Presented at Tennessee Council of Teachers of English

Gatlinburg, Tennessee – August 2008

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick

The Arrival, Shaun Tan

The Wednesday Wars, Gary D. Schmidt

Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf, Jennifer Holm

Feathers, Jacqueline Woodson

Cinderella (as if you didn’t already know the story), Barbara Ensor

Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal, Paul Fleischman

Ella Enchanted, Gail Constance Levine (*audio)

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies and A Drowned Maiden’s Hair, Laura Amy Schlitz

The Many Rides of Paul Revere, James Cross Giblin

Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art

Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E.L. Konigsburg

No Talking, Andrew Clements

The Juvie Three, Gordon Korman

Deadline, Chris Crutcher

Click, Linda Sue Park (and nine other authors)

The Mother-Daughter Book Club, Heather Vogel Frederick

November Blues, Sharon Draper

The Silver Cup, Constance Leeds

Merlin’s Dragon, T.A. Barron

What the Dickens, Gregory Maguire (*audio)

Peeled, Joan Bauer

Lawn Boy, Gary Paulsen

M.L.K.: Journey of a King, Tonya Bolden

Journey to the River Sea and A Company of Swans, Eva Ibbotson

The Princess Academy, Shannon Hale

Game, Walter Dean Myers

A ‘grown-up’ book:             We All Hear Voices, Sam Taggart

On my list to read:               The Dragonfly Pool, Eva Ibbotson

                                                The 39 Clues: Maze of Bones, Rick Riordan

                                                To Catch a Pirate, Jade Parker

                                                The Diamond of Drury Lane, Julia Golding