Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth Winners
Click the book titles below to read more about each 2009 award-winning book.
Committed to providing a broad selection of outstanding books that mixes popular appeal with literary excellence, the Books for Youth editorial staff has chosen the titles below as best-of-the-year fiction, nonfiction, and picture books.
- A Dog for Life, by L.S. Matthews
- A Small White Scar, by K.A. Nuzum
- Baby Shoes, by Dashka Slater
- Beaufort, by Ron Leshem
- Bella at Midnight, by Diane Stanley
- Boo and Baa Have Company, by Lena Landstrom
- Bread and Roses, Too, by Katherine Paterson
- Cookies: Bite Size Life Lessons, by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet, by Elizabeth Knox
- Fairest, by Gail Carson Levine
- Friendly Fire, by A.B. Yehoshua
- From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books, by Arie Kaplan
- I’m a Pill Bug, by Yukihisa Tokuda
- I'm Dirty!, by Kate McMullen
- Little Mama Forgets, by Robin Cruise
- Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry, by Joyce Sidman
- Night Boat to Freedom, by Margot Theis Raven
- Pancakes for Supper!, by Anne Issacs
- Sea Horse: The Shyest Horse in the Sea, by Chris Butterworth
- Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, by Peter Manseau
- The Great Circle: A History of the First Nations, by Neil Philip
- The Homework Machine, by Dan Gutman
- The Shivers in the Fridge, by Fran Manushkin
- This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn, by Aidan Chambers
- Weedflower, by Cynthia Kadohata
- Winter Is the Warmest Season, by Lauren Stringer