The Stars of 2014: Final Round-Up


Elizabeth Bluemle - January 8, 2015

Well, chickadees, here it is: the final tally of starred reviews for youth literature for 2014 from the following sources: BooklistThe Bulletin of the Center for Children’s BooksThe Horn BookKirkus ReviewsPublishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. This year, 868 books received 1458 stars from these esteemed review sources.
This is an insanely detail-laden process, and as careful as I try to be, there may be oversights here and there. If you want the cleanest version of this list, check back in a week or two, when I’ll have been alerted to anything that needs fixing. Publishers, if my star count for individual titles doesn’t match yours, please send an email to me at ebluemle at publishersweekly.com, listing the title and the review sources with dates. Many thanks!
My hope is that this list will help readers find fine books they may have overlooked, and of course to place large monetary bets on the upcoming youth award announcements. (Kidding! But speaking of which, the ALA Youth Media Awards—Newbery, Caldecott, King, Printz, Sibert, Geisel, and many many others—will be announced on February 2, 2015, beginning at 8 a.m. in Chicago, and livestreamed here.)
One note I feel strongly about: critical acclaim doesn’t always align with child appeal, so I would urge parents, librarians, booksellers, and teachers not to overlook titles without stars. Sometimes, books beloved by children don’t receive a single starred review, but still enrich and enchant their lives. The one thing I hope this project doesn’t do is encourage people to bypass titles worth considering that somehow have escaped reviewer attention. If you have some examples of books you’ve truly loved from this year that didn’t receive stars, please post them in the comments below. Caveat: no self-promotion (or promoting a friend, loved one, client, etc.)! Thanks.
And — if you’re willing to share, it would be great to know what your role in the book world is and how you use this list.
Happy reading!
SIX STARS
Brown Girl Dreaming. Jacqueline Woodson. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99
Family Romanov, The: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia. Candace Fleming. Random House, $18.99
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future. A.S. King. Little, Brown, $18
This One Summer. Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Jillian Tamaki. First Second, $21.99 hc, $17.99 pb

FIVE STARS
100 Sideways Miles. Andrew Smith. Simon & Schuster, $17.99
Blue Lily, Lily Blue. Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $18.99
Draw! Raul Colon. Simon & Schuster/Wiseman, $17.99
Farmer and the Clown, The. Marla Frazee. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems. Paul B. Janeczko, illus. by Melissa Sweet. Candlewick, $16.99
Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, The. Sheila Turnage. Dial, $16.99
Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza, The. Jack Gantos. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy. Karen Foxlee. Knopf, $16.99
Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty. Christine Heppermann. Greenwillow, $17.99 Rain Reign. Ann M. Martin. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99
Revolution (Sixties Trilogy 2). Deborah Wiles. Scholastic Press, $19.99
Right Word, The: Roget and His Thesaurus. Jen Bryant, illus. by Melissa Sweet. Eerdmans, $17.50
Sisters. Raina Telgemeier. Scholastic/Graphix, $10.99 pb
We Were Liars. E. Lockhart. Delacorte, $17.99
West of the Moon. Margi Preus. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold. Joyce Sidman, illus. by Rick Allen. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99
FOUR STARS
Absolutely Almost. Lisa Graff. Philomel, $16.99
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom. Angela Johnson, illus. by E.B. Lewis. Simon & Schuster, $17.99
Boundless, The. Kenneth Oppel. Simon & Schuster, $16.99
Bow-Wow’s Nightmare Neighbors. Mark Newgarden, illus. by Megan Montague Cash. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99
Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms. Katherine Rundell. Simon & Schuster, $16.99
Children of the King, The. Sonya Hartnett. Candlewick, $16.99
Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen. Garth Nix. Harper, $18.99
Crossover, The. Kwame Alexander. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99
Egg and Spoon. Gregory Maguire. Candlewick, $17.99
El Deafo. Cece Bell. Abrams/Amulet, $21.95
Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas. Lynne Cox, illus. by Brian Floca. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99
Eyes Wide Open: Going Beyond the Environmental Headlines. Paul Fleischman. Candlewick, $17.99
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces. Isabel Quintero. Cinco Puntos, $17.95 hc, $11.95 pb
Here Comes the Easter Cat. Deborah Underwood, illus. by Claudia Rueda. Dial, $16.99
How I Discovered Poetry. Marilyn Nelson, illus. by Hadley Hooper. Dial, $16.99
I’ll Give You the Sun. Jandy Nelson. Dial, $17.99
Iridescence of Birds, The: A Book About Henri Matisse. Patricia MacLachlan, illus. by Hadley Hooper. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker. Patricia Hruby Powell, illus. by Christian Robinson. Chronicle, $17.99
Last Forever, The. Deb Caletti. Simon Pulse, $17.99
Lion and the Bird, The. Marianne Dubuc, trans. from the French by Claudia Z. Bedrick. Enchanted Lion (Consortium, dist.), $17.95
Madman of Piney Woods, The. Christopher Paul Curtis. Scholastic Press, $16.99
Map to Everywhere, The. Carrie Ryan & John Parke Davis. Little, Brown, $17
Mocha Dick: The Legend and the Fury. Brian Heinz, illus. by Randall Enos. Creative Editions, $18.99
My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories. Ed. by Stephanie Perkins. St. Martin’s Griffin, $18.99
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great White of California’s Farallon Islands. Katherine Roy. Roaring Brook/David Macaulay Studio, $17.99
Noisy Paint Box, The: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art. Barb Rosenstock, illus. by Mary GrandPré. Knopf, $17.99
Nuts to You. Lynne Rae Perkins. Greenwillow, $16.99
Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for All the Letters. Oliver Jeffers. Philomel, $26.99
Otherbound. Corinne Duyvis. Abrams/Amulet, $17.95
Pilot and the Little Prince, The: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Peter Sís. FSG/Foster, $18.99
Planes Go. Steve Light. Chronicle, $9.99
Quest. Aaron Becker. Candlewick, $15.99
Red Pencil, The. Andrea Davis Pinkney, illus. by Shane W. Evans. Little, Brown, $17
Rules of Summer. Shaun Tan. Scholastic/Levine, $18.99
Scraps Book, The: Notes from a Colorful Life. Lois Ehlert. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99
Shooting at the Stars: The Christmas Truce of 1914. John Hendrix. Abrams, $18.95
Through the Woods. Emily Carroll. S&S/McElderry, $21.99
Time to Dance, A. Padma Venkatraman. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99
Volcano Beneath the Snow, A: John Brown’s War Against Slavery. Albert Marrin. Knopf, $19.99
Winter Is Coming. Tony Johnston, illus. by Jim LaMarche. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99
Witch’s Boy, The. Kelly Barnhill. Algonquin, $16.95
Young Elites, The. Marie Lu. Putnam, $18.99
 
