Winner of the 2007 Caldecott Medal , 2007 National Book Award Finalist , 2008 ALA Best Book for Young Adults , ALA Notable Book for Middle Readers , 2008 IRA Teachers’ Choices, Intermediate , Book Sense–Book of the Year Award 2008, Children’s Literature , Winner of the 2007 Quill Award, Children’s Chapter/Middle Grade , CCBC Choices 2008, Fiction for Children , Book Sense Children’s Picks – Spring 2007 , Horn Book Fanfare Lis t– Best Books of 2007 Fiction , 2008 IRA Children’s Choices, Grades 5-6 , Kirkus Reviews – Best Children’s Books 2007 , Publishers Weekly – Best Children’s Books 2007, Children’s Fiction