This past Monday the American Library Association announced the winners of their annual book awards. The ALA gives out a tonne of book and media awards every year highlighting the best in American literature. They have five different awards focusing on young adult literature alone! So - just in case your "to read" pile of books isn't in danger of toppling over quite yet - we've included a list of the winners of all the young adult literary awards after the jump!
The awards are...
- The Michael L. Printz Award for the book that "exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature"
- The William C. Morris Award for the "debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens"
- The Margaret A. Edwards Award, which is a lifetime achievement award for an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, that has written for young adults and has been popular over a period of time.
- The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults (which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like)
- The Alex Awards, which are given to ten books written for adults that have "special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18"
And, as if all of these specific awards weren't enough, the YALSA has also named the top ten young adult books from 2009. Awesome!
But, with all this ALA excitement, don't forget to keep an eye out for the announcement of the winners of the Canadian Library Association's book awards (including the Young Adult Canadian Book Award) in April!
And the awards go to...
Michael L. Printz Award
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
William C. Morris Award
Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan
Margaret A. Edwards Award
the 2010 Honouree is Jim Murphy
YALSA Award for Excellence in Non-Fiction for Young Adults
Charles & Emma: The Dawins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
Alex Awards
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch and Liz Welch with Amanda Welch and Dan Welch
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
My Abandonment by Peter Rock
Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel by Gail Carriger
Stitches: A Memoir by David Small
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson
