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Len Bailey FANTASMS (Tor Books/Starscape)

Cheryl Bardoe, GREGORY MENDEL: THE FRIAR WHO GREW PEAS (Abrams)

Andrea Beaty, WHEN GIANTS COME TO PLAY (Abrams)

Howard J. Bennett, LIONS AREN'T SCARED OF SHOTS:A STORY FOR CHILDREN ABOUT VISITING THE DOCTOR (American Psychological Association)

Marlene Targ Brill, BARAK OBAMA: WORKING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE,
(Millbrook Press); CONCRETE MIXERS (Carolrhoda Books)

Esme Raji Codell, VIVE LA PARIS (Hyperion)

Sharon Darrow, TRASH (Candlewick)

Simone Elkeles, HOW TO BUILD A SUMMER VACATION (Flux/Llewelyn)

Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin, JANE ADDAMS: CHAMPION OF
DEMOCRACY (Clarion)

Arthur Geisert, OOPS (Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin)

Steven Layne, PREACHER'S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Pelican)

Freddie Levin, 1-2-3 DRAW BABY ANIMALS (Peel Productions)

Aaron Reynolds, TIGER MOTH, INSECT NINJA, TIGER MOTH AND THE
DRAGON KITE CONTEST (Stone Arch Books)

Heidi Bee Roemer, WHAT KINDS OF SEEDS ARE THESE? (NorthWord Press)

Laura Ruby, GOOD GIRLS (HarperTempest/HarperCollins)

Karen Halvorsen Schreck, DREAM JOURNAL (Hyperion)

Sara Shacter and Christine Thorton, HEADING TO THE WEDDING (Red Rock Press)

Amy Timberlake, THAT GIRL LUCY MOON (Hyperion)

Glennette Tilley Turner, AN APPLE FOR HARRIET TUBMAN (Albert Whitman)

Jeff Weigel, ATOMIC ACE & THE ROBOT RAMPAGE (Albert Whitman)

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