Tuesday, February 17, 2009

ALA announces Literary Award Winners

John Newbery Medal
Winner: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Honor Books:
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle

Savvy by Ingrid Law

After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson.

Randolph Caldecott Medal
Winnder: The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson, illus. by Beth Krommes

Honor Books:

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever by Marla Frazee (illus. by author)

How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz (illus. by author)

A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant, illus. by Melissa Sweet

Michael L. Printz Award
Winner: Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Honor Books:

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Nation by Terryt Pratchett

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

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