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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!

2008 Newbery Medal Winner
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 2008 Newbery Winner and Honor Books

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Jennifer L. Holm

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis  


The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

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Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

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Iowa Teen Choice Award Winners

2008 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

2002
Gary Paulsen:
The Transall Saga

2001
Beatrice Sparks:
Annie's Baby

2000
Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted

1999
Jerry Spinelli: Crash!

1998
Gary Paulsen: Brian's Winter

1997
Gary Paulsen: Harris and Me

1996
Caroline Cooney: What Ever Happened to Janie?

1995
Michael Crichton:
Jurassic Park

1994
Ryan White:
My Own Story

1993
Caroline Cooney: Face on the Milk Carton

1992
Lois Duncan: Don't Look Behind You

1991
Norma Fox Mazer:
Silver

1990
Gary Paulsen: Hatchet



 
 
Iowa Children's Choice Award Winners

Click here for ready-made books with the 2007 Children's Choice Book nominees. (Pdf form)

2006-2007 Winner:
The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney


Iowa Children's Choice Awards Link



  • Because of Anya by Margaret Haddix
  • Caleb's Story by Patricia MacLachlan
  • Doing Time Online by Jan Siebold
  • Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows by Barry Denenberg
  • The Edison Mystery by Dan Gutman
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs by Cynthia DeFelice
  • Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
  • My Chimp Friday: The Nana Banana Chronicles by Hester Mundis
  • The Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine by Diane Stanley
  • No More Nasty by Amy MacDonald
  • Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Giff
  • The Promise by Jackie Koller
  • Saving Lilly by Peg Kehret
  • A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson by Michelle Green
  • Uncle Daddy by Ralph Fletcher
  • Vampire State Building by Elizabeth Levy
  • A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
  • Wishes, Kisses and Pigs by Betsy Hearne


Edgar Awards for mysteries

2007 Nominees:  Best Young Adult Mystery

The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks

The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson

Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks

Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready 

The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci

 

2007 Nominees:  Best Juvenile Mystery

Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake by Jennifer Allison

The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery by Sarah Masters Buckey

Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements

The Bloodwater Mysteries: Snatched by Pete Hautman & Mary Logue

The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy Springer

Recommendations:

The Princess Diaries books by Meg Cabot

Small Steps by Louis Sachar (the follow-up to Holes)

Peter and the Starcatchers: a series by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
 
Stormbreaker (and all the Alex Rider books) a series by Anthony Horowitz
 
Any kids' mystery by Willo Davis Roberts
  

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