Holiday Season Recommendations (Part Two)
(CONTINUED FROM PART ONE)
For Boys Who Hate to Read:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
For Girls Who Hate to Read:
Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel by Ruth Barshaw
They Will Only Read Books With Boys In Them:
Atherton: The House of Power by Patrick Carman
They Will Only Read Books With Girls In Them:
Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst
The Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer by Laini Taylor
They Only Like Harry Potter and Nothing Else Will Do:
100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep by John Hulme and Michael Wexler
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They Hate Harry Potter and Only Like Realistic Fiction:
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
I Am Not Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos
No Castles Here by A.C.E. Bauer
They Only Like Historical Fiction:
Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
The Baptism by Sheila Moses
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
They Hate Fiction In General and Only Like Non-Fiction:
Howtoons: The Possibilities Are Endless by Saul Griffith and Joost Bonsen
The Snow Baby by Katherine Kirkpatrick
They Want Something Funny:
To Catch a Mermaid by Suzanne Selfors
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf by Jennifer L. Holm
They Only Want Graphic Novels:
Moomin (Vol. 1) by Tove Jansson
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow by James Sturm
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
They’re Super Smart Kids and Need Something That’s As Smart As They Are:
The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
They Want the Best Book of 2007:
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
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About Betsy Bird
Betsy Bird is currently the Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library system and a former Materials Specialist for New York Public Library. She has served on Newbery, written for Horn Book, and has done other lovely little things that she'd love to tell you about but that she's sure you'd find more interesting to hear of in person. Her opinions are her own and do not reflect those of EPL, SLJ, or any of the other acronyms you might be able to name. Follow her on Twitter: @fuseeight.
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Muchas gracias! I’ll probably have to gaze lovingly at this page a few more times today….
Neat list! Will you have your own “Best Of” 2007 list?
Love this addition to the blog! Pure genius.
Thanks for the list! I just had a friend email who said that Amazon & other stores are *out of stock* of The Arrival & wanted to know if I had any ideas of where to find it. And it’s true. I just checked. Powells has *one* copy left (and I hope my friend already got it) and you can find a couple copies on Alibris that are less than $100. So here’s my question: How can this happen 3 weeks before Christmas with a book that just came out this year? Is it bad planning on the publisher’s part? Or the booksellers? I figured if anyone would know, it’s you. 🙂
Hey, I think I want the Raisin Monopoly! Wow.
Thanks for including a few 2k7 books!
Did I? Well done me. I hadn’t done it consciously. Just thought these might go over well.
As for your question, Josephine, I know for a fact that Scholastic believed in the awesome power of this book. They’ve been banking on it for months. The fact that it’s out of stock just means that the print run must have sold through the roof. Seems odd, though. I mean, Scholastic knew this would happen. I’d double check with your booksellers in a day or two. By all rights there SHOULD be plenty of copies around and about.
Sensible. I’ll put my knee-jerk how-could-they-do-this back in the drawer and check back in a couple days. On one hand, it’s certainly gratifying to see a great book like this sell through the roof!
Wheeee! Thanks so much for this — and for the great list of reads. I’m going to be looking up those early chapter books tomorrow.
I love your suggestions and I’m printing them out to keep close to my heart (or my suggestions file, whichever). But, Fusie, you hurt me so. I have done three lists of ways to give books with something extra. Look, maybe I can find a way to put The Arrival on there. I’ll work on it.
I love what “The Wednesday Wars” is under!
“The Arrival” is out of stock?!? Nooooooo! What else am I going to find for my Manhattanite relatives with no space in their apartment for anything but books?!?
Ah! I am sorry, MotherReader! I even noted your lists to myself then managed to fail to link to them. I’ll do a link to you in tomorrow’s posting pronto. Apologies. It’s the busy season.