The 2008 Horace Mann Upstanders Award was given to:
Mrs Marlowe's Mice written by Frank Asch and Illustrated by Devin Asch
The honor books are
Ain’t Nobody a Stranger to Me by Ann Grifalconi with illustrations by Jerry Pinkney (Hyperion)
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Leta Judge (Hyperion)
The Giant of Seville: A Tall Tale Based on a True Story by Dan Andreasen (Abrams)
When I Crossed No-Bob by Margaret McMullan (Houghton Mifflin)
Sacred Leaf by Deborah Ellis (Groundwood Books)
Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It by Sundee T. Frazier (Delacorte)
The Klipfish Code by Mary Casanova (Houghton Mifflin)
