The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards “reward excellence in children’s and young adult literature.”  They are given in three categories and have one award winner and two honor books in each category:

Fiction and Poetry

Winner

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Honor Books

The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan, illustrated by Peter Sis

A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner

 

Nonfiction

 

Winner

Marching for Freedom by Elizabeth Partridge

Honor Books

Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures by Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol

Smile by Raina Telgemeier

 

Picture Book

Winner

I Know Here by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James

Honor Books

It’s a Secret by John Burningham

The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

 

An amazing list of books.  I’ve read most of them and loved all that I have read.  Great stuff!