I published eleven books this year -- my most ever! I did not write about those titles here so much, however, because I was spending much of my time readying my 2015 books. (Such is publishing.) But I'm very proud of them all, and as always it was a pleasure to have such a wide-ranging list . . . to be able to turn from the proofs on Divided We Fall, say -- a YA novel about the start of the second American civil war -- to figuring out what piece of classic artwork would match a particular stage of our heroine's journey in I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Dreidel. (You'd have to see the book to get it.) So yay for my 2014 list!

Divided We Fall by Trent Reedy

Gold Medal Winterby Donna Freitas

Amber House:  Neverwasby Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed, and Larkin Reed

The Good-Pie Partyby Liz Garton Scanlonillustrated by Kady Macdonald Denton

Curses and Smoke:  A Novel of Pompeii by Vicky Alvear Shecter

The Great Greene Heistby Varian Johnson

Zoe's Jungleby Bethanie Murguia

What's New? The Zoo! A Zippy History of Zoosby Kathy Krull, illustrated by Marcellus Hall

If You're Reading Thisby Trent Reedy


Finding Ruby Starling
by Karen Rivers

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Dreidelby Caryn Yacowitz, illustrated by David Slonim