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JULY 9, 2010

Indies Choice Book Awards

The American Booksellers Association (ABA) announced the Indies Choice Book Awards at Bookexpo America this past May. The winners:

Adult Fiction: Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese (Knopf)
Adult Nonfiction: The Lost City of Z, by David Grann (Doubleday)
Adult Debut: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
Young Adult: Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Middle Reader: When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books)

New Picture Book: The Lion and the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown)

Most Engaging Author: Kate DiCamillo

Picture Book Hall of Fame Inductees:

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz (Atheneum)
Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson (Viking)

Perhaps you'll read one of these over the summer. 2009 winners and inductees can be viewed on the ABA webpage. Prior to 2009, the American Booksellers Association awarded the Book Sense Book of the Year.

Go to Book Sense Book of the Year.

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