Looking for Something Great to Read?
Here are suggestions of outstanding books available at your Chicago Public Library.
Quicklinks: Recent Arrivals | Best of the Best | What to Read Next | Book Reviews by Kids | Books in World Languages | Authors & Illustrators to Know | Even More Ideas
Recent Arrivals What’s new at Chicago Public Library?
Best of the Best Chicago Public Library's annual list of the very best books published for kids. Best of the Best 2013 includes more than 100 great and award winning titles. The menu below includes other years' Best of the Best lists, and if you would like to see all of the Best of the Best books from 2000 to today by category, please check out the Best of the Best section of Best Stories in the Kids' Catalog. Best of the Best is a part of the Kraft Great Kids Initiative.
Previous Best of the Best Lists Best of the Best 2012 Best of the Best 2011 Best of the Best 2010 Best of the Best 2009 Best of the Best 2008 Best of the Best 2007 Best of the Best 2006 Best of the Best 2005 Best of the Best 2004 Best of the Best 2003 Best of the Best 2002 Best of the Best 2001 Best of the Best 2000
What to Read Next
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Book Reviews By Kids, For Kids
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What Kids in Chicago are Reading
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More Book Reviews Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Al Capone Shines My Shoes Alabama Moon April Adventure Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception Ballet Kitty The Battle of the Labyrinth Barnstormers: Game 1 Birthday Fish But Excuse Me That is My Book The Calder Game Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth The City of Ember The Cobra King of Kathmandu Crocodile Tears The Cupcake Queen Diary of a Wimpy Kid Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days The Dopple Ganger Chronicles: The First Escape Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie Fancy Nancy Fear Itself: Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School Forever Hellos, Hard Good-Byes Frindle Garbage The Green Glass Sea Hairs = Pelitos The Homework Machine Hooray for Fly Guy! Houndsley and Catina: Plink and Plunk I, Freddy I Want a Hug Inkheart Jacob’s Ladder Janey’s Girl Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life Reviewed by Hannah Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life Reviewed by Mia Just Annoying! The Last Olympian The Lightning Thief Reviewed by Deja The Lightning Thief Reviewed by Mina Lincoln and Douglass: an American Friendship A Long Way from Chicago Love, Aubrey The Magician’s Elepant The Manny Files A Mango-Shaped Space Reviewed by Hannah A Mango-Shaped Space Reviewed by Simone Matilda The Maze of Bones Medusa Jones The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf Million-Dollar Throw The Misfits The Music of Dolphins My Truck is Stuck The Mysterious Benedict Society A Night in Terror Tower Next Spring an Oriole Number the Stars The People of Sparks Pet Show Philippa Fisher’s Fairy Godsister Pinkalicious The Princess and the Pea in Miniature Princess in Pink Purplicious The Scarecrow and His Servant The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls Seekers: Great Bear Lake Small Steps: The Year I got Polio Smile Snakehead The Sisters Grimm: Fairy-Tale Detectives Stormbreaker The Story of World War II A Summer to Die Swindle Three Cups of Tea: Young Reader’s Edition Today I Will Fly W is for Windy City War of the Worlds The Wednesday Wars Who Was Helen Keller Woods Runner Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways
Books in World Languages
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Authors & Illustrators to Know
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Even More Ideas
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Bad Kitty Meets the Baby