2007 Florida Book Award Winners

Children's Literature
Florida Nonfiction
General Fiction
Genre Fiction
Poetry
Spanish Language
Young Adult Literature

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