Time for the Best Books of 2009

Mrs. Wilson and I have again compiled our lists of the best books we have read this year. With the 20 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award nominees for 2010 being so good this year, it has been especially difficult to limit our lists to only 10 books. I hope some of you will have the chance to enjoy some of our choices over winter break. If not, they will be waiting for you here at Lakeview in the new year.

Mrs. Wilson's Favorite Books of 2008

1. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, by Wendy Mass

2. The London Eye Mystery, by Siobhan Dowd

3. Home of the Brave, by K. A. Applegate

4. Found, by Margaret Peterson Haddix

5. All the Lovely Bad Ones, by Mary Downing Hahn

6. The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt

7. The Naked Mole-Rat Letters, by Mary Amato

8. Regarding the Bathrooms, by Kate Klise

9. Shark Girl, by Kelly L. Bingham

10. Desert Crossing, by Elis Broach

Miss Hagensee's Favorite Books of 2009

1. Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

2. Found, by Margaret Peterson Haddix

3. Nightmare at the Book Fair, by Andrew Clements

4. Masterpiece, by Elise Broach

5. Bearwalker, by Joseph Bruchac

6. This Side of Paradise, by Steven L. Layne

7. The Juvie Three, by Gordon Korman

8. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, by David Lubar

9. Dragon Slippers, by Jessica Day George

10. First Light, by Rebecca Stead