Junior Library Guild

ALA Midwinter 2012 Award-Winners

The complete list of our winning selections from ALA Midwinter 2012 appears below. To see all JLG’s award winners—past and present—click here.

Newbery Medal

Dead End in Norvelt, Winner
(selected July 2011/JLG date December 2011)

Inside Out & Back Again, Honor

(selected December 2010/JLG date May 2011)

Breaking Stalin’s Nose, Honor

(selected July 2011/JLG date March 2012)

Caldecott Medal

A Ball for Daisy, Winner

(selected November 2010/JLG date July 2011)

Blackout, Honor

(selected December 2010/JLG date September 2011)

Grandpa Green, Honor

(selected June 2011/JLG date October 2011)

Me . . . Jane, Honor

(selected September 2010/JLG date July 2011)

Michael L. Printz Award

Why We Broke Up, Honor

(selected June 2011/JLG date February 2012)

The Returning, Honor

(selected December 2010/JLG date August 2011)

The Scorpio Races, Honor

(selected June 2011/JLG date December 2011)

Coretta Scott King Book Award

The Great Migration: Journey to the North, Honor, Author
(selected August 2010/JLG date April 2011)

Never Forgotten, Honor, Author
(selected March 2011/JLG date January 2012)

Schneider Family Book Award

Wonderstruck, Middle-School Winner

(selected May 2011/JLG date October 2011)

The Running Dream, Teen Winner

(selected July 2010/JLG date March 2011)

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

The Lily Pond, Honor
(selected July 2011/JLG date March 2012)

Pura Belpré Award

Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/Marisol McDonald no combina, Honor, Illustrator

(selected March 2011/JLG date October 2011)

Robert F. Sibert Medal

Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade, Winner (selected March 2011/JLG date December 2011)

Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor, Honor

(selected July 2011/JLG date January 2011)

Drawing from Memory, Honor

(selected April 2011/JLG date November 2011)

The Elephant Scientist, Honor

(selected November 2010/JLG date September 2011)

Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, Honor

(selected March 2011/JLG date November 2011)

Stonewall Book Award

Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy, Winner

(selected January 2011/JLG date August 2011)

Theodor Seuss Geigel Award

Tales for Very Picky Eaters, Winner

(selected September 2010/JLG date July 2011)

I Want My Hat Back, Honor

(selected April 2011/JLG date December 2011)

See Me Run, Honor

(selected March 2011/JLG date January 2012)

William C. Morris Award

Between Shades of Gray, Finalist
(selected August 2010/JLG date April 2011)

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, and Treachery, Winner 
(selected July 2010/JLG date March 2011)

Sugar Changed the World:
A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science, Finalist
(selected May 2010/JLG date January 2011)

Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition, Finalist
(selected January 2011/JLG date July 2011)

Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom
(with a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), Finalist
(selected June 2010/JLG date April 2011)

Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein, Finalist
(selected June 2010/JLG date June 2011)