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…
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…
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…
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…