1, 2, BUCKLE MY SHOE
by Anna Grossnickle Hines
Harcourt;ISBN: 9780152063054;$16;2008

Three-dimensional quilt patches complete with colored fabrics, rickrack, carefully placed buttons, and quilted numerals bring a familiar nursery rhyme to life and invite young children to count along.

Suggested for ages 1 - 5

THE WILLOUGHBYS
by Lois Lowry
Walter Lorraine;ISBN: 9780618979745;$16;2008

The wily Willoughby children are easily a match for their dastardly parents as each group tries to rid themselves of the other.

Suggested for ages 8 - 12

THE GRAVEYARD BOOK
by Neil Gaiman
illustrated by Dave McKean
HarperCollins;ISBN: 9780060530921;$17.99;2008

See annotation under "Audiobooks."

Suggested for ages 10 - 14

THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX
by Mary E. Pearson
Henry Holt;ISBN: 9780805076684;$16.95;2008

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

Suggested for ages 13 - 18
Subjects: Bioethics

NATION [AUDIOBOOK]
by Terry Pratchett
narrated by Stephen Briggs
Harper Audio;ISBN: 9780061658211;$29.95;2008

When a tidal wave throws a native boy and a proper Victorian girl together on an island, they discover that "one person is nothing, two are a nation." Pratchett's imagined parallel world features cannibals, hidden treasure, a fair bit of philosophy, and even some humor as Briggs illuminates the fear, desperation, and hopes of those who must go on living in a suddenly altered universe. (14 and up)

Suggested for ages 14 and up