The Ultimate Teen Book Guide Including Raves and Reviews from Teens and Their Favorite Authors by Daniel Hahn, Leonie Flynn, and Susan Reuben.

"This attractive volume includes reviews of more than 700 fiction titles, nonfiction, classics, and graphic novels that will be of interest to young adults. The reviewers/contributors are popular authors, librarians, and teens themselves. Brief entries of one half to one page per title are easy to read with black-and-white images of book covers, suggested ages, and additional recommendations included. The lively reviews are sorted alphabetically by title, indexed by author, and cross-referenced throughout the volume. Teen readers poll results and short articles on specific genres are interspersed among the entries, and all of the contributors are profiled at the back of the book. This book is easier to access than Nancy Pearl's Book Crush. It's an excellent source for a variety of book reviews spanning time and genre. Useful for students, librarians, and teachers."—School Library Journal starred review


Starry-eyed Juliet!

Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors.

"Selfors injects an angst-ridden 17-year-old Manhattan actress into Shakespeare's star-crossed romance, yielding hilarious and often very clever results."—Publishers Weekly, starred review


Four Stars for Duel!

Duel by Dennis Brindel Fradin, illustrated by Larry Day

"Fights are always attention getters, so even children who don't know much about Aaron Burr (third vice president of the U.S) and Alexander Hamilton (a signer of the Constitution) will be hooked by this dramatic picture-book account of their deadly quarrel. The words and art humanize the history for children, who will welcome the bibliography that can lead them to more facts." —Booklist , starred review


Jesse Owens, Fastest Man Alive by Carol Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Eric Velasquez.
"Sometimes calling to mind old-time photographs, Valasquez's pleasingly grainy pastels easily convey the movement and speed, determination and triumph at the core of Owen's uplifting story." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Pass It Down by Leonard S. Marcus.
"Written in an engaging style with clarity and immediacy, this doubles as an accessible primer on the art of penning and visualizing picture books. Filled with intriguing tidbits, this is an outstanding work about the connections between parents and children, editors and artists and readers and writers." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Caldecott Honor Medal

David McLimans has been awarded a Caldecott Honor Medal for Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet , earning Walker Books for Young Readers its first Caldecott recognition. Gone Wild is an eye-opening armchair safari through the alphabet where each letter is transformed into an endangered animal. The book has also been was chosen as the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book List. Congratulations David!


Great Poster for Winston The Book Wolf
Winston The Book Wolf by Marni McGee, illustrations by Ian Beck.

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Assassin Tops in Oklahoma
Anna Myers has won the Oklahoma Book Award for Assassin, a exciting historical novel for middle school readers.


Two Bluebonnet Awards for Walker's Authors

Hubert Invents the Wheel by Claire and Monte Montgomery and Outside and Inside Mummies by Sandra Markle have been named to the Texas Bluebonnet Award 2007-2008 Master List.


Miss Malarkey can make a reader out of anyone.
Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind by Judy Finchler & Kevin O'Malley.


The Founders Teacher's Guide Now Available
After reading about why and how Dennis Brindell Fradin and Michael McCurdy created The Founders in this downloadable Teacher's Guide, we encourage teachers and students to discuss:
• What attracts an author or illustrator to tell a story.
• How each ensures that their books are historically accurate.
• The key message they want to convey to readers.