Promotions - Title Listings - Caldecott-Newbery, January 25, 2010

The year they are twelve, Sal begins to ignore Miranda and breaks her heart. But Miranda's attention is diverted when she begins to receive a series of urgent, mysterious notes in unexpected places.

Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.

In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates the dangers of living with six brothers, and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the turn of the century.

In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli listens to her fathers folktales of the Old Man on the Moon, who knows all the answers to life. Inspired by these stories, Minli, accompanied by a dragon who can't fly, sets out to ask the Old Man on the Moon how they can fulfill their dreams.

Young Homer Figg has extraordinary adventures after he sets off to rescue his brother who has been illegally sold to the Union Army.

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.

This celebration of the world and humankind is told through poetic verse and charming illustrations as readers follow a family through their day, from morning until night.

Color comes alive in this whimsical, innovative book: Blue dances on summer lakes, green drips from spring leaves, black wafts mysteriously through autumn evenings. Readers will be inspired to look closer at the thrilling colors of the seasons.