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     This page is designed to give ideas and lists of excellent books for kids and adults.  Children's literature is one of the most exciting and innovative genres in the world of books today.  After all, it wasn't just kids that made Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone #1 on the New York Times best-sellers list!

2009 Newbery Medal Winner
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The Newbery Medal Link


 2009 Newbery Winner 

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
 

Newbery 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

 

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Iowa Teen Choice Award Winner:
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

2008 - 2009 Nominees:
The Perfect Shot, Alphin
Code Talker, Bruchac
Runner, Deuker
The People of Sparks, DuPrau
Stumptown Kid, Gorman
Flush, Hiaasen
Travel Team, Lupica
Airborn, Oppel
Eragon Paolini
Small Steps, Sachar
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie, Sonneblick
Milkweed, Spinelli
So B. It, Weeks
Uglies, Westerfield
Elsewhere, Zevin

2007
Sonya Sones: One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
2006
Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know   

2005 
Anthony Horowitz: Stormbreaker

2004
Ann Brashares: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

2003
Jerry Spinelli:
Stargirl





 
 
Iowa Children's Choice Award Winners

Click here for ready-made bookmarks with the 2009 Children's Choice Book nominees. (Pdf form)

2008 - 2009 Winner:

Abduction! by Peg Kehret



Iowa Children's Choice Awards Link





Edgar Awards for mysteries


2009:  Best Young Adult Mystery

Paper Towns by John Greene

2009:  Best Juvenile Mystery

The Postcard by Tony Abbott
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Click here for list of Great Middle School Reads.

Click here for the Teen Reads website. Find out about new books and old favorites.




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