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Award Winning Books

Students2007 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

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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Boise, ID 83702
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