2013 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts

This wonderful list of thirty titles is selected by a committee of NCTE’s Children’s Literature Assembly. Congratulations to all the honored book creators and to the members of this year’s committee for their fine work:Tracy Smiles, Chair; Donalyn Miller, Patricia Bandre, Yoo Kyung Sung, Barbara Ward, Shanetia Clark, and Jean Schroeder.

43CemeteryRoad: the Phantom of the Post Office,by Kate Klise, illustrated by Sarah Klise, published by Houghton Mifflin.

A Leaf Can Be,by Laura Purdie Salas, il...