cover image BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE

BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE

Kate DiCamillo, . . Candlewick, $5.99 (, $5.99 ISBN p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1605-2

Through the love she gains from her new pet, a girl gains the courage to ask her father about the mother who abandoned them. "In this exquisitely crafted first novel [a Newbery Honor book], each chapter possesses an arc of its own and reads almost like a short story in its completeness," said PW in our Best Books of 2000 citation. Ages 8-up. (Sept.)