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The 2012 finalists for the Children’s Choice Book Awards have been revealed. Kids can vote from March 14th to May 3rd.

The winners will be announced live at the Children’s Choice Book Awards gala on May 7th. Nominees have been divided into four groups classified by different school grades.

In the Author of the Year category, middle-grade fiction writers dominate. The nominees include Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney, Inheritance by Christopher Paolini, Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson, The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan and Dork Diaries 3: Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star by Rachel Renée Russell.

Children of all grades are encouraged to vote for the Illustrator of the Year award. All of the nominees in this category wrote and illustrated the books.

The nominees include If You Give a Dog a Donut by Felicia Bond, The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle, Llama Llama Home With Mama by Anna Dewdney, Silverlicious by Victoria Kann and Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick.

Last year, Riordan took home the top prize in both the “Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year” and the “Author of the Year” categories. David Wiesner won “Illustrator of the Year” for his title, Art & Max. The image embedded to the side showcases this year’s official Children’s Book Week poster designed by Weisner. Follow this link to see the official bookmark designed by Lane Smith.

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For the week ending Sunday, March 20, 2011

SPECIAL TO THE SOUTHERN LIST!

(books that appear on the southern list, but not the national list)
Click the icon to buy this book from a southern indie bookstore!

• Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress (fiction)
• Night Vision by Randy Wayne White (fiction)
• Toys by James Patterson, Neil McMahon (fiction)
• Love You More by Lisa Gardner (fiction)
• Love Wins by Rob Bell (nonfiction)
• I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher (nonfiction)
• I Was a Dancer by Jacques D’Amboise (nonfiction)
• The Fall of the House of Zeus by Curtis Wilkie (nonfiction)
• A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates (nonfiction)
• Bringing Adam Home by Les Standiford, Joe Matthews (nonfiction)
• True Grit by Charles Portis (paperback fiction)
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (paperback fiction)
• Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (paperback fiction)
• Farm Fresh North Carolina by Diane Daniell (paperback nonfiction)
• Zagat Miami/So. Florida Restaurants 2011 by Zagat (paperback nonfiction)
• In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White (paperback nonfiction)
• I Totally Meant to Do That by Jane Borden (paperback nonfiction)
• Every Day in Tuscany by Frances Mayes (paperback nonfiction)
• The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd (mass market)
• The Bone Thief by Jefferson Bass (mass market)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (mass market)
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (mass market)
• Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle (children’s illustrated)
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (children’s illustrated)
• Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes (children’s illustrated)
• Across the Universe by Beth Revis (childrens interest)
• Madeline at the White House by John Bemelmans Marciano (childrens interest)
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman (childrens interest)

Hardcover Fiction

1. The Tiger’s Wife
Tea Obreht, Random House, $25, 9780385343831
2. The Paris Wife
Paula McLain, Ballantine, $25, 9780345521309
3. Georgia Bottoms
Mark Childress, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316033046
4. Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult, Atria, $28, 9781439102725
5. Swamplandia!
Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263995
6. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155345
7. Toys
James Patterson, Neil McMahon, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316097369
8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997
9. Room
Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335
10. A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670022410
11. Minding Frankie
Maeve Binchy, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307273567
12. Night Vision
Randy Wayne White, Putnam, $25.95, 9780399157059
13. The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399157226
14. Love You More
Lisa Gardner, Bantam, $26, 9780553807257
15. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Jasper Fforde, Viking, $25.95, 9780670022526

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. The Social Animal
David Brooks, Random House, $27, 9781400067602
2. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168
3. Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316001922
4. Blood, Bones & Butter
Gabrielle Hamilton, Random House, $26, 9781400068722
5. Moonwalking With Einstein
Joshua Foer, Penguin Press, $26.95, 9781594202292
6. The Money Class
Suze Orman, Spiegel & Grau, $26, 9781400069736
7. Bringing Adam Home
Les Standiford, Joe Matthews, Ecco Press, $24.99, 9780061983900
8. Life
Keith Richards, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316034388
9. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594202841
10. Love Wins
Rob Bell, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062049643
11. I Beat the Odds
Michael Oher, Gotham, $26, 9781592406128
12. I Was a Dancer
Jacques D’Amboise, Knopf, $35, 9781400042340
13. A Widow’s Story
Joyce Carol Oates, Ecco Press, $27.99, 9780062015532
14. Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain, University of California Press, $34.95, 9780520267190
15. The Fall of the House of Zeus
Curtis Wilkie, Crown, $25.99, 9780307460707

