The 2011 Nebula Winners have been announced.  As always, teens will enjoy many of the science fiction and fantasy winners for adults, but happily there is also a category just for young adult books: The Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The winner is:

The Freedom Maze by Delia Sherman

Other books on the shortlist were:

   

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout

Chime by Franny Billingsley

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

  

Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King

The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

Ultraviolet by R. J. Anderson