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Older Children and Young Adults: 2011

New Books for Older Children and Young Adults in 2011

Just click on the titles to read our original reviews for these book publications.  
1 Banjo of Destiny / by Cary Fagan, illustrated by Selçuk Demirel
2 Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition / by Karen Blumenthal
3 Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London / by Andrea Warren
4 Clara Barton: DK Biography / by Stephen Krensky
5 Close to Famous / by Joan Bauer
6 Deadly / by Julie Chibbaro
7 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World / by Penny Colman
8 Everything I Was / by Corinne Demas
9 Gangs / by Richard Swift
10 Ghetto Cowboy / by G. Neri, illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson
11 Girls Don't Fly / by Kristen Chandler
12 High Riders, Saints and Death Cars: A Life Saved by Art / by Nicholas Herrera
13 How Ella Grew an Electric Guitar: A Girl's First Adventure in Business / by Orly Sade and Ellen Neuborne
14 I Lost My Mobile at the Mall: Teenager on the Edge of Technological Breakdown / by Wendy Harmer
15 I'll Be Watching / by Pamela Porter
16 Jefferson's Sons / by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
17 Life: An Exploded Diagram / by Mal Peet
18 Love, Inc. / by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout
19 Lunch-Box Dream / by Tony Abbott
20 Mousenet / by Prudence Breitrose, illustrated by Stephanie Yue
21 Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Wal-Mart and Became America's Richest Man / by Karen Blumenthal
22 Oliver Twist (Campfire Classics) / by Charles Dickens, adapted by Dan Johnson, illustrated by Rajesh Nagulakonda
23 Putting Makeup on Dead People / by Jen Violi
24 Raggin' Jazzin' Rockin': A History of American Musical Instrument Makers / by Susan VanHecke
25 Secrets of Tamarind / by Nadia Aguiar
26 Starfields / by Carolyn Marsden
27 Striker Jones:Elementary Economics for Elementary Detectives / by Maggie M. Larche
28 The Trouble with Half a Moon / by Danette Vigilante
29 The Underdogs / by Mike Lupika
30 Tink / by Bodil Bredsdorff
31 What Can(t) Wait / by Ashley hope Pérez