2012 Pura Belpre Award

Illustrator Award

Honor Books:

The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred by Samantha R. Vamos, illustrated by Rafael Lopez

Marison McDonald Doesn’t Match by Monica Brown, illustrated by Sara Palacios

Winner:

Diego Rivera: His World and Ours by Duncan Tonatiuh

 

Text Award

Honor Books:

Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel by Xavier Garza

Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle (I LOOOOVE her work!)

Winner

Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

2012 Michael L. Printz Award

Honor Books

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

The Returning by Christine Hinwood

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

 

Winner

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

2012 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award

Finalists:

Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

Bootleg by Karen Blumenthal

Wheels of Change by Sue Macy

Music Was It by Susan Goldman Rubin

The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin

 

Winner:

The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin

2012 William C. Morris Award

For YA Debut Author (love this award and I hope it expands to other ages for a debut award)

Winner

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

2012 Margaret A. Edwards Award

Susan Cooper!!!! Love it!!!

2012 Coretta Scott King Awards

Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award

Ashley Bryan

 

Illustrator Award

Honor Book

Kadir Nelson for Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Winner

Shane W. Evans for Underground: Find the Light to Freedom (Yippeee!)

 

Author Award

Honor Books

The Great Migration: Journey to the North by Eloise Greenfield

Never Forgotten by Patricia C. McKissack

Winner

Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson (Amazing to win both!)

2012 Stonewall Book Award

Honor Books

a + e 4ever by Ilike Merey

Money Boy by Paul Yee

Pink by Lili Wilkinson

With or Without You by Brian Farrey

WINNER

Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright

2012 Schneider Family Book Award

NO WINNER FOR CHILDREN’S CATEGORY!

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Close to Famous by Joan Bauer

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

TEEN

The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

2012 ALEX Awards

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by Caroline Preston

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The New Kids by Brooke Hauser

The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan

In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard

Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin