YALSA has announced the nominations for the 2006 Teens’ Top Ten Books that will be voted on by teens during Teen Read Week, October 15 – 21. It is nice to get the list to teens in your community so that they can read the books over the summer.
Here are the nominees:
Wolf: the Journey Home by Asta Bowen
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Megan Meade’s Guide to the McGowan Boys by Kate Brian
Powder Monkey: Adventure of a Young Sailor by Paul Dowswell
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner
Captain Hook: the Adventures of a Notorious Youth by J.V. Hart

Today the winners of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced. Here are the winners, all names that are very familiar:
Fiction and Poetry: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Picture Book: Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert
Nonfiction: If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty
As an aside, I am very happy with Leaf Man and Moon winning, but I am still baffled by the appeal of Edward Tulane. Ah well, I must be missing something.
Two honor books were also selected in each category:
Fiction and Poetry:
Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary by Julie Larios.
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy.
Picture Book:
Mama: A True Story in Which a Baby Hippo Loses His Mama… by Jeanette Winter
Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson.
Nonfiction:
A Mother’s Journey by Sandra Markle.
Wildfire by Taylor Morrison.

The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize has announced their longlist:
Clay by David Almond (I really like the British cover much better!)
Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Blown Away by Patrick Cave
A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd
Fly By Night by Frances Hardinge
The Worst Witch Saves the Day by Jill Murphy
A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve
The Survival Game by Tim Wynne-Jones

Skybreaker and Caramba win the 2006 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards. Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel is the sequel to Airborn. Caramba by Marie-Louise Gay is an interesting book about flying cats.

Holly Black has won the first Andre Norton Nebula Award for best young adult science fiction or fantasy novel for her novel, Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, which is a wonderful dark, urban fairy tale.

The Kate Greenaway Shortlist has been announced:
Tony DiTerlizzi for Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World around You.
Emily Gravett for Wolves.
Mini Grey for Traction Man Is Here.
Oliver Jeffers for Lost and Found.
Dave McKean for Mirrormask.
Jane Ray for Jinnie Ghost.
David Roberts for Little Red: A Fizzingly Good Yarn.
Rob Scotton for Russell the Sheep.
I am so happy to see Traction Man as part of the shortlist! It is simply one of my favorite books from last year. I also enjoyed Russell the Sheep and Lost and Found.

The Carnegie Medal Short List has been announced:
David Almond for Clay
Frank Cottrell Boyce for Framed
Geraldine McCaughrean for The White Darkness
Jan Mark for Turbulence
Mal Peet for Tamar
So several very familiar names and others that are new! What an exciting field of titles.

You & You & You by Per Nilsson won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for young adult fiction last night. This is one on my list of must reads!

One of my favorite book award lists has been announced:  The Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards that go to books that “effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and the equality of the sexes and all reaces as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence.” 
This year’s winners are:
Delivering Justince: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights by Jim Haskins.
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America by Karen Blumenthal.
Poems to Dream Together by Francisco X. Alarcon.
Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell.