An ALA Notable Children's Book Winners

Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books. According to the...more

Winners

	Leviathan (Leviathan, #1) by Scott Westerfeld 3.91 avg rating — 19,603 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Older Readers (2010)	My rating:
	The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis by Barbara O'Connor 3.69 avg rating — 333 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers (2010)	My rating:
	Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 1,930 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Older Readers (2010)	My rating:
	Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics by James Sturm 4.12 avg rating — 360 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers (2010)	My rating:
	All the World by Elizabeth Garton Scanlon 4.21 avg rating — 1,214 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2010)	My rating:
	The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney 4.29 avg rating — 3,599 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for All Ages (2010)	My rating:
	The Curious Garden by Peter Brown 4.21 avg rating — 1,247 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2010)	My rating:
	Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 4,196 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers (2010)	My rating:
	How Oliver Olson Changed the World by Claudia Mills 3.66 avg rating — 237 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers (2010)	My rating:
	Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose 4.12 avg rating — 1,099 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Older Readers (2010)	My rating:
	The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 123 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers (2010)	My rating:
	Marching For Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge 4.40 avg rating — 251 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Older Readers (2010)	My rating:
	Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker 4.07 avg rating — 335 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Older Readers (2010)	My rating:
	The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors by Chris Barton 3.97 avg rating — 373 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers (2010)	My rating:
	Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman 4.06 avg rating — 627 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2010)	My rating:
	Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca 4.12 avg rating — 330 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for All Ages (2010)	My rating:
	Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea by Steve Jenkins 4.16 avg rating — 229 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers (2010)	My rating:
	Chains (Seeds of America, #1) by Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 8,000 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Older Readers (2009)	My rating:
	The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins 4.52 avg rating — 734,779 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Older Readers (2009)	My rating:
	How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham 4.20 avg rating — 308 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2009)	My rating:
	The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 74,318 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Middle Readers (2009)	My rating:
	Nation by Terry Pratchett 4.01 avg rating — 9,409 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Older Readers (2009)	My rating:
	My Name Is Gabito/Me Llamo Gabito: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez/La Vida de Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Monica Brown 3.86 avg rating — 86 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2008)	My rating:
	Fred Stays With Me! by Nancy Coffelt 3.98 avg rating — 241 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2008)	My rating:
	Good Enough To Eat by Brock Cole 3.50 avg rating — 66 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2008)	My rating:
	Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale by Carmen Agra Deedy 4.25 avg rating — 617 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2008)	My rating:
	Mother Goose: Numbers on the Loose by Leo Dillon 3.39 avg rating — 80 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2008)	My rating:
	Lightship by Brian Floca 3.83 avg rating — 99 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2008)	My rating:
	My Colors, My World/Mis colores, mi mundo by Maya Christina Gonzalez 3.88 avg rating — 82 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2008)	My rating:
	When Dinosaurs Came with Everything by Elise Broach 4.10 avg rating — 692 ratings An ALA Notable Children's Book for Younger Readers (2008)	My rating: