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2008 John Newbery Medal Winner

Title: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Illustrator: Robert Byrd

A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between 10 and 15 years old, who live in or near a 13th-century English manor.
from Follette Library Resources

 

2008 Newbery Medal Honor Books

Title: Elijah of Buxton
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis

Title: Feathers
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Putnam

Title: The Wednesday Wars
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher: Clarion Books

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2008 Randolph Caledecott Medal Winner

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
From an opening shot of the full moon setting over an awakening Paris in 1931, this tale casts a new light on the picture book form. Hugo is a young orphan secretly living in the walls of a train station where he labors to complete a mysterious invention left by his father. In a work of more than 500 pages, the suspenseful text and wordless double-page spreads narrate the tale in turns. Neither words nor pictures alone tell this story, which is filled with cinematic intrigue. Black & white pencil illustrations evoke the flickering images of the silent films to which the book pays homage.
from ALA.org
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2008 Coretta Scott King Award
Author Award Winner

Christopher Paul Curtis

Elijah of Buxton


Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, 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.
from Follette Library Resources

Author Honor Books

Sharon M. Draper

November Blues

Charles R. Smith Jr.

Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali

2008 Illustrator Award

Ashley Bryan

Let it Shine
written and illustrated by Ashley Bryan
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2008 Nutmeg Children's Book Award Winner 

(Approximately 100 students from the Stafford School District voted for their favorite 2008 Nutmeg Nominee.)


Congratulations to ...
The Lightning Thief
2008 Nutmeg
Winner of the teen and intermediate nutmeg awards!
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2009 Nutmeg Children's Book Award Nominees

Grades 4 to 6
Blood on the River: James Town 1607by Elisa Carbone
Close Encounters of a Third-World Kind by Jennifer J. Stewart
Eager by Helen Fox
Free Baseballby Sue Corbett
Golden and Grey: An Unremarkable Boy and a Rather Remarkable Ghost
by Louis Arnold
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
MVP* Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans
Shakespeare‘s Secret by Elise Broach
Three Good Deeds by Vivian Vande Velde

 
Grades 7-8
  Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos
The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer
Day of Tears by Julius Lester
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Heat by Mike Lupica
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver 

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