Library of Congress Center for the Book
2009 DISCOVER GREAT PLACES THROUGH READING Every year, a list of books representing the literary heritage of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Territories is distributed by the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book during the National Book Festival. Each book is selected by a Center for the Book state affiliate or state library.
Alabama Alaska The Well and the Mine Seldovia Sam and the Very Gin Phillips Large Clam Susan Woodward Springer
Arizona Arkansas Hip, Hip, Hooray, It’s Water Steps Monsoon Day / ¡Ajúa, ya A. LaFaye llegó el chubasco! Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford
California Colorado Steinbeck’s Ghost Down, Down, Down Lewis Buzbee Steve Jenkins
Connecticut Delaware For the Duration The Sweet Life of Stella Tomie dePaola Madison Lara M. Zeises
District of Columbia Florida Our White House: Looking Tangerine In, Looking Out Edward Bloor Various Authors/National Children’s Book & Literacy Alliance Georgia Hawaii 14 Cows for America A President from Hawaii Carmen Agra Deedy Dr. Carolan
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Idaho Illinois Mudgie & Millie Our Abe Lincoln Susan Nipp Jim Aylesworth
Indiana Iowa Diamond Willow The Rope Walk Helen Frost Carrie Brown
Kansas Kentucky Amelia Earhart: The Legend A Family for Old Mill Farm of the Lost Aviator Shutta Crum Shelley Tanaka
Louisiana Maine Two Bobbies: A True Story The Dump Man’s Treasures of Hurricane Katrina, Lynn Pourde Friendship, and Survival Kirby Larson & Mary Nethery Maryland Massachusetts Granddaddy’s Street Songs One Hen Monalisa DeGross Katie Smith Milway
Michigan Minnesota Pocketful of Passage Night Driving Loraine Campbell John Coy
Mississippi Missouri The Secret Life of Walter The Feedsack Dress Anderson Carolyn Mulford Hester Bass
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Montana Nebraska Bug Feats of Montana Room One: A Mystery or Deborah Richie Oberbillig Two Andrew Clements
Nevada New Hampshire The Orange Slipknot To My Countrywomen: The Jan Young Life of Sarah Josepha Hale Muriel L. Dubois
New Jersey New Mexico Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden Juan the Bear and the Water Edith Pattou of Life Enrique Lamadrid & Juan Estevan Arellano
New York North Carolina River of Dreams: The Story Blackbeard: The Pirate King of the Hudson River J. Patrick Lewis Hudson Talbott
North Dakota Ohio Gift Horse The Goosebump Series S. D. Nelson R. L. Stine
Oklahoma Oregon S Is for Sooner Apples to Oregon Kandy Radzinski Deborah Hopkinson
Pennsylvania Rhode Island Jim Thorpe: Original All- Lemonade Mouth American Mark Peter Hughes Joseph Bruchac
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South Carolina South Dakota Carolina Clay: The Life and The Jumping Off Place Legend of the Slave Potter, Marian Hurd McNeely Dave Leonard Todd
Tennessee Texas Autumn Winifred Oliver The Evolution of Calpurnia Does Things Different Tate Kristin O’Donnell Tubb Jacqueline Kelly
U.S. Territories Utah Juan Bobo: Four Folktales Book of a Thousand Days from Puerto Rico Shannon Hale Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Vermont Virginia Electra to the Rescue: Students on Strike Saving a Steamboat and the John A. Stokes Story of Shelburne Museum Valerie Biebuyck
Washington West Virginia Jacob Lawrence: American Golden Delicious: A Scenes, American Struggles Cinderella Apple Story Nancy Shroyer Howard Anna Eagan Smucker
Wisconsin Wyoming Old Bear Friday My Radio Flyer Flew Kevin Henkes Zachary Pullen
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