


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.
The next Banned Books Week will take place from September 25-October 2, 2011. For more information on Banned Books Week, please click here.
For more information on banned and challenged books, please click here.

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
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