Trade Paperback Fiction

1. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
2. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223
3. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691
4. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781616200701
5. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Heidi W. Durrow, Algonquin, $13.95, 9781616200152
6. The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967
7. The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Cathleen Schine, Picador, $14, 9780312680527
8. Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648
9. True Grit
Charles Portis, Overlook, $14.95, 9781590204597
10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307454546
11. Solar
Ian McEwan, Anchor, $15, 9780307739537
12. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford, Ballantine, $15, 9780345505347
13. Lord of Misrule
Jaimy Gordon, Vintage, $15, 9780307946737
14. The Invisible Bridge
Julie Orringer, Vintage, $15.95, 9781400034376
15. The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, Broadway, $16, 9781400052189
2. Heaven Is for Real
Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99, 9780849946158
3. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco Press, $16, 9780060936228
4. Committed
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $16, 9780143118701
5. The King’s Speech
Mark Logue, Peter Conradi, Sterling, $14.95, 9781402786761
6. Dead End Gene Pool
Wendy Burden, Gotham, $16, 9781592406067
7. Farm Fresh North Carolina
Diane Daniel, University of North Carolina Press, $18.95, 9780807871829
8. The Big Short
Michael Lewis, Norton, $15.95, 9780393338829
9. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Neil White, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780061351631
10. I Totally Meant to Do That
Jane Borden, Broadway, $14, 9780307464637
11. Inside of a Dog
Alexandra Horowitz, Scribner, $16, 9781416583431
12. Zagat Miami/So. Florida Restaurants 2011
Zagat, $14.95, 9781604783100
13. The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin, Harper, $14.99, 9780061583261
14. Every Day in Tuscany
Frances Mayes, Broadway, $15, 9780767929837
15. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542

Mass Market

1. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488
2. The Bricklayer
Noah Boyd, Harper, $9.99, 9780061827020
3. The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $8.99, 9780756404741
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
5. The Bone Thief
Jefferson Bass, Harper, $7.99, 9780061284779
6. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $7.99, 9780307473479
7. This Body of Death
Elizabeth George, Harper, $9.99, 9780061160912
8. Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand, Signet, $9.99, 9780451191144
9. The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett, Signet, $9.99, 9780451232816
10. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $7.99, 9780307476159

Children’s Illustrated

1. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
2. Pat the Bunny
Dorothy Kunhardt, Golden, $9.99, 9780307120007
3. Silverlicious
Victoria Kann, Harper, $17.99, 9780061781230
4. Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak, Harper, $17.95, 9780060254926
5. A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Philip Christian Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.), Roaring Brook, $16.99, 9781596434028
6. Mister Seahorse
Eric Carle, Philomel, $8.99, 9780399254901
7. Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
Barack Obama, Loren Long (Illus.), Knopf, $17.99, 9780375835278
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle, Putnam, $10.99, 9780399226908
9. The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein, Harper, $16.99, 9780060256654
10. Little White Rabbit
Kevin Henkes, Greenwillow, $16.99, 9780062006424

Children’s Interest

1. The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $18.99, 9781423113393
2. I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore, Harper, $17.99, 9780062026248
3. Matched
Ally Condie, Dutton, $17.99, 9780525423645
4. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375842207
5. Incarceron
Catherine Fisher, Firebird, $9.99, 9780142418529
6. Madeline at the White House
John Bemelmans Marciano, Viking, $17.99, 9780670012282
7. I Broke My Trunk!
Mo Willems, Hyperion, $8.99, 9781423133094
8. Across the Universe
Beth Revis, Razorbill, $17.99, 9781595143976
9. Beautiful Oops!
Barney Salzberg, Workman, $11.95, 9780761157281
10. If I Stay
Gayle Forman, Speak, $8.99, 9780142415436

Children’s Fiction Series Titles

1. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $8.99, 9780439023528
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9780810984912
3. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023498
4. Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023511
5. A Crazy Day With Cobras (Magic Tree House)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus., Random House, $12.99, 9780375868238
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9780810994737
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9780810993136
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9780810983915
9. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423101505
10. Moonlight on the Magic Flute (Magic Tree House)
Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $4.99, 9780375856471

Southern Indie Bestseller List for the week ending Sunday, February 13, 2011

SPECIAL TO THE SOUTHERN LIST!

(books that appear on the southern list, but not the national list)
Click the icon to buy this book from a southern indie bookstore!

