When You Reach Me- Newbery Winner
Evolution of Calpurnia Tate- Newbery Honor
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg- Newbery Honor
Mare's War- Corretta Scott King Author Honor Book
The Rock and the River- Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award
Anything But Typical- Schneider Family Book Award (middle grades)
Stitches: A Memoir - Alex Award
January 18, 2010
January 11, 2010
November 25, 2009
Faith, hope, and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
November 24, 2009
Crossing stones by Helen Frost
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
The Great and Only Barnum - The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P.T. Barnum by Candace Fleming
October 17, 2009
Stitches: A Memoir, by David Small
October 16, 2009
Wild Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff
A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck
September 23, 2009
Jolted: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival, by Arthur Slade
September 18, 2009
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle
Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell
September 6, 2009
Carolina Harmony by Marilyn Taylor McDowell
Carolina, having escaped from a foster home and living with Mr. Ray and Miss Latah on Harmony Farm, refuses to talk about the events surrounding the deaths of her parents and younger brother, and befriends a troubled runaway who she secretly feeds and takes the blame for his pranks.
Fiction | Grades 4 - 8
Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise
Night Wings by Joseph Bruchac
Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur
Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
August 5, 2009
The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Wild Things by Clay Carmichael
Traveling the Freedom Road by Linda Barrett Osborne
The Stone Child by Dan Poblocki
Operation Redwood by Terrell French
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
Mare's War by Tanita Davis
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.
World War II fiction | Family life fiction | grades 6 up
August 4, 2009
Kaleidoscope Eyes by Jan Bryant
Jane in Bloom by Deborah Lytton
Darkwood by M.E. Breen
Bones of Faerie by Janni Simmer
Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry
Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against the man who took everything from her, aided by a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child prepares to marry, unaware that he, too, is in danger.
Fantasy | grades 5-8
June 13, 2009
Happenstance Found by P. W. Catanese
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
June 9, 2009
Lucky Breaks by Susan Patron
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
Cults fiction | young adult, grades 7-10
June 8, 2009
The White Witch by Janet Graber
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
June 6, 2009
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Parry
Ignatius "Brother" Alderman, nearly twelve, promises to help his grandparents keep the family's Oregon ranch the same while his brothers are away and his father is deployed to Iraq, but as he comes to accept the inevitability of change, he also sees the man he is meant to be.
Family life fiction | grades 4-8
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.
Friendship fiction | grades 4-6
Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
All the Broken Pieces : A Novel in Verse by Ann Burg
When the Whistle Blows by Fran Cannon Slayton
June 5, 2009
Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia
Peace Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
Realistic fiction | grades 5-8
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
June 4, 2009
Alien Feast by Michael Simmons
Waggit Again by Peter Howe
Escape Under the Forever Sky by Eve Yohalem
A Recipe 4 Robbery by Marybeth Kelsey
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
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