Publishers Weekly, ALA Notable Starred Review, 9/08 Children’s Books, 1/09 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrations by Dave McKean
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 5 Grades K–3 PS PRIMARY SPANISH
PS Level at a Glance This level features Spanish translations of classic English-language books, original Spanish titles, ■ Bilingual fi ction and nonfi ction and bilingual fi ction and nonfi ction. Add this ■ Spanish-language translations of classic level to provide for those students whose fi rst English-language books language is Spanish, as well as for those just ■ Original Spanish titles learning the language. Perfect for: Students whose fi rst language is Spanish or those learning Spanish
APRIL JULY Chocolate* Bean Soup: A Cooking Poem / by Inés Vaughn Sopa de frijoles: Un poema para cocinar* written by Jorge Argueta • pictures by Rafael Yockteng “Do you know where chocolate comes from? / ¿Sábes de dónde viene el chocolate?” Here is an “Primero pones los frijolitos en el cielo de la mesa. Los investigation of how cacao pods are grown and frijoles son estrellitas./First spread the beans out on turned into chocolate and a look at the history the sky of the table. The beans are stars.” Here is a of chocolate in Latin America. poem about the joy of making bean soup. ISBN: 9781435827264 • 24 pp • Dewey: 641.6’374 ISBN: 9780888998811 • 32 pp • Dewey: 861.64 Rosen: $15.95 • JLG: $13.25 Groundwood: $18.95 • JLG: $13.25
MAY AUGUST Chiles* Un sillón para siempre by Inés Vaughn (A Chair for Always) Some foods can make your mouth water. written and illustrated by Vera B. Williams Others, like chiles, can make your eyes Rosa’s Aunt Ida is having a baby, and water, too. Chiles offers a bilingual look Rosa is excited about this new addition at one of the most popular ingredients in to the family. But when Grandma starts Latin American cuisine. making plans to reupholster Rosa’s ISBN: 9781435827257 • 24 pp • Dewey: 641.6’384 favorite chair, it’s one change too many. Rosen: $15.95 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780061722837 • 40 pp • Dewey: E Greenwillow: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25
JUNE What Can You Do with a Rebozo? / SEPTEMBER ¿Qué puedes hacer con un rebozo?* Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs: How They Guard Sheep / by Carmen Tafolla • illustrations by Amy Córdova Perros guardianes, perros valientes: Cómo pastorean las ovejas* A rebozo can be a pirate’s sash, a blindfold, by Cat Urbigkit • translated by Aída E. Marcuse or a cape. In this bilingual book, it can be so A heartwarming description of how guardian many things, you’ll wonder, what can’t I do dogs are raised and of their relationships with with a rebozo? the lambs and sheep they protect. Bilingual ISBN: 9781582462707 • 32 pp • Dewey: E Spanish and English edition. Tricycle: $14.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9781590787465 • 32 pp • Dewey: 636.737 Boyds Mills: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25
*Indicates bilingual book
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Martina, una cucarachita muy linda (Martina the Beautiful Cockroach) ■ El conejito Knuffl e (Knuffl e Bunny) ■ My Name is Gabito / Me llamo Gabito Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
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Filled with concept books and simple stories, this K Level at a Glance is an ideal level for youngsters who enjoy “reading” by themselves and following narratives through ■ Concept books pictures. Vivid illustrations are an integral part of ■ Simple stories each book. ■ Fully illustrated Perfect for: Children who enjoy “reading” by themselves
APRIL JULY Rhyming Dust Bunnies Sergio Saves the Game! written and illustrated by Jan Thomas written and illustrated by Edel Rodriguez Ed, Ned, Ted, and Bob are rhyming dust “Sergio loves soccer. He kicks, jumps, bunnies—well, at least Ed, Ned, and Ted are. defends, heads, butts, knees, shoots . . . and They rhyme “bug” with “rug” and “dog” with “hog.” Bob, on the other scores. A true star . . . in his dreams.” What hand, says things like “LOOK OUT! HERE COMES A BIG SCARY will it take to make Sergio a star in reality? MONSTER WITH A BROOM!”—which, they patiently explain to ISBN: 9780316066174 • 40 pp • Dewey: E him, “does not rhyme with ANYTHING, really.” Little, Brown: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9781416979760 • 40 pp • Dewey: E Beach Lane Books: $12.99 • JLG: $13.25 AUGUST Yes Day! MAY by Amy Krouse Rosenthal • illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld Duck! Rabbit! It’s every kid’s dream: a day when every answer by Amy Krouse Rosenthal • illustrations by Tom Lichtenheld is “yes.” Pizza for breakfast? Family food fi ght? Two friends spot an animal in the distance. TV after bedtime? Absolutely! Sure! You bet! Is it a duck or a rabbit? A series of simple ISBN: 9780061152603 • 40 pp • Dewey: E optical illusions puts a new spin on the phrase HarperCollins: $14.99 • JLG: $13.25 double-take. ISBN: 9780811868655 • 40 pp • Dewey: E SEPTEMBER Chronicle: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Panda & Polar Bear I love this book! Though its subject might be up for debate, written and illustrated by Matthew J. Baek what is certain is that Duck! Rabbit! is great fun. “In a place where spring met winter there lived —Liz, Senior Editor two kinds of bears. Where it was green and grassy lived the panda bears . . . and where it was white and wintry lived the polar bears.” JUNE A tall and slippery cliff divides the two. But, Put It on the List! one day, a curious little polar bear becomes written and illustrated by by Kristen Darbyshire too curious about the world below him and “On Monday, we had pancakes, but accidentally topples over. no syrup. . . . On Tuesday . . . we had ISBN: 9780803733596 • 32 pp • Dewey: E toothbrushes, no toothpaste. . . . On Dial: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Wednesday, we had cookies, no milk.” A family of forgetful chickens learns the value of a shopping list. ISBN: 9780525479062 • 32 pp • Dewey: E Dutton: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Dinosaur vs. Bedtime ■ The House in the Night ■ Katie Loves the Kittens Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 7 Grades K–1 P PRIMARY
P Levels at a Glance Story time just got even more enriching. These inviting nonfi ction and fi ction selections feature ■ Stories full illustration and easy-to-follow stories your ■ Nonfi ction students will love to read aloud. ■ Fully illustrated ■ Especially selected as read-alouds Perfect for: Story time
APRIL JULY Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed The Hermit Crab written and illustrated by Mo Willems written and illustrated by Carter Goodrich “For this story, you need to know only A shy hermit crab becomes an unlikely three things about naked mole rats: hero when his fancy new “shell” gives 1. They are a little bit rat. him a different identity—but does he 2. They are a little bit mole. want the attention that comes with it? 3. They are all naked. ISBN: 9781416938927 • 40 pp • Dewey: E Simon & Schuster: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Well, they were, with one exception. . . . Wilbur.” ISBN: 9781423114376 • 40 pp • Dewey: E AUGUST Hyperion: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Camping Day by Patricia Lakin • illustrated by Scott Nash MAY Sam, Pam, and Will can’t decide whether they Maggie’s Monkeys should work out, hang out, or have a cook by Linda Sanders-Wells • illustrated by Abby Carter out. Then Jill suggests they camp out. They “Last week, a family of pink monkeys moved set off for adventure, but when snores and into our refrigerator. At least that’s what my roars wake them in the night, the woods seem little sister, Maggie, said.” How long can awfully scary! Maggie’s older brother stand it when his family ISBN: 9780803733091 • 40 pp • Dewey: E pretends the monkeys are real? Dial: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780763633264 • 32 pp • Dewey: E Candlewick: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 SEPTEMBER Dog and Bear: Three to Get Ready JUNE written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors Uh-oh, Bear has a bucket stuck on his head! by Joyce Sidman • illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski “What will I do, Dog? There will be a bucket Twenty-eight poems describe colors through on my head FOREVER.” Luckily Dog has a the seasons. For example, green “peeks from plan. It’s not a perfect plan, but in this and buds / trembles in the breeze” in the spring two other stories, imperfect plans still work and “trills from the trees” in the summer. out when good friends help each other. By fall it is “. . . tired, / dusty, / crisp around ISBN: 9781596433960 • 32 pp • Dewey: E the edges,” and in winter, green “stiffens into Roaring Brook: $12.99 • JLG: $13.25 needles. . . . waits in the hearts of trees, / feeling / the earth / turn.” ISBN: 9780547014944 • 32 pp • Dewey: E Houghton Miffl in: $16.00 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ In a Blue Room ■ The Pencil ■ Vulture View Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
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Our Primary level is fi lled with so many great books, P Levels at a Glance it wasn’t possible to off er just 12 selections a year. Our P+ level makes a great thing even better— ■ Stories bringing you 12 additional titles for the same ■ Nonfi ction reading level. ■ Fully illustrated ■ Especially selected as read-alouds Perfect for: Story time
APRIL JULY Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems Big Wolf & Little Wolf and Paintings written by Nadine Brun-Cosme • illustrated by Olivier Tallec written and illustrated by Douglas Florian Big Wolf has always lived alone under a tree “Gigantic, titanic, enormous, colossal— / at the top of a hill, and he’s not sure what to What once was humongous is now just a think when Little Wolf comes along and settles fossil.” With plesiosaurs who always say under the same tree. How will Big Wolf adjust please before they bite, “pterrifying” and to this not-so-little change? “ptenacious” pterosaurs, and micropachycephalosaurus— ISBN: 9781592700844 • 32 pp • Dewey: E a little dinosaur with a giant name—this poetry Enchanted Lion: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 collection will tickle your prehistoric funny bone. ISBN: 9781416979784 • 56 pp • Dewey: 811’.54 AUGUST Atheneum: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 Tortuga in Trouble by Ann Whitford Paul • illustrated by Ethan Long MAY In this Southwestern take on “Little Red Scaredy Squirrel at Night Riding Hood,” Tortuga sets off to bring written and illustrated by Mélanie Watt supper to his abuela, while his hungry Scaredy Squirrel’s horoscope says that all amigos—Iguana, Conejo, and Culebra— his bad dreams are about to come true at follow closely behind. But they’re not the midnight! What will he do to prepare? only ones who want to steal his dinner. ISBN: 9781554532889 • 32 pp • Dewey: E ISBN: 9780823421800 • 32 pp • Dewey: E Kids Can: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 Holiday House: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25
JUNE SEPTEMBER A Carousel Tale Let’s Do Nothing! written and illustrated by Elisa Kleven written and illustrated by Tony Fucile Ernst’s favorite animal on the carousel is the Frankie and Sal have run out of things to honey-colored dog. When the dog’s wooden tail do: “We’ve played every sport ever invented” falls off just before winter, Ernst pledges to keep and “baked enough cookies to feed a small it safe until the carousel reopens in the spring. country. . . .” Then Sal hits upon a solution: But does keeping it safe mean he can’t play with “Let’s do nothing!” How hard could that be? it or paint it? ISBN: 9780763634407 • 40 pp • Dewey: E ISBN: 9781582462394 • 40 pp • Dewey: E Candlewick: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Tricycle: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 It’s a joy to read about Ernst, and the vibrant colors and detailed illustrations in A Carousel Tale make it a joy to look at, too. —Georgia, Assistant Editor
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ How to Heal a Broken Wing ■ The Sea Serpent and Me ■ A Visitor for Bear Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 9 Grades 1–3 E EASY READING
E Levels at a Glance The engaging books in this level provide the perfect foundation for building comprehension ■ Challenging picture books in beginning readers—with short stories, ■ Poetry poetry collections, and picture books that are Perfect for: Beginning readers a bit more challenging.
