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JLG Premier Selections

Fall 2007 (October 2007-March 2008)

Starred* or Favorable Reviews - March 2008

Updated Monthly
BL=Booklist BCCB=Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
CL=Children’s Literature H=Horn Book
HG=Horn Book Guide K=Kirkus
KL=KLIATT PW=Publishers Weekly
SLJ=School Library Journal *Starred Review

PS Level (Grades K-3)

El conejito Knuffle [HG]
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale [BL, HG, K, PW, SLJ] 
My Name is Gabito [BL, HG, SLJ*]
Piece=Part=Portion [HG]
Rumpelstiltskin [HG]

K Level (Grades PK-K)

Go to Bed, Monster [HG, K, SLJ]
Help! A Story of Friendship [H, PW, SLJ*]
Knuffle Bunny Too [BL, BCCB*, H, HG, K*, PW*, SLJ*]
The Magic Rabbit [BL, H, K*, PW*, SLJ*]
Treasure [HG, SLJ]

P/P+ Level (GradesK-1)

Backbeard: Pirate for Hire [HG, K]
Clorinda Takes Flight [BL, HG, K, SLJ]
Do unto Otters [BL*, HG, K, PW, SLJ]
Duck [BL, PW, SLJ]
Emma’s Turtle [BL, HG, K, SLJ]
Happy Birthday, Monster [HG, K, SLJ]
Henry, the Dog with No Tail [BL, HG, SLJ]
Look-Alikes Around the World [K]
Rabbit’s Gift [BL, HG, K, SLJ]
Toot and Puddle: Let It Snow [CL, HG, PW*, SLJ]
A Visitor for Bear [HG]
Vulture View [BL*, H, HG, K, PW, SLJ]

E/E+ Levels (Grades 1-3)

Abracadabra!: Magic with Mouse and Mole [BL, H, HG, K, SLJ*]
Diary of a Fly [BL, HG, K*, PW*, SLJ*]
Dodsworth in New York [BL, BCCB, H, HG, K, PW*, SLJ]
Finding Home [BL*, HG, SLJ]
Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share [BL, BCCB, H, HG, K*, PW*, SLJ*]
Mr. Putter and Tabby Run the Race [BL, SLJ]
My Friend, the Starfinder [HG, K*, PW*, SLJ]
Nothing [BL, H, HG, K, PW*, SLJ]
Pink [BL*, BCCB*, K, PW]
Starring Miss Darlene [BL, BCCB, CL, H*, HG, K, PW*, SLJ]
Trout Are Made of Trees [BL, K, SLJ]
When Randolph Turned Rotten [BL, H, HG, K, PW*, SLJ*]

I/I+ Levels (Grades 2-4)

Butter Man [BL, H]
Cheetah Math [HG, K, SLJ]
Cowboy and  Octopus [BL, BCCB, H*, HG, K, PW, SLJ]
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal [BL*, BCCB, H, HG,
K*, PW*, SLJ*]
Maybelle in the Soup [BL, H, HG, K*, SLJ]
Mostly Monty [BL, BCCB, CL, HG, K, SLJ]
Nic Bishop Frogs [BL, HG*, K*, SLJ*]
Nikki & Deja [BL, HG]
Tap Dancing on the Roof [BL*, H, HG, K*, PW, SLJ*]
Tomi dePaola's Front Porch Tales and Other North
    Country Whoppers [BL, HG, K, PW, SLJ] 
Yatandou [BL, HG, PW]

ME Level (Grades 2-6)

The Bronze Pen [BL, K]
Dragon's Egg [BL, HG, K]
The Magic Half [PW]
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen [BL*, HG, K, SLJ]
Raleigh's Page [BL, H, HG, K*, SLJ]
To Catch a Mermaid [BCCB, HG, K, PW, SLJ]

NE Level (Grades 2-6)

Another Book About Design [BL, HG, SLJ]
Emi and the Rhino Scientist [BL*, H, HG, K*, SLJ]
The Girl’s Like Spaghetti [BL, HG, K, SLJ]
Living Color [BL*, BCCB, H, HG, K, PW*, SLJ*]
Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln [BL, K*, SLJ*]
When Is a Planet Not a Planet [BL, H, HG, SLJ*]

SE Level (Grades 2-6)

And Nobody Got Hurt 2! [HG, SLJ]
Dino-Hockey [BL, HG, K, SLJ]
Little Eagle [BL, HG, PW]

A/A+ Levels (Grades 3-5)

