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JUNE 3, 2009
2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Announced

The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced on June 2, 2009.  The awards are given in three categories - Fiction and Poetry, Picture Book, Nonfiction.  This year's winners are:

Fiction and Poetry: Nation by Terry Pratchett

Honor Books: 

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Nonfiction: The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming

Honor Books:

The Way We Work by David Macaulay with Richard Walker

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone

Picture Book: Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Polly Dunbar

Honor Books:

Old Bear by Kevin Henkes

Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli

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Categories: Books,  Awards,  Children

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JUNE 1, 2009
Reel Reads: New Moon Trailer

The trailer for New Moon, due out November 20, 2009, debuted on the MTV Movie Awards last night.  In case you missed it, click here to check it out on Stephenie Meyer's website. 

 

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Categories: Books,  Movies,  Teens

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