Owly Just A Little Blue, Andy Runton (Top Shelf)		Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
Adele and Simon, Barbara McClintock (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)		Gregor the Overlander, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Rainstorm, Barbara Lehman (Houghton Mifflin Company)		The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963, Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte Press)

Baby Mouse Queen of the World! Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm (Random House)

Action Jackson, Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (Roaring Book Press)

Kitten’s First Full Moon, Kevin Henkes (Green Willow Books)

Chicken’s to Rescue, John Himmelman (Henry Holt and Company)

Lunch, Denise Fleming (Henry Holt and Company)

The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County, Janice N. Harrington (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Akimbo and the Elephants, Alexander McCall Smith and LeU Pham (Bloomsbury USA)

When Marian Sang, Pam Nunoz Ryan (Scholastic Press)

Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini, Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)

Houdini: The Handcuff King, Jason Lutes and Nick Bertozzi (Hyperion)

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