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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">the 2014 Oregon Book Awards!</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S LITERATURE <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Calvin Coconut: Extra Famous (Wendy Lamb Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Theory of Everything (Philomel Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Duel with the Devil (Crown Publishers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART GRAPHIC LITERATURE AWARD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite (Amulet Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Unreal and The Real: Collected Stories: Volume 1 and 2 (Small Beer Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Vince and Patty Wixon of Ashland</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">C.E.S. WOOD DISTINGUISHED WRITER AWARD<br>
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