# Poetry's Playground: The Culture of Contemporary American Children's Poetry, Joseph T. Thomas [last book of 2008]
# Monster Blood Tattoo Two: Lamplighter, D.M. Cornish
# Monster Blood Tattoo One: Foundling, D.M. Cornish
# Carpe Mundum: German Youth Culture of the Weimar Republic, Luke Springman
# The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor
# Beige, Cecil Castelluci
# Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
# The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary E. Pearson
# Eight Days of Luke, Diana Wynne Jones
# The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume Two: The Kingdom of the Waves, M.T. Anderson
# The Loud Silence of Francine Green, Karen Cushman
# Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson
# Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
# The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
# Paper Towns, John Green (ARC)
# Afterwards, Rachel Seiffert
# Big Plans, Bob Shea (ARC)
# Madam President, Lane Smith (ARC)
# My Fairy Fair Godmother, Janette Rallison (ARC)
# Need Carrie Jones (ARC)
# Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
# Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, Laurie Viera RIgler
# The Water-Babies, Charles Kingsley
# Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, Eoin Colfer
# My Lady Ludlow, Elizabeth Gaskell
# Little Brother, Cory Doctorow
# Out of the Wild, Sarah Beth Durst
# The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin
# Tam Lin, Pamela Dean
# Rapunzel's Revenge, Shannon and Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale
# The Seems: The Split Second, John Hulme & Michael Wexler
# The Ghosthunters I: The Proof that Ghosts Exist, Carol Matas & Perry Nodelman
# The Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper, Kazu Kibuishi
# The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart
# Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
# Wizards at War, Diane Duane
# Mama, PhD, ed. Caroline Grant and Elrena Evans
# Wizard's Holiday, Diane Duane
# A Wizard Alone, Diane Duane
# The Wizard's Dilemma, Diane Duane
# Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett
# A Wizard Abroad, Diane Duane
# High Wizardry, Diane Duane
# Deep Wizardry, Diane Duane
# So You Want to be a Wizard, Diane Duane
# Penny from Heaven, Jennifer L. Holm
# Lonely Werewolf Girl, Martin Millar
# The Liar's Diary, Patry Francis
# The Ten-Year Nap, Meg Wolitzer
# Moribito, Guardian of the Spirit, Nahoko Uehashi
# Steinbeck's Ghost, Lewis Buzbee
# The Explosionist, Jenny Davidson
# The Arrival, Shaun Tan
# Raleigh's Page, Alan Armstrong
# Still She Haunts Me, Katie Roiphe
# The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
# The Wall and the Wing, Laura Ruby
# Larklight, Philip Reeve
# Thirsty, M.T. Anderson
# Alex and the Ironic Gentleman, Adrienne Kress
# Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
# New Moon, Stephenie Meyer
# Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
# Boy Meets Boy, David Levithan
# Family Tree, Barbara Delinsky
# The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale
# Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
# Not Quite What I Was Planning, ed. Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser
# Incarceron, Catherine Fisher
# The Chaos King, Laura Ruby
# Learning from the Left, Julia Mickenberg
# Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, Tess Cosslett
# In the Company of Books, Sarah Wadsworth
# Bookwomen, Jacklyn Eddy
# Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature, Carolyn Daniel
# The Heart has its Reasons, Michael Cart and Christine A. Jenkins
# Repossessed, A.M. Jenkins
# Skin Hunger, Kathleen Duey
# Book of a Thousand Days, Shannon Hale
# Northlander: Tales of the Borderlands, Book I, Meg Burden
# Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy
# Into the Wild, Sarah Beth Durst
# The Land of the Silver Apples, Nancy Farmer
# The True Meaning of Smekday, Adam Rex
# Empire Falls, Richard Russo
