Florida BooK Awards (2006-2009)

Florida Book Awards (accessed 10/15/09)
The Florida Book Awards, coordinated by the Florida State University Library-- and co-sponsored by the Florida Center for the Book, the State Library and Archives of Florida, the Florida Historical Society, the Florida Humanities Council, the Florida Literary Arts Coalition, the Florida Library Association, "Just Read, Florida!," the Governor's Family Literacy Initiative, the Florida Association for Media in Education, the Florida Reading Association, the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, Friends of the Florida State University Libraries, Friends of the FSU Libraries, Program in American and Florida Studies at Florida State University, and the Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America -- is an annual awards program that recognizes, honors, and celebrates the best Florida literature published in the previous year.

2009 WINNERS:
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Gold Medal Winner: Joan Hiatt Harlow, Secret of the Night Ponies

FLORIDA NONFICTION
Gold Medal Winner: Jack E. Davis, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century
Silver Medal Winner: Carlton Ward Jr., Florida Cowboys
Bronze Medal Winner: Todd T. Turrell, Naples Waterfront – Changes in Time

GENERAL FICTION
Gold Medal Winner: N M Kelby, A Travel Guide for Reckless Hearts
Silver Medal Winner: Janet Burroway, Bridge of Sand
Bronze Medal Winner: Ana Menendez, The Last War
Bronze Medal Winner: A. Manette Ansay, Good Things I Wish You
Bronze Medal Winner: Michael Lister, Double Exposure

POETRY
Gold Medal Winner: Campbell McGrath, Shannon
Silver Medal Winner: Denise Duhamel, Ka-Ching!
Bronze Medal Winner: Jesse Millner, Neighborhoods of My Past Sorrow
Bronze Medal Winner: Peter Meinke, Lines from Neuchatel

POPULAR FICTION
Gold Medal Winner: Glynn Marsh Alam, Moon Water Madness
Silver Medal Winner: Diane A. S. Stuckart, Portrait of a Lady: A Leonardo DaVinci Mystery
Bronze Medal Winner: Jonathon King, The Styx
Bronze Medal Winner: Chris Kuzneski, The Lost Throne
Bronze Medal Winner: Tim Dorsey, Nuclear Jellyfish

SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK
Gold Medal Winner: Juan Cueto-Roig, Veintiún cuentos concisos
Silver Medal Winner: José Alvarez, Frank País y la revolución cubana

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Gold Medal Winner: Alex Sanchez, Bait
Silver Medal Winner: Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist

2008 WINNERS:
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Gold Medal Winner:
Susan Womble Newt's World:Beginnings
Silver Medal Winner:
Donna Gephart As If Being 12 3/4 Isn't Bad Enough, My Mother Is Running For President
Bronze Medal Winner:
Loreen Leedy Missing Math: A Number Mystery

GENERAL FICTION
Gold Medal Winner:
John Dufresne Requiem, Mass.
Silver Medal Winner:
Tony D'Souza The Konkans
Bronze Medal Winner:
Kristy Kiernan Matters of Faith
Debra Dean Confessions of a Falling Women

GENRE FICTION
Gold Medal Winner:
Deborah & Joel Shlian Rabbit in the Moon
Silver Medal Winner:
Lisa Unger Black Out
Bronze Medal Winners:
James Swain The Night Stalker
Patrick Kendrick Papa's Problem
Martha Powers Conspiracy of Silence

YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Gold Medal Winner:
John Tkac Whispers from the Bay
Silver Medal Winner:
Anne Ake Everglades
Bronze Medal Winners:
Julie Gonzalez Imaginary Enemy

2007 WINNERS:
Children's Literature
Gold Medal Winner:
Adrian Fogelin - The Sorta Sisters (Atlanta: Peachtree)
Silver Medal Winner:
N.E. Bode - The Slippery Map (New York: Harper Collins)
Bronze Medal Winner:
Ruth Vander Zee - Eli Remembers (Grand Rapids: Eerdman's Books for Young Readers)

Florida Nonfiction
Gold Medal Winner:
Cynthia Barnett - Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press)
Silver Medal Winner:
Bruce Hunt - Florida Then And Now (Boulder: Westcliffe)
Bronze Medal Winner::
Sudye Cauthen - Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place (Athens: University of Georgia Press)
Elna Green - Looking for the New Deal (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press)

