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2007 Newbery Medal Winner

The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patrol

Newbery Honor Books

  • Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
  • Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
  • Rules by Cynthia Lord

2007 Caldecott Winner

  • Flotsam written and illustrated by David Wiesner

Caldecott Honor Books

  • Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet written and illustrated by David McLimans
  • Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson,

2007 Coretta Scott King Winners

  • Author Award: Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
  • Illustrator Award: Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford

The Pacific Northwest Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award is the oldest children's choice award in the U.S. and Canada. The award was established in 1940. Nominations are taken only from children, teachers, parents and librarians in the Pacific Northwest.

Annual voting by students in grades 4 - 12 takes place March 15th through April 6th.

2008 Young Reader's Choice Nominees

Junior Division 4th - 6th Grades

  • The Day Joanie Frankhauser Became a Boy by Francess Lin Lantz
  • A Dog's Life:  The Autobiography Of  A Stray by Ann M. Martin
  • Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Listening For Lions by Gloria Whelan
  • Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
  • The Scarecrow And His Servant by Philip Pullman
  • Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
  • Whales On Stilts!  by M.T. Anderson

Intermediate Division 7th - 9th grades

  • Alice Macleod, Realist at Last by Susan Juby
  • Code Orange by Caroline Cooney
  • Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
  • Eldest by Christopher Paolini
  • Flush by Carl Hiaasen
  • Harry Potter and the Half by Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
  • The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
  • Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

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