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 Carols 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 Castelucci
• 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