The latest winners of 10 state and national book awards for American literature for children and young adults are listed here as they are announced. Detailed information about each of these awards, including a complete listing of previous winners and honor books, can be found on each award’s web site.

Vermont has three student’s choice book awards for specific age groups.

Red Clover Award honors the author and illustrator of an exemplary picture book for children in grades K-4 each year.
	Owney the Mail-Pouch Pooch by Mona Kirby, illustrated by Lynne Barasch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
	Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend by Melanie Watt (Kids Can Press)
	Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion)
	The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel (Harcourt)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award honors the author (and illustrator) of an exemplary book for students in grades 4-8 each year.
	The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
	Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (Abrams)
	Rules by Cynthia Lord (Scholastic)
	Flush by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)

Green Mountain Book Award honors the author (and illustrator) of an exemplary book for students in grades 9-12 each year.
	Unwind by Neil Shusterman (Simon & Schuster)
	Crank by Ellen Hopkins (Simon Pulse)
	Looking For Alaska by John Green (Puffin)
	My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Atria)

There are many book awards at the national level; here some of the best known.

Newbery Medal honors the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published during the preceeding year.
	When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Random/Wendy Lamb)
	The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
	Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick)
	The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illustrated by Matt Phelan (Simon & Schuster/Richard Jackson)

Caldecott Medal honors the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published during the preceeding year.
	The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown)
	The House in the Night illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson (Houghton Mifflin)
	The Invention of Hugo Cabret written and illustrated by Brian Selznick (Scholastic)
	Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion)

Geisel Medal honors the author and illustrator of the most distinguished contribution to American beginning reader books for children.
	Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! by Geoffrey Hayes (RAW/Toon Books)
	Are You Ready to Play Outside? by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
	There Is a Bird on Your Head! written and illustrated by Mo Willems (Hyperion)
	Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways by Laura McGee Kvasnosky (Candlewick)

Sibert Medal honors the author and illustrator of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.
	Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick)
	We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun)
	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain written and illustrated by Peter Sís (Farrar/Frances Foster)
	Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton)

Michael L. Printz Award honors the author of a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.
	Going Bovine by Libba Bray Delacorte)
	Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (HarperTeen)
	The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (HarperTempest)
	American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yan

Coretta Scott King Award honors African American authors and illustrators for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions to children’s literature.
	Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Lerner/ Carolrhoda)
	My People illustrated by Charles R. Smith Jr., written by Langston Hughes (Atheneum/Ginee Seo)
	We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun)
	Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic) Let it Shine illustrated and written by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
	Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (Simon & Schuster/Atheneum) Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun)

National Book Award for Young People honors the author of an exceptional work of literature for young people.
	Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
	What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell (Scholastic)
	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown)