Addams Book Award
Presented annually, since 1953, by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Jane Addams Peace Association to the children’s book that most effectively promotes the causes of peace, social justice and world community. Winning books for Younger and Older Children are selected each year. http://www.janeaddamspeace.org
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | J B Maathai
J 811.54 Engle | Planting the Trees of Kenya
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom |
| 2008 | E McCully
J B Rustin | The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom
We Are One: the Story of Bayard Rustin |
| 2007 | E Lee-Tai
YA Fic Kadohata | A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
Weedflower |
| 2006 | J B Law
J 796.082 Blumenthal
J 811.54 Alarcon | Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX
Poems to Dream Together |
| 2005 | E Youme
J 324.623 Bausum | Sélavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote |
Batchelder Award
The Mildred L. Batchelder Award has been presented, since 1966, by the American Library Association for outstanding foreign language book for children translated into English.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/batchelderaward/index.cfm
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | J Fic Thor | A Faraway Island |
| 2009 | YA Fic Uehashi | Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit |
| 2008 | YA Fic Miyabe | Brave Story |
| 2007 | J Fic Mourlevat | The Pull of the Ocean |
| 2006 | YA Fic Holub | An Innocent Soldier |
Belpré Medal
Since 1996, the Pura Belpre Award is presented to a Latino/Latina illustrator and writer whose work best portrays Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/belpremedal/index.cfm
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | E Mora
J Fic Alvarez | Book Fiesta!
Return to Sender |
| 2009 | E Morales
J 811.54 Engle | Just in Case
The Surrender Tree |
| 2008 | E Montes (Holiday)J B Manzano
| Los Gatos Black on Halloween
The Poet Slave of Cuba |
| 2006 | E Mora
YA Fic Canales | Doña Flora
Tequila Worm |
| 2004 | E Morales
YA Fic Alvarez | Just A Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
Before We Were Free |
Boston Globe - Horn Book Award
Presented annually, since 1967, for excellence in children’s and young adult literature in three categories: picture book, fiction and poetry, and nonfiction.
http://www.hbook.com/bghb/default.asp
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | E Mahy
YA Fic Pratchett
J B Lincoln | Bubble Trouble
Nation
The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary |
| 2008 | E Bean
YA Fic Alexie
J B Sis
YA Graphic Novel Tan | At Night
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
The Arrival |
| 2007 | E Seeger
YA Fic Anderson
J B Cyr
| Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1
The Strongest Man in the World: Louis Cyr
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| 2006 | E Ehlert
J Fic DiCamillo
E McNulty
| Leaf Man
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
If You Decide to Go to the Moon
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| 2005 | E Grey
YA Fic Shusterman
YA 598.7 Hoose
| Traction Man is Here!
The Schwa Was Here
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
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Caldecott Medal
Since 1938, the Randolph Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the ALA’s Association for Library Service to Children to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecottmedal.cfm
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | E Pinkney | The Lion and the Mouse |
| 2009 | E Swanson | The House in the Night |
| 2008 | J Fic Selznick | The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
| 2007 | E Wiesner | Flotsam |
| 2006 | E Juster | The Hello, Goodbye Window |
Christopher Award
Presented annually, since 1949, to writers and illustrators whose work “affirms the highest values of the human spirit.” A winning book is selected for the following age groups: preschool, ages 6-8, ages 8-10, ages 10-12, and young adult.
http://www.christophers.org/Page.aspx?pid=217
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | J 591.39 Kajikawa
E Henson
J Fic Pennypacker
J Fic Dowell
YA Fic Myers
| Close to You: How Animals Bond
That Book Woman
Clementine’s Letter
Shooting the Moon
Sunrise Over Fallujah
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| 2008 | E Menchin
E McNamara
J 599.635 Hatkoff
J Fic Murphy
YA Fic Cooney
| Taking a Bath with the Dog and Other Things That Make Me Happy
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?
Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship
The Wild Girls
Diamonds in the Shadow
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| 2007 | E Spinelli
J 811.54 Nikola-Lisa
J Fic DiCamillo
J Fic Tolan
J Fic Paterson
| Hero Cat
How We Are Smart
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Listen!
Bread and Roses, Too
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| 2006 | E Cole
J B Morris
E Barber
J Fic Birney
YA Fic Ingold
| Am I a Color Too?