THREE STARS
100 Things That Make Me Happy. Amy Schwartz. Abrams Appleseed, $16.95
Afterworlds. Scott Westerfeld. Simon Pulse, $19.99
Althea & Oliver. Cristina Moracho. Viking, $17.99
And We Stay. Jenny Hubbard. Delacorte, $16.99
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain. Russell Freeman. Clarion, $17.99 3
As Red as Blood. Salla Simukka, trans. from the Finnish by Owen F. Witesman. Amazon/Skyscape, $9.99 pb
Ashley Bryan’s Puppets: Making Something From Everything. Ashley Bryan, photos by Ken Hannon. S&S/Atheneum, $19.99
Audrey (Cow). Dan Bar-el. Tundra, $19.99
Aviary Wonders Inc: Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual. Kate Samworth. Clarion, $17.99
Baby Tree, The. Sophie Blackall. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99
Bear’s Sea Escape, The. Benjamin Chaud. Chronicle, $17.99
Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America. Russell Freedman. Holiday House, $20
Beetle Boy. Margaret Willey. Carolrhoda Lab, $17.95
Belzhar. Meg Wolitzer. Dutton, $17.99
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out. Susan Kuklin. Candlewick, $22.99
Blind. Rachel DeWoskin. Viking, $17.99
Blizzard. John Rocco. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99
Blue on Blue. Dianne White, illus. by Beth Krommes. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99
Born in the Wild: Baby Mammals and Their Parents. Lita Judge. Roaring Brook, $18.99
Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth. Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm, illus. by Molly Bang. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $18.99
Complicit. Stephanie Kuehn. St. Martin’s Griffin, $19.99
Cracks in the Kingdom, The (Colors of Madeleine 2). Jaclyn Moriarty. Scholastic/Levine, $18.99
Creature of Moonlight, A. Rebecca Hahn. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99
Dory Fantasmagory. Abby Hanlon. Dial, $14.99
Extraordinary Jane. Hannah E. Harrison. Dial, $16.99
Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World. Steve Jenkins. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99
Fly Away. Patricia MacLachlan. S&S/McElderry, $15.99
Following Papa’s Song. Gianna Marino. Viking, $16.99
Fox’s Garden. Princess Camcam. Enchanted Lion (Consortium, dist.), $14.95
Frida & Diego: Art, Love, Life. Catherine Reef. Clarion, $18.99
Gabriel Finley and the Raven’s Riddle. George Hagen, illus. by Scott Bakal. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $16.99
Girl Defective. Simmone Howell; photos by Henry Beer. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99
Girls Like Us. Gail Giles. Candlewick, $16.99
Glass Sentence, The. S.E. Grove. Viking, $17.99
God Loves Hair. Vivek Shraya, illus. by Juliana Neufeld. Arsenal Pulp, $18.95 pb
Gospel of Winter, The. Brendan Kiely. S&S/McElderry, $17.99
Grasshopper Jungle. Andrew Smith. Dutton, $18.99
Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume I. Neil Gaiman, adapted by P. Craig Russell, illus. by Scott Hampton, Tony Harris, et al. Harper, $19.99
Gravity. Jason Chin. Roaring Brook/Porter, $16.99
Half a Chance. Cynthia Lord. Scholastic Press, $16.99
Hannah’s Night. Komako Sakai, trans. from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano. Gecko Press USA (Lerner, dist.), $17.99
Hermelin the Detective Mouse. Mini Grey. Knopf, $17.99
Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival. Marcel Prins and Peter Henk Steenhuis, trans. from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson. Scholastic/Levine, $16.99
How to Cheer Up Dad. Fred Koehler. Dial, $17.99
Hunters of the Great Forest. Dennis Nolan. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99
I Am So Brave! Stephen Krensky, illus. by Sara Gillingham. Abrams Appleseed, $6.95
Impossible Knife of Memory, The. Laurie Halse Anderson. Viking, $18.99
Infinite Sea, The. Rick Yancey. Putnam, $18.99
Islands at the End of the World, The. Austin Aslan. Random/Lamb, $17.99
Jim Curious: A Voyage to the Heart of the Sea in 3-D Vision. Matthias Picard. Abrams, $19.95
Kid Sheriff and the Terrible Toads. Bob Shea, illus. by Lane Smith. Roaring Brook, $17.99
