Literary Award Winners

The American Library Association today announced the top books, audiobooks, and video for children and young adults. Here are the 2010 literary award winners in young adult categories:

Michael L. Printz Award winner: "Going Bovine" by Libba Bray

Michael L. Printz Honor Books:
1. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
2. The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
3. Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
4. Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes

Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement awarded to Walter Dean Myers

Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience, teen award winner: Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork.

William C. Morris Award honoring a book written by a first-time author for young adults: Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan

Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults: Jim Murphy

YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding children's book translated from a foreign language, honor book: Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi

Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences:
1. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
2. The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff
3. Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr.
4. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
5. The Kids are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch and Dan Welch
6. The Magicians by Lev Grossman
7. My Abandonment by Peter Rock
8. Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel by Gail Carriger
9. Stitches: a Memoir by David Small
10. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson

New YA books!!

Here's a list of new YA titles in the library. Check them out:

Fiction:

• Raven Summer by David Almond
• The Brothers Story by Katherine Sturtevant
• Little Black Lies by Tish Cohen
• Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga
• Goth Girl Rising by Barry Lyga
• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
• Betrayed: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Chosen: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Hunted: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Marked: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Tempted: A House of Night Novel by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
• Children of the Sea. 1 by Daisuke Igarashi
• Girl in the Arena: a novel containing intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril by Lise Haines
• The Middle of Everywhere by Monique Polak
• The Summer I Got a Life by Mark Fink
• Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore


Nonfiction:

• My Anxious Mind: A Teens Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic by Michael A. Tompkins & Katherine A. Martinez
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: the Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan
• Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 The Authorized Adaptation by Tim Hamilton