I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote
Game Day
Friendship According to Humphrey
Hitch
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| 2005 | E Wilson
J 398.209561 Demi
J Fic VanDraanen
J Fic Peck
YA B Al-Windawi
| Never, Ever Shout in a Zoo
The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey
Shredderman: Secret Identity
The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq
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Costa Book Awards
Formerly known as the Whitbread Book Awards, this United Kingdom award has been given since 1971. The awards are given to outstanding books in five categories including one for best children’s book.
http://www.costabookawards.com/awards/index.aspx
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | YA Fic Ness | The Ask and the Answer |
| 2008 | YA Fic Magorian | Just Henry |
| 2007 | J Fic Kelley | The Bower Bird |
| 2006 | YA Fic Newbery | Set in Stone |
| 2005 | YA Fic Thompson | The New Policeman |
Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards are given by the Mystery Writers of America to authors of distinguished works for Best Children’s (since 1961) and Best Young Adult (since 1989) Mystery categories.
http://www.mysterywriters.org/?q=AwardsPrograms
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | J Fic Abbott
YA Fic Green | The Postcard
Paper Towns |
| 2008 | YA Fic Marsh
YA Fic Arnold | The Night Tourist
Rat Life |
| 2007 | J Fic Clements
YA Fic MacCready | Room One: A Mystery or Two
Buried |
| 2006 | J Fic Smith
YA Fic Feinstein | The Boys of San Joaquin
Last Shot |
| 2005 | J Fic Balliett
J Fic Hoobler | Chasing Vermeer
In Darkness, Death |
Edwards Award
Established in 1988, the Margaret A. Edwards Award is presented to an author for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/margaretaedwards/margaretedwards.htm
| Year | Author |
| 2010 | Jim Murphy |
| 2009 | Laurie Halse Andersen |
| 2008 | Orson Scott Card |
| 2007 | Lois Lowry |
| 2006 | Jacqueline Woodson |
Fleischman Humor Award
First presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in 2002, the Sid Fleischman Humor Award is given to the author whose work exemplifies the excellence of writing in the genre of humor. http://www.scbwi.org/
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | J Fic Gephart | As If Being 12 ¾ Isn’t Bad Enough, My Mother is Running for President! |
| 2008 | | no award given |
| 2007 | J Fic Pennypacker | Clementine |
| 2006 | YA Fic LaRochelle | Absolutely, Positively Not |
| 2005 | YA Fic Choldenko | Al Capone Does My Shirts |
Frank Award
Formerly the Children’s Book Award, the Josette Frank Award is given each year by the Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College to honor a children’s fiction book (or books) that deals realistically and positively with problems in their world and has been awarded since 1943.
http://www.bankstreet.edu/bookcom/awards.html
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | YA Fic Woodson | After Tupac and D Foster |
| 2008 | J Fic Applegate | Home of the Brave |
| 2007 | J Fic Pennypacker
J Fic Burch | Clementine
The Manny Files |
| 2006 | J Fic Wiles | Each Little Bird That Sings |
| 2005 | J Fic Hannigan | Ida B |
Geisel Award
Beginning in 2006, the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is given to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished beginning reader books.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/geiselaward/index.cfm
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | ER Hayes | Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! |
| 2009 | ER Willems | Are You Ready to Play Outside? |
| 2008 | ER Willems | There is a Bird on Your Head! |
| 2007 | E Kvasnosky | Zelda and Ivy: the Runaways |
| 2006 | ER Rylant | Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas |
Golden Kite Award
First given in 1973, the Golden Kite Award is presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for the best picture book text, picture book illustration, fiction, and nonfiction. http://www.scbwi.org/
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | E Becker
E Yum
YA Fic Watkins
J B Schaller | A Visitor for Bear
Last Night
Down Sand Mountain
A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle |
| 2008 | E Pennypacker
E Morales
J Fic Applegate
J 070.43 Bausum | Pierre in Love
Little Night
Home of the Brave
Muckrakers |
| 2007 | E Myers
E Pitzer
J Fic Abbott
J B Polo | Jazz
Not Afraid of Dogs
Firegirl
The Adventures of Marco Polo |
| 2006 | E Mora
E Yolen
YA Fic Pearson
J 305.23 Freedman | Doña Flor
Baby Bear’s Chairs
A Room on Lorelei Street
Children of the Great Depression |
| 2005 | E Hopkinson
E Cassels
YA Fic Curtis
J 973.917 Cooper | Apples to Oregon
The Mysterious Collection of Dr. David Harleyson
Bucking the Sarge
Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930’s |
King Award
The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually to illustrators (since 1974) and authors (since 1970) of African descent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the “American Dream.”