Kiss of Deception, The. Mary E. Pearson. Holt, $17.99
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century. Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Raul Colón. Knopf, $17.99
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone. Katheryn Russell-Brown, illus. by Frank Morrisson. Lee & Low, $18.95
Little Poems for Tiny Ears. Lin Oliver, illus. by Tomie dePaola. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99
Lowriders in Space. Cathy Camper; illus. by Raúl the Third. Chronicle, $17.99
Mark of the Dragonfly, The. Jaleigh Johnson. Delacorte, $16.99
Meaning of Maggie, The. Megan Jean Sovern. Chronicle, $16.99
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch. Anne Isaacs, illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99
Mix It Up! Hervé Tullet, trans. from the French by Christopher Franceschelli. Chronicle/Handprint, $15.99
Mortal Heart. Robin LaFevers. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99
My Bus. Byron Barton. Greenwillow, $16.99
My Grandfather’s Coat. Jim Aylesworth, illus. by Barbara McClintock. Scholastic Press, $17.99
My Heart is Laughing. Rose Lagercrantz, illus. by Eva Eriksson. Gecko Press USA (Lerner, dist.), $16.95
My Teacher Is a Monster! (No, I Am Not.) Peter Brown. Little, Brown, $18
Nancy Knows. Cybèle Young. Tundra, $17.99
Nest. Esther Ehrlich. Random/Lamb, $16.99
Nine Open Arms. Benny Lindelauf, trans. from the Dutch by John Nieuwenhuizen, illus. by Dasha Tolstikova. Enchanted Lion (Consortium, dist.), $16.95
Number One Sam. Greg Pizzoli. Disney-Hyperion, $16.99
Paper Cowboy, The. Kristin Levine. Putnam, $16.99
Port Chicago 50, The: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights. Steve Sheinkin. Roaring Brook, $19.99
Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine. Gloria Whelan, illus. by Nancy Carpenter. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole. Mac Barnett, illus. by Jon Klassen. Candlewick, $16.99
Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America. Tonya Bolden. Abrams, $21.95
Sebastian and the Balloon. Philip C. Stead. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99
Seven Wild Sisters: A Modern Fairy Tale. Charles de Lint, illus. by Charles Vess. Little, Brown, $18
Shadow Hero, The. Gene Luen Yang, illus. by Sonny Liew. First Second, $17.99 pb
She Is Not Invisible. Marcus Sedgwick. Roaring Brook, $16.99
Shh! We Have a Plan. Chris Haughton. Candlewick, $15.99
Snicker of Magic, A. Natalie Lloyd. Scholastic Press, $16.99
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos. Stephanie Roth Sisson. Roaring Brook, $17.99
Story of Owen, The: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim. E.K. Johnston. Carolrhoda Lab, $17.95
Strike! The Farm Workers’ Fight for Their Rights. Larry Dane Brimner. Boyds Mills/Calkins Creek, $16.95
This Is a Moose. Richard T. Morris, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. Little, Brown, $18
Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Everything. Maira Kalman. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99
Three Bears in a Boat. David Soman. Dial, $17.99
Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes. Nicola Davies, illus. by Emily Sutton. Candlewick, $15.99
Tiptop Cat. Roger Mader. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99
True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, The. David Almond. Candlewick, $17.99
Vango: Between Sky and Earth. Timothee de Fombelle; trans. by Sarah Ardizzone. Candlewick, $17.99
Vanishing Season, The. Jodi Lynn Anderson. HarperTeen, $17.99
Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy, The. Kate Hattemer. Knopf, $16.99
Viva Frida. Yuyi Morales, photos by Tim O’Meara. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99
What If…? Anthony Browne. Candlewick, $16.99
Whispering Skull, The (Lockwood & Co., Book 2). Jonathan Stroud. Disney, $17.99
Wildlife. Fiona Wood. Little, Brown, $18
Winner’s Curse, The. Marie Rutkoski. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina. Rodman Philbrick. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $16.99
 
