All students who read at least 4 choices from the category may vote in
February. They are sent online to the state and the winner is chosen by the
students in Missouri. The winners are announced at the Missouri State
Librarians Association Conference in April.
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Missouri Show Me Readers Award 2009-2010
Grades K-3
_____ Badger’s Fancy Meal
_____ Boy Who Was Raised By Librarians
_____ Callie Cat, Ice Skater
_____ Hair For Mama
_____ Jack’s Talent
_____ Old House
_____ One Thousand Tracings: Healing The Wounds Of World War II
_____ Orange Shoes
_____ Snow Day!
_____ Some Dog!
_____ Vinnie And Abraham
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MARK TWAIN NOMINEES 2009-2010
Grades 4-6
____Big One-Oh
____Blown Away!
____Bravo Zulu, Samantha!
____Deep and Dark and Dangerous
____Friendship for Today
____Gabriel’s Horses
____Garden of Eve
____Invention of Hugo Cabaret
____Night of the Howling Dogs
____Paint the Wind
____Story of Jonas
____Way Down Deep
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TRUMAN AWARD NOMINEES 2009-2010
Grades 6-8
____Carpe Diem
____Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam
____Diamonds in the Shadow
____Eighth Grade Bites
____First Light
____Games
____Hound of Rowan
____House of Power
____Into the Wind
____One Where the Kid Nearly Jumps to His Death and Lands in California
____Shark Girl
____Zen and the Art of Faking It
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2009 Mark Twain Winners
Sea of Monsters
Million Dollar Putt
Rules
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2009 Truman Winners
Life As We Knew It
Runaway
Rash
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These next ones are ALA American Library Association Awards that are given
each year.
2009 Caldecott Winners
Most Distinguished Children’s Book Illustration
Caldecott Medal: The House in the Night, illustrated by Beth Krommes; written
by Susan Swanson
Caldecott Honors:
* A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, written & illustrated by Marla
Frazee
* How I Learned Geography, written & illustrated by Uri Shulevitz
* A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, illustrated by
Melissa Sweet; written by Jen Bryant
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2009
Newbery Winners
Most Distinguished Children’s Book
Newbery Medal: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Newbery Honors:
* The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
* The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle