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A Collection of Award Winning and Honor Books for  Students and Teachers

Newberry Medal
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Carver, A Life In Poems
by Marilyn Nelson
Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine
Hattie Big Sky
by Kirby Larson
Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant
Penny From Heaven
by Jennifer L. Holm
Rules
by Cynthia Lord
Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
The Higher Power of Lucky
by Susan Patron
The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
The View From Saturday
by E.L. Konigsburg
 
Multicultural/International
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A Kwanzaa Fable
by Eric V. Copage
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Beatriz Vidal
For You Are a Kenyan Child
by Kelly Cunnane ; art by Ana Juan
Gabriel's Story
by David Anthony Durham
Goin' Someplace Special
by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by] Jerry Pinkney
Good Morning China
by Hu Yong Yi
Max celebrates Chinese New Year
by Adria F. Klein ; illustrated by Mernie Gallagher-Cole
Peace One Day
by byJeremy Gilley ; illustrated by Karen Blessen
Ryan and Jimmy : and the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together
by Herb Shoveller
We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey through Tanzania
by Laurie Krebs ; Illustrations by Julia Cairns
 
Picture Books
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A Fine, Fine School
by Sharon Creech
Diary of a Worm
by Doreen Cronin, Harry Bliss illustrator
Russell's Secret
by Johanna Hurwitz, Heather Harms Maione illustrator
The Little Engine That Could
by Watty Piper, Loren Long illustrator
The Little Sleepy Head
by Fran Manushkin, illustrated by Leonid Gore
When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry
by Molly Bang
 
Informational/Nonfiction
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Ah, Music!
by Aliki, written and illustrated by
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845 - 1850
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Honest Pretzels : and 64 Other Amazing Recipes For Cooks Ages 8 & Up
by Mollie Katzen, written and illustrated by
Life in a Castle
by Kay Eastwood
Lincoln: a Photobiography
by Russell Freedman
Lost Cities
by Jason Hook
Math appeal
by Greg Tang ; illustrated by Harry Briggs
Ms. Frizzle's Adventures : Medieval Castle
by Joanna Cole , illustrated by Bruce Degen
The Monster Health Book : A Guide To Eating Healthy, Being Active & Feeling Great For Monsters & Kids!
by Edward Miller
What You Never Knew About Tubs, Toilets & Showers
by Patricia Lauber ; illustrated by John Manders
 
Fables/Folk Tales/Fairy Tales
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Genies, Meanies, and Magic Rings : Three Tales From the Arabian nights
by retold by Stephen Mitchell ; illustrations by Tom Pohrt.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
by retold by Laura Ljungkvist
The Book Without Words
by Avi
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
by retold by B.G. Hennessy ; illustrated by Boris Kulikov
The Princess Knight
by Cornelia Funke ; illustrations by Kerstin Meyer ; translated by Anthea Bell
 
Poetry
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Night Before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore, illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa
Runny babbit : A Billy Sook
by Shel Silverstein
 
Biography
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Anne Frank
by Josephine Poole ; illustrations by Angela Barrett
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Colin Bootman
Walt Disney : A Photo-Illustrated Biography
by June Preszler ; consultant, Jerry Beck
 
Bilingual Books
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All about a month = Los meses :
by Joanne Randolph ; traducción al español: María Cristina Brusca.
All about a season = las estaciones
by Joanne Randolph ; traducción al español: María Cristina Brusca.
Eating Lunch At School/El Almuerzo en la Escuela
by Joanne Mattern
Elephants/Elefantes
by JoAnn Early Macken
What does a mail carrier do? = Lo que hacen los carteros
by Lisa Trumbauer
 
Short Stories
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams
Christmas Stories For the Very Young
by selected and edited by Sally Grindley ; illustrated by Helen Cooper
Invasion of the Road Weenies : and Other Warped and Creepy Tales
by David Lubar
Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
by translated and introduced by Naomi Lewis ; illustrated by Joel Stewart
Yo, Aesop! : Get A Load of These Fables
by Paul Rosenthal ; illustrated by Marc Rosenthal.
 
Fiction
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Flora's Blanket
by Debi Gliori
Harold and the Purple Crayon
by Crockett Johnson
Horace and Morris, but Mostly Delores
by James Howe, illustrated by Amy Walrod
Howling Hill
by Will Hobbs, illustrated by Jill Kastner
Katie and the Mona Lisa
by James Mayhew
Little Yau : A Fuzzhead Tale
by Janell Cannon
Nobody's Diggier Than a Dog
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ; Illustrated by Beppe Giacobbe
Slippers At School
by Andrew Clements ; illustrated by Janie Bynum
The Beautiful World that God Made
by Rhonda Gowler Greene, illustrated by Anne Wilson
Wicked Big Toddlah
by Kevin Hawkes, illustrated by Alfred A. Knopf
 
Series
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket, illustrations by Brett Helquist
Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm
by Herman Parish ; pictures by Lynn Sweat
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J.K. Rowling
Magic Tree House: Thanksgiving on Thursday
by Mary Pope Osborne ; illustrated by Sal Murdocca
Mr. Klutz Is Nuts!
by Dan Gutman, ; pictures by Jim Paillot
 
Caldecott Medal Award
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Golem
by David Wisniewski
Kitten's First Full Moon
by Kevin Henkes
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
by Carole Boston Weatherford; Illustrator: Kadir Nelson
My Friend Rabbit
by Eric Rohmann
Rapunzel
by Paul O. Zelinsky
Snowflake Bentley
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin ; illustrated by Mary Azarian
The Hello, Goodbye Window
by Norton Juster, Illus. by Chris Raschka
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
by Mordicai Gerstein
The Three Pigs
by David Weisner
 
Georgia Children's Book Award
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Hooway for Wodney Wat
by Helen Lester ; illustrated by Lynn Munsinger
My Lucky Day
by Keiko Kasza
No, David!
by David Shannon
Stanley's party
by Linda Bailey ; illustrated by Bill Slavin
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith.
 
Historical Fiction
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Across the Blue Pacific : A World War II Story
by Louise Borden ; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
Gold Fever
by Verla Kay ; illustrations by S.D. Schindler
Grandmama's Pride
by Becky Birtha ; illustrated by Colin Bootman
January 1905
by Katharine Boling
Roanoke, the Lost Colony: An Unsolved Mystery from History
by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple ; illustrated by Roger Roth
 
Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Charlie Bone and The Time Twister
by Jenny Nimmo
Chicken Chuck
by Bill Martin ; illustrated by Steven Salerno
The Divide
by Elizabeth Kay
The Navigator
by Eoin McNamee
Titchy Witch and The Stray Dragon
by Rose Impey ; illustrated by Katharine McEwen
 
Upper Elementary (4th - 6th Grade)
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12 Again
by Sue Corbett
A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968
by Diane Mcwhorter ; Illus. with photographs
Do You Remember the Color Blue? : and Other Questions Kids Ask About Blindness
by Sally Hobart Alexander
Double Fudge
by Judy Blume
Grass Angel
by Julie Schumacher
Head To Toe Science: 40 Eye-popping, Spine-tingling, Heart-pounding Activities That Teach Kids About the Human Body
by Jim Wiese
Marooned : the Strange But True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe
by Robert Kraske ; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
So You Want To Be President?
by Judith St. George ; illustrated by David Small
The Same Stuff As Stars
by Katherine Paterson
Three Good Deeds
by Vivian Vande Velde
 
Read A-Long/Audiobooks
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Holes
by Louis Sachar
Miss Nelson is Back
by Harry Allard
The Mysterious Tadpole
by Steven Kellogg
 


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