Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

"Maybe Mommers and I shouldn't have been surprised; Dwight had told us it was a trailer even before we'd packed our bags."

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LC CIP Summary: Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.


Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books/Harper Collins; 290 pages

The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry

"Once upon a time there was a family named Willoughby: an old-fashioned type of family, with four children."

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CIP Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.


Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; 174 pages

We Are the Ship - The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

"Seems like we've been playing baseball for a mighty long time."

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Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.

Publisher: Jump at the Sun - Hyperion; 88 pages

After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

"The summer before D Foster's real mama came and took her away, Tupac wasn't dead yet."

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LC CIP Summary: In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.


Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons; 153 pages

(Alternate spellings of this award include: Newberry, Newbury, & Newbary)

Trouble by Gary Schmidt

"Henry Smith's Father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble never find you."

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CIP Summary: Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but fate adds another companion - the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin - and reveals troubles that predate the accident.

Publisher: Clarion Books; 304 pages





(Alternate spellings of this award include: Newberry, Newbury, & Newbary)

Lulu Atlantis and the Quest for True Blue Love by Patricia Martin

"The day her mother returned from the hospital to their house on Sweet Pea Lane was the day Lulu Atlantis ran away from home."

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LC CIP Summary: Lulu Atlantis is peeved when her mother brings home little brother Sam, and she turns to her imaginary friend, Harry the daddy long-legs spider, for comfort, companionship, help, and advice as she is getting used to the addition to the family. (Alternate spellings of this award include: Newberry, Newbury, & Newbary)

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books; 228 pages

Hush - An Irish Princess' Tale by Donna Jo Napoli

"Mel, hurry up!" Brigid calls, splashing through puddles, heedless of the mud that has come up through the wooden-plank paving of the road.

LC CIP Summary: Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 308 pages (Alternate spellings of this award include: Newberry, Newbury, & Newbary)

Night Running by Elisa Carbone, illustrated by E. B. Lewis

"Zeus sat looking sad and droopy as an old mule."

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LC CIP Summary: A runaway slave makes a daring escape to freedom with the help of his faithful hunting dog, Zeus. Based on the true story of James Smith's journey from Virginia to Ohio in the mid-1800s.

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; unpaged (Alternate spellings of this award include: Newberry, Newbury, & Newbary)

Pandora Gets Jealous by Carolyn Hennesy

"There was a time, during the golden age of men and gods, when mankind became forgetful, almost to the point of its own destruction."

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LC CIP Summary: Thirteen-year-old Pandy is hauled before Zeus and given six months to gather all of the evils that were released when the box she brought to school as her annual project was accidentally opened.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books; 264 pages (Alternate spellings of this award include: Newberry, Newbury, & Newbary)

Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell

"The day after my brother left for Vietnam, me and Private Hollister played thirty-seven hands of gin rummy, and I won twenty-one."

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LC CIP Summary: "When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in."


Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers; 163 pages (Alternate spellings of this award include: Newberry, Newbury, & Newbary)

Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff

"Never mind being afraid of eleven right now."

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LC CIP Summary: When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.

Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books; 165 pages (Alternate spellings of this award include: Newberry, Newbury, & Newbary)

Tennyson by Lesley M.M. Blume

"Strange things had happened at Innisfree before."

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LC CIP Summary: After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, eleven-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; 228 pages (Alternate spellings of this award include: Newberry, Newbury, & Newbary)