The world reacts. First impressions (Life in the fat lane / Cherie Bennett -- The starplace / Vicki Grove -- Petey / Ben Mikaelsen -- I rode a horse of milk white jade / Diane Lee Wilson -- The dangers of tattooing and body piercing / Laura Reybold) -- Family decision (The journal of William Thomas Emerson : a Revolutionary War patriot / Barry Denenberg -- Cowboy ghost / Robert Newton Peck -- Tangerine / Edward Bloor -- The spirit window / Joyce Sweeney -- Saratoga secret / Betsy Sterman -- The Tuesday cafe / Don Trembath) -- Nature's pattern (White wolf / Henrietta Branford -- Backwater / Joan Bauer -- Out of the dust / Karen Hesse.

Over the top of the world : explorer Will Steger's trek across the Arctic / Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster -- Holes / Louis Sachar) -- National conflicts (No man's land : a young soldier's story / Susan Bartoletti -- No pretty pictures : a child of war / Anita Lobel -- The journal of James Edmond Pease / Jim Murphy -- War and the pity of war / Neil Philip -- Cast two shadows / Ann Rinaldi) -- Supernatural forces (The fated sky / Henrietta Branford -- Armageddon summer / Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville -- The heavenly village / Cynthia Rylant -- A door near here / Heather Quarles -- Stephen fair / Tim Wynne-Jones) -- We act. Socially (Go and come back / Joan Abelove -- Tenderness / Robert Cormier -- Stone cold / Pete Hautman -- Fire bed and bone / Henrietta Branford.

Love among the walnuts / Jean Ferris -- The music of dolphins / Karen Hesse -- The pirate's son / Geraldine McCaughrean -- No more strangers now : young voices from a new South Africa / Tim McKee -- Victor / Mordicai Gerstein -- Making my megaboy / Virginia Walker) -- Spiritually (C.S. Lewis : Christian and storyteller / Beatrice Gormley -- The singing mountain / Sonia Levitin -- The sacrifice / Diane Matcheck -- Sirena / Donna Jo Napoli -- A hope in the unseen / Ron Suskind) -- Physically (Bull catcher / Alden R. Carter -- Venus to the hoop / Sara Corbett -- Safe at second / Scott Johnson -- Black hands, white sails : the story of African-American whalers / Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack -- Black hoops : the history of African Americans in basketball / Fredrick McKissack.

Gone a-whaling : the lure of the sea and the hunt for the great whale / Jim Murphy -- Slam / Walter Dean Myers) -- Mentally (Parrot in the oven / Victor Martinez -- Rules of the road / Joan Bauer -- Wanted! / Caroline B. Cooney -- The king's swift rider / Mollie Hunter -- My life as a girl / Elizabeth Mosier -- Buried onions / Gary Soto -- Ophelia speaks / Sara Shandler -- A fly named Alfred / Don Trembath) -- Forces try to confound us. Good versus evil (King Arthur / Rosalind Kerven -- Sensational trials of the 20th century / Betsy Harvey Kraft -- The terrorist / Caroline B. Cooney -- Star wars : episode I, incredible cross-sections, the definitive guide to the craft of "Star wars" : episode 1 / David West Reynolds -- Star wars : incredible cross-sections, the ultimate guide to Star Wars vehicles and spacecraft / David West Reynolds -- Star wars : the visual dictionary, the ultimate guide to Star Wars characters and creatures / David West Reynolds).

Disease (Sexually transmitted diseases / Christian Perdan Curran -- The science, spread, and therapy of HIV disease / Michael A. DiSpezio -- Invisible enemies / Jeanette Farrell -- Kissing doorknobs / Terry Spencer Hesser -- Depression / Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn) -- Hate and prejudice (Walk the dark streets / Edith Baer -- Come all you brave soldiers / Clinton Cox -- The hidden children of the Holocaust : teens who hid from the Nazis / Esther Kustanowitz -- Summer soldiers / Susan Hart Lindquist -- Masada : the last fortress / Gloria D. Miklowitz -- Tomi : a childhood under the Nazis / Tomi Ungerer) -- Family conflicts (A beautiful place on Yonge Street / Don Trembath -- Hush little baby / Caroline B. Cooney -- Coping in a blended family / Jane Hurwitz.

P.S. longer letter later / Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin -- Snail mail no more / Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin -- When she was good / Norma Fox Mazer) -- The supernatural (A hive for the honeybee / Soinbhe Lally -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / J.K. Rowling -- Sang spell / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor -- The boxes / William Sleator -- The transall saga / Gary Paulsen) -- We struggle and give. Entertain and create (Just people & paper/pen/poem : a young writer's way to begin / Kathi Appelt -- Boss of the plains : the hat that won the west / Laurie Carlson -- Jack London : a biography / Daniel Dyer -- Blues : its birth and growth / Howard Elmer -- Martha Graham : a dancer's life / Russell Freedman.

Circus : an album / Linda Granfield -- Chuck close up close / Jan Greenburg and Sandra Jordan -- Special effects in film and television / Jake Hamilton -- Michelle Kwan, my story : heart of a champion / Laura James -- How to write poetry / Paul B. Janeczko -- Where I'm from : where poems come from / George Ella Lyon) -- Trust (I, too, sing America : three centuries of African American poetry / Catherine Clinton -- Ethan between us / Anna Myers -- Hero / S.L. Rottman -- Liberation : teens in the concentration camps and the teen soldiers who liberated them / Tina E. Tito / A traitor among us / Elizabeth Van Steenwyk -- Forgive the river, forgive the sky / Gloria Whelan) -- Teach and lead (The joy of Pi / David Blatner -- Samuel Adams : the father of American independence / Dennis Fradin -- Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate : looking at the Harlem renaissance through poems / Nikki Giovanni.

Princess Ka'iulani : hope of a nation, heart of a people / Sharon Linnea -- Harlem / Walter Dean Myers -- Mine eyes have seen / Ann Rinaldi -- Thomas Jefferson : architect of democracy / John B. Severance -- The Quakers / Jean Kinney Williams).