Wednesday, January 28, 2009

2009 Book Awards Announced


This year's Newbery Medal went to a children's book (The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman), but 2 Honors books are here in the YA Dept:
The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle (also the winner of the Pura Belpre Award) and After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson







Also check out the 4 Honors books for the Michael L. Printz Award:
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume II by M.T. Anderson
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Nation by Terry Pratchett (recently knighted by the Queen!)
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

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