Fantasy and Science Fiction:
Elementary/Middle Grade: The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
Young Adult: Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Fiction Picture Books: The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington; illustrated by Shelley Jackson
Graphic Novels:
Elementary/Middle Grade: Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel written by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin, illustrated by Giovanni Rigano and Paolo Lamanna
Young Adult: The Professor's Daughter written by Joann Sfar; illustrated by Emmanuel Guibert
Middle Grade Novels: A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
Nonfiction MG/YA books: Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
Nonfiction Picture Books: Lightship by Brian Floca
Poetry: This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Young Adult Novels: Boy Toy by Barry Lyga
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