Award Winning Books
Newbery Medal 2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz
Newbery Honor 2008 Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis
Michael L. Printz Award The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean |
Margaret A. Edwards Award 2008 Orson Scott Card, author of Enders Game and other books in this series These books were initially intended for adult audiences. Please keep this in mind.
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Schneider Family 2008 Book Award Winners Kami and the Yaks by Andrea Stenn Stryer (age 0-10) Reaching for Sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer (age 11-13) Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby (age 13-18)
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Caldecott Medal 2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Caldecott Honors Books 2008 Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad written by Ellen Levine and illustrated by Kadir Nelson First the Egg written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain written and illustrated by Peter Sis Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity Illustrated and written by Mo Willems |
Coretta Scott King Award 2008 Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Coretta Scott King Honor Books 2008 November Blues by Sharon Draper Twelve Rounds of Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali written by Charles R. Smith Jr. |