JCPL Teens

JANUARY 13, 2011

Award Winning Books

The American Library Association’s awards for teen literature have been announced.

Michael L. Printz Award (for the best teen book of the year)

Winner: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Honors: Stolen by Lucy Christopher; Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King; Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick; and Nothing by Janne Teller, translated by Martin Aitken.

Margaret A. Edwards Award (for lifetime contribution in writing for young adults)

Winner: Terry Pratchett

Robert F. Sibert Award (for the most distinguished informational book)

Winner: Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop

Honors: Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca; and Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman.

William C. Morris Award (honoring a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens)

Winner: The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston

YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award

Winner: Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing by Ann Angel

Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature Award (for books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experience)

Winner: Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher

Honors: will grayson, will grayson by John Green and David Levithan; Love Drugged by James Klise; Freaks and Revelations by Davida Willis Hurwin; and The Boy in the Dress by David Walliams, illustrated by Quentin Blake.

Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production

Winner: The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex, narrated by Bahni Turpin

Honors: Alchemy and Meggy Swann by Karen Cushman, narrated by Katherine Kellgren; The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, narrated by Nick Podehl; Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly, narrated by Emily Janice Card and Emma Bering; and will grayson, will grayson by John Green and David Levithan, narrated by MacLeod Andrews and Nick Podehl.

Schneider Family Book Award (for exemplifying the disability experience)

Best middle school book winner: After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick

Best teen book winner: Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John

Pura Belpré Author Award (for a Latino/Latina writer whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience)

Winner: Pam Muñoz Ryan, author of The Dreamer, illustrated by Peter Sís

Honors: Ole! Flamenco written and illustrated by George Ancona; The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba by Margarita Engle; and 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis.

JHunt Award

Winner: Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta