Award Winning Kids Books
Here is just a sampling of the award winning books for kids that are available at the Oxford Public Library.
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| »Newbery Honor Books | »Caldecott Honor Books |
Newbery Medal
The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
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2012: Dead End in Norvelt |
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2011: Moon Over Manifest |
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2010: When You Reach Me |
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2009: The Graveyard Book |
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2007: The Higher Power of Lucky |
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2005: Kira-Kira |
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2004: The tale of Despereaux: being the story of a mouse, |
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| 2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi |
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| 2002: A single shard by Linda Sue Park |
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| 2001: A year down yonder by Richard Peck |
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| 2000: Bud, Not Buddy by Chrisopher Curtis |
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| 1999: Holes by Louis Sachar |
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2012: Breaking Stalin's Nose |
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2012: Inside Out & Back Again |
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2011: Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night |
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2011: Heart of a Samurai |
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2011: One Crazy Summer |
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2011: Turtle in Paradise |
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2010: Claudette Colvin: Twice towards justice |
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2010: The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate |
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2010: The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg |
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2010: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon |
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2009: The Underneath |
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2009: The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom |
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2009: Savvy |
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2009: After Tupac and D Foster |
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2008: Elijah of Buxton |
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2008: The Wednesday Wars |
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2008: Feathers |
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2005: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy |
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2005: Al Capone Does My Shirts |
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| 2005: The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman |
Caldecott Medal
Awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American Picture Book for Children published in the United States during the preceding year.
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2012: A Ball for Daisy |
| 2011: A Sick Day for Amos McGee illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead |
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| 2010: The Lion & the Mouse illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney |
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| 2009: The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson, Illustrated by Beth Krommes |
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| 2008: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick |
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| 2007: Flotsam by David Wiesner |
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2006: The Hello, Goodbye Window |
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| 2005: Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes |
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| 2004: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein |
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| 2003: My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann |
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| 2002: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner |
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| 2001: So you want to be president? by David Small |
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| 2000: Joseph had a little overcoat by Simms Taback |
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| 1999: Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Martin |
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2012: Blackout |
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2012: Grandpa Green |
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2012: Me...Jane |
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2011: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet Slave |
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2011: Interrupting Chicken |
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2010: All the World |
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2010: Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors |
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2009:A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever |
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2009:How I Learned Geography |
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2009:A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams |
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2008:Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the |
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2008:First the Egg |
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2008:The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain |
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2008: Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity |
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2005: The Red Book |
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2005: Coming on Home Soon |
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| 2005: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems |
Award Winning Books