APRIL JULY Orangutan Tongs Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Horse in the House written and illustrated by Jon Agee written by Erica Silverman • paintings by Betsy Lewin What annoys an oyster? Can a three-toed tree Cowgirl Kate wakes up to horse whiskers on toad tie a two-toed tree toad’s two-toed shoe? her face! Her horse, Cocoa, has gotten into the Is there more or less of Les Moore? Find out house—and when he sees how nice the “stalls” in this hilarious collection of tongue-twisting and “food bins” are, he doesn’t want to leave. poems by a master of wordplay. ISBN: 9780152053901 • 44 pp • Dewey: E ISBN: 9781423103158 • 32 pp • Dewey: 818/.5402 Harcourt: $15.00 • JLG: $13.25 Hyperion: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 AUGUST MAY Abigail Spells Chicken and Cat Clean Up written and illustrated by Anna Alter written and illustrated by Sara Varon Abigail likes spelling so much she spells As part of Chicken’s new business, Cat words all the time—in the morning: joins Chicken cleaning house for a “B-R-U-S-H, B-R-U-S-H,” at lunch: wealthy client. After Cat breaks a glass, “C-A-R-R-O-T,” and in the evening: adds too much soap to the wash, and, “Good N-I-G-H-T.” Abigail can’t wait most embarrassingly, gets caught eating a for the spelling bee, but then she makes a plant, the owner kicks Cat out. But when mistake in the fi rst round! a mouse snatches a purse from a passing ISBN: 9780375956171 • 40 pp • Dewey: E ladybug, Cat gets a chance at redemption. Knopf: $19.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780439634083 • 48 pp • Dewey: E Scholastic: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 SEPTEMBER My Name is Sangoel JUNE by Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed • illustrated by Catherine Stock Luke on the Loose “This is San, Sang, San-go-el.” Sangoel is proud of his name, which written and illustrated by Harry Bliss was also his father’s, but everyone in America—his doctor, his teachers, Luke and his father are in the park, but Luke’s his classmates—mispronounces it. “In America I have lost my name,” father is discussing “boring dad stuff” with his he confi des to his mother. How can he reclaim it? friend. When Luke spots some interesting-looking ISBN: 9780802853073 • 32 pp • Dewey: E pigeons, he decides to chase after them. How Eerdmans: $17.00 • JLG: $13.25 much trouble could one kid on the loose cause? This is my favorite picture book of the season. ISBN: 9781935179009 • 32 pp • Dewey: 741.5/973 It’s wise and touching—relying on small, TOON: $12.95 • JLG: $13.25 everyday details to elicit big emotions. —Nathalie, Editorial Assistant
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek ■ Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig ■ Wangari’s Trees of Peace Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
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Don’t stop at just 12. Order this extended level and E Levels at a Glance treat your students to even more challenges—with 12 additional Easy Reading titles delivered to your ■ Challenging picture books library each year. ■ Poetry Perfect for: Beginning readers
APRIL JULY Tsunami! Redwoods by Kimiko Kajikawa • illustrated by Ed Young written and illustrated by Jason Chin Why would Ojiisan, the wealthiest man in A book transports a boy from a New York City the village, set fi re to his rice fi elds on the day subway to a redwood forest. The magnifi cent of a harvest celebration? trees there soar hundreds of feet in the air, ISBN: 9780399250064 • 32 pp • Dewey: 398.20952 make their own rain, and are home to animals Philomel: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 and plants that never touch the forest fl oor. ISBN: 9781596434301 • 40 pp MAY Roaring Brook: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden • illustrated by Don Tate AUGUST Lake City, South Carolina, 1959: When nine- Tiny & Hercules year-old Ron decides to check out books from written and illustrated by Amy Schwartz the library himself instead of letting someone Tiny is an elephant who notices small details. else do it for him, he is breaking the rules, and Hercules is a mouse with big ideas. In each the desk clerk calls the police. of these fi ve short stories, the pair solves a ISBN: 9780525478492 • 32 pp • Dewey: E problem, whether it’s learning to skate, fi nding Dutton: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 a subject to paint, or running a cookie stand. ISBN: 9781596432536 • 32 pp • Dewey: E JUNE Roaring Brook: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 The Lion’s Share written and illustrated by Matthew McElligott SEPTEMBER After a special dinner, the lion king brings Voyage to the Pharos out a cake for dessert. The elephant takes by Sarah Gauch • illustrated by Roger Roth half and passes it to the hippo, who takes For years, Dino has asked to join his half of what remains and passes it on. By father, a ship’s cook, on the long sea the time the cake reaches the ant, there isn’t voyages that bring wine, oil, and leather enough to share with the king. How can she to faraway places. Now, fi nally, his make it up to him? father has said yes. If all goes well, Dino ISBN: 9780802797698 • 32 pp • Dewey: E will see the towering Pharos lighthouse Walker: $17.89 • JLG: $13.25 in Alexandria in just a few days. ISBN: 9780670062546 • 40 pp • Dewey: F Viking: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Nothing ■ Sandy’s Circus ■ Cowboy & Octopus Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 11 Grades 2–4 I INDEPENDENT READERS
I Levels at a Glance Children who can read on their own will love this level. With selections ranging from picture books ■ Fiction and nonfi ction to early chapter books, many of these compelling ■ Picture books and early chapter books fi ction and nonfi ction titles feature large print and ■ Large print eye-catching artwork. ■ Interior artwork Perfect for: Children who can read on their own
APRIL JULY Joe and Sparky Get New Wheels Tricking the Tallyman by Jamie Michalak • illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz by Jacqueline Davies • illustrated by S. D. Schindler Sparky is a turtle who likes to stay inside his shell. It is 1790, the year of the fi rst U.S. Joe is a giraffe who likes to stretch his neck and census, and Phineas Bump, a Tallyman, see the world. When a car appears one day at their cageless zoo, has just arrived in Tunbridge. But the the two set off on the ride of their lives—Joe behind the wheel, only thing that can be counted on in Sparky hanging on for dear life. Tunbridge is that its residents don’t want ISBN: 9780763633875 • 48 pp • Candlewick: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 to be counted. ISBN: 9780375939099 • 40 pp • Dewey: F Knopf: $20.99 • JLG: $13.25 MAY One Giant Leap AUGUST by Robert Burleigh • illustrated by Mike Wimmer “The Eagle dips. Hovers. . . . Dances over its Brenda Berman, Wedding Expert own dark shadow. . . . Clouds of moondust by Jane Breskin Zalben • illustrated by Victoria Chess swirl like blackening fog. An almost terrifying Will Brenda get to be a fl ower girl and wear blindness. And then—with only the very the outfi t of her dreams—a gold lamé dress slightest bump—the small craft touches and sparkly shoes—when her favorite uncle down. Whew!” gets married? ISBN: 9780399238833 • 40 pp • Dewey: 629.45’4 ISBN: 9780618313211 • 48 pp • Dewey: F Philomel: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Clarion: $16.00 • JLG: $13.25
JUNE SEPTEMBER Houndsley and Catina: Plink and Plunk Gullible Gus by James Howe • illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay by Maxine Rose Schur • illustrated by Andrew Glass Catina is nervous about going canoeing, but she “Cowboy Gus believed everything people doesn’t say anything to her best friend Houndsley. told him. Everything!” Will there ever be a Houndsley doesn’t know how to ride a bike, but story so far-fetched that even Gullible Gus he does his best when Catina wants to go for a won’t believe it? ride. Both friends feel much better when they go ISBN: 9780618927104 • 48 pp • Dewey: E for a picnic and tell each other the truth. Clarion: $15.00 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780763633851 • 48 pp • Dewey: E Candlewick: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 I like how seriously this book treats its characters and their feelings. Fear, shame, and friendship are all dealt with in a way that is refreshingly honest, and the resolution is hopeful and entirely plausible. —Dan, Assistant Editor
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Buff alo Music ■ Maybelle Goes to Tea ■ Silent Music Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
12 | 800-491-0174 Grades 2–4 INDEPENDENT READERS I+
Want even more? If 12 Independent books a year just I Levels at a Glance aren’t enough for your hungry readers, our I+ level has what you’re looking for—providing 12 more titles ■ Fiction and nonfi ction at the very same reading level. ■ Picture books and early chapter books ■ Large print ■ Interior artwork Perfect for: Children who can read on their own