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/emiert/cskbookawards/index.cfm
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | E Hughes
J B Reeves | My People
Bad News for Outlaws |
| 2009 | J 811.54 Thomas | The Blacker the Berry
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball |
| 2008 | J 782.253 Bryan
J Fic Curtis | Let it Shine
Elijah of Buxton |
| 2007 | E Weatherford
YA Fic Draper | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Copper Sun |
| 2006 | E Giovanni
J Fic Lester | Rosa
Day of Tears: a novel in dialogue |
Lewis Award
Presented annually by the Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College since 1998, the Claudia Lewis Award honors the best poetry book of the year.
http://www.bankstreet.edu/bookcom/awards.html
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | J 811.54 Engle | The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom |
| 2008 | J 811.008 Here’s
J 811.54 Sidman | Here’s A Little Poem
This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness |
| 2007 | | no award given |
| 2006 | J 811.008 Kick | A Kick in the Head: an Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms |
| 2005 | J 811.54 Myers
E George | Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
Hummingbird Nest: a Journal of Poems |
Mitten Award
Since 1999, the Mitten Award is presented through the Michigan Library Association to recognize a children's book that has captured the attention of Michigan children's librarians.
http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/csd
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2008 | J Fic Frost | Diamond Willow |
| 2007 | J Fic Urban | A Crooked Kind of Perfect |
| 2006 | J Fic Lord | Rules |
| 2005 | E Beaumont | I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! |
| 2004 | J Fic Hannigan | Ida B. |
| 2003 | E Wheeler | Old Cricket |
National Book Award
Since 1996, the National Book Foundation has awarded a National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2008.html
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | J B Colvin | Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice |
| 2008 | YA Fic Blundell | What I Saw and How I Lied |
| 2007 | YA Fic Alexie | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
| 2006 | YA Fic Anderson | The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1 |
| 2005 | J Fic Birdsall | The Penderwicks |
Newbery Medal
The John Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the ALA’s Association for Library Service to Children to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children since 1922.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal.cfm
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | J Fic Stead | When You Reach Me |
| 2009 | YA Fic Gaiman | The Graveyard Book |
| 2008 | J 812 Schlitz | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! |
| 2007 | J Fic Patron | The Higher Power of Lucky |
| 2006 | YA Fic Perkins | Criss Cross |
O’Dell Historical Fiction Award
Since 1984, the Scott O’Dell Award is presented to a work of historical fiction.
http://www.scottodell.com/odellaward.html
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | JGN Phelan | The Storm in the Barn |
| 2009 | YA Fic Anderson | Chains: Seeds of America |
| 2008 | J Fic Curtis | Elijah of Buxton |
| 2007 | J Fic Klages | The Green Glass Sea |
| 2006 | J Fic Erdrich | The Game of Silence |
Orbis Pictus Award
Awarded since 1990, the National Council of Teacher of English presents this for excellence in nonfiction writing.
http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | J B Anderson | The Secret World of Walter Anderson |
| 2009 | J B Earhart | Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator |
| 2008 | J B King | M.L.K.: Journey of a King |
| 2007 | J 599.22 Montgomery | Quest for the Tree Kangaroo |
| 2006 | 305.23 Freedman | Children of the Great Depression |
Printz Award
The Michael L. Printz Award is presented to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature since 2000.
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/printzaward/Printz.htm
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | YA Fic Bray | Going Bovine |
| 2009 | YA Fic Marchetta | Jellicoe Road |
| 2008 | YA Fic McCaughrean | The White Darkness |
| 2007 | YA Graphic Novel Yang | American Born Chinese |
| 2006 | YA Fic Green | Looking for Alaska |
Schneider Award
Beginning in 2004, the Schneider Family Book Award is presented to books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience in children, juvenile, and young adult literature.
