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Marching for Freedom
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I Know Here
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2010 Boston Globe Horn Book Awards
and Honors Announced

Each year, readers eagerly await the announcement of these awards, a surefire sign of high-quality books with lasting endurance.

Fiction and Poetry Winner
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Random House)
Honors
The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan, illus by Peter Sís (Scholastic)
A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner (Greenwillow)

Nonfiction Winner
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking)
Honors
Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures by Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol (Roaring Brook/Flash Point)
Smile by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic/Graphix)

Picture Book Winner
I Know Here by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood)
Honors
It’s a Secret! by John Burningham (Candlewick)
The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown)

The 2010 Boston Globe Horn Book Awards judges were Martha V. Parravano, executive editor of The Horn Book Magazine; Julie Just, children's book editor of the New York Times Book Review; Gregory Maguire, author and co-founder of Children's Literature New England.

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