APRIL JULY Your Body Battles a Skinned Knee My Uncle Emily by Vicki Cobb • photomicrographs by Dennis Kunkel by Jane Yolen • illustrated by Nancy Carpenter illustrated by Andrew N. Harris Gib loves his aunt, the poet Emily Dickinson, “Don’t you just hate to skin your knee? First who in his family is playfully called “Uncle comes the pain, then the howl, and maybe Emily.” When she gives Gib a poem and a even tears.” But the real drama begins when dead bumblebee to take to his teacher, he is nerve cells send “a pain message to the brain” afraid of how the other boys will react. at speeds faster than 200 miles per hour. Soon, ISBN: 9780399240058 • 32 pp • Dewey: E “big, bumpy . . . cells called macrophages” are Philomel: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 arriving on the scene, ready to grab and eat invasive germs. AUGUST ISBN: 9780822568148 • 32 pp • Dewey: 617.5’82044 For the Duration: The War Years Millbrook: $25.26 • JLG: $13.25 written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola It’s World War II, and Americans are making MAY sacrifi ces. Tomie misses his cousin, whose plane Sparrow Girl was shot down, and he must say good-bye to his by Sara Pennypacker • illustrated by Yoko Tanaka uncle, who is shipping off to basic training. Still, As the people in Ming-Li’s village clash gongs much of Tomie’s life continues as usual. He’s and crash cymbals in compliance with the looking forward to his dance recital, riding the leader’s call to rid China of sparrows, young bus around town by himself, and having his Ming-Li quietly tries to save as many birds as First Communion. she can. ISBN: 9780399252099 • 112 pp • Dewey: 813/.54 B ISBN: 9781423111870 • 40 pp • Dewey: E Putnam’s: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 Hyperion: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 SEPTEMBER JUNE Muktar and the Camels Nic Bishop Butterfl ies and Moths by Janet Graber • illustrated by Scott Mack written and photographed by Nic Bishop “Camels fi rst. Always camels fi rst. Camels See butterfl ies and moths in amazing detail in are treasure.” Muktar and his family lived by this follow-up to Nic Bishop Spiders, a Robert these words as nomads in war-torn Somalia. F. Sibert Honor Book, and Nic Bishop Frogs, Now, living in an orphanage in Kenya, Muktar a Nonfi ction Honor Book for the Boston has no camels to tend, and he is known to be Globe–Horn Book Award. “lazy” and a “dreamer.” Then a traveling library ISBN: 9780439877572 • 48 pp • Dewey: 595.78/9 arrives, carried on the backs of three camels. Scholastic: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780805078343 • 32 pp • Dewey: F Holt: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Clementine’s Letter ■ Nic Bishop Frogs ■ Way Up and Over Everything Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 13 Grades 2–6 BE BIOGRAPHY ELEMENTARY
BE Level at a Glance Fascinating biographies and autobiographies will allow your elementary readers to look into the lives, ■ Biographies and autobiographies thoughts, and accomplishments of the individuals ■ Some illustration who have shaped our world. ■ Explanations appropriate for lower grades Perfect for: Elementary readers seeking to learn and be inspired by the lives of others
APRIL JULY Mermaid Queen: The Spectacular True Story of Into the Deep: The Life of Naturalist and Annette Kellerman, Who Swam Her Way to Fame, Explorer William Beebe Fortune, and Swimsuit History written and illustrated by David Sheldon by Shana Corey • illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham “To be a naturalist is better than to be a king,” This is the true story of Annette Kellerman, who William Beebe wrote as a child. He held this overcame her childhood leg braces to become a opinion all his life, becoming a pioneering ecologist famous swimmer at a time when female athletes and conservationist and exploring parts of the were met with disbelief and derision. world—including the deep sea—that no one had ISBN: 9780439698351 • 48 pp • Dewey: 797.2/1092 B ever seen before. Scholastic: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9781580893411 • 48 pp • Dewey: 508.092 B Charlesbridge: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 MAY Open the Door to Liberty!: A Biography of AUGUST Toussaint L’Ouverture Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott by Anne Rockwell • illustrated by R. Gregory Christie by Yona Zeldis McDonough • illustrated by Bethanna Anderson Before Toussaint L’Ouverture was born, a Louisa May Alcott grew up in a poor but wise woman told his parents that he would unconventional and imaginative household. grow up to be more than a man—he would Her experiences with her parents and her sisters be a nation. This is the story of a forgotten inspired the beloved classic Little Women. hero who led the slaves of St. Domingue ISBN: 9780805081923 • 48 pp • Dewey: 813/.4 B (now Haiti) to freedom. Holt: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780618605705 • 80 pp • Dewey: 972.94’03092 Houghton Miffl in: $18.00 • JLG: $13.25 SEPTEMBER An Eye for Color: The Story of Joseph Albers JUNE by Natasha Wing • illustrated by Julia Breckenreid Teedie: The Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt The painter Joseph Albers saw art in simple things. written and illustrated by Don Brown Late in his career, he began painting squares of Teedie Roosevelt was a “timid homebody” of solid, unmixed color, one within another. “I’m not a child, with weak eyes and frail muscles, but paying homage to a square,” he said. “It’s only the his curiosity and determination would one day dish I serve my craziness about color in.” take him all the way to the White House. ISBN: 9780805080728 • 40 pp • Dewey: 709.2 ISBN: 9780618179992 • 32 pp • Dewey: 973.91/1092 B Holt: $16.96 • JLG: $13.25 Houghton Miffl in: $16.00 • JLG: $13.25 OK, I admit it. I didn’t “get” Joseph Albers’s work before reading this book. Now I’m amazed by it. This book is a pleasure to read and view, and I enjoyed the personal insights the author off ers in the afterword. —Susan, Editorial Director
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Boys of Steel ■ A River of Words ■ Wanda Gág Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
14 | 800-491-0174 Grades 2–6 MYSTERY/ADVENTURE ELEMENTARY ME
Spine-tingling tales of suspense and adventure ME Level at a Glance compose this level—fi lled with both fi ction and nonfi ction titles. Elementary readers who thrive on ■ Fiction and nonfi ction a thrill will love these selections. ■ Suspense ■ Adventure Perfect for: Elementary readers seeking a thrill
APRIL JULY Joey Fly, Private Eye, in Creepy Crawly Crime Saxby Smart, Private Detective: The Curse of by Aaron Reynolds • illustrated by Neil Numberman the Ancient Mask and Other Case Files When Delilah, a butterfl y, recently held a by Simon Cheshire • illustrated by R. W. Alley party, her diamond pencil box was stolen. Ten-year-old detective Saxby Smart doesn’t have Or that’s what she tells Joey Fly. However, a sidekick, so he invites readers to help him keep as Joey and his assistant, Sammy Stingtail, track of clues. See if you’re up to the challenge soon discover, Delilah’s story doesn’t match as Saxby unravels a corporate espionage plot, what her party guests have to say. Graphic- discovers a vandal’s identity, and clears his friend’s novel format. name when she’s accused of theft. ISBN: 9780805082425 • 96 pp • Dewey: 741.5’973 ISBN: 9781596434745 • 176 pp • Dewey: F Henry Holt: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 Roaring Brook: $13.95 • JLG: $13.25
MAY AUGUST Damian Drooth, Supersleuth: The Mystery Highway Robbery of the Missing Mutts by Kate Thompson • illustrated by Robert Dress by Barbara Mitchelhill • illustrated by Tony Ross The black mare being sold by a young When Mrs. Popperwell’s poodle disappears, vagrant isn’t just any old horse; she’s Black Damian Drooth is sure there are dognappers Bess, famed steed of the highwayman Dick around. But, for some reason, when Damian Turpin. And if you’ll lend an ear, the urchin protects all the local dogs by hiding them in will tell you the strange tale of how he his family’s garden shed, his neighbors don’t acquired the horse. appreciate it. ISBN: 9780061730344 • 128 pp • Dewey: F ISBN: 9781434212160 • 72 pp • Dewey: F Greenwillow: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 Stone Arch: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 SEPTEMBER JUNE Wild River The Puzzling World of Winston Breen: by P. J. Petersen The Potato Chip Puzzles “I’d never been in danger before. Video games by Eric Berlin were as close as I’d come.” When Ryan’s older Winston and his best friends expected the brother, Tanner, is wounded and knocked puzzle competition they entered to be tricky. unconscious during their kayaking trip, Ryan More challenging than any puzzle, though, is scales cliffs, braves river rapids, and rappels down discovering who’s sabotaging the contest. a waterfall in order to save him. And much to ISBN: 9780399251986 • 256 pp • Dewey: F Ryan’s surprise, his video game expertise keeps Putnam’s: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 coming in handy. ISBN: 9780385906562 • 128 pp • Dewey: F Delacorte: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ The Invention of Hugo Cabret ■ The Puzzling World of Winston Breen ■ The Seer of Shadows Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 15 Grades 2–6 NE NONFICTION ELEMENTARY
NE Level at a Glance A world of discovery awaits. Elementary readers eager to know more will learn much from diving ■ Exclusively nonfi ction into these nonfi ction titles covering a diverse range Perfect for: Elementary readers who want to know more of topics to satisfy inquisitive minds.
