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Award Winners

Readers2009 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

Newbery Award Home Page link for information on previous winners.

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

Caldecott Award Home Page link for information on previous winners.

Young Reader's Choice Nominees, 2010

Young Readers Choice Home Page link for information on previous winners
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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