Monday, January 18, 2010

2010 National Book Awards

The major book awards were announced today in Boston. The much anticipated 2010 Newbery award goes to “When You Reach Me,” written by Rebecca Stead.

Four Newbery Honor Books also were named: “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice” by Phillip Hoose and published by Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group; “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate” by Jacqueline Kelly and published by Henry Holt and Company; “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” by Grace Lin and published by Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers; and “The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg” by Rodman Philbrick and published by The Blue Sky Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc.

For a complete list of award winners and honor books, go to http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2010/january2010/ymawrap2010.cfm