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2007 Award Books for Children and Teens
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Newbery Award for Best Literature and Honor
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Winner:
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
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Honor Book: Penny from Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death.
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Honor Book: Hattie Big Sky
by Kirby Larson
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
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Honor Book: Rules by Cynthia Lord
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
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Caldecott Award for Best Illustration and Honor
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Winner:
Flotsam
by David Wiesner
The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam. |
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Honor Book: Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet by David McLimans
Feast your eyes on these amazing creatures before they disappear. This stampede of wild animals, from Chinese Alligator to Grevy’s Zebra, are so rare, they're all endangered.
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Honor Book: Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford
Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. |
Colorado Children's Book Award: Books selected by Colorado Kids
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Picture Book Winner:
The Great Fuzz Frenzy
by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel, illustrated by Janet Stevens
When a tennis ball lands in a prairie dog town, the residents find that their newfound frenzy for fuzz creates a fiasco. |
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Junior Novel Winner:
Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service. |
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Runner-Up for Illustration:
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!
by Karen Beaumont, illustrated by David Catrow
In the rhythm of a familiar folk song, a child cannot resist adding one more dab of paint in surprising places. |
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Runner-Up for Novel:
Flush
by Carl Hiaasen
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of the floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home. |
Coretta Scott King Award Honoring African American
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Winner for Literature:
Copper Sun
by Sharon Draper
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves. |
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Honor Book: The Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes
Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother, eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing decision.
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Winner for Illustration: Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford
Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. |
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Illustrator Honor: Jazz illustrated by Christopher Myers, written by Walter Dean Myers
A collection of illustrated poems that celebrate the roots and various styles of jazz music, such as ragtime, bebop, and swing.
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Illustrator Honor: Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes illustrated by Benny Andrews, edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad
A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.
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Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award: Standing Against the Wind written by Traci L. Jones
As she tries to escape her poor Chicago neighborhood by winning a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, shy and studious eighth-grader Patrice discovers that she has more options in life than she previously realized. |
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children’s
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Winner for Best Children's Video: Knuffle Bunny
Trixie, Daddy and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood laundromat, but their exciting adventure takes an unexpected turn when Trixie realizes something is missing.
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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book
Award and Honor
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Winner: Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
This dramatic account will mesmerize even readers already familiar with the event, and also leave them awed by the level of care and dedication it took to surmount so many daunting technological challenges. |
Mildred
L. Batchelder Award for the Most Outstanding Children’s
Book Originally Published in a Foreign Language and
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Winner: The Pull of the Ocean by Jean-Claude Mourlevat, translated from the French by Y. Maudet
Loosely based on Charles Perrault's "Tom Thumb," seven brothers in modern-day France flee their poor parents' farm, led by the youngest who, although mute and unusually small, is exceptionally wise. |
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Honor Book: The Killer's Tears
by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated from the French by Y. Maudet
A young boy, Paolo, and the man who murdered his parents, Angel, gradually become like father and son as they live and work together on the remote Chilean farm where Paolo was born.
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Honor Book: The Last Dragon
by Silvana De Mari, translated from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside
In a post-apocalyptic world, Yorsh struggles to survive as the earth's last elf, until he discovers that he is part of a powerful prophesy. |
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the Most Outstanding Beginning Reader Books, and Honor Books:
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Winner: Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways
by Laura McGee Kvasnosky
In three short stories, two fox sisters run away from home, bury a time capsule, and take advantage of some creative juice. |
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Honor Book: Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride
by Kate DiCamillo and illustrated by Chris Van Dusen
Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel. |
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Honor Book: Move Over, Rover!
by Karen Beaumont and illustrated by Jane Dyer
When a storm comes, Rover expects to have his doghouse all to himself but finds that various other animals, including a skunk, come to join him. |
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Honor Book: Not a Box
by Antoinette Portis
To an imaginative bunny, a box is not always just a box. |
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for a Substantial and Lasting Contribution to Literature for Children
Awards for Young Adult Literature:
Michael L.
Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature and
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Winner: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format. |
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Honor Book: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
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Honor Book: Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
As he is dying, a twenty-year-old man known as Gabriel recounts his troubled childhood and his strange relationship with a dangerous counterpart named Finnigan. |
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Honor Book: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors. |
Margaret A. Edwards Award for Young Adult Literature
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