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2010 Award Books for Children
Awarded annually by the American Library Association.
Follow the graphic and text links to request copies of these great books to be delivered to your neighborhood Denver Public Library.
Newbery Award for Best Literature and Honor
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Winner:
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes that seems to defy the laws of time.
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Honor Book: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
Nine months before Rosa Parks’ history-making protest on a city bus, Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old Montgomery, Alabama, high-school student, was arrested and jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger.
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Honor Book: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from her brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, which leads to an important discovery.
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Honor Book: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
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Honor Book: The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War.
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Caldecott Award for Best Illustration and Honor
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Winner: The Lion & the Mouse written and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.
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Honor Book: All the World illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon
Follow a circle of family and friends from morning till night as they discover the importance of all things great and small in our world, from the tiniest shell on the beach, to warm family connections, to the widest sunset sky.
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Honor Book: Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman
Nature displays different colors to announce the seasons of the year.
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Coretta Scott King Award Honoring African American
Authors and Illustrators, and Honor Books:
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Winner for Literature: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
For three decades, Bass was the most feared and respected lawman in the territories, where he made more than 3,000 arrests. |
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Honor Book: Mare’s War by Tanita S. 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.
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Winner for Illustration: My People illustrated by Charles R. Smith Jr., written by Langston Hughes
Whether of babies, children or adults, these remarkable illustrations emerge into the light, displaying the best that humanity has to offer—intelligence, wisdom, curiosity, love and joy.
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Illustrator Honor: The Negro Speaks of Rivers illustrated by E. B. Lewis, written by Langston Hughes
Hughes' famous poem is beautifully illustrated.
"I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
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Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award
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The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party. |
Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement
The award pays tribute to the beloved children’s author Virginia Hamilton.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children’s
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Winner for Best Children's Video: Mo Willems and Paul R. Gagne of Weston Woods win the 2010 Carnegie Medal for Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place.
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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book
Award for the most distinguished informational book for children, and Honor
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Winner: Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
Here are thirteen women who proved that they were not only as tough as the toughest man but also brave enough to challenge the government. Almost Astronauts is the story of thirteen true pioneers of the space age.
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Honor Book: The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton
Before 1935, fluorescent colors did not exist. Barton discusses how two brothers worked together to create the eye-popping hues. This book chronicles the Switzer brothers' invention of the first fluorescent paint visible in daylight.
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Honor Book: Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 written and illustrated by Brian Floca
Forty years after NASA’s Apollo 11 mission first landed astronauts on the moon, this striking nonfiction picture book takes young readers along for the ride.
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Honor Book: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
In March 1955, 15-year-old Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger and was arrested. Later that year, Rosa Parks sparked the famous bus boycott.
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Mildred
L. Batchelder Award for the Most Outstanding Children’s
Book Originally Published in a Foreign Language and
Subsequently Translated into English, and Honor Books:
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Winner: A Faraway Island by Annika Thor; translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world.
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Honor Book: Big Wolf & Little Wolf by Nadine Brun-Cosme; translated from the French by Claudia Bedrick
Big Wolf has always lived alone at the top of a hill under a tree, so when a little wolf suddenly arrives one day, he does not know what to think.
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Honor Book: Eidi by Bodil Bredsdorff; translated from the Danish by Kathryn Mahaffy
Eidi leaves her mother and stepfather in Crow Cove to live in a nearby village, where she meets the much younger Tink and rescues him from the abusive man he has been living with. |
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Honor Book: Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi; translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano
The wandering female bodyguard Balsa returns to her native country of Kanbal, where she uncovers a conspiracy to frame her mentor and herself. |
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the Most Outstanding Beginning Reader Books, and Honor Books:
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Winner: Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! by Geoffrey Hayes
Two mice meet their new neighbor and discover that she is not as scary as they feared.
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Honor Book: I Spy Fly Guy! by Tedd Arnold
While playing hide-and-seek with Buzz, Fly Guy is taken away by a garbage man.
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Honor Book: Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith
There is a lot to do before Little Mouse is ready to go visit the barn. Can he master getting dressed, from snaps and buttons to Velcro and tail holes?
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Honor Book: Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends by Wong Herbert Yee
When spring arrives, Mole and Mouse find a unique way to bird watch.
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Honor Book: Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day by Kate McMullan
April Fools' Day is not a happy one for Wagner the mouse because his best friend, Pearl the rabbit, and other children and adults at school keep tricking him.
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Schneider Family Book Award for a Book that
Embodies an Artistic Expression of the Disability Experience
for Child and Adolescent Audiences:
Recipients are selected in three categories: birth through grade school (age birth–10), middle school (age 11–13), and teens (age 13–18).
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Winner of the Young Child Category:
Django by Bonnie Christensen
Born into a gypsy family, young Django Reinhardt taught himself guitar at an early age. He was soon acclaimed as the Gypsy Genius, but his world changed completely when a fire burned his fretting hand. With passion and perseverance he was soon setting the world's concert stages ablaze. |
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Winner of the Middle School Category:
Anything but Typical
by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to become a writer, relates what his life is like as he tries to make sense of his world. |
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Winner of the Teen Category:
Marcelo in the Real World
by Francisco X. Stork
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in a corporate law firm.
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The Pura Belpré Award honors Latino/Latina writers and illustrators whose works best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. Winners and Honor Books:
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Author Winner: Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter and realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
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Author Honor: Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand, illustrated by David Diaz
Diego Rivera's energy, physique, love for women, and work were all "bigger than life." He painted the poetry of the common people --
working, suffering, fighting, seeking joy, in massive murals on the
walls of public buildings.
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Author Honor: Federico García Lorca by Georgina Lázaro, illustrated by Enrique S. Moreiro
Details the background of Lorca'a poems for children: the lizard, the red bird, the cricket, and the frog, as well as the games and songs of early childhood. This book is in Spanish.
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Winner for Illustration: Book Fiesta!: Celebrate Children’s Day/Book Day; Celebremos El día de los niños/El día de los libros illustrated by Rafael López, written by Pat Mora
Children read aloud in various settings to celebrate El Día de los niños, or Children's Day, in this bilingual story.
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Illustrator Honor: Diego: Bigger Than Life illustrated by David Diaz, written by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Diego Rivera's energy, physique, love for women, and work were all "bigger than life." He painted the poetry of the common people --
working, suffering, fighting, seeking joy, in massive murals on the
walls of public buildings.
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Illustrator Honor: My Abuelita illustrated by Yuyi Morales, written by Tony Johnston
With great gusto, a child's grandmother performs deep knee bends, consumes a breakfast of "huevos estrellados," and practices vocal exercises before going to work as a storyteller.
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Illustrator Honor: Gracias Thanks illustrated by John Parra, written by Pat Mora
A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.
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Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production and honorable mentions:
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Winner: Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo, narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
Longing for adventure, intrepid Louise leaves her comfortable nest and goes to sea.
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Honor Audio: In the Belly of the Bloodhound written by L.A. Meyer, narrated by Katherine Kellgren
Jacky Faber and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston are kidnapped and transported in the hold of a slave ship bound for the slave markets of North Africa.
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Honor Audio: Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson, narrated by Dion Graham
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. |
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Honor Audio: We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson, narrated by Dion Graham
Tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. |
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