2013 Moonbeam Children's Book Award

Awards List

Body/Mind/Spirit

Shovelful of Sunshine
(Gold Medal Winner)
Stacie Vaughn Hutton

Book W/Music

Fireflies and Shooting Stars: The Tale of Enzo
(Gold Medal Winner)
Ed Raarup

Children's Poetry

Mooseclumps
(Gold Medal Winner)
Ryan T. Bliss

Juvenile Fic-Er/1st Chap

Third Grade Mix-Up
(Gold Medal Winner)
Michele Jakubowski

Nonfiction-Picture Book

What's in the Garden?
(Gold Medal Winner)
Marianne Berkes / Marianne Collins Berkes

Picture Book

Nic and Nellie
(Gold Medal Winner)
Astrid Sheckels

Picture Book-4-8 Yrs.

The Bramble
(Gold Medal Winner)
Lee Nordling

Picture Book-Preschool

Never Ever
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jo Empson

Pre-Teen Fic-Fantasy

A Wish in the Woods
(Gold Medal Winner)
Beth Bracken; Kay Fraser

Shade & Sorceress: The Last Days of Tian Di, Book 1
(Gold Medal Winner)
Catherine Egan

Pre-Teen Fic-Hist/Cltrl

Taking the Reins
(Gold Medal Winner)
Dayle Campbell Gaetz

Pre-Teen Fic-Mature Issu

September's Big Assignment
(Gold Medal Winner)
Bena R. Hartman

Pre-Teen Fic-Mystery

Hocus Pocus Hotel
(Gold Medal Winner)
Michael Dahl

Pre-Teen Fiction

Angel and Brie
(Gold Medal Winner)
Barbara Lopuszynski

Series-Fiction/Picture

Maurice's Valises: Casablanca: Moral Tails in an Immoral World
(Gold Medal Winner)
J.S. Friedman

Y/A Fic-Fantasy/Sci-Fi

The Twelve-Fingered Boy
(Gold Medal Winner)
John Hornor Jacobs

Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural

Violins of Autumn
(Gold Medal Winner)
Amy McAuley

Y/A Fic-Horror/Myst

Second Verse
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jennifer Walkup

Y/A Fiction-Mature Issue

Being Emily
(Gold Medal Winner)
Rachel Gold

Y/A Fiction/General

After Isaac
(Gold Medal Winner)
Avra Wing

Alphabet/Counting Book

Count the Sheep to Sleep
(Silver Medal Winner)
Philippa Rae

First Book-Chapter

Spaghetti Is Not a Finger Food (and Other Life Lessons)
(Silver Medal Winner)
Jodi Carmichael

Illustrator

World on a String
(Silver Medal Winner)
Larry Phifer

Pop-Up/Cut-Out

Take a Peek with Peek-A-Bear
(Silver Medal Winner)
Jill Mangel Weisfeld

Pre-Teen Fic-Fantasy

Jack Templar and the Monster Hunter Academy
(Silver Medal Winner)
Jeff Gunhus

Pre-Teen Fic-Hist/Cltrl

The Boy Who Slept with Bears
(Silver Medal Winner)
John Dwaine McKenna

Pre-Teen Fic-Mystery

Lost in Petra
(Silver Medal Winner)
Melissa Mahle; Kathryn Dennis

Pre-Teen Fiction

The Knighting of Sir Kaye
(Silver Medal Winner)
Don M. Winn

Religion/Spirituality

The Princess... the Pearls... & the Pekingese
(Silver Medal Winner)
Elizabeth Jamie Katz

Series-Fiction/Chapter

Dragon Lords Rising
(Silver Medal Winner)
Lucinda Hare

Wrath of the Caid Book II, Red Hand Adventures
(Silver Medal Winner)
Joe O'Neill

Series-Fiction/Picture

Sammy the Slug
(Silver Medal Winner)
Fiona Murray

Y/A Fic-Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Dragon Lords Rising
(Silver Medal Winner)
Lucinda Hare

Atlantis Rising
(Silver Medal Winner)
T.A. Barron

Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural

Her Mother's Secret
(Silver Medal Winner)
Barbara Garland Polikoff

Y/A Fic-Horror/Myst

Lake Thirteen
(Silver Medal Winner)
Greg Herren

Y/A Fiction-Mature Issue

Crumble
(Silver Medal Winner)
Fleur Philips

Alphabet/Counting Book

All Hallow's ABC
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jenni Kaye

First Book-Chapter

Why Kimba Saved the World
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Meg Welch Dendler

Illustrator

Rabbityness
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jo Empson

Juvenile Fic-Er/1st Chap

The Case of the Superstar Scam
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Lewis B. Montgomery

Nonfiction-Animals/Pets

Ferdinand Fox's First Summer
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Mary Holland

Picture Book

Unplugged: Ella Gets Her Family Back
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Laura Pedersen

Picture Book-4-8 Yrs.

Al and Teddy
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Neil Waldman

Pre-Teen Fic-Fantasy

The Last Akaway
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Gary Karton

Pre-Teen Fic-Hist/Cltrl

The Voice of Thunder
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Mirka M.G. Breen

Pre-Teen Fic-Mystery

Inspector Rumblepants and the Case of the Golden Haggis
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Mike Blyth

Pre-Teen Fiction

Game Face
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Andrew Kantar

Reading Skills/Literacy

Night Buddies, Impostors, and One Far-Out Flying Machine
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Sands Hetherington

Series-Nonfiction

I Can Show the Way
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Kari Holloway

Y/A Fic-Hist/Cultural

Whisper Falls
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Elizabeth Langston

Y/A Fic-Horror/Myst

Breaking Glass
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Lisa Amowitz

Y/A Fic-Rel/Spiritual

The Field
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Tracy Richardson

Y/A Fiction-Mature Issue

Omgqueer
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Multiple Authors

Maybe I Will
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Laurie Gray

Y/A Fiction/General

Screaming Quietly
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Evan Jacobs

Award Categories

Activity-Games/Crafts

Alphabet/Counting Book

Audiobook

Board Book

Body/Mind/Spirit

Book W/Merchandise

Book W/Music

Children's Book W/Audio

Children's Poetry

Comic/Graphic Novel

Environment

First Book

First Book-Chapter

First Book-Picture

Graphic Novel

Health

Holiday

Illustrator

Juvenile Fic-Er/1st Chap

Multicultural Fiction

Multicultural Nonfiction

Multicultural-Picture Bk

Nonfiction Picture Book

Nonfiction-Animals/Pets

Nonfiction-Picture Book

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