• The Confession by John Grisham (fiction)
• The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld (fiction)
• The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer (fiction)
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (fiction)
• Electric Barracuda by Tim Dorsey (fiction)
• My Reading Life by Pat Conroy (nonfiction)
• I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher (nonfiction)
• I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron (nonfiction)
• Tough Without a Gun by Stefan Kanfer (nonfiction)
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (paperback fiction)
• The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (paperback fiction)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (paperback nonfiction)
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (paperback nonfiction)
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (paperback fiction)
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer (paperback fiction)
• Night by Elie Wiesel (paperback nonfiction)
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (paperback nonfiction)
• The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman (paperback nonfiction)
• I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar by Sharon Eliza Nichols (paperback nonfiction)
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (mass market)
• The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd (mass market)
• 1984 by George Orwell (mass market)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell, (mass market)
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.) (children’s illustrated)
• Happy Valentine’s Day, Curious George! by H.A. Rey (children’s illustrated)
• Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin, James Dean (Illus.) (children’s illustrated)
• Monkey See, Monkey Draw by Alex Beard (children’s interest)
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (children’s interest)

Hardcover Fiction

1. Swamplandia!
Karen Russell, Knopf, $24.95, 9780307263995
2. The Help
Kathryn Stockett, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, $24.95, 9780399155345
3. Room
Emma Donoghue, Little Brown, $24.99, 9780316098335
4. A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness, Viking, $28.95, 9780670022410
5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Stieg Larsson, Knopf, $27.95, 9780307269997
6. The Confession
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385528047
7. The Death Instinct
Jed Rubenfeld, Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594487828
8. Tick Tock
James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316037914
9. The Inner Circle
Brad Meltzer, Grand Central, $26.99, 9780446577892
10. The Sentry
Robert Crais, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399157073
11. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris, Ian Falconer (Illus.), Little Brown, $21.99, 9780316038393
12. Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, FSG, $28, 9780374158460
13. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin, Morrow, $24.99, 9780060594664
14. A Red Herring Without Mustard
Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $23, 9780385342322
15. Electric Barracuda
Tim Dorsey, Morrow, $24.99, 9780061876899

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand, Random House, $27, 9781400064168
2. Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316001922
3. Known and Unknown
Donald Rumsfeld, Sentinel, $36, 9781595230676
4. I Beat the Odds
Michael Oher, Gotham, $26, 9781592406128
5. Life
Keith Richards, Little Brown, $29.99, 9780316034388
6. Decision Points
George W. Bush, Crown, $35, 9780307590619
7. Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain, University of California Press, $34.95, 9780520267190
8. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua, Penguin Press, $25.95, 9781594202841
9. My Reading Life
Pat Conroy, Nan A. Talese, $25, 9780385533577
10. At Home
Bill Bryson, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780767919388
11. The Hidden Reality
Brian Greene, Knopf, $29.95, 9780307265630
12. I Remember Nothing
Nora Ephron, Knopf, $22.95, 9780307595607
13. Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?
Ina Garten, Clarkson Potter, $35, 9780307238764
14. Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Karen Armstrong, Knopf, $22.95, 9780307595591
15. Tough Without a Gun
Stefan Kanfer, Knopf, $26.95, 9780307271006

Trade Paperback Fiction

1. Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375714368
2. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
Helen Simonson, Random House, $15, 9780812981223
3. The Postmistress
Sarah Blake, Berkley, $15, 9780425238691
4. Sarah’s Key
Tatiana De Rosnay, St. Martin’s Griffin, $13.95, 9780312370848
5. Little Bee
Chris Cleave, S&S, $15, 9781416589648
6. The Imperfectionists
Tom Rachman, Dial, $15, 9780385343671
7. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307454546
8. Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, Algonquin, $14.95, 9781565125605
9. The Invisible Bridge
Julie Orringer, Vintage, $15.95, 9781400034376
10. The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein, Harper, $14.99, 9780061537967
11. True Grit
Charles Portis, Overlook, $14.95, 9781590204597
12. Tinkers
Paul Harding, Bellevue Literary Press, $14.95, 9781934137123
13. Half Broke Horses
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9781416586296
14. The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Cathleen Schine, Picador, $14, 9780312680527
15. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454553

Trade Paperback Nonfiction

1. Heaven Is for Real
Todd Burpo, Thomas Nelson, $16.99, 9780849946158
2. Just Kids
Patti Smith, Ecco, $16, 9780060936228
3. The King’s Speech
Mark Logue, Peter Conradi, Sterling, $14.95, 9781402786761
4. Inside of a Dog
Alexandra Horowitz, Scribner, $16, 9781416583431
5. Committed
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $16, 9780143118701
6. The Big Short
Michael Lewis, Norton, $15.95, 9780393338829
7. What the Dog Saw
Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay, $16.99, 9780316076203
8. The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, Scribner, $15, 9780743247542
9. Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Penguin, $16, 9780143038252
10. Zeitoun
Dave Eggers, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307387943
11. Night
Elie Wiesel, FSG, $9.95, 9780374500016
12. Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert, Penguin, $16, 9780143118428
13. The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande, Picador, $15, 9780312430009
14. The 5 Love Languages
Gary Chapman, Northfield, $14.99, 9780802473158
15. I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar
Sharon Eliza Nichols, St. Martin’s Griffin, $9.99, 9780312533014

