Award Winning Books

Newbery Medal Winners
2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Harper/Collins Publishers) 2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick) 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson) 2006: Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins Publishers) 2005: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster) 2004: Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick) 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Hyperion) 2002: A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park(Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin) 2001: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (Dial) 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte) 1999: Holes by Louis Sachar (Frances Foster) 1998: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
Caldecott Medal Winners
2009: House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton Mifflin Company) 2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press) 2007: Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion) 2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window by Chris Raschka (Michael DiCapua Books/Hyperion) 2005: Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins Publishers) 2004: The man who walked between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Roaring Brook Press) 2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Roaring Brook Press) 2002: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (Clarion/Houghton Mifflin) 2001: So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small; text by Judith St. George (Philomel Books) 2000: Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (Viking) 1999: Snowflake Bentley, Illustrated by Mary Azarian; text by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (Houghton) 1998: Rapunzel by Paul O. Zelinsky (Dutton)
California Young Reader Medal
2003 Winners Primary: Hooway for Wodney Wat by Helen Lester Intermediate: The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman Picture books for Older Readers: Weslandia by Paul Fleischman 2004 Winners Primary: I will never, not ever eat a tomato by Lauren Child Intermediate: Because of Winn Dixie by Kate Di Camillo Picture books for Older Readers: The Babe and I by David Adler 2005 Winners Primary: A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech Intermediate: The School Story by Andrew Clements Picture Books for Older Readers: And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon by Janet Stevens 2006 Winners Primary:Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming Intermediate: Secret School by Andrew Clements Picture Books for Older Readers: Mr. Lincoln's Way by Patricia Polacco 2007 Winners Primary: My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza Intermediate: Christopher Mouse: The Tale of a Small Traveler by William Wise Picture Books for Older Readers: The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse 2008 Winners Primary: Dex: the Heart of a Hero by Caralyn Buehner Intermediate: Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles Picture Books for Older Readers: Mr. Maxwell's Mouse by Frank Asch 2009 Winners Primary: Stanley's Wild Ride by Linda Bailey (Kids Can Press) Intermediate: Sheep by Valerie Hobbs (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Picture Books for Older Readers: Mystery at the Club Sandwich by Doug Cushman (Clarion Books) 2010 Nominees Primary: A Frog Thing by Eric Drachman (Kidwick) Do Unto Otters: A Book ABout Manners by Laurie Keller (Holt) My Life as a Chicken by Ellen Kelley (Harcourt) Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison (Schwartz & Wade) Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier (Walker) Intermediate: No Talking by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster) A Friendship for Today by Patricia McKissack (Scholastic) A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban (Random House) Picture Books for Older Readers: Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine and Judith Pinderton Josephson (Lee & Low) Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch by Mona Kerby (Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Willy & Max: A Holocaust Story by Amy Littlesugar (Philomel/Penguin)