Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement to an African American author or illustrator for their body of work
Recipients:
Patricia and Frederick McKissack (How have they not won before!)
Day: January 27, 2014
Stonewall Book Awards
GLBTQ award.
Honor Books
Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle (YES!!)
Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan (Hurrah! Surprised it’s not the winner…)
Winner
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Fat Angie by e. E. Charlton-Trujillo (YES!!)
Schneider Family Book Awards
Honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies the disability experience.
Best Young Children’s Book
A Splash of Red by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet (Hurrah!!)
Best Middle Grades Book
Handbook for Dragon Slayers by Merrie Haskell
Best Teen Book
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
Alex Awards
Teen Readers and Adult Books:
Brewster by Mark Slouka
The Death of Bees by Lisa O’Donnell
Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin
Help for the Haunted by John Searles
Lexicon by Max Barry
Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
Mother Mother by Koren Zailckas
Relish by Lucy Knisley
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
The Universe versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
2014 ALA Youth Media Awards
I’m planning on live blogging the awards this morning again. I always find it exciting, thrilling, and moving to hear the awards live. It also makes me damn proud to be a librarian too. Looking forward to great new books to read and hopefully to hearing some of my favorite titles of the year win some awards too!
(Expect plenty of typos as I try to keep up with the announcements. My apologies to all of the authors and illustrators whose names I mangle.)
Waking Brain Cells 