Mass Market

1. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $7.99, 9780307476159
2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $7.99, 9780307473479
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, Warner, $7.99, 9780446310789
4. This Body of Death
Elizabeth George, Harper, $9.99, 9780061160912
5. Deliver Us From Evil
David Baldacci, Vision, $9.99, 9780446564076
6. The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown, Anchor, $9.99, 9781400079148
7. The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, Warner, $6.99, 9780316769488
8. The Bricklayer
Noah Boyd, Harper, $9.99, 9780061827020
9. 1984
George Orwell, Signet, $9.99, 9780451524935
10. Split Image
Robert B. Parker, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425239735

Children’s Illustrated

1. Silverlicious
Victoria Kann, Harper, $17.99, 9780061781230
2. Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.), Harper, $8.99, 9780694003617
3. A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Philip Christian Stead, Erin E. Stead (Illus.), Roaring Brook, $16.99, 9781596434028
4. Otis
Loren Long, Philomel, $8.99, 9780399256004
5. Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
Barack Obama, Loren Long (Illus.), Knopf, $17.99, 9780375835278
6. Fancy Nancy: Heart to Heart
Jane O’Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), HarperFestival, $4.99, 9780061235962
7. Twosomes: Love Poems from the Animal Kingdom
Marilyn Singer, Lee Wildish (Illus.), Knopf, $7.99, 9780375867101
8. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Eric Carle (Illus.), Holt, $7.95, 9780805047905
9. Happy Valentine’s Day, Curious George!
H.A. Rey, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $8.99, 9780547131078
10. Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
Eric Litwin, James Dean (Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780061906220

Children’s Interest

1. I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore, Harper, $17.99, 9780061969553
2. Madeline at the White House
John Bemelmans Marciano, Viking, $17.99, 9780670012282
3. Moon Over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool, Delacorte, $16.99, 9780385738835
4. The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, Knopf, $12.99, 9780375842207
5. The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $18.99, 9781423113393
6. Matched
Ally Condie, Dutton, $17.99, 9780525423645
7. Incarceron
Catherine Fisher, Firebird, $9.99, 9780142418529
8. Monkey See, Monkey Draw
Alex Beard, Abrams, $16.95, 9780810989702
9. I Broke My Trunk!
Mo Willems, Hyperion, $8.99, 9781423133094
10. Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White, Harper, $7.99, 9780061120268

Children’s Fiction Series Titles

1. The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $8.99, 9780439023528
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
Jeff Kinney, Amulet, $13.95, 9780810984912
3. A Crazy Day With Cobras (Magic Tree House)
Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House, $12.99, 9780375868238
4. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423134947
5. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5)
Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $7.99, 9781423101505
6. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023498
7. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2)
Rick Riordan, Miramax, $7.99, 9781423103349
8. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J.K.Rowling, Scholastic, $10.99, 9780590353427
9. Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games)
Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023511
10. The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart, Little Brown, $6.99, 9780316003957

Read globally but buy from your local indie SIBA-member bookstore and keep more revenue in your community.

Here are some outstanding titles to buy for that special kid to celebrate Children’s Book Week (May 11-17, 2009).

For the very young, read Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book.  Fiction Addiction in Greenville SC carries this title and many others by Scarry.

If you like Scarry’s books, you may like the picture books by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle.

For 4 to 8-year old girls, try the Fancy Nancy series of books by Jane O’Connor.  Fountain Bookstore in Richmond VA carries the series.

If you like the Fancy Nancy series, you may also like Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk.

For 9 to 12-year olds, buy Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Shadow by James Rollins.  You can find this title and many others by Rollins at Malaprop’s Bookstore in Asheville NC. 

If you like the Jake Ransom series, you may also like Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book.

More Summer Reads: 

The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Book 5) – Rick Riordan

The Awakening (Darkest Powers, Book 2) – Kelley Armstrong

Along for the Ride – Sarah Dessen

Chasing the Bear:  A Young Spenser Novel – Robert B. Parker

Paddington at the Beach – Michael Bond

Please buy these and many other titles at your local independent bookstore!