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TEACHERS' CHOICES
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International Reading Association

Teachers’ Choices
for 2007
Primary
3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet. Bob
Raczka. Millbrook, Lerner.
Across the Alley. Richard Michelson.
E.B. Lewis, Ill. G.P. Putnam’s Sons,
Penguin.
Brothers. Yin. Chris Soentpiet, Ill.
Philomel, Penguin.
Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons. Amy
Krouse Rosenthal. Jane Dyer, Ill.
HarperCollins.
For You Are a Kenyan Child. Kelly
Cunnane. Ana Juan, Ill. Atheneum,
Simon & Schuster.
The Journey: Stories of Migration.
Cynthia Rylant. Lambert Davis, Ill.
Blue Sky Press, Scholastic.
Night Boat to Freedom. Margot Theis
Raven. E.B. Lewis, Ill. Melanie
Kroupa Books, Farrar, Straus and
Giroux.
One Green Apple. Eve Bunting. Ted
Lewin, Ill. Clarion Books, Houghton
Mifflin.
Thanks a Million. Nikki Grimes. Cozbi
A. Cabrera, Ill. Greenwillow, Amistad,
HarperCollins.
Why Do You Cry? Not a Sob Story.
Kate Klise. M. Sarah Klise, Ill. Henry
Holt.

Intermediate
Anne Frank and the Children of the
Holocaust. Carol Ann Lee. Viking,
Penguin.
Christmas in the Trenches. John
McCutcheon. Henri Sørensen, Ill.
Peachtree.
Hearts of Iron. Kathleen Bennet Duble.
Margaret K. McElderry Books, Simon
& Schuster.
Just for Elephants. Carol Buckley.
Tilbury House.
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led
Her People to Freedom. Carole
Boston Weatherford. Kadir Nelson, Ill.
Jump at the Sun, Hyperion.
A Pair of Polar Bears: Twin Cubs Find
a Home at the San Diego Zoo.
Joanne Ryder. Simon & Schuster.
Paths to Peace: People Who
Changed the World. Jane Breskin
Zalben. Dutton, Penguin.
Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters,
Tricksters, and Other Wily
Characters. Patricia C. McKissack.
André Carrilho, Ill. Schwartz & Wade,
Random House.
Tour America: A Journey Through
Poems and Art. Diane Siebert.
Stephen T. Johnson, Ill. Chronicle
Books.
Water Street. Patricia Reilly Giff. Wendy
Lamb Books, Random House.
Advanced
Blood on the River: James Town
1607. Elisa Carbone. Viking,
Penguin.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. John
Boyne. David Fickling Books,
Random House.
Dark Water Rising. Marian Hale. Henry
Holt.
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the
Japanese American Incarceration
During World War II and a
Librarian Who Made a Difference.
Joanne Oppenheim. Scholastic
Nonfiction, Scholastic.
Freedom Ship. Doreen Rappaport.
Curtis James, Ill. Jump at the Sun,
Hyperion.
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the
Montgomery Bus Boycott. Russell
Freedman. Holiday House.
Hearts of Stone. Kathleen Ernst.
Dutton, Penguin.
Hurt Go Happy. Ginny Rorby.
Starscape, Tom Doherty Associates.
My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie
Hodgers, Union Soldier. Lynda
Durrant. Clarion Books, Houghton
Mifflin.
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography
of Juan Francisco Manzano.
Margarita Engle. Sean Qualls, Ill.
Henry Holt.

An annotated version of Teachers’

Choices for 2007 will appear in the
November issue of The Reading Teacher,
a publication of the International Reading
Association. Offprint copies of this
annotated list will be available from the
Association in November 2007. The
booklist and annotated version are
available on the Association website.
For single copies, send a 9"⫻12" self-
addressed envelope plus $1 for postage
and handling. For more information, write
to the address below.

International Reading Association

800 Barksdale Road, PO Box 8139
Newark, DE 19714-8139, USA
www.reading.org