TWO STARS
Accidental Highwayman, The. Ben Tripp. Tor Teen, $17.99
Animalium. Jenny Broom, illus. by Katie Scott. Candlewick/Big Picture, $35
Anna’s Heaven. Stian Hole. Eerdmans, $17
Any Questions? Marie-Louise Gay. Groundwood, $19.95
At Home in Her Tomb: Lady Dai and the Ancient Chinese Treasures of Mawangdui. Christine Liu-Perkins, illus. by Sarah S. Brannen. Charlesbridge, $19.95
Baby Bear. Kadir Nelson. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99
Baby’s Got the Blues. Carol Diggory Shields, illus. by Lauren Tobia. Candlewick, $16.99
Bad Bye, Good Bye. Deborah Underwood, illus. by Jonathan Bean. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99
Beautiful Moon: A Child’s Prayer. Tonya Bolden, illus. by Eric Velasquez. Abrams, $16.95
Beetle Busters: A Rogue Insect and the People Who Track It (Scientists in the Field). Loree Griffin Burns. Harcourt, $18.99
Ben Franklin’s Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention. Barb Rosenstock, illus. by S.D. Schindler. Boyds Mills/Calkins Creek, $16.95
Big Bug. Henry Cole. Little Simon, $14.99
Blood of My Blood (I Hunt Killers 3). Barry Lyga. Little, Brown, $18
Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond, The. Brenda Woods. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99
Blue Mountain. Martine Leavitt. FSG/Ferguson, $15.99
Boy and a Jaguar, A. Alan Rabinowitz, illus by Cátia Chien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99
Brave Chicken Little. Robert Byrd. Viking, $17.99
Brimsby’s Hats. Andrew Prahin. Simon & Schuster, $15.99
Brother Hugo and the Bear. Katy Beebe, illus. by S.D. Schindler. Eerdmans, $17
Cabinet of Curiosities, The: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister. Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire Legrand, and Emma Trevayne, illus. by Alexander Jansson. Greenwillow, $16.99
Caminar. Skila Brown. Candlewick, $15.99
Castle Behind Thorns, The. Merrie Haskell. HarperCollins/Tegen, $16.99
Catalyst. S.J. Kincaid. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99
Chance You Won’t Return, The. Annie Cardi. Candlewick, $16.99
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa’s Fastest Cat (Scientists in the Field). Sy Montgomery, illus. by Nic Bishop. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.99
Chik Chak Shabbat. Mara Rockliff, illus. by Kyrsten Brooker. Candlewick, $15.99
Chimpanzee Children of Gombe, The. Jane Goodall; photos by Michael Neugebauer. Minedition, $19.99
Circle, Square, Moose. Kelly Bingham, illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky. Greenwillow, $17.99
Comics Squad: Recess! Jennifer Holm, Matthew Holm, Jarrett J. Krosoczka et al. Random, $12.99 hc, $7.99 pb
Coming Home. Greg Ruth. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99
Cosmobiography of Sun Ra, The: The Sound of Joy Is Enlightening. Chris Raschka. Candlewick, $15.99
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Tell Us Why They Look the Way They Do. Steve Jenkins. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99
Dance Like Starlight, A: One Ballerina’s Dream. Kristy Dempsey, illus. by Floyd Cooper. Philomel, $16.99
Dare the Wind: The Record-Breaking Voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud. Tracey Fern, illus. by Emily Arnold McCully. FSG/Ferguson, $17.99
Dash. Kirby Larson. Scholastic Press, $16.99
Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole. Irene Latham, illus. by Anna Wadham. Lerner/Millbrook, $17.95
Deer Dancer. Mary Lyn Ray, illus. by Lauren Stringer. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99
Devil’s Intern, The. Donna Hosie. Holiday House, $16.95
Dragon & the Knight, The: A Pop-Up Misadventure. Robert Sabuda. S&S/Little Simon, $29.99
Dream Dog. Lou Berger, illus. by David Catrow. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99
Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices. Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale, eds. Annick, $19.95
Dreams of Gods & Monsters. Laini Taylor. Little, Brown, $19.
Edward Hopper Paints His World. Robert Burleigh, illus. by Wendell Minor. Holt/Ottaviano, $17.99
Emily’s Blue Period. Cathleen Daly. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99
Everybody Paints!: The Lives and Art of the Wyeth Family. Susan Goldman Rubin. Chronicle, $16.99
Fall, The. Bethany Griffin. Greenwillow, $17.99
Far from You. Tess Sharpe. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99