APRIL JULY The Vermeer Interviews: Conversations with Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature’s Seven Works of Art Mysteries from Perilous Places by Bob Raczka by Donna M. Jackson Would the milkmaid in Jan Vermeer’s One scientist fl ies planes through The Milkmaid rather have been a queen? What was the geographer in hurricanes; another delves deep into Vermeer’s painting The Geographer thinking about as he gazed out the caves to study rare microbes; a third window? In this book, Bob Raczka asks them. climbs enormous trees to better study ISBN: 9780822594024 • 32 pp • Dewey: 759.9492 • Millbrook: $25.26 • JLG: $13.25 the ecosystems in their canopies. All three scientists put themselves in danger Bob Raczka draws attention to many fascinating details to unlock nature’s secrets. I had never noticed before in Vermeer’s paintings: ISBN: 9780618777068 • 80 pp • Dewey: 509.2/2 a cracked window, the repetition of a color or a shape, Houghton Miffl in: $18.00 • JLG: $13.25 or a shadow where the artist corrected a gesture. I learned a lot from this book, and kids will, too. AUGUST —Dan, Assistant Editor Pharaoh’s Boat written and illustrated by David Weitzman MAY In 1954, archaeologists discovered Your Body Battles a Broken Bone something incredible at the foot of an by Vicki Cobb • photomicrographs by Dennis Kunkel Egyptian pyramid: pieces of a large ship illustrated by Andrew N. Harris meant to carry the pharaoh Cheops “A broken bone happens quickly, and it’s a across the heavens. See how ancient nasty surprise. . . . The good news is that you shipwrights built the ship and how will recover. Different parts of your body twentieth-century restorers learned to work as a team to put your broken bones back reconstruct it. together. . . . Meet the superheroes of your ISBN: 9780547053417 • 48 pp • Dewey: 932/.012 own body.” Houghton Miffl in: $17.00 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780822574682 • 32 pp • Dewey: 617.4’71044 Millbrook: $25.26 • JLG: $13.25 SEPTEMBER Life in the Boreal Forest JUNE by Brenda Z. Guiberson • illustrated by Gennady Spirin The Time Book: A Brief History from Lunar The boreal forest “is buried in ice and snow Calendars to Atomic Clocks during winter. But the summertime lakes by Martin Jenkins • illustrated by Richard Holland teem with fi sh, and bogs swarm with insects.” “Why are our ways of measuring time so wonky? Follow a snowshoe hare, beavers, a lynx, and Why are months and years not all the same other animals as they survive a year in this length . . . And while we’re at it, what is this stuff endangered landscape. called time anyway?” ISBN: 9780805077186 • 40 pp • Dewey: 578.73/7 ISBN: 9780763641122 • 64 pp • Dewey: 529/.7 Holt: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Candlewick: $18.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Duel! ■ Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship ■ Team Moon Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
16 | 800-491-0174 Grades 2–6 SPORTS ELEMENTARY SE
Welcome to an exciting world of sports-themed SE Level at a Glance fi ction and nonfi ction sure to win over your elementary sports fans. Have a few reluctant ■ Sports themes readers? These action-packed titles are a great way ■ Fiction and nonfi ction to get them in the game. Perfect for: Reluctant elementary readers and sports fans
APRIL JULY Swish: The Quest for Basketball’s Perfect Shot Skater’s Secret by Mark Stewart and Mike Kennedy by Jake Maddox • illustrated by Tuesday Mourning Larry Bird was a master of basketball’s oldest Maggie wants to be as graceful on the ice as shot, the set shot; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar her older sister, Shannon, who always bests her released his hook shot so high in the air that in skating competitions. When Maggie hears he could shoot down at the rim; LeBron Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata,” she’s sure it’s the James’s slam dunk is nearly unstoppable. perfect piece to skate to (and win with)—until she Swish tells the stories behind basketball’s most discovers her sister practicing to the same music. remarkable shots. ISBN: 9781434212122 • 72 pp • Dewey: F ISBN: 9780822587521 • 64 pp • Dewey: 796.3230973 Stone Arch: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 Millbrook: $18.95 • JLG: $13.25 AUGUST MAY Track Attack: Gym Shorts The Desperado Who Stole Baseball by Betty Hicks • illustrated by Simon Gane by John H. Ritter Jazz recently joined the track team, and her dad 1881: The rough-and-tumble Dillontown Nine is excited for her—too excited. He yells at the have made a bold wager against the best team in referees, constantly dispenses advice, and cheers baseball, the Chicago White Stockings, and the much louder than the other parents. Jazz has to future of Dillontown is on the line. Can twelve- get her dad to calm down, but she worries about year-old baseball strategist Jack Dillon and his hurting his feelings. new friend and baseball prodigy, Billy the Kid, ISBN: 9781596434882 • 64 pp • Dewey: F beat the Stockings and save Dillontown? Roaring Brook: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780399246647 • 256 pp • Dewey: F Philomel: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 SEPTEMBER The Fastest Game on Two Feet and Other Poems JUNE About How Sports Began Scaredy-Cat Catcher: Gym Shorts by Alice Low • illustrated by John O’Brien by Betty Hicks • illustrated by Adam McCauley Ancient runners ran to escape predators, Rocky was the best catcher in the league And footballers once kicked the skull of a man, until a reckless runner broke his arm. Now Herein author Alice Low describes how these his arm is healed, but he’s developed a refl ex and other games began. that keeps him from tagging out runners. ISBN: 9780823419050 • 40 pp • Dewey: 811/.54 How can Rocky’s friends—and his tenacious, Holiday House: $17.95 • JLG: $13.25 skateboarding dog—help him overcome his fear? ISBN: 9781596432468 • 64 pp • Dewey: F Roaring Brook: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Keeping Score ■ Let Me Play ■ The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 17 Grades 3–5 A INTERMEDIATE READERS
A Levels at a Glance A wide variety of novels and accessible nonfi ction for younger elementary readers who love a good ■ Novels story. The focus in these titles is primarily on the ■ Accessible nonfi ction text, though some may feature illustration. ■ Focus shifting from illustration to text Perfect for: Elementary readers who love a good story
APRIL JULY Calvin Coconut: Trouble Magnet The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes by Graham Salisbury • illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers by Kelly Easton • illustrated by Greg Swearingen Fourth grader Calvin Coconut lives with his Ten-year-old Liberty is not allowed to leave the mom and his younger sister in Kailua, Hawaii. house. Instead she must wait on her parents He’s man of the house, and being man of the hand and foot. One day she manages to unlock house means being responsible. Unfortunately, her father’s basement laboratory and fi nds all sorts of strange Calvin is better at getting in trouble. potions—including Lifting Soda, which leads Liberty to liberty. ISBN: 9780385906395 • 144 pp • Dewey: F ISBN: 9780375937712 • 224 pp • Dewey: F Wendy Lamb: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 Wendy Lamb: $18.99 • JLG: $13.25
MAY AUGUST Lucky Breaks You Are Weird: Your Body’s Peculiar Parts by Susan Patron • illustrated by Matt Phelan and Funny Functions In this sequel to the 2007 Newbery Medal winner, by Diane Swanson • illustrated by Kathy Boake The Higher Power of Lucky, Lucky devises a plan The stomach oozes acid that is strong enough to make Hard Pan, California (pop. 43), a bit less to dissolve a razor blade. Spread out fl at, a boring by recruiting a new best friend. person’s skin would almost cover a double bed. ISBN: 9781416939986 • 192 pp • Dewey: F Goose bumps are created by tiny individual Atheneum: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 muscles. Let’s face it: the human body is weird. ISBN: 9781554532827 • 40 pp • Dewey: 612 JUNE Kids Can: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 Dying To Meet You: 43 Old Cemetery Road, Book 1 by Kate Klise • illustrated by M. Sarah Klise SEPTEMBER Children’s author I. B. Grumply desperately Just the Right Size: Why Big Animals Are Big and needs to write his next Ghost Tamer book. But Little Animals Are Little how can he concentrate? The supposedly quiet by Nicola Davies • illustrated by Neal Layton house he has rented is inhabited not only by Why don’t apes grow to be as big as King Kong? Why can’t humans fl y eleven-year-old Seymour Hope and his cat, but like Superman? Just the Right Size uses cartoon-style art and geometry by a ghost as well! to explain the relationship between an animal’s size and its abilities. ISBN: 9780152057275 • 160 pp • Dewey: F ISBN: 9780763639242 • 64 pp • Candlewick: $14.99 • JLG: $13.25 Harcourt: $15.00 • JLG: $13.25 Now I can stop wondering why I can’t have superpowers! The answers are all here and presented in a funny and appealing way. —Susan, Editorial Director
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ A Crooked Kind of Perfect ■ Masterpiece ■ The Penderwicks on Gardam Street Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
18 | 800-491-0174 Grades 3–5 INTERMEDIATE READERS A+
We just couldn’t stop there. Our A level is so rich, A Levels at a Glance we extended it with an A+ level—giving you the opportunity to receive 12 additional Intermediate ■ Novels titles every year. ■ Accessible nonfi ction ■ Focus shifting from illustration to text Perfect for: Elementary readers who love a good story
APRIL JULY The Dust Bowl: An Interactive History Adventure Friend or Fiend? with the Pain & the Great One by Allison Lassieur by Judy Blume • illustrations by James Stevenson First, the Great Depression gripped the United In reading circle, Jake, “the Pain,” mistakenly States. Now, in 1931, the southern Great Plains reads “fi end” for “friend.” Although he’s is experiencing a tremendous drought. What will embarrassed, it turns out to be a useful lesson. you do? Stay on your Kansas farm? Become a As he and his sister, Abigail, a.k.a. “The Great migrant worker? Or will you experience life as a One,” learn, friends occasionally do behave government photographer, documenting life in like fi ends. the Dust Bowl? ISBN: 9780385903271 • 128 pp • Dewey: F ISBN: 9781429623438 • 112 pp • Dewey: 978/.032 Delacorte: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Capstone: $20.99 • JLG: $13.25 AUGUST MAY The Cats of Roxville Station The Name Game: A Look Behind the Labels by Jean Craighead George • illustrated by Tom Pohrt by Donna M. Jackson • illustrated by Ted Stearn A young cat named Rachet is thrown into a When did people fi rst begin to use surnames? river and left to drown, but she climbs up What country has a committee that rejects or the riverbank and fi nds a home with the feral approves what its citizens want to name their cats living around the Roxville train station. children? What is a neologism? In this book, Though Rachet is drawn to a boy who lives you’ll fi nd out the answers to these and many near the station, she doesn’t know whether she other fascinating name-related questions. can trust him. ISBN: 9780670011971 • 48 pp • Dewey: 929.9/7 ISBN: 9780525421405 • 192 pp • Dewey: F Viking: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Dutton: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
