Wilde Novel List

Wilde Novel Awards 2006

Susie Wilde is a book reviewer in North Carolina. This best-of-2006 list was found on her website. This list includes everything that is not a picture book: chapter books, young adult novels, and nonfiction books. For the full article, including descriptions, visit her site.

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Best Younger Novels:

• Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow by James Howe
  
• Dear Max by Sally Grindley
  
• Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
  
• Sleeping Beauty: The One Who Took A Really Long Nap by Wendy Mass
  
• Bella At Midnight by Diane Stanley
  
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
  

Young Adult Books
Best Sequels

• The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
  
• Ptolemy’s Gate by Jonathan Stroud
  
• River Secrets by Shannon Hale
  
• Green Jasper by K.M. Grant
  

Best Fairy Tale

• Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
  

Best Futuristic Novel

• Rash

Best Collections

• Porch Lies by Patricia McKissack
  
• Scary Stories illustrated by Barry Moser; introduced by Peter Glassman
  

Best Non-fiction

• The American Story: 100 True Tales From American History by Jennifer Armstrong
  
• Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round:Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement by Doreen Rappaport
  
• Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea by Sy Montgomery
  
• Unexplained: An Encyclopedia of Curious Phenomena, Strange Superstitions, and Ancient Mysteries by Judy Allen
  
• The Adventures of Marco Polo by Russell Freedman
  
• Viktor Frankle: A Life Worth Living by Anna Redsand
  

Best Novels For Adults

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  
• Stay With Me by Garret Freymann-Weyr
  

Best Historical Fiction

• The Legend of Bass Reeves by Gary Paulsen
  
• Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
  
• Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
  
• Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
  
• Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher
  

Best New Mystery Series

• The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer
  

Best Contemporary Fiction

• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
  
• A Brief Chapter In My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt
  
• Sold by Patricia McCormick
  
• King Dork by Frank Portman
  
• The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
  

Best Resource

• 500 Great Books for Teens by Anita Silvey