Higher Power of Lucky
by Susan Patron

Believing that her French guardian is about to abandon her to an orphanage in the city, ten-year-old Lucky runs away from her small town with her beloved dog, HMS Beagle, by her side in order to trek across the Mojave Desert to start her challenging life over one more time.

For more information and a list of other Newbery Award books and Honor books click here.

2007 Newbery Honor Books
     Penny from Heaven
     by Jennifer L. Holm
     Hattie Big Sky
     by Kirby Larson
     Rules
     by Cynthia Lord

Flotsam
by David Wiesner
E PICTURE BOOK WIE

The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

For more information and a list of other Caldecott Award books and Honor books click here.

2007 Caldecott Honor Books
     Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet
      illustrated by David McLimans
     Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People
     to Freedom illustrated by Kadir Nelson

Copper Sun
by Sharon Draper
TEEN FICTION DRA
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an
indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

2007 Coretta Scott King Author Honor books
     Road to Paris by Nikki Grimes

Illustrator Award

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom
illustrated by Kadir Nelson
written by Carole Boston Weatherford
E FICTION WEA
Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.

For more information and a list of other Coretta Scott King Award books click here.

2007 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books
     Jazz by Walter Dean Myers
     Langston Hughes by Benny Andrews

American Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang
TEEN GRAPHIC YAN

Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format.

2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Books
      Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
     by M.T. Anderson
      An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
      Surrender by Sonya Hartnett
      The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

For a list of other Michael Printz Award winners click here.

After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.

2007 Rebecca Caudill Award: 1st Runner-Up
    Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

2007 Rebecca Caudill Award: 2nd Runner-Up
     Hachiko Waits by Leslea Newman

For more information and a list of other Rebecca Caudill Award winners, go to www.rebeccacaudill.org/.

Culled from direct quotes from the people behind the scenes, NASA transcripts, national archives and NASA photos, the whole story of Apollo 11 and the first moon landing emerges.

2007 Robert F. Siebert Honor Books
     Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on      the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
     by Ann Bausum
     Quest for the Tree Kangaroo by Sy Montgomery
     To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel
     by Siena Cherson Siegel

Loosely based on Charles Perrault's "Tom Thumb," seven brothers in modern-day France flee their poor parents' farm, led by the youngest who, although mute and unusually small, is exceptionally wise.

2007 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Books
      Killer's Tears
      by Rene Goscinny
      The Last Dragon
      by Silvana De Mari

2007 LAURA INGALLS WILDER MEDAL
HONORS AN AUTHOR OR ILLUSTRATOR, PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES, WHOSE BOOKS HAVE MADE A SUBSTANTIAL AND LASTING CONTRIBUTION TO LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN

Awarded to author James Marshall
List of James Marshall's books

Tired of being overlooked because he is so small, Dexter, a big-hearted dog with big dreams transforms himself into a superhero.

2007 Monarch Book Award 2nd place:
     I Ain't Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont

2007 Monarch Book Award 3rd Place:
     Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox