Presenting Rebecca's Book Awards for 2009.

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I usually really look forward to giving out my book awards, but for 2009, unfortunately, I read so few books that I actually dreaded it. I just hope that I'll do better in 2010.

Best Book Overall: Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins.
Worst Book Overall: Rebekah: Women of Genesis, by Orson Scott Card.

Best Classic Children's Book: Heidi, by Johanna Spyri.
Worst Classic Children's Book: Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott.

Best Teen Book: Keeping the Moon, by Sarah Dessen.
Best Teen Book: The Night My Sister Went Missing, by Carol Plum-Ucci. 

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott.
Say You Are My Sister, by Laurel Stowe Brady.
A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Rebekah: Women of Genesis, by Orson Scott Card.
Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins.
Keeping the Moon, by Sarah Dessen.
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd.
The Last Days of Summer, by Steve Kluger.
The Willoughbys, by Lois Lowry.
Boy-Crazy Stacey, by Ann M. Martin.
Dawn on the Coast, by Ann M. Martin.
Kristy's Big Day, by Ann M. Martin.
The Night My Sister Went Missing, by Carol Plum-Ucci.
Loud and Clear, by Anna Quindlen.
Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public, and the Private, by Anna Quindlen.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, by JK Rowling.
Hang Tough, Paul Mather, by Alfred Slote.
Loser, by Jerry Spinelli.
Heidi, by Johanna Spyri.
Happy Birthday, Felicity! by Valerie Tripp.