Being Bee [BL, H*, HG, K, SLJ]
The House of a Million Pets [BL, BCCB*, HG, K, PW, SLJ]
Kaline Klattermaster’s Tree House [BL, K, SLJ]
Martin Bridge: Out of Orbit [HG, SLJ]
Medusa Jones [BL, PW]
The Mozart Question [BL]
Oggie Cooder [BL, SLJ]
Perfect Hamburger, The [BL, HG, K]
Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials [BL*, H, HG, K*,  SLJ*]
Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One [BL, H, HG, K, SLJ]    
Underwater [HG]
The Whale Scientists: Solving the Mystery of Whale Strandings [BL, H, HG, K, SLJ]

B/B+ Levels (Grades 5-7)

Adam Canfield, Watch Your Back! [BL, HG, K, SLJ]
Beowulf: A Hero's Tale Retold [BL, BCCB, CL, H*, HG, K, PW, SLJ*]
Darkwing [BL*, H, HG, K*, KL*, SLJ]
Elijah of Buxton [BL*, BCCB, CL, H*,HG, K*, PW, SLJ*]
Night of the Howling Dogs [BL*, H, HG, K, SLJ]
Paint the Wind [BL, CL, HG, K, PW, SLJ]
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party [BL, HG, K, SLJ]
Shooting the Moon [BL, HG, K*. SLJ*]
Swindle [BL, SLJ]
Venom [BL*, HG, K, SLJ]

C/C+ Levels (Grades 6-9)

Airman [HG, K*, PW*, SLJ*]
Book of a Thousand Days [BL*, BCCB, H, HG, K, SLJ*]
The Castaways [BL, H, HG, K, SLJ]
Don’t Call Me Ishmael [BL, HG, K]
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk [BL, BCCB, K*, KL*, SLJ*]
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio [BL*, CL, H*, HG, K, KL, PW*, SLJ] 
Keeping Corner [BL*, HG, K*, PW*, SLJ*]
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World [BL, BCCB, HG, K, PW, SLJ]
The Rogues [BL*, HG, K, SLJ]
A Taste for Rabbit [BL, H, HG, PW, SLJ]
The Wild Girls [BL, HG, K, KL, SLJ]

GM Level (Grades 7-11)

The Arrival [BL*, H*, HG, K*, KL*, PW*, SLJ*]
Laika [BL, K*, PW*, SLJ*]
Notes for a War Story [BL, BCCB]
Robot Dreams [BL*, BCCB, K, PW*, SLJ*]
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow [BL*, HG, K*, PW*, SLJ]

MM Level (Grades 7-11)

The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets [BL, SLJ*]
Elephant Run [BL, K, SLJ]
Eye of the Crow [BL*, BCCB, HG, SJL*]
First Shot [BL*, BCCB, KL*, SLJ]
My Swordhand is Singing [HG, K, PW*, SLJ]
The True Meaning of Smekday [BL, H, HG, K, PW*, SLJ*]

NM Level (Grades 7-11)

The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise
    of Modern America [BL, H, HG, SLJ*] 
Race: A History Beyond Black and White [BL, H, HG, K, SLJ*]
The Real Benedict Arnold [BL*, H, HG, K, PW, SLJ*]
Tree Shaker: The Story of Nelson Mandela [BL, H, SLJ]
Who Was First: Discovering the Americas [BL*, BCCB, H, HG, K*, SLJ*]
Up Close: Frank Lloyd Wright [HG]

SM Level (Grades 7-11)

Baseball Crazy [BL, K, PW*, SLJ]
Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl [BL, H, HG, K]
Gabriel's Triumph [BL, HG]
Girl Overboard [BL, SLJ]
Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Bench Warmer [BL, HG, SLJ]
Yellow Flag [BL, BCCB, H, HG, K, KL, SLJ]

Y/Y+ Levels (Grades 9 & Up)

Cassandra’s Sister [BL*, HG, SLJ]
Darkside [BL, SLJ]
Diamonds in the Shadow [BL, BCCB, H, HG, K, KL*, PW*, SLJ]
Hiroshima Dreams [BL, K]
The Last Knight [BL, H, HG, K, KL]
Love, Stargirl [BL, K*, KL, PW, SLJ]
Mississippi Jack [HG, KL]
One Good Punch [BL, HG, K]
Something Rotten: A Horatio Wilkes Mystery [BCCB, HG, K, KL*]
Teen, Inc. [BL, HG, SLJ*]
The Way [BL, HG]
When the Black Girl Sings [BL, PW*, SLJ]

YM Level (Grades 11 & Up)

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The  [BL, BCCB*, CL, H*, HG, K*, KL*, PW*, SLJ*]
Looking for JJ [BL, HG, K, PW, SLJ*]
Red Spike [BL*, H*, HG, K, PW*, SLJ]
Three Little Words [BL, PW*, SLJ]
Useful Fools [BL*, HG, K, KL*, PW, SLJ]
What They Found: Love on 145th Street [BL*, HG, K*, SLJ*]