Awards

2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults

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YALSA’s list of the Best Fiction for Young Adults has been announced.  There are 98 titles on the list from 175 nominated.  The books are appropriate for ages 12-18 and have that winning mix of great writing and teen appeal. 

From the 98 titles, there is also a Top Ten List:

All the Truth That's in Me Better Nate Than Ever Eleanor & Park

All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry

Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Far Far Away Freakboy Golden Boy

Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark

Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan

Midwinterblood Rose Under Fire

Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick

Rose under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

Out of the Easy Winger

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

Winger by Andrew Smith

2014 Rainbow List

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The Rainbow List represents the best GLBTQ books for children and teens from the American Library Association’s GLBT and SRRT roundtables.

Archenemy (Counterattack) 17671930 Better Nate Than Ever

Archenemy by Paul Hoblin

Batwoman Volume 3: World’s Finest by J. H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman

Better Nate than Ever by Tim Federle

Blue Is the Warmest Color Branded by the Pink Triangle Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir

Blue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh

Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington

Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole Georges

The Culling (The Torch Keeper, #1) Fat Angie Freakboy

The Culling by Steven Dos Santos

Fat Angie by E. E. Charlton-Trujillo

Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark

Giraffe People Homo If I Lie

Giraffe People by Jill Malone

Homo by Michael Harris

If I Lie by Corrine Jackson

If You Could Be Mine Kevin Keller: Drive Me Crazy Leap

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Kevin Keller 2: Drive Me Crazy by Dan Parent

Leap by Z. Egloff

Love in the Time of Global Warming (Love in the Time of Global Warming, #1) More Than This My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity

Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block

More Than This by Patrick Ness

My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity by Kate Bornstein

Openly Straight Pantomime (Pantomime, #1) Proxy (Proxy, #1)

Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg

Pantomime by Laura Lam

Proxy by Alex London

Rapture Practice The Summer Prince Tag Along

Rapture Practice: My One-Way Ticket to Salvation: A True Story by Aaron Hartzler

The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson

Tag Along by Tom Ryan

Two Boys Kissing Tyler Buckspan The Waiting Tree

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan

Tyler Buckspan by Jere M. Fishback

The Waiting Tree by Lindsay Moynihan

Wandering Son: Volume Four When We Were Good Winger

Wandering Son v. 4 by Shimura Takako

When We Were Good by Suzanne Sutherland

Winger by Andrew Smith

2014 Scott O’Dell Award

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The Scott O’Dell Award is given annually to the author of a distinguished work of historical fiction for young people. 

Bo at Ballard Creek

The winner of the 2014 Award is Kirkpatrick Hill for Bo at Ballard Creek, illustrated by LeUyen Pham.  You can read more details about the award and the winner at The Horn Book.

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

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Originally published outside the US and translated into English:

Honor Books

The Bathing Costume by Charlotte Moundlic, illustrated by Olivier Tallec

My Father’s Arms Are a Boat by Stein Erik Lunde, illustrated by Oyvind Torseter (YES!!)

The War Within These Walls by Aline Sax, illustrated by Caryl Strzelecki

WINNER

Mister Orange by Truus Matti

Congratulations to Enchanted Lion books and thank you for bringing amazing books to the US.

Margaret A. Edwards Award

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Lifetime award for adolescent literature:

Markus Zusak (Wonderful surprise!)

Stonewall Book Awards

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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!!)

2014 ALA Youth Media Awards

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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.)

2014 Charlotte Zolotow Award

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Cooperative Children's Book Center

The amazing Cooperative Children’s Book Center has named the winner and honor books for the 2014 Charlotte Zolotow Award which is given to outstanding writing in a picture book published in the United States in the previous year.  It is a delight to see many of my personal favorites of the year on their list.

WINNER

The Dark

The Dark by Lemony Snicket, illustrated by Jon Klassen

 

HONOR BOOKS

Building Our House My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood Sophie's Squash

Building Our House by Jonathan Bean

My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood by Tameka Fryer Brown, illustrated by Shane W. Evans

Sophie’s Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf

This Is the Rope: A Story From the Great Migration 15929160

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by James Ransome

Year of the Jungle: Memories from the Home Front by Suzanne Collins, illustrated by James Proimos

 

HIGHLY COMMENDED TITLES

Big Snow Max and the Tag-Along Moon Niño Wrestles the World

Big Snow by Jonathan Bean

Max and the Tag-Along Moon by Floyd Cooper

Nino Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales

The Silver Button When No One is Watching

The Silver Button by Bob Graham

When No One Is Watching by Eileen Spinelli, illustrated by David A. Johnson

2014 Winners of the Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award

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dolly gray medal

 

The eighth biennial Dolly Gray Award Winners have been announced for 2014.  They are awarded to the best books for children and young adults that “authentically portray individuals with developmental disabilities.”

Here are the winners:

Intermediate Award

Remember Dippy

Remember Dippy by Shirley Reva Vernick

 

Young Adult Award

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks