Horn Book Fanfare List
Best books of 2006

Picture Books
Keeper of Soles written by Teresa Bateman, illustrated by Yayo (Holiday)
Hardworking Puppies written and illustrated by Lynn Reiser (Harcourt)
Emily’s Balloon written and illustrated by Komako Sakai (Chronicle)
Flotsam illustrated by David Wiesner (Clarion)

Fiction
Clay by David Almond (Delacorte)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson (Candlewick)
The Last Dragon written by Silvana De Mari, translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside (Miramax/Hyperion)
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (Dutton)
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages (Viking)
Street Love by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad/HarperCollins)
Aggie and Ben: Three Stories written by Lori Ries, illustrated by Frank W. Dormer (Charlesbridge)
Thumb on a Diamond written by Ken Roberts, illustrated by Leanne Franson (Groundwood)
A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
Ptolemy’s Gate: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three by Jonathan Stroud (Miramax/Hyperion)
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Knopf)

Nonfiction
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman (Holiday)
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy compiled and edited by Leonard S. Marcus (Candlewick)
Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor written and illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully (Farrar)
Wildfire written and illustrated by Taylor Morrison (Lorraine/Houghton)
Ballet of the Elephants written by Leda Schubert, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker (Brodie/Roaring Brook)
John, Paul, George, and Ben written and illustrated by Lane Smith (Hyperion)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom written by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Jump at the Sun)
Mama: A True Story in which a Baby Hippo Loses His Mama during a Tsunami, but Finds a New Home, and a New Mama written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter (Harcourt)
Dizzy written by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Sean Qualls (Levine/Scholastic)

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