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BOOK LISTS  MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOLS 2008 AWARD-WINNING BOOKS (American Library Association explanantions of award categories) Newbery Medal -
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd, Winner -
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis, Honor -
Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt, Honor -
Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson, Honor The Michael L. Printz Award - The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean, Winner
- Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreahunter Duet, by Elizabeth Knox, Honor
- One Whole and Perfect Day, by Judith Clarke, Honor
- Repossessed, by A.M Jenkins, Honor
- Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, by Stephanie Hemphill, Honor
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal - The Wall: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain, by Peter Sis, Winner
- Lightship, by Brian Floca, Honor
- Nic Bishop Spiders, by Nic Bishop, Honor
American Library Association Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
- Before I Die, by Jenny Downham
- Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, by Stephanie Hemphill
- Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones
- Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy
- Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal, by Mal Peet
- American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China, by Matthew Polly
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel, by Brian Selznick
- The Arrival, by Shaun Tan
American Library Association Top 10 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
- Class Pictures, by Dawoud Bey
- Quaking, by Kathryn Erskine
- Thin, by Lauren Greenfield
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Graffiti L.A.: Street and Art, by Steve Grody and James Prigoff -
Glass, by Ellen Hoptins -
Tupac Shakur Legacy, by Joseph Jamal -
Safe, by Susan Shaw -
Unwind, by Neal Shusterman -
Homeboyz, by Alan L. Sitomer -
Thalia: Belleza!: Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness, by Thalia Buckeye Children's Book Award 2007-8 (More information about this award chosen by children) 6-8 Teen Buckeye Book Award 2007-8 9-12 -
Eldest, by Christopher Paolini, Winner -
Uglies, by Scott Westerfield, Second place -
Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares, Third place -
Things Change, by Patrick Jones, Fourth place
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