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Book Award Announcements


This morning, the American Library Association announced the winners for their Youth Book Awards. Here are the winners for the Young Adult Awards:

The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent.

This year's winner is Somebody Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer

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The Stonewall Award honors a book about the LGBT community.

The Honors of this year are:
Drama by Raina Telgemeir
Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman
Sparks by S. J. Adams

The Winner is Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Saenz

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The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values

The Honors of this year are:

Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller by Vaunda Nelson

The Winner is Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Davis Pinkney
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The Morris Award is given to first time authors

The Honors of this Year are:
Wonder Show by Hannah Rodgers
Love and Other Perishable items by Laura Buzo
After the Snow by S. D. Crockett
Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily Danforth

This year's Winner is Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

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The Excellence in Young Adult Non-Fiction Honors are:
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deboarh Hopkinson
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson

This Year's Winner is Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

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The Michael L. Printz award honors the best Young Adult Fiction novel of the year.

This Honors of this Year are:

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Senz
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Dodger by Terry Pratchett
White Bicycle by Brenna Beverley

This Year's Winner is In Darkness by Nick Lake



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