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January 17, 2005

American Library Association Announces Award Winners

You can read the official announcement here, but here are the biggies:

Newbery Medal
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Newbery Honor Books
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman

Caldecott Medal
Kitten's First Full Moon
by Kevin Henkes

Caldecott Honor Books
The Red Book by Barbara Lehman
Coming on Home Soon illustrated by E.B. Lewis and written by Jacqueline Woodson
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems

Printz Award
how i live now
by Meg Rosoff

Printz Honor Books
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Chanda's Secrets by Allan Stratton
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

Maybe it's just me, but I was kind of expecting some other titles to be on this list. I'm glad that they now do the Printz Award for young adult literature, but the list always seems to be hit or miss. Not that the winner and honor books aren't perfectly lovely, but there are other titles I would have thought of before them.

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