Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth2007

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52 Works / 53 Items 150,593 Books 4,668 Reviews 4.3
Committed to providing a broad selection of outstanding books that mixes popular appeal with literary excellence, the Books for Youth editorial staff has chosen the titles below as its show more most-recommended nonfiction, fiction, and picture-book offerings of the year. Our Top of the List YA fiction, middle-grade fiction, picture-book, and nonfiction selections can be found below, as well as individual book recommendations from Booklist editors and select reviewers, highlighting their personal favorite titles.


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WorkCategoryYear
Peak by Roland Smith
Older Readers Category2007
Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie Babbitt
2007
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
2007
Frida: Viva La Vida! Long Live Life! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
2007
Re-Gifters by Mike Carey
2007
Pocket Babies And Other Amazing Marsupials (Junior Library Guild Selection) by Sneed B. Collard
2007
The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper
2007
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
2007
Before I Die by Jenny Downham
2007
The Land of the Silver Apples by Nancy Farmer
2007
Lightship by Brian Floca
2007
Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas (Bank Street College of Education Flora Stieglitz Straus Award (Awards)) by Russell Freedman
2007
Pink by Nan Gregory
2007
Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin
2007
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington
2007
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill
2007
A Good Day by Kevin Henkes
2007
The Black Book of Secrets by F. E. Higgins
2007
The Falconer's Knot: A Story of Friars, Flirtation and Foul Play by Mary Hoffman
2007
Slam by Nick Hornby
2007
A Second Is a Hiccup: A Child's Book of Time by Hazel Hutchins
2007
What Happens on Wednesdays by Emily Jenkins
2007
Living Color by Steve Jenkins
2007
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell
2007
The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter by Katherine Kirkpatrick
2007
Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox
2007
The Growing Story by Ruth Krauss
2007
Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
2007
At Gleason's Gym by Ted Lewin
2007
Nini Here and There by Anita Lobel
2007
Strong Man: The Story of Charles Atlas by Meghan McCarthy
2007
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
2007
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
2007
What They Found: Love on 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers
2007
Tamar by Mal Peet
2007
Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
2007
Every Crooked Pot: A novel by Renée Rosen
2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
2007
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
2007
Useful Fools by C.A. Schmidt
2007
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
2007
Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed... and Revealed by David M. Schwartz
2007
One City, Two Brothers by Chris Smith
2007
Peak by Roland Smith
2007
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís
2007
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
2007
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
2007
The Apple Pie That Papa Baked by Lauren Thompson
2007
Max Counts His Chickens, 1 2 3 by Rosemary Wells
2007
Way Down Deep by Ruth White
2007
Candyfloss by Jacqueline Wilson
2007
Animal Poems by Valerie Worth
2007
Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry by Jane Yolen
2007

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