2012 Minnesota Book Award

Awards List

Children's Literature

The Last Day of Kindergarten
(Finalist)
Nancy Loewen

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature
(Finalist)
Joyce Sidman

Fiction

Big Wheat: A Tale of Bindlestiffs and Blood
(Winner)
Richard A. Thompson

Novel

The Law of Miracles
(Winner)
Gregory Blake Smith

The Long-Shining Waters
(Finalist)
Danielle Sosin

Merit Badges
(Finalist)
Kevin Fenton

In Caddis Wood
(Finalist)
Mary Francois Rockcastle

Readers' Choice

The Tanglewood Terror
(Winner)
Kurtis Scaletta

Young Adult Literature

With or Without You
(Winner)
Brian Farrey

The Big Crunch
(Finalist)
Pete Hautman

Spellbound
(Finalist)
Jacqueline West

The Tanglewood Terror
(Finalist)
Kurtis Scaletta

Award Categories

Anthology

Children's Fiction

Children's Literature

Children's Picture

Educational

Fiction

Genre

Memoir

Multicultural

New Author

Novel

Readers' Choice

Young Adult

Young Adult Fiction

Young Adult Literature

Youth Literature

Award Years

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

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2005

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2003

2002