JUNE SEPTEMBER Roman Diary: The Journal of Iliona of Any Which Wall Mytilini, Who Was Captured and Sold as by Laurel Snyder • drawings by LeUyen Pham a Slave in Rome, AD 107 The massive, mysterious, magic wall that four by Richard Platt • illustrated by David Parkins children fi nd in the middle of a cornfi eld “Pity us! Apollo and I have lost everything will take them anywhere, to any time period. we loved and cherished. Now we are orphans Soon Henry, Emma, Roy, and Susan are meeting and slaves, to be bought and sold like goats.” wizards, queens, pirates, and outlaws! Iliona records her experiences as she and her ISBN: 9780375955600 • 256 pp • Dewey: F brother, Greeks now owned by a Roman Random House: $19.99 • JLG: $13.25 senator, are separated. ISBN: 9780763634803 • 64 pp • Dewey: F Candlewick: $18.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Me and the Pumpkin Queen ■ Counting on Grace ■ The Prairie Builders Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 19 Grades 5–7 B UPPER ELEMENTARY & JUNIOR HIGH
B Levels at a Glance The perfect literary mix for your middle-grade readers. Featuring subject matter a bit more ■ Novels complex and multi-dimensional, this level is packed ■ Nonfi ction with captivating novels and fascinating nonfi ction. ■ More complex and challenging than books in the A Level Perfect for: Middle-grade readers
APRIL JULY Peace, Locomotion Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love by Jacqueline Woodson by Lauren Tarshis In letters to his sister, Lili, who lives with a Seventh grader Emma-Jean “disliked dances, different foster family, twelve-year-old Lonnie but the idea of standing close to Will Keeler refl ects on family, loss, love, and peace. A for any length of time was appealing. . . . And despite his somewhat companion to the National Book Award untidy appearance, he had a pleasing smell, like pine needles and fi nalist and Coretta Scott King Honor Book, pennies.” Will Emma-Jean ask Will to the upcoming Spring Fling? Locomotion. ISBN: 9780803733213 • 192 pp • Dewey: F • Dial: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780399246555 • 144 pp • Dewey: F Putnam’s: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 AUGUST Extra Credit MAY by Andrew Clements • illustrated by Mark Elliott Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales Abby, in danger of failing sixth grade, must edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling complete an extra-credit project—writing to a pen Are all fairy-tale villains really evil? In this pal in Afghanistan. Sadeed, the village’s best pupil, collection of original stories and poems by Nancy is the obvious pen-pal choice, but his village elders Farmer, Kelly Link, Garth Nix, Neil Gaiman, and say it isn’t proper for a boy to correspond with eleven other well-known children’s authors, you’ll a girl. So Sadeed’s younger sister is chosen, and hear from the villains themselves! Sadeed is instructed to secretly help her. ISBN: 9780670061419 • 160 pp • Dewey: F ISBN: 9781416949299 • 160 pp • Dewey: F Viking: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Atheneum: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
JUNE SEPTEMBER The Frog Scientist When You Reach Me by Pamela S. Turner • photographs by Andy Comins by Rebecca Stead Through experiments with leopard frogs and One day, twelve-year-old Miranda comes home from school to fi nd the the pesticide atrazine, scientist Tyrone Hayes door to the apartment unlocked. Nothing seems to be missing or out is working to determine why the world’s of place, but a few days later, Miranda fi nds a note. It says: “. . . I am frog population is on the decline. coming to save your friend’s life, and my own.” ISBN: 9780618717163 • 64 pp • Dewey: 597.8/917279 ISBN: 9780385906647 • 208 pp • Dewey: F Houghton Miffl in: $18.00 • JLG: $13.25 Wendy Lamb: $18.99 • JLG: $13.25 I was immediately drawn into this original and surprising novel. What’s more, the moment I fi nished When You Reach Me, I wanted to turn back to the fi rst page and read it again. —Liz, Senior Editor
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ King George: What Was His Problem? ■ Shooting the Moon ■ The Willoughbys Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
20 | 800-491-0174 Grades 5–7 UPPER ELEMENTARY & JUNIOR HIGH B+
A great way to ensure more titles for your middle-grade B Levels at a Glance readers—with 12 additional popular B titles arriving at your door every year. ■ Novels ■ Nonfi ction ■ More complex and challenging than books in the A Level Perfect for: Middle-grade readers
APRIL JULY Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies and Change the World . . . One Child at a Time Other Warped and Creepy Tales by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin by David Lubar adapted by Sarah Thomson In thirty-fi ve “warped and creepy” short stories, In 1993, Greg Mortenson, an American, became an umbrella eats a boy; a girl casts a spell on lost in the mountains of Pakistan. The people of herself and can’t stop talking; a fl ock of giant the poor village of Korphe took him in and cared turkeys takes revenge on some vegans; and for him. Moved by their kindness, he promised two boys battle it out to see who can eat the to return and build a school for their children. hottest pepper. ISBN: 9780142414125 • 192 pp • Dewey: 371.82209549 ISBN: 9780765320995 • 192 pp • Dewey: F Dial: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Starscape: $15.95 • JLG: $13.25
MAY AUGUST The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg The Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive by Rodman Philbrick History Adventure 1863: Homer Figg and his older brother, Harold, by Heather Adamson live with their uncle, Squinton Leach, “the meanest What role will you play during the civil rights man in the entire state of Maine.” Then Squinton movement? Will you be involved in the 1957 illegally sells Harold to the Union Army, and desegregation of Central High School in Little Homer runs away to fi nd his brother and save him Rock, Arkansas? Will you join the nonviolent from the war. protests and Freedom Rides in 1961? Or will ISBN: 9780439668187 • 192 pp • Dewey: F you experience life in Birmingham, Alabama, in Scholastic: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 1963? Each choice you make affects your future. ISBN: 9781429623452 • 112 pp • Dewey: 323.1196/073 JUNE Capstone: $20.99 • JLG: $13.25 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass SEPTEMBER Amanda and Leo, best friends born on the same The Year of the Bomb day, have celebrated their birthday together since by Ronald Kidd they were babies. Until their tenth birthday, that Sierra Madre, California, 1955: Paul and his is, when Amanda stopped speaking to Leo. Now, friends are thrilled when Invasion of the Body when they wake up the day after turning eleven, Snatchers fi lms in their town. Then, while they each discover that they’re destined to relive hanging out on set, they learn about a greater their birthday—day after day after day. threat than aliens: in the next town over lives a ISBN: 9780545052399 • 288 pp • Dewey: F suspected Communist spy. And the boys are sure Scholastic: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 that catching him will be more exciting than any monster movie. ISBN: 9781416958925 • 240 pp • Dewey: F Simon & Schuster: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Bird Lake Moon ■ My One Hundred Adventures ■ Waiting for Normal Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 21 Grades 6–9 C ADVANCED READERS
C Levels at a Glance Your pre-teen and teen readers won’t be able to get enough of these selections. Books here ■ Longer, more challenging novels are a bit longer than our B level titles, with ■ Thought-provoking nonfi ction and poetry more challenging storylines and a wealth of Perfect for: Preteens and teenagers thought-provoking nonfi ction.
APRIL JULY Up Close: Bill Gates Slob by Marc Aronson by Ellen Potter Who is the real Bill Gates? Is he a ruthless “Everyone thinks they know the fat kid. We’re so entrepreneur or a global philanthropist? Is he obvious. Our embarrassing secret is out there for an example of how success requires tremendous everyone to see, spilling over our belts, fl apping amounts of work, or did he benefi t from under our chins, stretching the seams of our jeans. opportunities that few others had? That doesn’t mean we don’t have other secrets that you can’t see.” ISBN: 9780670063482 • 144 pp • Dewey: 338.7/610053092 ISBN: 9780399247057 • 208 pp • Dewey: F • Philomel: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Viking: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Owen Birnbaum admits he’s fatter and smarter than most people, but he’s funnier and more interesting MAY than most, too. I rooted for Owen throughout all of Alligator Bayou Slob’s surprising, inventive plot. by Donna Jo Napoli —Georgia, Assistant Editor 1899: The white residents of Tallulah, Louisiana, resent Calo and his family, who are successful business owners and the only AUGUST Sicilians in town. As tensions mount between Kaleidoscope Eyes the whites and the Sicilians, resentment turns by Jen Bryant into devastating violence. Lyza’s mom ran off, several of Lyza’s acquaintances ISBN: 9780385908917 • 256 pp • Dewey: F have been killed in Vietnam, and her grandfather Wendy Lamb: $19.99 • JLG: $13.25 recently died. The only good surprise Lyza receives is a series of maps Gramps left her. After all JUNE of Lyza’s losses, perhaps the maps will help her Anything But Typical fi nd something. by Nora Raleigh Baskin ISBN: 9780375940484 • 272 pp • Dewey: F Knopf: $18.99 • JLG: $13.25 Jason is ecstatic when his parents offer to take him to a writing conference, until he learns that PhoenixBird, the number one fan of Jason’s SEPTEMBER online stories, will be there. Because there’s The Missing: Book 2, Sent something PhoenixBird doesn’t know about by Margaret Peterson Haddix Jason: he’s autistic. “A wave of nausea fl owed over Jonah. He wasn’t ISBN: 9781416976752 • 208 pp • Dewey: F sure if it was because it’d just sunk in that he was Simon & Schuster: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 hundreds of years out of place, or if it was because his senses were working better now and he’d just realized that the fi fteenth century reeked.” ISBN: 9781416954224 • 320 pp • Dewey: F Simon & Schuster: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ The Entertainer and the Dybbuk ■ The Shepherd’s Granddaughter ■ The Surrender Tree Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
22 | 800-491-0174 Grades 6–9 ADVANCED READERS C+
Help yourself to our C+ level and receive 12 more C Levels at a Glance titles every year—coming-of-age tales and life lessons your preteen and teen readers are sure ■ Longer, more challenging novels to love. ■ Thought-provoking nonfi ction and poetry Perfect for: Preteens and teenagers
