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Horn Book Award

The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were first presented by The Boston Globe and Horn Book Magazine in 1967, honoring children's and young adult literature. Awards are given in the categories Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction.

2009

Fiction and Poetry Winner - Nation

by Terry Pratchett
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The sea has taken everything. Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much...

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Nonfiction Winner - The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary

by Candace Fleming
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The award-winning author of Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor has created an enthralling joint biography of our greatest president and his complex wife—a...

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Picture Book Winner - Bubble Trouble

by Margaret Mahy
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Another hilarious rhyming romp from the team who brought us the popular DOWN THE BACK OF THE CHAIR. When little Mabel’s bubble gets away from her,...

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  • Higher! Higher! by Leslie Patricelli
  • Old Bear by Kevin Henkes
  • 2008

    Fiction & Poetry Winner - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

    by Sherman Alexie
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    Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own...

    Fiction and Poetry

    - no winner

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  • Savvy by Ingrid Law
  • Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell
  • Nonfiction Winner - The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

    by Peter Sis
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    A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER “I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated...

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    Picture Book Winner - At Night

    by Jonathan Bean
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    On some nights, a snug bedroom is a hard place to fall asleep. On some nights, it’s better to get away from slumbering, snoring family...

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    Special Citation Winner - The Arrival

    by Shaun Tan
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    “A shockingly imaginative graphic novel that captures the sense of adventure and wonder that surrounds a new arrival on the shores of a shining new...

    2007

    Fiction and Poetry Winner - The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation)

    by M.T. Anderson
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    Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. After he opens a forbidden door he learns the...

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  • Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
  • Rex Zero and the End of the World by Tim Wynne-Jones
  • Nonfiction Winner - The Strongest Man in the World

    by Nicolas Debon
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    Strongman and circus owner Louis Cyr captured the world’s imagination with his remarkable feats of strength and mammoth proportions. Set in Quebec at the turn...

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    Picture Book Winner - Dog and Bear (Neal Porter Books) (Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner-Best Picture Book) (Awards))

    by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
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    Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s highly praised concept books have introduced children to colors, opposites, emotions, and the alphabet. Now she guides children on the first steps...

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  • 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental
  • Wolves by Emily Gravett
  • 2006

    Fiction and Poetry Winner - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

    by Kate Dicamillo
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    “Someone will come for you, but first you must open your heart. . . .” Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china...

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    Nonfiction

    - no winner

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    Picture Book Winner - Leaf Man (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Younger Readers (Awards))

    by Lois Ehlert
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    Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese?...

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