DOVER-SHERBORN MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY

DOVER-SHERBORN MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY

All original artwork by Cynie Linton

PRELIMINARY READING LIST
Books published in 2008:

Avi – Seer of Shadows

Beaty – Cicada Summer

Bell – Nick of Time

Birdsall – The Penderwicks on Gardam Street

Broach - Masterpiece

Burg - A Thousand Never Evers

Collins - Hunger Games

Connor – Waiting for Normal

Creech - Hate That Cat

Dowell – Shooting the Moon

DuPrau - The Diamond of Darkhold

Erdrich - Porcupine Year

Frost – Diamond Willow

Henkes - Bird Lake Moon

Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Levine – Ever

Marsden – The Buddha’s Diamonds

Myers - Storyteller

Nelson - The Freedom Business

Nuzum - Leanin' Dog

Riordan - The Battle of the Labyrinth

Schmidt - Trouble

Schumacher - Black Box

Seidler - Gully's Travels

Selzer - I Put a Spell on You

Smith – Keeping the Night Watch

White - Little Audrey

Woodson – After Tupac and D Foster

Yep – The Dragon’s Child

Remember the criteria for nominating a book:
1) Must be published in 2008, and not a reprint of an earlier publication.
3) Must be an author who lives in the United States.
2) Just the text is important - the pictures don't count for the Newbery (that's why they have the Caldecott!)