FDR and the American Crisis. Albert Marrin. Knopf, $24.99
Five, Six, Seven, Nate! Tim Federle. Simon & Schuster, $16.99
Flashlight. Lizi Boyd. Chronicle, $16.99
Flat Rabbit, The. Bardur Oskarsson. Owlkids, $16.95
Flight School. Lita Judge. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99
Flora and the Penguin. Molly Idle. Chronicle, $16.99
Fourteenth Goldfish, The. Jennifer L. Holm. Random, $16.99
Free to Fall. Lauren Miller. HarperTeen, $17.99
Freedom Summer Murders, The. Don Mitchell. Scholastic Press, $18.99
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Susan Goldman Rubin. Holiday House, $18.95
From There to Here. Laurel Croza, illus. by Matt James. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $18.95
Gaston. Kelly DiPucchio, illus. by Christian Robinson. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99
Give and Take. Chris Raschka. S&S/Atheneum/Jackson, $17.99
Glass Casket, The. McCormick Templeman. Delacorte, $17.99
Going Over. Beth Kephart. Chronicle, $17.99
Grandfather Gandhi. Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus, illus. by Evan Turk. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99
Great Greene Heist, The. Varian Johnson. Scholastic/Levine, $16.99
Greenglass House. Kate Milford, illus. by Jaime Zollars. Clarion, $17.99
Gus & Me: The Story of My Granddad and My First Guitar. Keith Richards with Barnaby Harris and Bill Shapiro, illus. by Theodora Richards. Little, Brown/Tingley, $18
Half a World Away. Cynthia Kadohata. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99
Half Bad. Sally Green. Viking, $18.99
Hansel & Gretel. Neil Gaiman, illus. by Lorenzo Mattotti. Candlewick/Toon, $16.95
Harlem Hellfighters. J. Patrick Lewis, illus. by Gary Kelley. Creative Editions, $18.99
Have You Heard the Nesting Bird? Rita Gray, illus. by Kenard Pak. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99
He Has Shot the President!: April 14, 1865: The Day John Wilkes Booth Killed President Lincoln. Don Brown. Roaring Brook, $17.99
Halley. Faye Gibbons. New South, $21.95
Heap House. Edward Carey. Overlook, $16.99
Hello, I’m Johnny Cash. G. Neri, illus. by A.G. Ford. Candlewick, $16.99
Here Comes Santa Cat. Deborah Underwood, illus. by Claudia Rueda. Dial, $16.99
Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons. Jon J Muth. Scholastic Press, $17.99
Hit, The. Melvin Burgess. Scholastic/Chicken House, $17.99
Hook’s Revenge. Heidi Schulz, illus. by John Hendrix. Disney-Hyperion, $16.99
How It Went Down. Kekla Magoon. Holt, $16.99
Hug Machine. Scott Campbell. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99
I’m My Own Dog. David Ezra Stein. Candlewick, $15.99
Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business—and Won! Emily Arnold McCully. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.99
In New York. Marc Brown. Knopf, $17.99
In Search of the Little Prince: The Story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Bimba Landmann. Eerdmans, $17
It Is Night. Phyllis Rowand, illus. by Laura Dronzek. Greenwillow, $16.99
Just So Stories, Volume II: For Little Children. Rudyard Kipling, illus. by Ian Wallace. Groundwood, $19.95
Knightley and Son. Rohan Gavin. Bloomsbury, $16.99
Like Water on Stone. Dana Walrath. Delacorte, $16.99
Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse. Torben Kuhlmann, trans. from the German by Suzanne Levesque. NorthSouth (Ingram, dist.), $19.95
Little Elliot, Big City. Mike Curato. Holt, $16.99
Little Green Peas: A Big Book of Colors. Keith Baker. S&S/Beach Lane, $15.95
Little Red Riding Hood. The Brothers Grimm, trans. from the German by Anthea Bell; illus. by Sybille Schenker. Minedition, $29.99
Little Roja Riding Hood. Susan Middleton Elya, illus. by Susan Guevara. Putnam, $16.99
Loot. Jude Watson. Scholastic Press, $16.99
Lost Girl Found. Leah Bassoff and Laura DeLuca. Groundwood, $16.95
Love and Other Foreign Words. Erin McCahan. Dial, $17.99
Luck Uglies, The. Paul Durham, illus. by Petur Antonsson. Harper, $16.99
Mad, Wicked Folly, A. Sharon Biggs Waller. Viking, $17.99
Mama Built a Little Nest. Jennifer Ward, illus. by Steve Jenkins. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99
Maple. Lori Nichols. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99
Maple and Willow Together. Lori Nichols. Penguin/Nancy Paulsen, $16.99
