DC Comics Acquires North American Book Rights to Rebellion’s 2000 AD
DC Comics has acquired the North American publication rights from Rebellion, the UK publisher of 2000 AD and Judge Dredd. The first books are scheduled to be released in September of this year.

2003 Americas Award
The Americas Award is given to U.S. works for children through teens that “authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.”
The 2003 winners are:
JUST A MINUTE by Yuyi Morales
and
THE MEANING OF CONSUELO by Judith Ortiz Cofer.
The pdf document referred to in the link above gives lists of the honor books and the commended.

School Library Journal – Bojunga Wins Lindgren Award
Brazilian author, Lygia Bojunga, has won the 2004 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (0-385-73028-4)
This was exactly the sort of book I enjoyed as a teen with its mix of Victorian boarding school and magic. Gemma’s mother kills herself in India and Gemma is sent to Spence in England, a finishing school for young ladies. When Gemma’s mother died, she had a vision that showed her how it happened and she saw a terrible dark shadow in the room with her mother. Gemma continues to have visions and a man has followed her to Spence telling her to stop having the visions. Can Gemma get control of her visions?
The cover of the book will help sell it to teen girls, though it doesn’t allude to the magic within. Bray has created a very vivid Gothic world filled with woods, lakes, and Gypsies. She populated it with a group of girls who all have distinct, fully-rendered personalities. And best of all, she added magic and mystery, creating a wonderful heady cocktail that is impossible to put down.