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ALA Youth Media Awards 2014: Let’s Hear It for the Winners

January 29, 2014 by Sandie Leave a Comment

ALA Youth Media Awards 2014: Let’s Hear It for the Winners

Monday was Book Awards Day! We’d like to congratulate all of the winners of the 2014 ALA Youth Media Awards but especially to the YALSA section of the honorees, particularly the Michael L. Printz Award Winner: “Midwinterblood” by Marcus Sedgwick (Macmillan). I was at the gym when the awards were announced, so I had to call… 

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Filed Under: Features, Top Features Tagged With: authors, book awards, printz award, Rainbow Rowell

ALA Young Media Awards 2013: Surprises and Excitement

January 29, 2013 by Sandie 7 Comments

ALA Young Media Awards 2013: Surprises and Excitement

Yesterday was Book Awards Day! We’d like to congratulate all of the winners of the 2012 ALA Youth Media Awards but especially to the YALSA section of the honorees, particularly the 2012 Michael L. Printz Award Winner: “In Darkness” by Nick Lake. I know that I was not the only one expecting “The Fault in Our… 

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Filed Under: Features, Top Features Tagged With: authors, book awards, debut authors, selective collective

Editor’s Pick: “Where Things Come Back” by John Corey Whaley

April 25, 2012 by Diana 3 Comments

Editor’s Pick: “Where Things Come Back” by John Corey Whaley

Just when seventeen-year-old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town, it all disappears. . . . In the summer before Cullen’s senior year, a nominally-depressed birdwatcher named John Barling thinks he spots a species of woodpecker thought to be extinct since the 1940s in Lily, Arkansas. His rediscovery… 

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Filed Under: Editor's Pick, Favorites Tagged With: authors we love, book awards, John Corey Whaley

Awards Day Love and Books Challenge

January 24, 2012 by Sandie 6 Comments

Awards Day Love and Books Challenge

It’s Book Awards Day! Since we’re a YA site, we’d like to congratulate all of the winners of the 2012 ALA Youth Media Awards but especially to the 2012 Michael L. Printz Award Winner: “Where Things Come Back” by John Corey Whaley and Honor Books: “Why We Broke Up” by Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman… 

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Filed Under: Features Tagged With: book awards, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Maggie Stiefvater, Scorpio Races, TBR 2012

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