APRIL JULY The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone They Went, and Went There by Dene Low by Daniel Pinkwater Petronella’s coming-out party is bad enough with Iggy lives in a haunted hotel, and she’s friends her uncle Augustus catching bugs to eat and the with the ghosts. So when they start disappearing, party tent collapsing. The party becomes a real Iggy’s on the case. Among the characters that disaster, though, when someone kidnaps two of help her along the way are a shaman named Petronella’s guests. Melvin, a size-shifting bunny, and a boy enslaved ISBN: 9780547152509 • 208 pp • Dewey: F by witches. Houghton Miffl in: $16.00 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780618594450 • 256 pp • Dewey: F Houghton Miffl in: $16.00 • JLG: $13.25 AUGUST Pip: The Story of Olive MAY by Kim Kane The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Just when Olive Garnaut loses her best friend to a by Jacqueline Kelly mean, popular girl, Pip Garnaut shows up. Olive Callie Vee Tate dreams of being a scientist—a loves spending time with her brave, cheeky twin. rare profession for a woman in 1899—but how Strangely, only Olive can see her. can she do it, when her mother insists that she ISBN: 9780385751728 • 256 pp • Dewey: F spend less time exploring nature and more time David Fickling: $18.99 • JLG: $13.25 learning to be a lady? ISBN: 9780805088410 • 352 pp • Dewey: F SEPTEMBER Henry Holt: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 The Great Death by John Smelcer JUNE The only survivors of a plague that a white man All the Broken Pieces: A Novel in Verse brought to their village, sisters Millie and Maura by Ann Burg fi ght for survival in the Alaskan wilderness as “I partner up with Alex, as usual. / If he minds they make their way toward another settlement. being partnered / with me, he never says so. / He ISBN: 9780805081008 • 176 pp • Dewey: F just pushes up his glasses, / nods, and starts tossing Henry Holt: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 the ball.” Matt, who was airlifted to America from Vietnam two years earlier, loves playing baseball. But in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Matt’s race makes him a target for other players. ISBN: 9780545080927 • 208 pp • Dewey: F Scholastic: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Airman ■ Brooklyn Bridge ■ Chains Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 23 Grades 7–11 FM FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL
FM Level at a Glance Your middle- and high-school readers will thrill to new futures, fantasy realms, and ■ Fantasy alternate realities. ■ Science Fiction ■ Appropriate for middle- and high-school readers Perfect for: Mid/high readers looking for swords and sorcery or aliens and alternate futures
APRIL JULY Tales from Outer Suburbia Thirteenth Child: Frontier Magic, Book 1 written and illustrated by Shaun Tan by Patricia C. Wrede In this collection of illustrated stories, a water Lan is the seventh son of a seventh son and buffalo directs people toward the solutions to thus a natural magician. Eff, his twin sister, is a their problems; a house has a secret courtyard in thirteenth child and considered unlucky. When the attic; and people keep beautifully decorated their family moves to the North Plains Territory, nuclear missiles in their backyards. “right at the edge of the Great Prairie,” Eff will ISBN: 9780545055871 • 96 pp • Dewey: F discover that she, too, has magic powers and that Scholastic: $19.99 • JLG: $13.25 she must learn to control them. ISBN: 9780545033428 • 320 pp • Dewey: F MAY Scholastic: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 The Book of Tormod: A Templar’s Apprentice by Kat Black AUGUST The Knights Templar are being hounded by The Roar the forces of King Philippe of France, and only by Emma Clayton a young boy named Tormod can help them. Mika lives behind The Wall, safe from the Animal Burdened by visions of the future, Tormod must Plague beyond—or so he’s been told. His twin quickly learn the way of the Templars as he is sister, Ellie, vanished a year ago, and although entrusted with a relic of tremendous power. everyone tells him she is dead, Mika senses that ISBN: 9780545056540 • 320 pp • Dewey: F she is still alive. When he is recruited to compete Scholastic: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 in a violent virtual reality game, he sees a chance to search for Ellie—and the truth. JUNE ISBN: 9780439925938 • 544 pp • Dewey: F The Amaranth Enchantment Chicken House: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 by Julie Berry When a woman known as the Amaranth Witch SEPTEMBER visits the shop of Lucinda’s uncle, Lucinda’s life Darkwood takes a perilous turn. Soon Lucinda has been by M. E. Breen kicked out of the shop, has befriended the witch, Children are disappearing in Howland, and the and is studying with a thief and fl irting with the townsfolk are blaming the kinderstalk, a race Crown Prince. She also discovers secrets about her of wolves that inhabits Howland’s dark forests. family’s past—and fi nds herself threatened by an When Annie learns that her uncle is about to sell enemy from another world. her to a frightening stranger, she runs away and ISBN: 9781599903347 • 320 pp • Dewey: F must face the kinderstalk—and her destiny. Bloomsbury: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9781599902593 • 288 pp • Dewey: F Bloomsbury: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Here Lies Arthur ■ Nation ■ The Unnameables Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
24 | 800-491-0174 Grades 7–11 MYSTERY/ADVENTURE MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL MM
For gripping mystery and adventure, look no MM Level at a Glance further than these riveting fi ction and nonfi ction books. Your middle- and high-school suspense ■ Fiction and nonfi ction seekers simply won’t be able to tear themselves ■ Suspense away from the page. ■ Adventure Perfect for: Mid/high readers seeking a thrill
APRIL JULY Scat If the Witness Lied by Carl Hiaasen by Caroline B. Cooney Mrs. Starch is the cruelest teacher in school. The Fountain children’s mother sacrifi ced her But even her students are concerned when she life to carry Tris to term. Two years later, Tris disappears during their fi eld trip to a local swamp. accidentally killed their father by releasing the ISBN: 9780375934865 • 384 pp • Dewey: F parking brake on the family Jeep. Or, at least, Knopf: $19.99 • JLG: $13.25 that’s what Aunt Cheryl claims she saw. But what if Cheryl, the only witness, lied? MAY ISBN: 9780385904513 • 224 pp • Dewey: F The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: Delacorte: $19.99 • JLG: $13.25 An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer AUGUST Mrs. Tupper, Enola’s kindly, near-deaf landlady, Night Wings has been kidnapped. And the only clues Enola by Joseph Bruchac • illustrated by Sally Wern Comport has to go on are a fancily embroidered crinoline Paul, an Abenaki teenager, knows that his dreams and a reference to “the Bird.” But what could of a winged monster are premonitions of Pmola, “the Bird”—the wartime nickname for Florence a creature who lives—and hides his treasure—at Nightingale—have to do with Mrs. Tupper? the peak of Mount Washington. Paul’s family ISBN: 9780399247811 • 176 pp • Dewey: F has kept Pmola’s location secret for generations, Philomel: $14.99 • JLG: $13.25 but now the host of TV’s Forbidden Mysteries Enola Holmes is the kind of heroine I love to root for. wants Paul and Grampa Peter to lead him to the She’s complicated, witty, and resourceful—in short, just treasure. realistic enough to be likable and just unrealistic ISBN: 9780061123191 • 208 pp • Dewey: F HarperCollins: $16.89 • JLG: $13.25 enough to be entertaining.
—Nathalie, Editorial Assistant SEPTEMBER Closed for the Season JUNE by Mary Downing Hahn A Kiss in Time Before Mrs. Donaldson was murdered, she by Alex Flinn buried a suitcase full of money in the Magic Jack is so bored on his trip to Europe that he and a Forest, a spooky, abandoned amusement park friend ditch their tour group to do some exploring overgrown with kudzu. Nobody knows the on their own. Jack’s boredom vanishes, however, suitcase’s exact location—but thirteen-year-old when he kisses a princess who’s been asleep for 300 Logan and his next-door neighbor may have years—and wakes her entire kingdom. just found a clue that could lead them to it. ISBN: 9780060874193 • 384 pp • Dewey: F ISBN: 9780547084510 • 192 pp • Dewey: F HarperCollins: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Clarion: $16.00 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ The Door of No Return ■ The Graveyard Book ■ The Postcard Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 25 Grades 7–11 NM NONFICTION MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL
NM Level at a Glance Knowledge is power, and no other level speaks to this more. From autobiographies to ■ Exclusively nonfi ction anthropological studies, these nonfi ction titles are ■ Appropriate for middle- and high-school readers just right for middle- and high-school readers . . . Perfect for: Research, classroom support, and readers who and ideal for research and classroom support, too. love to learn
APRIL JULY Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: and Colonial Maryland An Expedition Among Snow Leopards by Sally M. Walker in Mongolia How do forensic anthropologists looking at by Sy Montgomery • photographs by Nic Bishop colonial-era skeletons determine that one is the “Snow leopards are so hard to see, so skeleton of a fourteen-year-old boy who was diffi cult to fi nd, that people who once shot by an arrow and that another is that of lived among them thought these cats were part fl esh, part Captain Bartholomew Gosnold? phantom.” Author Sy Montgomery and Tom McCarthy, the ISBN: 9780822571353 • 144 pp • Dewey: 614’.17 scientist she follows on a research trip, must climb remote and Carolrhoda: $22.95 • JLG: $13.25 hazardous mountains with their team and rely on patience and luck in their attempts to study these elusive animals. MAY ISBN: 9780618916450 • 80 pp • Dewey: 599.75/5509517 Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees Houghton Miffl in: $18.00 • JLG: $13.25 by Deborah Ellis Here are nineteen interviews with children and AUGUST teenagers who fl ed Iraq because of the war and The Word Snoop who are now living in Jordan. Sara, age fi fteen, by Ursula Dubosarsky • illustrated by Tohby Riddle left Iraq with her family after militia members Ever hear of a mondegreen? It’s the word for sent a death threat to her mother. She says, when you hear a line from a song incorrectly “This is the one time I have in my life to be (it comes from someone mishearing the phrase young. I don’t want to spend it hiding and “And they laid him on the green.”). The Word worried and afraid.” Snoop introduces readers to many playful and ISBN: 9780888999078 • 144 pp • Dewey: 305.23086/91409567 serious aspects of the English language. Groundwood: $15.95 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780803734067 • 272 pp Dial: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 JUNE Secret Subway: The Fascinating Tale of an SEPTEMBER Amazing Feat of Engineering Under Siege!: Three Children at the by Martin W. Sandler Civil War Battle for Vicksburg Alfred Beach was the owner of a patent offi ce by Andrea Warren and Scientifi c American magazine. He also built Under Siege! looks at the 1862–63 siege and New York City’s fi rst subway—in secret. battle of Vicksburg through the eyes of three ISBN: 9781426304620 • 96 pp • Dewey: 388.4/28097471 children: Lucy McRae, the ten-year-old National Geographic: $17.95 • JLG: $13.25 daughter of a Vicksburg merchant; Willie Lord, eleven, the son of a minister; and twelve-year- old Frederick Grant, traveling with his father, Union General Ulysses S. Grant. ISBN: 9780374312558 • 176 pp • Dewey: 973.7/344 Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $21.95 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Who Was First? ■ The Real Benedict Arnold ■ Washington at Valley Forge Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
