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Caldecott Medal & Honor Books 2006 - 2010

2010

Honor Book All the World

by Marla Frazee/Liz Garton Scanlon
Honor Book Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors

by Pamela Zagarenski/Joyce Sidman
Medal Winner The Lion & the Mouse

by Jerry Pinkney

2009

Honor Book A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever

Marla Frazee
Honor Book How I Learned Geography

By: Uri Shulevitz
Honor Book A River of Words the Story of William Carlos Williams

Jen Bryant/Melissa Sweet
Medal Winner The House in the Night

Susan Marie Swanson/Beth Krommes

2008

Honor Book Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story From the Underground Railroad

Ellen Levine/Kadir Nelson
Honor Book First the Egg

Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Honor Book The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Peter S
Honor Book Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity

Mo Willems
Medal Winner The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

2007

Honor Book Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet

David Mclimans
Honor Book Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom

Carole Boston Weatherford/Kadir Nelson
Medal Winner Flotsam

David Wiesner

2006

Honor Book Rosa

Nikki Giovanni/Bryan Collier
Honor Book Zen Shorts

Jon J. Muth
Honor Book Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride

Marjorie Priceman
Honor Book Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems

Joyce Sidman/Beckie Prange
Medal Winner The Hello, Goodbye Window

Norton Juster/Chris Raschka

National Book Award Winners

2009

Fiction Let the Great World Spin

by Colum McCann
Nonfiction The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

by T.J. Stiles
Poetry Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy

by Keith Waldrop
Young People's Literature Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

by Phillip Hoose

2008

Fiction Shadow Country

Peter Matthiessen
Nonfiction The Hemingses of Monticello

Annette Gordon-Reed
Poetry Fire to Fire

Mark Doty
Young People's Literature What I Saw and How I Lied

Judy Blundell

Newbery Medal & Honor Books 2007 - 2010

2010

Honor Book Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

by Phillip Hoose
Honor Book The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

by Jacqueline Kelly
Honor Book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

by Grace Lin
Medal Winner When You Reach Me

by Rebecca Stead

2009

Honor Book The Underneath

Kathi Appelt/David Small
Honor Book The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom

Margarita Engle
Honor Book Savvy

Ingrid Law
Honor Book After Tupac & D Foster

Jacqueline Woodson
Medal Winner The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman/Dave Mckean

2008

Honor Book Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis
Honor Book The Wednesday Wars

Gary D. Schmidt
Honor Book Feathers

Jacqueline Woodson
Medal Winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village

Laura Amy Schlitz

2007

Honor Book Penny From Heaven

Jennifer L. Holm
Honor Book Hattie Big Sky

Kirby Larson
Honor Book Rules

Cynthia Lord
Medal Winner The Higher Power of Lucky

Susan Patron/Matt Phelan

Nobel Laureates in Literature

2000-2009

2000 Gao Xingjian (France)
2001 V. S. Naipaul (United Kingdom)
2002 Imre Kertész (Hungary)
2003 J. M. Coetzee (South Africa)
2004 Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2005 Harold Pinter (United Kingdom)
2006 Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
2007 Doris Lessing (United Kingdom)
2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (France And Mauritius)
2009 Herta Müller (Germany)

Printz Final & Honor Books 2007 - 2010

2010

Honor Book Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith

by Deborah Heiligman
Honor Book The Monstrumologist

by Rick Yancey
Honor Book Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973

by John Barnes
Winner Going Bovine

by Libba Bray

2009

Honor Book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

E. Lockhart
Honor Book The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Vol. II: The Kingdom on the Waves

M.T. Anderson
Honor Book Nation

Terry Prachett
Honor Book Tender Morsels

Margo Lanagan
Winner Jellicoe Road

Marlene Marchetta

2008

Honor Book Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet

Elizabeth Knox
Honor Book One Whole and Perfect Day

Judith Clarke
Honor Book Repossessed

A.M. Jenkins
Honor Book Your Own, Sylvia

Stephanie Hemphill
Winner The White Darkness

Geraldine Mccaughrean

2007

Honor Book The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; Vol. 1: The Pox Party

M.T. Anderson
Honor Book An Abundance of Katherines

John Green
Honor Book Surrender

Sonya Hartnett
Honor Book The Book Thief

Markus Zusak
Winner American Born Chinese

Gene Luen Yang

Pulitzer Prize Winners 2006 - 2010

2010

Biography or Autobiography The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

by T.J Stiles
Drama Next to Normal

music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Fiction Tinkers

by Paul Harding
General Nonfiction The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy

by David E. Hoffman
History Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

by Liaquat Ahamed
Poetry Versed

by Rae Armantrout

2009

Biography or Autobiography American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

by Jon Meacham
Drama Ruined

by Lynn Nottage
Fiction Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout
General Nonfiction Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

by Douglas A. Blackmon
History The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

by Annette Gordon-Reed
Poetry The Shadow of Sirius

by W. S. Merwin

2008

Biography Or Autobiography Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

John Matteson
Drama August: Osage County

Tracy Letts
Fiction The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz
General Nonfiction The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

Saul Friedl
History What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

Daniel Walker Howe
Poetry Time and Materials

Robert Hass
Poetry Failure

Philip Schultz

2007

Biography Or Autobiography The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography Of Henry Ward Beecher

Debby Applegate
Drama Rabbit Hole

David Lindsay-Abaire
Fiction The Road

Cormac Mccarthy
General Nonfiction The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright
History The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Poetry Native Guard

Natasha Trethewey

2006

Biography Or Autobiography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Fiction March

Geraldine Brooks
General Nonfiction Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya

Caroline Elkins
History History Polio: An American Story

David M. Oshinsky
Poetry Late Wife

Claudia Emerson

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