June Winners

Adult Fiction: The Help By Kathryn Stockett

Young Adult Fiction: The Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan

1st Grade Booklist

2nd Grade Booklist

3rd and 4th Grade Booklist

5th and 6th Grade Booklist

Books to Read Aloud as a Family

Preschool Classics

Modern Library Top 100 Novels, Board's Choice

Modern Library Top 100 Novels, Reader's Choice

Modern Library Top 100 Non-fiction, Board's Choice

Modern Library Top 100 Non-fiction, Reader's Choice

Click here for a full list of banned or challenged books as compiled by the Illinois Library Association during Banned Books Week in 2009.

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2010 Caldecott Winner: The Lion and the Mouse written and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
2010 Newbery Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

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2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners (Click here to visit the official site)

FICTION
Tinkers by Paul Harding

BIOGRAPHY
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

DRAMA
Next to Normal, music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey

HISTORY
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed

POETRY
Versed by Rae Armantrout

GENERAL NONFICTION
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman

2010 Edgar Award Winners (Click here to visit the official site)

BEST NOVEL
The Last Child by John Hart

BEST FIRST NOVEL
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Body Blows by Marc Strange

Ginny Tremayne: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Jill Baxter: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Deliliah Sant: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Angie Anderson: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Kandice Crockett: Fablehaven Series by Brandon Mull

Diane Harris: Return to Red Castle by Dorothy Keddington