26 | 800-491-0174 Grades 7–11 SPORTS MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL SM
An action-packed level devoted exclusively to SM Level at a Glance sports. These fi ction and nonfi ction selections are sure to be a hit with your middle- and high-school ■ Sports themes sports fans. ■ Fiction and nonfi ction ■ Appropriate for middle- and high-school readers Perfect for: Reluctant mid/high readers and sports fans
APRIL JULY Bull Rider Super Stock Rookie by Suzanne Morgan Williams by Will Weaver In Salt Lick, Nevada, the O’Mara family is Sixteen-year-old small-town stock car driver legendary for bull riding. But fourteen-year-old Trace Bonham manages to land a ride with Cam O’Mara just wants to skateboard. Then the prestigious Team Blu. Their custom-built his older brother, Ben, once a champion rider, comes back machine handles like a dream, and it comes from Iraq paralyzed. Suddenly, Cam is feeling more pressure with an impressive paycheck. But is Trace than ever to live up to his family’s reputation. prepared to leave behind his family, friends, ISBN: 9781416961307 • 256 pp • Dewey: F and hometown crush for the glories—and McElderry: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 loneliness—of the road? ISBN: 9780374350611 • 208 pp • Dewey: F MAY Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $14.95 • JLG: $13.25 The Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings by Alan Gratz AUGUST 1845: Felix Schneider, a ten-year-old immigrant, Absolute Pressure cheers the New York Knickerbockers. 1908: Walter by Sigmund Brouwer Snider tries to sneak a black pitcher into the Ian has been spending his summers in Key majors. 2002: Snider Flint tracks down the story West for years, helping out at his Uncle of a bat that belonged to one of Brooklyn’s greatest Gord’s dive shop. One morning Ian’s scuba ballplayers. In nine stories, author Alan Gratz tells gear malfunctions deep underwater, and he one family’s history, which is also baseball’s history. nearly dies. Afterward, Ian is shaken, but when ISBN: 9780803732247 • 272 pp • Dewey: F • Dial: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Gord inspects the gear and tells Ian that it was sabotaged, Ian is terrifi ed. I really enjoyed following this family through the decades ISBN: 9781554691647 • 176 pp • Dewey: F and seeing characters from earlier stories reappear years Orca: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 later. And the seamlessly incorporated, lesser-known baseball anecdotes and facts were fascinating. SEPTEMBER —Lucas, Assistant Editor Slam Dunk by Kate Jaimet JUNE Salvador “Slam” Amaro became assistant coach Up Close: Babe Ruth for the girls’ high school basketball team just to by Wilborn Hampton pad his résumé. But what seemed like an easy As a boy, George Herman Ruth was a small- gig quickly becomes dangerous when the head time thief and a scrapper on the mean streets of coach and the star player both receive threats— Baltimore. As a man, “Babe” Ruth was the greatest and then disappear. baseball player to have ever played the game and ISBN: 9781554691623 • 176 pp • Dewey: F one of the most famous people in America. Orca: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780670063055 • 208 pp • Dewey: 796.357092 B Viking: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Summer Ball ■ Yellow Flag ■ Dairy Queen Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 27 Grades 9 & up Y YOUNG ADULTS
Y Levels at a Glance Your older teen readers will appreciate these selections, a diverse mix of fi ction and nonfi ction ■ Fiction and nonfi ction covering complex issues and more mature content, ■ More mature content from crushes and body changes to friendships and ■ Complex issues sibling rivalry. Perfect for: Older teens
APRIL JULY The Forest of Hands and Teeth Along for the Ride by Carrie Ryan by Sarah Dessen “All my life I have trained by that siren. Before I Valedictorian of her elite charter school, Auden could walk I knew the siren meant death. It meant has been a model student. But when she receives somehow the fences had been breached and the Unconsecrated were a picture frame from her globe-trotting older shuffl ing among us. It meant grab weapons, move to the platforms and brother that reads “THE BEST OF TIMES,” pull up the ladders—even if it necessitated leaving the living behind.” Auden realizes she’s missed out on life. Suddenly ISBN: 9780385906319 • 320 pp • Dewey: F her “annoying” stepmother’s invitation to join Delacorte: $20.99 • JLG: $13.25 her and her father at the beach doesn’t seem so ludicrous. MAY ISBN: 9780670011940 • 384 pp • Dewey: F Why I Fight Viking: $19.99 • JLG: $13.25 by J. Adams Oaks When Wyatt Reaves is twelve, his favorite uncle, AUGUST Spade, takes him away from his neglectful parents. Blade: Book One, Playing Dead At fi rst, Wyatt loves the attention and their by Tim Bowler rambling lifestyle. But when Spade coaxes Wyatt A homeless teenager, Blade has survived life in into taking up illegal bare-knuckle boxing at age the city by keeping under the radar. But when fourteen, their relationship begins to fall apart. he witnesses a series of murders, he must revert ISBN: 9781416911777 • 240 pp • Dewey: F to his old ways—the ways that earned him the Atheneum: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 name Blade. The fi rst book in a new series by a Carnegie Medal-winning author. JUNE ISBN: 9780399251863 • 240 pp • Dewey: F Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks Philomel: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 by Lauren Myracle Over the summer, fi fteen-year-old Carly has SEPTEMBER grown more independent and more critical of the The Duel: The Parallel Lives of superfi ciality in her rich suburban neighborhood. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Her fourteen-year-old sister, Anna, meanwhile, by Judith St. George has grown—well, hotter. And, despite her high- There are a remarkable number of similarities mindedness, Carly can’t help but feel jealous. between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. ISBN: 9780525477433 • 304 pp • Dewey: F But in Weehawken, New Jersey, on July 11, 1804, Dutton: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 they fought a duel in which a critical difference I am impressed by Lauren Myracle’s honest depiction of Carly’s emerged: one survived; one did not. jealousy and self-doubt. As a character, Carly is complex ISBN: 9780670011247 • 112 pp • Dewey: 973.4/6092 enough to be sympathetic even when she isn’t likable— Viking: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 an eff ect I think is only possible in great writing. —Nathalie, Editorial Assistant
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Bog Child ■ Diamonds in the Shadow ■ The Poet Slave of Cuba Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
28 | 800-491-0174 Grades 9 & up YOUNG ADULTS Y+
Why stop there? Give them double the literary Y Levels at a Glance rewards with our Y+ level—where you can stock your shelves with 12 additional young adult titles ■ Fiction and nonfi ction every year. ■ More mature content ■ Complex issues Perfect for: Older teens
APRIL JULY This Full House Kiss of Life: A Generation Dead Novel by Virginia Euwer Wolff by Daniel Waters In the fi nal novel in the acclaimed Make Phoebe Kendall was nearly killed for falling in Lemonade trilogy, LaVaughn—now a high love with a zombie. Then her friend Adam took school senior—wins entrance to a prestigious the bullet, died, and returned as a “differently after-school science program. But LaVaughn biotic” boy, too. Now Phoebe is torn between jeopardizes her future when she tries to reunite two loves—the one who saved her life, and the Dr. Moore, the program’s founder, with her one she still can’t seem to live without. grown daughter. ISBN: 9781423109235 • 416 pp • Dewey: F ISBN: 9780061583056 • 528 pp • Dewey: F Hyperion: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 HarperCollins: $18.89 • JLG: $13.25 AUGUST MAY Girlfriend Material The Rock and the River by Melissa Kantor by Kekla Magoon Kate was looking forward to a summer spent As racial tensions escalate across America playing tennis, lounging by the pool, and in 1968, Sam must make a decision: should writing. Instead, she’s forced to share a room he side with his father, a civil rights activist with her mother, who suffers from “verbal who practices nonviolent resistance, or with diarrhea,” at the house of family friends. Even his older brother, Stick, who’s joined the worse, they have a daughter who views Kate as Black Panthers? “a pathetic leech who arrived to suck the fun ISBN: 9781416975823 • 192 pp • Dewey: F out of her otherwise perfect summer.” Aladdin: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9781423108498 • 272 pp • Dewey: F Hyperion: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 JUNE The Carbon Diaries: 2015 SEPTEMBER by Saci Lloyd The Waters & the Wild An energy crisis has caused the United by Francesca Lia Block Kingdom to ration energy by giving each “When Bee woke up, there was a girl standing family a limited number of carbon credits. It’s in her room. ‘You are me,’ the girl said. Then driving sixteen-year-old Laura crazy. In diary she was gone.” Thirteen-year-old Bee suspects entries, she describes how everything from she wasn’t made for this world—and when she school to her family life to practicing with her meets her dark and ethereal double, she fears band is changing. she is right. ISBN: 978823421909J • 384 pp • Dewey: F ISBN: 97866J • 128 pp • Dewey: F Holiday House: $17.95 • JLG: $13.25 HarperCollins: $17.89 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ A Curse Dark as Gold ■ Honeybee ■ The Hunger Games Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
www.juniorlibraryguild.com | 29 Grades 10 & up HH HISTORY HIGH SCHOOL
HH Level at a Glance The past opens with a turn of the page in these fully-documented histories and compelling works ■ American and world history of historical fi ction. ■ Historical fi ction ■ Appropriate for high-school readers Perfect for: High schoolers seeking answers about the past
APRIL JULY The Black Death: Pivotal Moments in History Mare’s War by Diane Zahler by Tanita S. Davis In the mid-1300s, between 30 to 60 percent Sisters Octavia and Tali are sure their road trip of Europe’s population died of bubonic with their grandmother, Mare, will be boring— plague. Here is an exploration of how the until Mare recounts her days working in the only disease spread, why it was so devastating, and black Women’s Army Corps battalion in Europe how it affected the course of history. during World War II. ISBN: 9780822590767 • 160 pp • Dewey: 614.5’732 ISBN: 9780375957147 • 288 pp • Dewey: F Lerner: $38.60 • JLG: $13.25 Knopf: $19.99 • JLG: $13.25