Marina. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, trans. from the Spanish by Lucia Graves. Little, Brown, $19.
Mending Horses. M.P. Barker. Holiday House, $17.95
Migrant. José Manuel Matteo, trans. from the Spanish by Emmy Smith Ready, illus. by Javier Martínez Pedro. Abrams, $17.95
Misadventures of the Family Fletcher, The. Dana Alison Levy. Delacorte, $15.99
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales. Ed. by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant. Candlewick, $22.99
Mouse Mansion, The. Karine Schaapman. Dial, $18.99
Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature. Sarah C. Campbell, photos by Sarah C. and Richard P. Campbell. Boyds Mills, $16.95
Naked! Michael Ian Black, illus. by Debbie Ridpath Ohi. Simon & Schuster, $16.99
Never Ending. Martyn Bedford. Random/Lamb, $16.99
Next Wave, The: The Quest to Harness the Power of the Oceans (Scientists in the Field). Elizabeth Rusch. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.99
Night Gardener, The. Jonathan Auxier. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95
Nightingale’s Nest. Nikki Loftin. Razorbill, $16.99
Ninja! Arree Chung. Holt, $16.99
No One Else Can Have You. Kathleen Hale. HarperTeen, $17.99
Nocturne: Creatures of the Night. Traer Scott. Princeton Architectural Press (Chronicle, dist.), $19.95
Noggin. John Corey Whaley. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99
On the Wing. David Elliott, illus. by Becca Stadtlander. Candlewick, $16.99
One Big Pair of Underwear. Laura Gehl, illus. by Tom Lichtenheld. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99
One Safe Place, The. Tania Unsworth. Algonquin, $15.95
Operation Bunny. Sally Gardner, illus. by David Roberts. Holt, $12.99
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Princess Sparkle-Heart Gets a Makeover. Josh Schneider. Clarion, $16.99
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Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey. Nick Bertozzi. First Second, $16.99 pb
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Vango: Between Sky and Earth. Timothée de Fombelle, trans. from the French by Sarah Ardizzone. Candlewick, $17.99
Voices from the March on Washington. J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon. Wordsong, $15.95
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Day My Father Became a Bush, The. Joke Van Leeuwen. Gecko Press USA (Lerner, dist.), $16.95
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Hilda and the Black Hound. Luke Pearson. Flying Eye, $24
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Hooves of Fire (Minnie and Moo). Denys Cazet. Creston Books, $15.95
Hope is a Ferris Wheel. Robin Herrera. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95
How Does My Garden Grow? Gerda Muller, trans. from French by Polly Lawson. Floris, $17.95
How the Meteorite Got to the Museum. Jessie Hartland. Blue Apple (Random, dist.), $17.99.
How to be a Dinosaur Hunter: Your Globe-Trotting, Time-Traveling Guide. Scott Forbes, illus. by James Gulliver Hancock. Lonely Planet, $17.99
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World. Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick. Little, Brown, $17
I Am Otter. Sam Garton. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $16.99
I Can Do It Myself. Valorie Fisher. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Dreidel. Caryn Yacowitz, illus. by David Slonim. Scholastic/Levine, $16.99
I Lived on Butterfly Hill. Marjorie Agosin, illus. by Lee White. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99
I Was Here. Gayle Forman. Viking, $18.99
I Wish I Had a Pet. Maggie Rudy. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99
I’m a Dirty Dinosaur. Janeen Brian, illus. by Ann James. Kane/Miller, $11.99
Ice Whale. Jean Craighead George, illus. by John Hendrix. Dial, $17.99
If I Had a Raptor. George O’Connor. Candlewick, $15.99
If It Rains Pancakes: Haiku and Lantern Poems (Poetry Adventures). Brian P. Cleary, illus. by Andy Rowland. Lerner/Millbrook, $6.95
If Kids Ran the World. Leo and Diane Dillon. Scholastic/Blue Sky, $18.99
If You’re Reading This. Trent Reedy. Scholastic/Levine, $16.99
Illusive. Emily Lloyd-Jones. Little, Brown, $18
In My Heart: A Book of Feelings. Jo Witek; illus. by Christine Roussey. Abrams Appleseed, $16.95
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In the Fast Lane (Digby O’Day Book 2). Shirley Hughes, illus. by Clara Vulliamy. Candlewick, $12.99
