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Name of Book: Coming Home Author: Floyd Cooper Illustrator: Floyd Cooper Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers Audience: Intended audience is 4-8 years, but could be used with all ages. Summary: “Can I get a witness?” to “Can I give a witness?”  Coming Home tells the

Name of Book:  pictures of hollis woods Author: Patricia Reilly Giff Publisher: Dell Yearling Audience: Ages 11–14 Summary: Hollis Woods is a 12 year old foster child who has lived in so many foster homes that she has lost count. Hollis is also an artist who chronicles her

Name of Book:   How to (Un)Cage a Girl Author:  Francesca Lia Block Publisher:  Joanna Cotler Books/HarperTeen (2008) Audience:  16 – adult females.  Personally, I would have placed this book in the adult poetry section rather than YA, since it pushes beyond the personal

Name of Book:   Devilish Author:  Maureen Johnson Publisher:  Razor Bill (Penguin Young Readers Group) Audience:  Adolescent girls (Ages 11-17) Summary:   Two best girlfriends – one brilliant but aloof (Jane), the other desperate to belong but lacking confidence (Allison), are

Name of Book:   Believe Me, I Know Author:  Valerie Chow Bush, editor Illustrator:  Photos taken by the children of the WritersCorps Youth Publisher:  WritersCorps Books 2002 Audience:  8 – 18 year olds.  While there are poems written by children as young as 6 and 7 included in

Name of Book:   Making the Run Author:   Heather Henson Publisher:   Joanna Cotler Books (a division of HarperCollins) Audience:   Young adults ages 16 – 21 (this books deals with mature themes of habitual drug use, sexual activity, and death). I would also lean toward using this

Name of the Book:  Pete’s Angel, a Story of Self-love Author:  Hunter D. Darden Illustrator:  Sally Vacca Publisher:  Sunfleur Publications, Inc. Audience:  Elementary School Children Summary:   This is a story of a little boy with no self-confidence, a character many children

Name of Book:   Slow Dance Heart Break Blues Author:  Arnold Adoff Illustrator:  William Cotton Publisher:  Lothrop Lee & Shepard (1995) Audience:  12 – 18 males and females.  This book would be best used in a youth group setting for small group discussion. Summar

Name of Book:    I Don’t Want to be Crazy Author:  Samantha Schultz Illustrator:  N/A Publisher:  PUSH (an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.) 2006 No. of Pages:  280 Audience:  15 – 25 females (I think this book could be used with co-ed groups, but lends itself more toward a female

Name of Book: An Angel Just Like Me Author:Mary Hoffman Illustrators: Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Publisher’s Intended Audience: Preschool – Grade 2 Summary: It is nearly Christmas and Tyler’s family is busy getting ready but