The Scott O’Dell Award is given for excellence in writing historical fiction for children or young adults. This year’s winner is Louis Erdrich for The Game of Silence. What a great pick!

The 2006 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults have been announced. Each year there are specific subjects specified, so the books on the list are recent publications, but not constrained to being from the last year. The categories this year are Books That Don’t Make You Blush, Criminal Elements, What Ails You?, and GLBTQ.