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Recommended Reading
The following books are recommended by the Syracuse City School Library Media Specialists

Featured Good Books for Young Readers Selection

Down the Back of the Chair

Featured Good Books for Upper Elementary Readers Selection

How to Steal a Dog

by Barbara O'Connor

Featured Good Books for Middle Readers Selection

The Time Paradox

by Eoin Colfer

Featured Good Books for Older Readers Selection

Dairy Queen
(2006)

by Catherine Murdock

Featured Easy Chapter Books Selection

Cam Jansen and the mystery at the haunted house
(1992)

by David Adler

Featured Quick Reads for Middle Readers Selection

Story of the Golden State Warriors
(2007)

by Nate Leboutillier

Featured Quick Reads for Older Readers Selection

Beauty Shop for Rent: Fully Equipped, Inquire Within
(2009)

by Laura Bowers

Featured Books for Young Boys Selection

Skunks
(2001)

by David Greenberg

Featured Books for Boys Selection

The Beast
(2003)

by Walter Dean Myers

Featured Books for Older Boys Selection

10 Things to do Before I Die
(2004)

by Daniel Ehrenhaft

Featured Multicultural Books for Young Readers Selection

Whoever You Are
(2001)

by Mem Fox

Featured Multicultural Books for Upper Elementary Readers Selection

Knots on a Counting Rope.
(Owlet, 1997. (Native American))

by Bill Martin Jr.

Featured Multicultural Books for Middle Readers Selection

Chu Ju’s House.
(Harper Collins, 2004. (Chinese))

by Gloria Whelan.

Featured Multicultural Books for Older and Mature Readers Selection

145th Street.
(Delacorte Press, 2000. (African American))

by Walter Dean Myers.

Featured Nonfiction Books for Young Readers Selection

Bunches of Buttons

by Michael Dahl

Featured Nonfiction Books for Upper Elementary Readers Selection

P is for Princess

by Steven Layne

Featured Picturing America Selection

La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

Featured Nonfiction Books for Older Readers Selection

The Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog
(2008)

by Nancy Ellis-Bell

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*Featured ALA Best Books for Young Adults Selection*
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*Featured ALA Notable Books for Children Selection*
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*Featured Caldecott Medal Winners Selection*
		The Glorious Flight by Alice Provensen Review » Search

*Featured Newbery Medal Winners Selection*
		Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Taylor Review » Search

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