2009 National Book Awards
The 2009 Newbery Medal winner is The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba 's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
The 2009 Caldecott Medal winner is The House in the Night , illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever, written and illustrated by Marla Frazee
How I Learned Geography, written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams , illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba 's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
Just In Case , illustrated and written by Yuyi Morales