2009 Newbery Medal

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean, HarperCollins Children's Books

2009 Newbery Honor Books

• The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by David Small, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle, Henry Holt and Company, LLC
• Savvy by Ingrid Law, Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group in partnership with Walden Media, LLC
• After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson, G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Books for Young Readers

2009 Caldecott Medal

The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes and written by Susan Marie Swanson, Houghton Mifflin Co.

2009 Caldecott Honor Books

• A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee, Harcourt, Inc.
• How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz, Farrar Straus Giroux
• A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, illustrated by Melissa Sweet and written by Jen Bryant, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

2009 Coretta Scott King Author Award

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson, published by Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group

2009 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books

• Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith, published by Henry Holt and Company
• The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas, published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
• Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford, published by Wordsong, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press, Inc

2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

The Blacker the Berry by Floyd Cooper, published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

2008 Young Reader's Choice Winners

• Intermediate Division - Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Senior Division - Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson

2009 Young Reader's Choice Nominees

• Intermediate Division
  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable by John Boyne
  • Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer
  • Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz
  • The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
  • Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • Small Steps by Louis Sachar
  • Endymion Spring by Matthew Skelton
• Senior Division
  • The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
  • Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn
  • An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
  • The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
  • New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
  • Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
  • American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak