2009 Newbery Medal Winner
- The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman,
illustrated by Dave McKean
Newbery Honor Books
- The Underneath, by Kathi Appelt,
illustrated by David Small
- The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle
for Freedom, by Margarita Engle
- Savvy, by Ingrid Law
- After Tupac & D Foster, by
Jacqueline Woodson
2009 Caldecott Winner
- The House in the Night, illustrated
by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson
Caldecott Honor Books
- A couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever,
by Marla Frazee
- How I Learned Geography, by Uri
Shulevitz
- A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos
Williams, illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen
Bryant
Young Reader's Choice Nominees, 2010
March, 2010 - Voting on YRCA nominees will take place at
Boise Public Library.
Junior Division
- The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal
by Jeff Kinney
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul
Curtis
- Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke
- Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian
Selznick
- Marley: a Dog Like No Other by John
Grogan
- Mysterious Benedict Society by
Trention Lee Stewart
- No Talking by Andrew Clements
Intermediate Division
- Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas
Flamel by Michael Scott
- Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon
Hale
- Zen And The Art Of Faking It by
Jordan Sonnenblick
- Peak by Roland Smith
- Plain Janes by Cecil Casteluccil
- Schooled by Gordon Korman
- The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam
Rex
- Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry
Coretta Scott King Award, 2009
- We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League
Baseball, written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
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