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Newbery, Caldecott & Printz Winners & Honour Books 2012

Dead End In Norvelt
Jack Gantos

$23.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro

Winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal.

Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are sho... Buy or find out more 


A Ball For Daisy
Chris Raschka

$24.95 – Hardcover book / Golden Books

Winner of the 2012 Randolph Caldecott Medal

Here's a story about love and loss as only Chris Rashcka can tell it. Any child who has ever had a beloved toy break will relate to Daisy's anguish when her favorite ball is de... Buy or find out more 



Where Things Come Back
John Corey Whaley

$24.95 – Hardcover book / Atheneum

Winner of the 2012 Michael L. Printz Award

Just when seventeen-year-old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town, it all disappears. . . .

In the summer before Culle... Buy or find out more 


Inside Out & Back Again
Thanhha Lai

$23.95 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins

Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature

For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by—... Buy or find out more 



Why We Broke Up
Daniel Handler (illustrated by Maira Kalman)

$24.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant

2012 Michael L. Printz Honour Book.

Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up. Min has written a letter explaining why. She's delivering it with a box that's full of the debris of their relationship: two bottle caps, a ... Buy or find out more 


Bloodflower
Christine Hinwood

$19.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

An intense story of love, loss and turmoil in the aftermath of war. A first novel by a uniquely talented author. Vivid, compassionate and totally absorbing, Bloodflower follows the fortunes of young Cam Attling and all t... Buy or find out more 



The Returning
Christine Hinwood

$24.95 – Hardcover book / Dial Books

An engrossing epic tale with a cast of characters that will hijack your heart.

Cam Attling, having lost an arm, is the only one from his town of Kayforl to return after twelve years of war. All his fellow soldiers were s... Buy or find out more 


The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater

$24.99 – Hardcover book /

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shiver and Linger comes a brand new, heartstopping novel.

With her trademark lyricism, Maggie Stiefvater turns to a new world, where a pair are swept up in a daring, dange... Buy or find out more 



Jasper Jones
Craig Silvey

$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin

Winner of the 2009 Indie Book of the Year award.

Full of unforgettable characters, a page-turning pace and outrageously good dialogue, this is a glorious novel - thoughtful, funny, heartbreaking and wise - about outsider... Buy or find out more 


Grandpa Green
Lane Smith

$19.99 – Hardcover book / St Martin's Press

From the creator of the national bestseller It's a Book comes a timeless story of family history, legacy, and love.

Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farmboy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, mo... Buy or find out more 



Me...Jane
Patrick McDonnell

$28.99 – Hardcover book / Hachette

In his characteristic heartwarming and minimalistic style, Patrick McDonnell tells the story of a young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. As the young Jane observes the natural world ar... Buy or find out more 


Breaking Stalin's Nose
Eugene Yelchin

$22.95 – Hardcover book / Henry Holt & Company

One of "Horn Book"'s Best Fiction Books of 2011 Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: "The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.""A ... Buy or find out more 



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