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January 22, 2007

Newbery, Caldecott and other book awards announced

The American Library Association announced the winners of top literary awards for children and young adults. The Childrens Book Awards include the Caldecott, Newbery and Coretta Scott King. The Young Adult Book Awards includes the Edwards Award.

2007 John Newbery Medal

Susan Patron. The Higher Power of Lucky
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.

2007 Randolph Caldecott Medal

David Wiesner. Flotsam
The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

2007 Coretta Scott King Award
Illustrator

Kadir Nelson (illustrator) Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
Written by Carole Boston Weatherford
Tells the story of Harriet Tubman leading slaves to freedom in the North and the courage that it took.

Author

Sharon Draper. Copper Sun
Identifies the stressors that can affect teens and provides suggestions for dealing with them. 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.

Margaret A. Edwards Award

Lois Lowry. The Giver and others
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Posted by Kathleen at January 22, 2007 02:47 PM

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