Did You Say DCF?

Yes, on the weekend before St. Patrick's Day, the DCF Committee was slaving away to bring you quality literature! Never let it be said that our Irish roots came in the way of our duty to kids' books. Here's the list for 2008-09:

• Applegate, Katherine. Home of the Brave
• Avi. The Traitors' Gate
• Babbitt, Natalie. Jack Plank Tells Tales
• Barakat, Ibtisam. Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
• Burns, Loree. Tracking Trash
• Clements, Andrew. No Talking
• Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton
• Freedman, Russell. Who Was First? Discovering the Americas
• Grandits, John. Blue Lipstick
• Haas, Jessie. Chase
• Hale, Shannon. Book of a Thousand Days
• Hill, Kirkpatrick. Do Not Pass Go
• Holm, Jennifer. Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf
• Hulme & Wexler. The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep
• Jonell, Lynne. Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
• Kadohata, Cynthia. Cracker!
• Kinney, Jeff. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Korman, Gordon. Schooled
• Rex, Adam. The True Meaning of Smekday
• Rumford, James. Beowulf
• Schlitz, Laura Amy. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
• Schmidt, Gary. The Wednesday Wars
• Selznick, Brian. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Smith, Roland. Elephant Run
• Sturm & Tommaso. Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow
• Thomson, Sarah L. The Dragon's Egg
• Urban, Linda. A Crooked Kind of Perfect
• Varon, Sara. Robot Dreams
• Wells, Rosemary. Red Moon at Sharpsburg
• White, Ruth. Way Down Deep

Voting for last year's list will take place the week of April 10. If you've exhausted your pile of books from last year list, here are 30 new ones through which you can plow!