The Book Works

American Library Association announced the winners of the Caldecott and Newbery Awards this morning. 

The Caldecott Medal Award Winner:

The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkey

The Newbery Medal Award Winner:

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead 

The Book Works is proud to recognize that Tammy Black, our prescient coordinator who runs the Girls' Book Groups at our store, chose the Newbery Medal Award Winner When You Reach Me last month as their book. 

Lisa: The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa AND As God Commands, by Niccolo Ammaniti
Lucia: Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
Carol: This Book Will Save Your Life, by A.M. Homes
Edith: By a Slow River, AND Brodeck, by Philippe Claudel
Jet: The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Andi: Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
Catalina: anything Paul Auster
Emily: Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem
Tom: 2666, by Roberto Bolano
Anthony: Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookshop, by Robin Sloan
Rosie: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
Milane: The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt
Adele:  Road Dogs, by Elmore Leonard 

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...not including books sold for author visits.



1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
2. Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
3. The Pocket Pema Chodron
4. Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta 
5. The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga
6. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
7. Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
8. The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa
9. The Book Thief, by Marcus Zusak
10. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese

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