Honor Books

In the Belly of the Bloodhound by LA Meyer

Peace Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson

 

Winner

Louise the Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo

Honor Books

Charles and Emma by Deborah Heiligman

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey (In the middle of this one right now!)

Punkzilla by Adam Rapp

Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes

Winner

Going Bovine by Libba Bray (I am soooo thrilled!!!)

Finalists:

Almost Astronauts

Charles and Emma

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

The Great and Only Barnum

Written in Bone

 

Winner

Charles and Emma by Deborah Heiligman

Debut author for YA books award:

Finalists:

Ash

Beautiful Creatures

The Everafter

Flash Burnout

Hold Still

 

Winner

Flash Burnout by LK Madigan

Significant and lasting contribution to to YA Lit:

Jim Murphy – How superb for a nonfiction author to get this!

Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement

Walter Dean Myers (Lovely, lovely choice – and what a difficult decision to make with so many authors to choose from!)

New Talent Award

Kekla Magoon for The Rock and the River (already on my must-read list)

Illustrator Honor Books

E. B. Lewis for The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Hurrah!)

Illustrator Award Winner

Charles R. Smith Jr. for My People (Double cheer!  It’s such a beauty of a book!)

Author Honor Books

Tanita S. Davis for Mare’s War (Oh My!  Tanita!  Congratulations!!!!!!)

Author Award Winner

Vaunda M. Nelson for Bad News for Outlaws

Young Children

Django by Bonnie Christensen

Middle School

Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin

Teen

Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork (Hurrah!!)

Adult books with teen appeal – 10 book selected each year:

Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Bride’s Farewell by Meg Rosoff

Everything Matters

Good Soldiers by David Finkel

The Kids Are All Right

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

My Abandonment by Peter Rock

Soulless

Stitches by David Small (YEAH!)

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

I’ve blogged the ALA Awards every year that I’ve been able to, so despite ALA having a strong Facebook, Twitter and webcast presence this year, it didn’t feel right not to do it anyway.  Makes me feel like I am part of the excitement even sitting in my living room in Wisconsin.  🙂

I will be typing live, including my reactions as I can.  So expect plenty of missing authors, mis-spellings and gaps.