http://www.ala.org/ala/awardsgrants/awardsrecords/schneideraward/schneiderfamily.cfm
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | E Bertrand
J Fic Baskin
YA Fic Stork | Django
Anything But Typical
Marcelo in the Read World |
| 2009 | J B Tatum
J Fic Connor
YA Fic Friesen | Piano Starts Here: the Young Art Tatum
Waiting for Normal
Jerk, California |
| 2008 | E Stryer
J Fic Zimmer
YA Fic Rorby | Kami and the Yaks
Reaching for Sun
Hurt Go Happy |
| 2007 | E Seeger
J Fic Lord
YA Fic Sachar
| The Deaf Musicians
Rules
Small Steps |
| 2006 | J Fic Uhlberg
YA Fic Fusco
YA Fic Rapp
| Dad, Jackie, and Me
Tending to Grace
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog |
Sibert Informational Book Medal
Since 2001, the Robert F. Sibert medal is awarded for the most distinguished informational book.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal/index.cfm
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2010 | J 629.45 Stone | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream |
| 2009 | J 796.357 Nelson | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball |
| 2008 | J B Sis | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain |
| 2007 | J 629.454 Thimmesh | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon |
| 2006 | J 973.757 Walker | Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley |
Straus Award
The Flora Stieglitz Straus award has been presented, since 1994, by the Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College to honor a distinguished work of nonfiction book or books which fulfill humanitarian ideals and serve as an inspiration to young people.
http://www.bankstreet.edu/bookcom/awards.html
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | J B Lincoln | The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary |
| 2008 | J 616.836 Thompson
J 970.01 Freedman | Ballerina Dreams
Who Was First: Discovering the Americas |
| 2007 | J 323.119 Freedman | Freedom Walkers: the Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
| 2006 | J 333.9598 Turner | Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes |
| 2005 | J 020.92 Winter
YA 598.7 Hoose | The Librarian of Basra: a True Story from Iraq
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird |
Thumbs Up! Award
Since 1987, the Thumbs Up! Award is given by the Michigan Library Association’s Teen Services Division to an outstanding book having both literary quality and teen appeal since 1987.
http://www.mla.lib.mi.us/tsdthumbsup
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | YA Fic Collins | Hunger Games |
| 2008 | YA Fic Brande | Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature |
| 2007 | YA Fic Hautman | Rash |
| 2006 | YA Fic Lubar | Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie |
| 2005 | YA Fic Oppel | Airborn |
| 2004 | YA Fic Rees | Pirates! |
Wilder Medal
Since 1954, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award is given every two years by the ALA to an author or illustrator whose books have made a lasting contribution to children’s literature.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/wildermedal/index.cfm
| Year | Author |
| 2009 | Ashley Bryan |
| 2007 | James Marshall |
| 2005 | Laurence Yep |
| 2003 | Eric Carle |
| 2001 | Milton Meltzer |
Woodson Award
The Carter G. Woodson Award is presented by the National Council for the Social Studies, since 1974, for the most distinguished children’s social science books depicting ethnicity in the United States at the elementary, middle, and secondary levels.
http://www.socialstudies.org/awards/carterG/winners
| Year | Call # | Title |
| 2009 | J 793.7092 Giovanni
J 305.896 Haskins
J Fic Jiminez | Lincoln and Douglass: an American Friendship
The Rise of Jim Crow
Reaching Out |
| 2008 | J B Sockalexis
J 940.54 Fleischman
do not have | Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer
Black and White Airmen: Their True Story
Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River |
| 2007 | J B Lewis
J 323.119 Freedman
J 940.53 Oppenheim | John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Dear Miss Breed |
| 2006 | J 796.357 Raven
do not have
J B Rustin | Let Them Play
Cesar Chavez: a Voice for Farmworkers
No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement |
| 2005 | J B Thorpe
YA B Anderson
do not have | Jim Thorpe's Bright Path
The Voice that Challenged a Nation
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
Additional Children and Young Adult Awards & Recommended Booklists
Alex Awards
Since 1998, the Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/alexawards/alexawards.htm
Best Books for Young Adults
Since 1994, the ALA creates a booklist of significant titles for ages 12-18, that meet the criteria of quality literature and teen appeal. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/bbyahome.cfm
Great Lakes Great Books Award
Beginning in 2004, the Great Lakes Great Books Award is given to five books voted as the favorite of Michigan students in grades K-12. http://www.michiganreading.org
Notable Children’s Books
Each year since 1996, the ALA’s Association for Library Service to Children identifies the best children's books, recordings, videos, and computer software. http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/childrensnotable/index.cfm
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
Selected annually by the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children’s Book Council since 1972.
http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/notable/
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
Selected annually by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children’s Book Council since 1973.
http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/
Youth Services Book Recommendations
Grace A. Dow Memorial Library
January 2010
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