Publications

Reading Circle Program

National Award Books 2010

Caldecott Award
Sick Day for Amos McGee, illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead, Roaring Brook Press, 2010. Every day, Amos spends time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and reading bedtime stories to the owl, but when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo, his friends return the favor.

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
Bink and Golly, by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, illustrated by Tony Fucile. Candlewick Press, 2010. Two roller-skating best friends – one tiny, one tall – share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.

Coretta Scott King Book Awards
One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia. Amistad, 2010. In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, 11-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill. Little, Brown and Company, 2010. True story of a slave with extraordinary talent for pottery and poetry.

John Newbery Medal
Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool. Delacorte Press, 2010. Twelve-year- old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kan., where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.

Michael L. Printz Award
Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi. Little, Brown and Company, 2010. In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.