2011 Newbery Medal Winner

• Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool

Newbery Honor Books

• Turtle in Paradise, by Jennifer L Holm
• Heart of a Samurai,  by Margi Preus
• Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, by Joyce Sidman
• One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

Newbery Award Home Page link for information on previous winners.

2011 Caldecott Winner

• A Sick Day for Amos McGee, illustrated by Erin E Stead, written by Philip C Stead

Caldecott Honor Books

• Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill
• Interrupting Chicken, written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein, also illustrated by Chris Haughton

Caldecott Award Home Page link for information on previous winners.

Young Reader's Choice Nominees, 2012

Young Readers Choice Home Page link for information on previous winners
April 2012- Voting on YRCA nominees will take place at Monroe Library

Junior Division

• 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
• Happenstance Found by P W Catanese
• Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow by James Rollins
• Scat by Carl Hiaasen
• Three Cups of Tea by Sarah L Thomson
• Watching Jimmy by Nancy Hartry
• Where the Cherry Blossoms Fell by Jennifer Maruno
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

Intermediate Division

• The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner
• Peace, Loveand Baby Ducks by Lauren Myracle
• Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica George
• The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
• Skeleton Creek (#1) by Patrick Carman
• Thirteenth Child by Patricia Wrede