General Fiction
Gold Medal Winner:
Enid Shomer - Tourist Season (New York: Random House)
Silver Medal Winner:
Leonard Nash - You Can't Get There from Here (Crawfordville, Kitsune)
Bronze Medal Winner:
Diana Abu-Jaber - Origin (New York: Norton)
Uthaya Kumar - Ticket to the Moon((Miami: Bouncing Ball Books)

Genre Fiction
Gold Medal Winner:
Thomas B. Cavanagh - Head Games (New York: St. Martin's Minotaur)
Silver Medal Winner:
James W. Hall - Magic City (New York: St. Martin's Minotaur)
Bronze Medal Winner:
Mary Anna Evans - Effigies (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press)
Bob Morris - Bermuda Schwartz (New York: St. Martin's Minotaur)
Rhonda Pollero - Knock Off (New York: Kensington Books)

Poetry
Gold Medal Winner:
David Kirby - House on Boulevard Street (Baton Rouge: LSU Press)
Silver Medal Winner:
JReginald Shepherd - Fata Morgana (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press)
Bronze Medal Winner:
Julianna Baggott - Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees (Warrensburg, OH: Pleiades Press)

Spanish Language
Gold Medal Winner:
Germen Guerra - Libro de Silencio (Los Angeles: Ediciones EntreRios)
Silver Medal Winner:
Ariel Gonzalez - Samuel Maximo y Niketon (Buenos Aires: Libros en Red)

Young Adult Literature
Gold Medal Winner:
Tracy A. Akers - The Search for the Unnamed One (Tampa: Aisling Press)
Silver Medal Winner:
Edward Bloor -Taken (New York: Random House)
Bronze Medal Winner:
Crissa-Jean Chappell - Total Constant Order ((New York: HarperTeen)

2006 WINNERS:
Children's Literature
Gold Medal Winner:
N.E. Bode (aka Julianna Baggott) - The Somebodies (Harper Collins)
Silver Medal Winner:
Laurie Friedman - In Business with Mallory. Illus. Barbara Pollak. (Lerner)

Florida Nonfiction
Gold Medal Winner:
Michael Grunwald - The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (Simon And Schuster)
Silver Medal Winner:
Daniel S. Murphree - Constructing Floridians, Natives, and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783 (University Press of Florida)
Bronze Medal Winner:
Bill Belleville - Losing It All to Sprawl (University Press of Florida)
Martin A. Dyckman - Floridian of His Century (University Press of Florida)
J. Stanley Marshall - The Tumultuous Sixties: Campus Unrest and Student Life at a Southern University (Sentry)

General Fiction
Gold Medal Winner:
Tony D'Souza - Whiteman . (Harcourt)
Silver Medal Winner:
Carl Hiaasen - Nature Girl . (Knopf)
Bronze Medal Winner:
Elizabeth Dewberry - His Lovely Wife. (Harcourt)

Genre Fiction
Gold Medal Winner:
James O. Born - Escape Clause (Putnam)
Silver Medal Winner:
Ward Larsen - The Perfect Assassin (Oceanview)
Bronze Medal Winner:
M.D. Abrams - Murder at Wakulla Springs (Booklocker)
Randy Wayne White - Dark Light (G.P. Putnam)
Brad Meltzer - The Book of Fate (Warner)

Poetry
Gold Medal Winner:
James Kimbrell - My Psychic (Sarabande)
Silver Medal Winner:
Jay Hopler - Green Squall ( Yale University Press)
Bronze Medal Winner:
Kelle Groom - Luckily (Anhinga Press)
Peter Meinke - The Contracted World (University Press of Pittsburgh)

Spanish Language
Gold Medal Winner:
Daina Chaviano - La Isla De Los Amores Infinitos (Random House)

Young Adult Literature
Gold Medal Winner:
Adrian Fogelin - The Real Question (Peachtree)
Silver Medal Winner:
Joyce Sweeney - Headlock (Henry Holt)
Bronze Medal Winner:
Caridad Ferrer - Adios to My Old Life (Simon And Schuster)
Tracy A. Akers - The Fire and the Light (Ruadora)