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2009 Newbery Award

cover of bookWINNER:
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
cover of bookHONOR BOOK:
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
cover of bookHONOR BOOK:
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Poems that explore Cuba's fight for independence follow Rosa, a nurse who turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her, and who does her best to help everyone, with no regard to race or nationality.
cover of bookHONOR BOOK:
Savvy by Ingrid Law
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
cover of bookHONOR BOOK:
After Tupac and D Foster
by Jacqueline Woodson
In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their love of Tupac Shakur's music, as they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
Past Newbery Medal and Honor books, 1922 - present.
 

2009 Caldecott Award

cover of bookWINNER:
 The House in the Night
illustrated by Beth Krommes, text by Susan Marie Swanson
Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore the light that makes a house in the night a home filled with light, in a bedtime book for youngsters that names nighttime things, such as a bed and the moon.
cover of bookHONOR BOOK:
 A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
by Marla Frazee
Friends James and Eamon enjoy a wonderful week at the home of Eamon's grandparents during summer vacation.
cover of bookHONOR BOOK:
 How I Learned Geography
by Uri Shulevitz
As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life, in a book based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
cover of bookHONOR BOOK:
 A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams illustrated by Melissa Sweet,
text by Jen Bryant
This picture book biography of William Carlos Williams traces childhood events that lead him to become a doctor and a poet.
Past Caldecott Medal and Honor books, 1938 - present.
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