LibGuides: Best Books of 2013: Notable Young Adult and Children's Titles

Young Adult and Children's Fiction

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PS 3625 .A675 A23 2013
ISBN: 9780399162411
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
Library Journal - Best Young Adult Literature for Adults
Bluebird by Bob Staake
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .S77439 Bl 2013
ISBN: 9780375870378
Publication Date: 2013-04-09
Publishers Weekly Best Childrens' Picture Books
Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang; Lark Pien
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PN 6727 .Y36 B68 2013
ISBN: 9781596439245
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
2 volumes
Library Journal - Best Young Adult Literature for Adults
Winner - LA Times Book Prize for YA Literature
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt; Oliver Jeffers (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .D3388 Day 2013
ISBN: 9780399255373
Publication Date: 2013-06-27
Amazon Best 100 of 2013
Winner - Goodreads Choice Award Best Picture Book
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books PZ 7 .R79613 Fan 2013
ISBN: 9781250030955
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Library Journal - Best Young Adult Literature for Adults
If You Want to See a Whale by Julie Fogliano; Erin E. Stead (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .F6763 If 2013
ISBN: 9781596437319
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
Publishers Weekly Best Children's Picture Books
Maya's Notebook: A Novel by Isabel Allende
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PQ 8098.1 .L54 C83 2013
ISBN: 9780062105622
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Booklist - Editor's Choice
Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins; James Proimos (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PZ 7 .C6837 Ye 2013
ISBN: 9780545425162
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
Publishers Weekly Best Childrens' Picture Books

Young Adult and Children's Nonfiction

Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty by Russell Freedman
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books E 302.6 .F8 F8495 2013
ISBN: 9780823423743
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Booklist - Editor's Choice Young Adult Nonfiction
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos by Deborah Heiligman; LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature QA 29 .E68 H45 2013
ISBN: 9781596433076
Publication Date: 2013-06-25
Booklist - Editor's Choice Children's Nonfiction
Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People by Susan Goldman Rubin
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books ND 259 .R5 R83 2013
ISBN: 9780810984110
Publication Date: 2013-02-05
Booklist - Editor's Choice Young Adult Nonfiction
The Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books E 453 .B68 2013
ISBN: 9781419703904
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Booklist - Editor's Choice Young Adult Nonfiction
Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya by Annick Cojean; Marjolijn de Jager (Translator)
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books DT 236 .C6413 2013
ISBN: 9780802121721
Publication Date: 2013-09-03
Booklist - Editor's Choice Young Adult Nonfiction
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War Ii by Martin W. Sandler
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books D 769.8 .A6 S26 2013
ISBN: 9780802722775
Publication Date: 2013-08-27
Booklist - Editor's Choice Young Adult Nonfiction
Legends, Icons and Rebels: Music That Changed the World by Robbie Robertson; Jim Guerinot; Sebastian Robertson; Jared Levine
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books ML 3929 .R63 2013
ISBN: 9781770495715
Publication Date: 2013-10-08
With 2 CDs
Booklist - Editor's Choice Young Adult Nonfiction
Locomotive by Brian Floca (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature TJ 603.2 .F56 2013
ISBN: 9781416994152
Publication Date: 2013-09-03
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Childrens' Books
Publishers Weekly 10 Best Childrens' Books - Nonfiction
Winner - Caldecott Medal
March: Book One by John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; Nate Powell (Artist)
Call Number: Wilm Young Adult Books E 840.8 .L43 L48 2013
ISBN: 9781603093002
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
Book 1
Booklist - Editor's Choice Young Adult Nonfiction
Martin and Mahalia: His Words, Her Song by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Artist)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature E 185.97 .K5 P54 2013
ISBN: 9780316070133
Publication Date: 2013-07-30
Booklist - Editor's Choice Children's Nonfiction
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne; Vladimir Radunsky (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature QC 16 .E5 B437 2013
ISBN: 9780811872355
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
NPR Best Books
Booklist - Editor's Choice Middle Readers Nonfiction
Poems to Learn by Heart by Caroline Kennedy; Jon J. Muth (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PS 586 .P575 2013
ISBN: 9781423108054
Publication Date: 2013-03-26
Publishers Weekly - Best Children's Nonfiction
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky And Other Poems by Jack Prelutsky; Carin Berger (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature PS 3566 .R36 S73 2012
ISBN: 9780062014641
Publication Date: 2013-02-26
Publishers Weekly Best Childrens' Nonfiction
Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell by Tanya Lee Stone; Marjorie Priceman (Illustrator)
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature R 692 .S755 2013
ISBN: 9780805090482
Publication Date: 2013-02-19
NPR Best Books
The World Is Waiting for You by Barbara Kerley
Call Number: Wilm Children's Literature G 175 .K47 2013
ISBN: 9781426311147
Publication Date: 2013-03-12
NPR Best Books