Award Winning Books for Youth - Chicago Public Library

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Every year the American Library Association and the National Book Foundation honor excellence in children's literature; the following are Medal winners and Honor titles for books published in 2011.

Coretta Scott King Book Awards

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Coretta Scott King Author Award)
By Kadir Nelson
Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins

The Great Migration: Journey to the North (Coretta Scott King Author Honor)
By Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
Amistad/HarperCollins

Never Forgotten (Coretta Scott King Author Honor)
By Patricia C. McKissack, illustrted by Leo and Diane Dillon
Schwartz and Wade

Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award)
By Shane W. Evans
Roaring Brook

Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)
By Kadir Nelson
Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins

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John Newbery Medal

Dead End in Norvelt (Newbery Medal)
By Jack Gantos
FSG
Audiobook

Breaking Stalin's Nose (Newbery Honor)
By Eugene Yelchin
Henry Holt

Inside Out & Back Again (Newbery Honor)
By Thanhha Lai
Harper
eBook

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Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Soldier Bear book cover Soldier Bear (Batchelder Award)
By Bibi Dumon Tak, illustrated by Philip Hopman, translated by Laura Watkinson
Eerdmans

The Lily Pond book cover The Lily Pond (Batchelder Honor)
By Annika Thor, translated by Linda Schenck
Delacorte

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National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Inside Out & Back Again (National Book Award Winner)
By Thanhha Lai
Harper
eBook

Chime (National Book Award Finalist)
By Franny Billingsley
Dial
eAudiobook | eBook

My Name Is Not Easy (National Book Award Finalist)
By Debby Dahl Edwardson
Marshall Cavendish

Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (National Book Award Finalist)
By Albert Marrin
Knopf

Okay for Now (National Book Award Finalist)
By Gary D. Schmidt
Clarion
Audiobook | eAudiobook

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Pura Belpré Award

Under the Mesquite (Belpré Author Award)
By Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Lee & Low

Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck (Belpré Author Honor)
By Margarita Engle
Henry Holt

Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre Thriller (Belpré Author Honor)
By Xavier Garza
Cinco Puntos

Diego Rivera: His World and Ours (Belpré Illustrator Award)
By Duncan Tonatiuh
Abrams

The Cazuela that the Farm Maiden Stirred (Belpré Illustrator Honor)
By Samantha R. Vamos, illustrated by Rafael López
Charlesbridge

Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match / Marisol McDonald no combina (Belpré Illustrator Honor)
By Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios
Lee and Low

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Randolph Caldecott Medal

A Ball for Daisy (Caldecott Medal)
By Chris Raschka
Schwartz & Wade

Blackout (Caldecott Honor)
By John Rocco
Disney/Hyperion

Grandpa Green (Caldecott Honor)
By Lane Smith
Roaring Brook

Me...Jane (Caldecott Honor)
By Patrick McDonnell
Little, Brown

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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade (Sibert Medal)
By Melissa Sweet
Houghton Mifflin

Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor (Sibert Honor)
By Larry Dane Brimner
Calkins Creek

Drawing from Memory (Sibert Honor)
By Allen Say
Scholastic

The Elephant Scientist (Sibert Honor)
By Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson, photographs by Caitlin O’Connell and Timothy Rodwell
Houghton Mifflin