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The winners of 2010 Indies Choice Book of the Year winners, sponsored by the American Booksellers Association, are:

Adult Fiction: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Knopf)
Adult Nonfiction: The Lost City of Z by David Grann (Doubleday)
Adult Debut: The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
Young Adult: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
Middle Reader: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books)
New Picture Book: The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney (Little, Brown)

Kate DiCamillo won Most Engaging Author “both for being an in-store star and for having a strong sense of the importance of indie booksellers to their local communities.”

In addition, three books were voted into the Indies Choice Book Awards Picture Book Hall of Fame:

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst and Ray Cruz (Atheneum)
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson (Viking)

Read globally but buy from your local independent bookstore and keep more revenue in your community.

The 2010 Caldecott Medal winner is The Lion & the Mouse, illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney (Little Brown and Company Books for Young Readers).

The 2010 Newberry Award winner is When You Reach Me written by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books).

The 2010 Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature winner is Going Bovine written by Libba Bray (Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers).

Think globally and buy from your locally-owned independent bookstore to keep more revenue in your community.