Welcome to the Young Readers' Toolkit - your key to joining thousands of book lovers in the National Book Festival. Check out the 2008 lineup and start reading great authors like Jan Brett, Kadir Nelson, Andrea Davis Pinkney and Joseph Bruchac today!

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Choose a 2007/2008 author: Author Name M.T. Anderson 07 María Celeste Arrarás 07 Tiki Barber 08 Mary Brigid Barrett 08 Holly Black 07 Jan Brett 08 Marc Brown 08 Joseph Bruchac 08 Ashley Bryan 07 Jenna Bush 08 Laura Bush 08 David A. Carter 08 Doreen Cronin 08 Carmen Agra Deedy 07 Sharon M. Draper 08 Neil Gaiman 08 Jan Spivey Gilchrist 07 Jennifer L. Holm 07 Steven Kellogg 08 Bob Lanier 08 Gail Carson Levine 07 Betsy Lewin 08 Patricia MacLachlan 07 Mercer Mayer 07 Patricia McCormick 07 Megan McDonald 07 Shelia P. Moses 07 Kadir Nelson 08 Katherine Paterson 08 Andrea Davis Pinkney 08 Jack Prelutsky 07 Doreen Rappaport 08 Matthew Reinhart 08 Robert Sabuda 08 Judy Schachner 07 Jon Scieszka 08 David Shannon 08 Judy Sierra 08 Charles R. Smith, Jr. 08 Cynthia Leitich Smith 07 R. L. Stine 08 Judith Viorst 08 Dionne Warwick 08 Rosemary Wells 07 David Wiesner 07 Jacqueline Wilson 07 Gene Luen Yang 07

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