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January 18, 2008

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 Printz and Edwards Awards.

2008 John Newbery Medal

Laura Amy Schlitz. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

2008 Randolph Caldecott Medal

Brian Selznick. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.

2008 Coretta Scott King Award
Illustrator

Ashley Bryan. Let it Shine
Illustrated versions of three well-known hymns.

Author

Christopher Paul Curtis. Elijah of Buxton
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.


2008 Michael L. Printz Award

Geraldine McCaughrean. The White Darkness
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award

Orson Scott Card. Ender's Game and others
Child hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.