MAY AUGUST Leaving Glorytown: One Boy’s Struggle Under Castro A Savage Thunder: Antietam and by Eduardo F. Calcines the Bloody Road to Freedom “To an outsider visiting Cuba, there would have by Jim Murphy been nothing special about my family. We were “As the Confederate and Union armies not rich, famous, or politically well-connected. . . . marched toward each other, very few What made us remarkable is that we survived of the men realized that the idea of and escaped.” freedom . . . was about to change. ISBN: 9780374343941 • 240 pp • Dewey: 972.9106/4092 B Nor did they know they were going to Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $17.95 • JLG: $13.25 take part in an epic battle that would prove to be the bloodiest single day in JUNE American history.” Lost ISBN: 9780689876332 • 112 pp • Dewey: 973.7/336 McElderry: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 by Jacqueline Davies Essie obsesses over her younger sister, Zelda—keeping her happy and well-fed, and hiding a dark secret about her. But soon someone SEPTEMBER diverts Essie’s attention: Harriet, a new coworker at the Triangle Ernest Hemingway: A Writer’s Life Shirtwaist Factory, who seems to have secrets of her own. by Catherine Reef ISBN: 9780761455356 • 256 pp • Dewey: F This in-depth look at the life of one of the Marshall Cavendish: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 twentieth century’s most famous authors The period details in Lost are spot-on and covers everything from Ernest Hemingway’s really brought me into the world of the story. childhood in Illinois to his adventurous years The book’s many unexpected twists—both abroad to his tragic death in Ketchum, Idaho. mysterious and tragic—compelled me ISBN: 9780618987054 • 192 pp • Dewey: 813/.52 B Clarion: $20.00 • JLG: $13.25 to keep reading. —Georgia, Assistant Editor
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. 2 ■ The Lincolns
Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
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These exciting, age-appropriate fi ction and HI Level at a Glance nonfi ction titles will appeal to even the most reluctant high-school readers. ■ Content appropriate for older teens ■ Take note: these selections often contain mature situations and language that Fiction and nonfi ction could be considered controversial. ■ Appealing and accessible Perfect for: High-school reluctant readers and readers of English as a second language
APRIL JULY Response Jack Tumor by Paul Volponi by Anthony McGowan Noah Jackson and his friends venture into a Hector Brunty discovers he has a brain tumor nearly all-white neighborhood to steal a car but when the tumor speaks to him. Jack Tumor, soon abandon their plans. A subsequent run-in as he calls himself, is eloquent, cheeky, with local teens turns violent when one of the blunt—and increasingly in control of Hector. teens viciously beats Noah. Was the attacker protecting his Now Jack is getting Hector to do something neighborhood, or did he target Noah because he’s black? he never would have done before: ask a girl ISBN: 9780670062836 • 176 pp • Dewey: F out—because soon it might be too late. Viking: $15.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9780374329556 • 304 pp • Dewey: F Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $17.95 • JLG: $13.25 MAY Gentlemen AUGUST by Michael Northrop The Orange Houses An English teacher, even one as reviled as by Paul Griffi n Mr. Haberman, wouldn’t murder a student The Bronx, New York: Jimmi Sixes is an just to make a point about Dostoyevsky’s eighteen-year-old war veteran, a street poet, Crime and Punishment—would he? and an addict. Tamika Sykes is a smart, shy ISBN: 9780545097499 • 256 pp • Dewey: F girl just trying to keep from being noticed. Scholastic: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Fatima Espérer is an illegal immigrant, fl eeing violence, hoping to fi nd a new home in JUNE America. When they become friends, their Riley Park lives are forever altered. by Diane Tullson ISBN: 9780803733466 • 160 pp • Dewey: F Dial: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 When Corbin’s friend Darius makes a move on somebody else’s girl, Corbin and Darius are viciously assaulted, and Darius dies in the SEPTEMBER hospital. Corbin, unable to recall useful details of The Treasure Map of Boys the attack, feels powerless to avenge himself and by E. Lockhart his friend. With the help of a sympathetic cop, Ruby is back at Tate Prep, and it’s her thirty- he struggles to get his life back. seventh week in the state of Noboyfriend. ISBN: 9781554691241 • 112 pp • Dewey: F Suddenly, Noel is writing Ruby notes, Ruby’s Orca: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 ex-boyfriend Jackson is drawing her “Frogs Laden with Meaning,” Gideon is helping Ruby cook—and all the attention is giving Ruby panic attacks. ISBN: 9780385904377 • 256 pp • Dewey: F Delacorte: $18.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row ■ The Year We Disappeared
Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
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GM Level at a Glance Book-length narratives presented in comic book style, graphic novels foster both visual and verbal comprehension ■ Graphic novels skills while exposing readers to interesting dialogue and ■ Fiction and nonfi ction satire, as well as affi rming diversity. ■ Some mature content JLG’s selection of these unique books, some of them published only in softcover, is ideal for attracting reluctant readers and introducing them to literature they might not encounter Perfect for: Mid/high reluctant readers otherwise. But keep in mind: the language and content of some graphic novels may be considered controversial and not appropriate for all readers.
APRIL JULY Soccer Sabotage Famous Players: The Mysterious Death of by Liam O’Donnell • illustrated by Mike Deas William Desmond Taylor Who is trying to keep Nadia’s team from winning written and illustrated by Rick Geary the national tournament? As their coach recovers On Thursday, February 2, 1922, fi lm director from a suspicious accident and as threats against William Desmond Taylor was found dead in his the team mount, Nadia tries to hold the team home. Taylor worked for Famous Players, the together while her younger brother and the coach’s most prestigious movie studio in Hollywood. son try to fi nd out what is going on. While following the investigation of Taylor’s ISBN: 9781554691630 • 64 pp • Dewey: F death, this book also paints a fascinating picture Orca: $16.95 • JLG: $13.25 of the early motion picture industry. ISBN: 9781561635559 • 80 pp MAY NBM Publishing: $15.95 • JLG: $13.25 T-Minus: The Race to the Moon by Jim Ottaviani • illustrated by Kevin Cannon and AUGUST Zander Cannon Road to Revolution! As NASA prepared to send a man to the moon, by Stan Mack and Susan Champlin the Soviet space program was racing against them Boston, February, 1775: Nick is an orphan who every step of the way. Keeping a countdown gets by on his wits—and whatever he can steal. to the moment when Neil Armstrong set foot Penny is the daughter of a tavern owner and on the moon, this graphic novel follows the knows the meaning of hard work. As tension astronauts, cosmonauts, designers, and engineers turns to revolution, these unlikely friends help who participated in one of mankind’s greatest the Patriots by carrying messages, playing tricks, adventures. and spying. ISBN: 9781416986829 • 128 pp • Dewey: 629 ISBN: 9781599900131 • 128 pp • Dewey: F Aladdin: $21.99 • JLG: $13.25 Bloomsbury: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
JUNE SEPTEMBER Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun Cat Burglar Black adapted by Mark Kneece from Rod Serling’s original screenplay by Richard Sala illustrated by Anthony Spay K.’s aunt, who works at the Bellsong Academy “There’s only one season now, a parching eternity for Girls, has invited K. to attend the school. But of heat fi lled with desperate human beings. And as soon as she arrives, K. notices some strange in a few minutes it’ll be high noon . . . the hottest goings-on: her aunt has suddenly taken ill; there day in history . . . and you’re about to spend it . . . are only three other students and no regular in the Twilight Zone!” classes; and a statue speaks to K. when no one ISBN: 9780802797209 • 72 pp • Dewey: 741.5/973 else is around. Walker: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 ISBN: 9781596431447 • 128 pp • Dewey: F First Second: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ The Good Neighbors ■ Rapunzel’s Revenge
Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
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Filled with stimulating nonfi ction and can’t-put-it-down YM Level at a Glance fi ction, this level is perfect for bridging the gap between young adult and adult reading. ■ Fiction and nonfi ction for mature young adults ■ Take note: these selections often contain mature situations and language that could More mature themes be considered controversial. ■ May contain controversial language and situations Perfect for: Bridging the gap between YA and adult reading
APRIL JULY Wintergirls Punkzilla by Laurie Halse Anderson by Adam Rapp “I bit, chewed, swallowed day after day and lied, Fourteen-year-old Jamie, a.k.a. Punkzilla, is a lied, lied. (Who wants to recover? It took me military school runaway, an iPod thief, and a years to get that tiny. I wasn’t sick; I was strong.)” gifted writer. As he hitches rides across America in order to see his ailing Eighteen-year-old Lia has grown skilled at hiding older brother, Peter, before he dies, Jamie captures the heartbreak and her anorexia, but her carefully constructed façade fl eeting joys of his journey in letters so honest he may never send them. begins to fall apart when her ex-best friend is ISBN: 9780763630317 • 256 pp • Dewey: F • Candlewick: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 found dead in a motel room. Jamie’s voice is so true to life, and his experiences are ISBN: 9780670011100 • 304 pp • Dewey: F Viking: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 so memorable, that I felt as if he were real. This is one of the most aff ecting young adult books I’ve ever read. MAY —Lucas, Assistant Editor Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson AUGUST Bobby has to get back to Dublin—his rowdy, Sprout reckless friends are there. At his family’s new by Dale Peck home in the country, Bobby has nothing but Sprout can’t hide his secrets. In his small Kansas endless hours of boredom and ridiculous local town, they’re as obvious as the shock of bright legends about malicious fairies. Soon, he realizes green hair on his head. So Sprout catalogues his that running away won’t be easy—and that there differences, writing precocious essays about his may be something to those absurd tales. homosexuality and his troubled family. Still, he’s ISBN: 9781596435117 • 256 pp • Dewey: F unhappy and isolated—until he meets Ty, a boy Roaring Brook: $17.95 • JLG: $13.25 with secrets of his own. ISBN: 9781599901602 • 288 pp • Dewey: F JUNE Bloomsbury: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25 Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork SEPTEMBER Marcelo is anxious about working at his father’s Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd law fi rm. He has an autism-like condition, edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci and he attends a special school that caters to Geek\ge¯k\ n : 1. a person often of an intellectual his needs and makes him feel safe. Reluctantly, bent who is disapproved of. 2. a person who is Marcelo enters the “real world” and discovers so passionate about a given subject or subjects as that it’s even more frightening—and beautiful— to occasionally cause annoyance among others. than he imagined. Geek·tas·tic\ge¯k-tas-tik\ n : a collection of ISBN: 9780545054744 • 256 pp • Dewey: F twenty-nine short stories about said persons by Arthur A. Levine: $17.99 • JLG: $13.25 M. T. Anderson, Scott Westerfeld, Kelly Link, and other popular YA authors. ISBN: 9780316008099 • 384 pp • Dewey: F Little, Brown: $16.99 • JLG: $13.25
Award-winning titles from this level have included
■ Paper Towns ■ Sunrise over Fallujah ■ Tender Morsels Many award winners are as low as $5.00 in our backlist!
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