Primary  

America Is…
by Louise Borden/Stacey Schuett, McElderry, Margaret K. Books, 2002         

Bear Snores On
by Karma Wilson/Jane Chapman, Simon & Schuster, 2001         

Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School  
by Mark Teague, Scholastic, Inc., 2002 

Martin’s Big Words:The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.         
by Doreen Rappaport/Brian Collier, Hyperion Books, 2001

The Other Side
by Jacqueline Woodson/Earl Lewis, Penguin Group, 2001

The Spider and the Fly
by Mary Botham Howitt/Tony Diterlizzi, Simon & Schuster, 2002<

The Ticky-Tacky Doll
by Cynthia Rylant/Harvey Stevenson, Harcourt, 2002<

Ugh! A Bug
by Mary Bono,Walker & Company, 2002

Under the Quilt of Night
by Deborah Hopkinson/James Ransome, Simon & Schuster, 2001

Waiting for Wings                                             
by Lois Ehlert, Harcourt, 2001

Intermediate

Gleam and Glow
by Eve Bunting/Peter Sylvada, Harcourt, 2001

Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail
by Debbie Miller/Jon Van Zyle,Walker & Company, 2002    

The Jacket
by Andrew Clements, Simon & Schuster, 2002

Keeper of the Doves
by Betsy Cromer Byars/Betsy Byars, Viking Penguin, 2002

Leonardo’s Horse
by Jean Fritz/Hudson Talbott, Penguin Group, 2001

Love That Dog
by Sharon Creech, Harper Collins, 2001

Mr. Lincoln’s Way
by Patricia Polocca, Penguin Putnam Books, 2001

Skull Alphabet Book
by Jerry Pallotta/Ralph Masiello, Charlesbridge Publishing, 2002

When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson
by Pam Munoz Ryan/Brian Selznick, Scholastic, Inc., 2002

Young Adult

Forgotten Fire 
by Adam Bagdasarian, DK Pub & Random House, 2000

Numbering All The Bones
by Ann Rinaldi, JATS, Hyperion Books, 2002

Pictures of Hollis Woods
by Patricia Reilly Giff, Random House, 2002

Shakespeare: His Work and His World
by Michael Rosen/Robert Ingpen, Candlewick Press, 2001

Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli, Random House, 2000