2009 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens

Awards List

Audiobook

Nation
(Recommended)
Terry Pratchett

The Graveyard Book
(Recommended)
Neil Gaiman

Seven to Ten

Donavan's Double Trouble
(Recommended)
Monalisa DeGross

A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
(Recommended)
Marla Frazee

Silent Music
(Recommended)
James Rumford

Annie and Simon
(Recommended)
Catharine O'Neill

How I Learned Geography
(Recommended)
Uri Shulevitz

The Willoughbys
(Recommended)
Lois Lowry

Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears
(Recommended)
Emily Gravett

Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog
(Recommended)
Mini Grey

Abc3D
(Recommended)
Marion Bataille

Masterpiece
(Recommended)
Elise Broach

There's a Wolf at the Door
(Recommended)
Zoe Alley

Wabi Sabi
(Recommended)
Mark Reibstein

Abe's Honest Words
(Recommended)
Doreen Rappaport

Ten to Fourteen

After Tupac and D Foster
(Recommended)
Jacqueline Woodson

The Boy Who Dared
(Recommended)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Shooting the Moon
(Recommended)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Waiting for Normal
(Recommended)
Leslie Connor

Sunrise Over Fallujah
(Recommended)
Walter Dean Myers

Our White House
(Recommended)
David McCullough

The Porcupine Year
(Recommended)
Louise Erdrich

Chains
(Recommended)
Laurie Halse Anderson

The Graveyard Book
(Recommended)
Neil Gaiman

Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Almost True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka
(Recommended)
Jon Scieszka

Up to Seven

Baby! Baby!
(Recommended)
Vicky Ceelen

Goose and Duck
(Recommended)
Jean Craighead George

Little Hoot
(Recommended)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Maybe A Bear Ate It!
(Recommended)
Robie H. Harris

Are You Ready to Play Outside?
(Recommended)
Mo Willems
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Arabella Miller's Tiny Caterpillar
(Recommended)
Clare Jarrett

Lila and the Secret of Rain
(Recommended)
David Conway

Monkey and Me
(Recommended)
Emily Gravett

On the Farm
(Recommended)
David Elliott

In a Blue Room
(Recommended)
Jim Averbeck

Wave
(Recommended)
Suzy Lee

1, 2, Buckle My Shoe
(Recommended)
Anna Grossnickle Hines

Bear's Picture
(Recommended)
Daniel Pinkwater

The House in the Night
(Recommended)
Susan Marie Swanson

Choo Choo
(Recommended)
Petr Horacek

Old Bear
(Recommended)
Kevin Henkes

The Hinky-Pink
(Recommended)
Megan McDonald

Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet Time
(Recommended)
James Howe

How to Heal a Broken Wing
(Recommended)
Bob Graham

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
(Recommended)
Mem Fox

A Visitor for Bear
(Recommended)
Bonny Becker

Award Categories

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Audiobook

Children/Young Adult

Fourteen and Up

Seven to Ten

Ten to Fourteen

Up to Seven

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