In the Forbidden City. Chiu Kwong-Chiu, trans. from the Chinese by Ben Wang. Tuttle, $19.95
In the Rainforest. Kate Duke. Harper, $17.99
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Infinite Sky. C.J. Flood. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99
Inland. Kat Rosenfield. Dutton, $17.99
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Irene’s Wish. Jerdine Nolen, illlus. By A.G. Ford. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99
Iron Trial, The. Holly Black and Cassandra Clare. Scholastic Press, $17.99
Isabel’s War. Lila Perl. Ig/Skurnick (Consortium, dist.), $12.95 pb
Isla and the Happily Ever After. Stephanie Perkins. Dutton, $17.99
Islands of Chaldea. Diana Wynne Jones, completed by Ursula Jones. Greenwillow, $17.99
It All Started With a Bicycle. Plum McCauley. Outskirts Press, $11.95 pb
It’s an Orange Aardvark! Michael Hall. Greenwillow, $17.99
Jack. Tomie dePaola. Penguin/Paulsen, $17.99
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Jasper John Dooley: Not in Love. Caroline Adderson. Kids Can, $15.95
Jesus Jackson. James Daley. Poisoned Pencil, $10.95 pb
Jewel, The. Amy Ewing. HarperTeen, $17.99
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Jubilee! One Man’s Big, Bold, and Very, Very Loud Celebration of Peace. Alicia Potter, illus. by Matt Tavares. Candlewick, $16.99
Killing Woods, The. Lucy Christopher. Scholastic/Chicken House, $17.99
King and the Magician, The. Jorge Bucay; illus. by Gusti. Abbeville Kids, $14.95
Kiss Kill Vanish. Jessica Martinez. HarperCollins/Tegen, $17.99
Knockout Games. G. Neri. Carolrhoda, $17.95
Kung POW Chicken #1: Let’s Get Cracking! (a Branches Book). Cyndi Marko. Scholastic, $4.99 pb, $15.99 hc
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Last Sister, The. Courtney McKinney-Whitaker. University of South Carolina/Young Palmetto, $39.95 hc, $19/95 pb
Last Wild, The. Piers Torday. Viking, $16.99
Last-but-Not-Least Lola and the Wild Chicken. Christine Pakkala, illus. by Paul Hoppe. Boyds Mills, $15.95
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Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood. James McMullan. Algonquin, $19.95
Leo Geo and the Cosmic Crisis/Matt Data and the Cosmic Crisis. Jon Chad. Roaring Brook, $16.99
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up. Kate DiCamillo, illus. by Chris Van Dusen. Candlewick, $12.99
Letter for Leo, A. Sergio Ruzzier. Clarion, $16.99
Life and Times of Benny Alvarez, The. Peter Johnson. Harper, $16.99
Like Carrot Juice on a Cupcake. Julie Sternberg, illus. by Matthew Cordell. Abrams/Amulet, $14.95
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Ling & Ting: Twice As Silly. Grace Lin. Little, Brown, $16
Lion in Paris, A. Beatrice Alemagna. Tate, $19.95
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Little Humans. Brandon Stanton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99
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Lizzy Bennet’s Diary: 1811-1812 Discovered by Marcia Williams. Marcia Williams. Candlewick, $16.99
Looking for Jack Kerouac. Barbara Shoup. Engine/Lacewing (Consortium, dist.), $14.95
Love and Other Theories. Alexis Bass. Harper Teen, $17.99
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Lucy Lick-Me-Not and the Day Eaters. Claudine Carmel, illus. by Bret Burkmar. Createspace, $10.99 pb
Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch. Eric Orchard. Top Shelf, $14.95
Magic Trap, The (Lemonade War 5). Jacqueline Davies. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $15.99
Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan / Iqbal, a Brave Boy from Pakistan: Two Stories of Bravery. Jeanette Winter. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99
Malala Yousafzai and the Girls of Pakistan. David Aretha. Morgan Reynolds, $27.45
Manger. Lee Bennett Hopkins, illus. by Helen Cann. Eerdmans, $16
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Matilda’s Cat. Emily Gravett. Simon & Schuster, $16.99
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Meaniehead. Bruce Eric Kaplan. Simon & Schuster, $17.99
Meet the Parents. Peter Bently, illus. by Sara Ogilvie. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99
Mermaid and the Shoe, The. K.G. Campbell. Kids Can, $16.95
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Minion. John David Anderson. HarperCollins/Walden Pond, $16.99
Missing Pieces of Me, The. Jean van Leeuwen. Amazon/Two Lions, $17.99
Moldylocks and the Three Bears (Princess Pink and the Land of Fake-Believe #1). Noah Z. Jones. Scholastic, $15.99
Mom for Umande, A. Maria Faulconer, illus. by Susan Kathleen Hartung. Dial, $16.99
Monday, Wednesday, and Every Other Weekend. Karen Stanton. Feiwel and Friends, $16.99
Monsterator, The. Keith Graves. Roaring Brook, $17.99
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My New Friend is So Fun! Mo Willems. Hyperion, $8.99
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Naptime. Iris de Moüy, trans. from the French by Shelley Tanaka. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $16.95
Nearly Gone. Elle Cosimano. Penguin/Dawson, $17.99
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New Kid. Tim Green. HarperCollins, $16.99
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Poem-Mobiles: Crazy Car Poems. J. Patrick Lewis and Douglas Florian, illus. by Jeremy Holmes. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99
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Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes. Juan Felipe Herrera; illus. by Raúl Colón. Dial, $19.99
Presto Change-o! A Book of Animal Magic. Édouard Manceau. Twirl (Chronicle, dist.), $16.99
Prince of Shadows: A Novel of Romeo and Juliet. Rachel Caine. New American Library, $17.99
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Rain Forest Colors. Janet Lawler; photos by Tim Laman. National Geographic, $16.99
Reading with Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter. Josh Elder, ed. Andrews McMeel, $19.99
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Say Hello Like This! Mary Murphy. Candlewick, $12.99
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Sea Turtle Scientist (Scientists in the Field). Stephen Swinburne. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.99
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Send for a Superhero! Michael Rosen, illus. by Katharine McEwen. Candlewick, $16.99
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Untold History of the United States, The, Volume 1: Young Reader’s Edition, 1898-1945. Oliver Stone; Peter Kuznick; adapted by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.  Atheneum, $19.99
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Woman in the House (and Senate), A: How Women Came to the United States Congress, Broke Down Barriers, and Changed the Country. Ilene Cooper. Abrams, $24.95
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World of Musicals, The: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and Song. 2 vol. Mark A. Robinson. Greenwood, $189
Wrenchies, The. Farel Dalrymple. First Second, $19.99 pb
Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink. Gail Carson Levine. HarperCollins/Harper, $16.99
yolo. Lauren Myracle. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95
Zac & Mia. A.J. Betts. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99

5 thoughts on “The Stars of 2014: Final Round-Up

  1. Lara Starr

    Ooh I love this! So great to see the big picture. I love to see how relatively few books earn 3+ stars – makes me extra proud of the Chronicle Books on this exclusive list! I also like the opportunity to double-check my work at the end of the year – did any of the stars for our books escape my net? Thank you SO MUCH for pulling this together!

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    1. Elizabeth Bluemle Post author

      It’s a pleasure, Lara. Well, maybe not the actual compiling and formatting time, ha, but I find it really helpful myself when it’s pulled together. It’s great to know that you like it. Thanks so much. And woot! to Chronicle!

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  2. Donna Marie Merritt

    THANK you, Elizabeth! This is a huge undertaking with, I am sure, many, many hours of work. I’ve shared it on my FB page with shout-outs to all the marvelous writers and illustrators I know. 2014 was a fabulous year for kid lit, was it not? 😀

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  3. Nancy Paulsen

    Thanks for this great listing. LITTLE POEMS FOR TINY EARS by Lin Oliver and illustrated by Tomie dePaola actually got 3 stars — PW, Booklist & KIrkus. Tomie’s going strong at 80!

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