School Library Journal's Best Books 2008

The editors from the library magazine School Library Journal each year list what they think some of the best books. Here is a list of the books from the list that the library owns.

Picture Books
COTTIN, Menena. The Black Book of Colors. tr. from Spanish by Elisa Amado. illus. by Rosana Faría.
FERN, Tracey E. Buffalo Music. illus. by Lauren Castillo.
FOX, Mem. Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes. illus. by Helen Oxenbury.
FRAZEE, Marla. A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever. illus. by author.
GEORGE, Jean Craighead. Goose and Duck. illus. by Priscilla Lamont.
GORBACHEV, Valeri. Christopher Counting. illus. by author.
GRAHAM, Bob. How to Heal a Broken Wing. illus. by author.
GRANT, Judyann Ackerman. Chicken Said, “Cluck!” illus. by Sue Truesdell.
GREY, Mini. Traction Man Meets Turbodog. illus. by author.
HARRIS, Robie H. Mail Harry to the Moon! illus. by Michael Emberley.
HENKES, Kevin. Old Bear. illus. by author.
HORSE, Harry. Little Rabbit’s New Baby. illus. by author.
HOWE, James. Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet Time. illus. by Marie-Louise Gay.
JENKINS, Emily. Skunkdog. illus. by Pierre Pratt.
LEE, Suzy. Wave. illus. by author.
MCGILL, Alice. Way Up and Over Everything. illus. by Jude Daly.
ROHMANN, Eric. A Kitten Tale. illus. by author.
ROSOFF, Meg. Jumpy Jack and Googily. illus. by Sophie Blackall.
SHULEVITZ, Uri. How I Learned Geography. illus. by author.

Nonfiction
ARNOSKY, Jim. Wild Tracks! A Guide to Nature’s Footprints. illus. by author.
BISHOP, Nic. Nic Bishop Frogs. photos by author.
BRADLEY, Timothy J. Paleo Bugs: Survival of the Creepiest. illus. by author.
DENENBERG, Barry. Lincoln Shot: A President’s Life Remembered. illus. by Christopher Bing.
FLEISCHMAN, Sid. The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West.
FLEMING, Candace. The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary.
KERLEY, Barbara. What to Do About Alice? illus. by Edwin Fotheringham.
KUKLIN, Susan. No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row.
MACAULAY, David, with Richard Walker. The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body. illus. by David Macaulay.
NATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOK AND LITERACY ALLIANCE. Our White House: Looking in, Looking Out.
STONE, Tanya Lee. Sandy’s Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder. illus. by Boris Kulikov.
THOMAS, Peggy. Farmer George Plants a Nation. illus. by Layne Johnson.
WINTER, Jeanette. Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa. illus. by author.

Fiction
AVI. The Seer of Shadows.
BLUNDELL, Judy. What I Saw and How I Lied.
CASHORE, Kristin. Graceling.
COLLINS, Suzanne. The Hunger Games.
CONNOR, Leslie. Waiting for Normal.
DOCTOROW, Cory. Little Brother.
DOWD, Siobhan. The London Eye Mystery.
GAIMAN, Neil. Coraline: Graphic Novel. adapt. & illus. by P. Craig Russell.
GREEN, John. Paper Towns.
HARDINGE, Frances. Well Witched.
HORVATH, Polly. My One Hundred Adventures.
LANAGAN, Margo. Tender Morsels.
LOCKHART, E. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.
MURDOCK, Catherine Gilbert. Princess Ben: Being a Wholly Truthful Account of Her Various Discoveries and Misadventures, Recounted to the Best of Her Recollection, in Four Parts.
MUSSI, Sarah. The Door of No Return.
MYERS, Walter Dean. Sunrise Over Fallujah.
PEARSON, Mary E. The Adoration of Jenna Fox.
PENNYPACKER, Sara. Clementine’s Letter. illus. by Marla Frazee.
PRATCHETT, Terry. Nation.
REEVE, Philip. Here Lies Arthur.
SMITH, Hope Anita. Keeping the Night Watch. illus. by E. B. Lewis.
WEATHERFORD, Carole Boston. Becoming Billie Holiday. illus. by Floyd Cooper.
WERLIN, Nancy. Impossible.