Book Awards

This actually makes a great TBR list of kid's books!
(And this is Muddy Puddle's 1500th Blog!)

2015 Newbery Medal
Winner:  Last Stop on Market Street - Matt de la Pena
Honor:  Roller Girl - Victoria Jamieson
Honor - Echo - Pam Munoz Ryan

2015 Caldecott Award
Winner:  Finding Winnie:  The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear - by Lisa Mattick and illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Honor:  Trombone Shorty - Andrews/Collier
Honor:  Waiting - Kevin Henkes
Honor:  Voice of Freedom:  Fannie Louflame - Weatherford/
Honor - Laswt Stop on Market Street - de la Pena/Christian Robinson

2015 Printz Award
Winner:  Bone Gap - Laura Ruby
Honor: Out of Darkness - Perez
Honor:  The Ghosts of Heaven; Sedgwick

2014 Newbery Award
Winner: The Crossover - Kwame Alexander
Honor:  El Deafo - Cece Bell
Honor: Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson

2014 Caldecott Award
Winner: The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend (written & illustrated by Dan Santat)
Honor:  Nana in the City (written & illustrated by Lauren Castillo)
Honor:  The Noisy Paintbox: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art (illustrated by Mary Grandpre, written by Barb Rosenstock)
Honor: Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett)
Honor:  Viva Frida (written & illustrated by Yuyi Morales)
Honor:  The Right Word: Roget & His Thesaurus (illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant)
Honor:  This One Summer (illustrated by Jillian Tamaki, written by Mariko Tamaki)

2014 Printz Award
Winner:  I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Honor:  And We Stay - Jenny Hubbard
Honor:  The Carnival at Bray - Jessie Ann Foley
Honor:  Grasshopper Jungle - Andrew Smith
Honor:  This One Summer - Mariko Tamaki

2014 Cybil Finalists for Middle Grade Fiction
Abby Spencer Goes Bollywood - Varsha Bajaj
All Four Stars - Tara Dairman
Death by Toilet Paper - Donna Gephart
Ice Dogs - Terry Lynn Johnson
Nickel Bay Nick - Dean Pitchford
The Crossover - Kwame Alexander
The Meaning of Maggie - Megan Jean Sovern
Speculative Fiction for Elementary & Middle Grades
Boys of Blur - N. D. Wilson
Greenglass House - Kate Milford
Nuts to You - Lynne Rae Perkins
The Castle Behind Thorns - Merrie Haskell
The Jupiter Pirates - Hunt for the Hydra
The Luck Uglies - Paul Durham
The Swallow: A Ghost Story - Charis Cotter

2014 Cybil Finalists for YA Fiction
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces - Isabel Quintero
Girls Like Us - Gail Giles
I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Pointe - Brandy Colbert
When I Was the Greatest - Jason Reynolds
Speculative Fiction for YA Fiction
Death Sworn - Leah Cypess
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future - A. S. King
Noggin - John Corey Whaley
Salvage - Alexandra Duncan
The Living - Matt De la Pena
The Winner's Curse - Marie Rutkoski
While We Run - Karen Healey

2014 Nerdy Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction

Absolutely Almost - Lisa Graff
Boys Blurr - N. D. Wilson
Circa Now - Amber McRee Turner
Courage for Beginners - Karen Harrington
Dash - Kirby Larson
Death by Toilet Paper - Donna Gephart
Five, Six, Seven, Nate - Tim Federle
The Fourteenth Goldfish - Jennifer Holm
The Great Greene Heist - Varian Johnson
Greenglass House - Kate Milford
Half a Chance - Cynthia Lord
How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes are Untied - Jess Keating
The Mark of the Dragonfly - Jaleigh Johnson
Nest - Esther Ehrlich
Nightingale's Nest - Nikki Loftin
Rain Reign - Ann M. Martin
Revolution - Deborah Wiles
A Snicker of Magic - Natalie Lloyd
The Boundless - Kenneth Oppel
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing - Sheila Turnage
The Meaning of Maggie - Jean Sovern
The Night Gardener - Jonathan Auxier
The Riverman - Aaron Starmer
The Secret Hum of a Daisy - Tracy Holzcer
The Witch's Boy - Kelly Barnhill
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere - Julie T. Lamana
West of the Moon - Margi Preus

2014 Nerdy Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction
(a great list with great summaries of each title)

Noggin - John Corey Whaley
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future - A. S. King
100 Sideways Miles - Andrew Smith
The Impossible Knife of Memory - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Secret Sky - A Novel of Forbidden Love in Afghanistan - Atia Abawi
I Kill the Mockingbird - Paul Acampora
Belzhar - Meg Wolitzer
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces - Isabel Quintero
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
The Summer of Letting Go - Gae Polisner
The Young Elites - Marie Lu
When I Was the Greatest - Jason Reynolds
Threatened - Eliot Shrefer
Afterworlds - Scott Westerfeld
Grasshopper Jungle - Andrew Smith
Blue Lily, Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater
The Story of Owen - E. K. Johnston
Mortal Heart - Robin LaFevers
How It Went Down - Kekla Magoon
Love Letters to the Dead - Ava Dellaira
Plus One - Elizabeth Fama
To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han
Pointe - Brandy Colbert
Silver - Chris Wooding
I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
The Infinite Sea - Rick Yancey

from ALA 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults (mostly 2013 dates)

The Naturals - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Freakboy - Kristin Elizabeth Clark
The Golden Day - Ursula Dubosarsky
Just One Day - Gayle Forman
The Tragedy Paper - Elizabeth Laban
Scarlet - Marissa Meyer
If You Find Me - Emily Murdock
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Language Inside - Holly Thompson
Navigating Early - Clare Vanderpool

YALSA Teens Top Ten 2014

1.  Splintered - A. G. Howard
2.  Monument 14 - Sky on Fire - Emmy Laybourne
3.  Earth Girl - Janet Edwards
4.  Siege and Storm - Leigh Bardugo
5.  The Eye of Minds - James Dashner