Title: The One And Only Ivan
Author: Applegate, Katherine
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780061992254
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Ages 8 to 12.
Notes: #2 NYT Children's Middle Grade 5/05/13. When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

Title: Out Of My Mind
Author: Draper, Sharon
Publisher: Atheneum
ISBN: 9781416971702
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Ages 10 to 13.
Notes: #10 NYT Children's Paperback Books 5/05/13. Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.

Title: Chomp
Author: Hiaasen, Carl
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 9780375868429
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Ages 10 to 14.
Notes: #9 NYT Children's Chapter Books 5/05/13. When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.

Title: Emeraldalicious
Author: Kann, Victoria
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780061781278
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Ages 5 to 8.
Notes: #7 NYT Children's Picture Books 5/05/13. Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a "greentastic" garden.

Title: Poems To Learn By Heart
Author: Kennedy, Caroline
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
ISBN: 9781423108054
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: All ages.
Notes: #2 NYT Children's Picture Books 5/05/13. For this companion to her "New York Times"-bestselling collection "A Family of Poems," Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization.

Title: Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel
Author: Kinney, Jeff
Publisher: Amulet
ISBN: 9781419705847
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Ages 9 to 12.
Notes: #3 NYT Children's Series 5/05/13. A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down until an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves his best friend Rowley the odd man out.

Title: This Is Not My Hat
Author: Klassen, Jon
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 9780763655990
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Ages 4 to 8.
Notes: #5 NYT Children's Picture Books 5/05/13. A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.

Title: The Lego Ideas Book
Author: Lipkowitz, Daniel
Publisher: DK
ISBN: 9780756686062
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Ages 7 and up.
Notes: #8 NYT Children's Middle Grade 5/05/13. Features all-new LEGO® building projects, tips to supplement and enhance your LEGO creations, inspirational builds, and expert advice from LEGO Master Builders.

Title: Pete The Cat And His Four Groovy Buttons
Author: Litwin, Eric
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780062110596
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Ages 3 to 7.
Notes: #10 NYT Children's Picture Books 5/05/13. Pete the cat loves the buttons on his shirt so much that he makes up a song about them, and even as the buttons pop off, one by one, he still finds a reason to sing.

Title: Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes
Author: Litwin, Eric
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061906220
Format: Hardback
Reading Level: Ages 3 to 7.
Notes: #8 NYT Children's Picture Books 5/05/13. As he walks down the street, Pete the cat sings about his brand new white shoes as they change from red to blue to brown to wet.