Posts tagged Awards

National Book Award Finalists, 2009

The finalists have been announced.  Here’s the list of finalists for Young People’s Literature:

Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose
Stitches by David Small
Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor
Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia

I’m a bit surprised.  At least last year there were a few that [...]

And the Winner is…

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart for the YA Fiction Category!
Check out all of the winners here.  There are some not surprising winners — The Graveyard Book and The Hunger Games for the Middle Grade and YA Fantasy categories respectively — and some titles I can’t wait to read, like the London [...]

2009 Printz Winner and Honors

Today the 2009 ALA Youth Media Awards were announced including the Printz winner and honors.  Since the winner and one of the honors is up for a Cybil in the Young Adult Fiction category, of which I’m a judge, I must remain mum on my feelings regarding these titles so I thought that I would [...]