This morning, the Youth Media Awards were announced - the best of the past year's media created for children and young adults. Here's the full list of books, media, authors, and illustrators who were honored this year, and the list again with only the young adult winners.
The Printz and Nonfiction awards are a couple of the biggies, and we have copies of the starred books in the library.
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature for young adults
YALSA Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction
The Printz and Nonfiction awards are a couple of the biggies, and we have copies of the starred books in the library.
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature for young adults
- Winner: Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
- Honor: Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
- *Honor: The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal
- *Honor: Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
- Honor: Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
- Winner: The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb
- Finalist: Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd
- Finalist: Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II by Martin W. Sandler
- *Finalist: Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone
- Finalist: The President Has Been Shot! The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James L. Swanson