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2005 Award Winners:

Newbery Winner:  Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Michael L. Printz Award:  how i live now by Meg Rosoff

2004 Coretta Scott King Award: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction:  Worth by A LaFaye

Rebecca Caudill Winner:  Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowtiz

Rebecca Caudill 2005 Nominees:

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch
Doing Time Online by Jan Siebold
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
Memory Boy by Will Weaver
Overboard by Elizabeth Fama
Phineas Gage by John Fleischman
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
Runt by Marion Dane Bauer
The Shrouding Woman by Loretta Ellsworth
Stand Tall by Joan Bauer
Straw into Gold by Gary Schmidt
Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
Under the Same Sky by Cynthia DeFelice
When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park

Abraham Lincoln High School Award 2005 Nominees:

Anderson, Laurie Halse, Speak

Bechard, Margaret, Hanging on to Max

Bennett, James, The Squared Circle

Brooks, Geraldine, Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague 

Card, Orson Scott, Ender's Shadow

Flinn, Alex, Breathing Underwater

Grimes, Nikki, Bronx Masquerade

Hidier, Tanuja Desai, Born Confused

Kidd, Sue Monk, Secret Life of Bees

King, Stephen, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Korman, Gordon, Son of the Mob

Martel, Yann, Life of Pi

McCormick, Patricia, Cut

Myers, Walter Dean, Monster

Nix, Garth, Sabriel

Paulsen, Gary, Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First   Minnesota Volunteers

Pelzer, Dave, A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive

Porter, Connie Rose, Imani All Mine

Pullman, Philip, The Golden Compass

Rennison, Louise, Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Sebold, Alice, The Lovely Bones: A Novel

Trueman, Terry, Stuck in Neutral