Newbery, Caldecott & Printz Winners & Honour Books 2012
Dead End In Norvelt
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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
$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 →