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The National Book Award: 2010 The National Book Awards were handed out last night, with Mockingbird, by Kathryne Erskine taking top prize for Young People's Literature (not to be confused with Mockingjay (Hubger Games series) by Suzanne Collins). Among the other nominees was Ship Breaker, recently featured in a VCS library display on dystopia novels. The top prize in adult fiction was for Jaimy Gordon's Lord of Misrule, a novel about the world of horse racing. The Pulitzer Prize: Fiction The Booker Prize Nobel Prize in Literature Michael Printz Award YRCA Young Reader's Choice Award (Pacific Northwest Library Association) ORCA Oregon Reader's Choice Award (Oregon Library Association)   
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. ~Henry David Thoreau
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