Printz Award: Best Books for Young Adults

The Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults was announced on Monday:

See the complete list of winners at www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists 

“American Born Chinese” by Gene Luen Yang is the 2007 Printz Award winner. [A graphic novel!]
Four Printz Honor Books were named: 
“The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party” by M. T. Anderson
“An Abundance of Katherines” by John Green
“Surrender” by Sonya Hartnett
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak

Lois Lowry won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults

Teens Top Ten Books

It’s official!  Teens all over the nation have voted for their favorite books during Teen Read Week, and the winners are: 

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic Press, 2005).
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2005).
Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2005).
Rebel Angels by Libba Bray (Delacorte Press, 2005).
Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (Razorbill, 2005).
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2005).
Poison by Chris Wooding (Orchard Books, 2005).
Captain Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth by J.V. Hart (Laura Geringer Books, 2005).
If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? by Melissa Kantor (Hyperion Books for Children, 2005).
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2005)

MT Anderson wins the National Book Award

And the winner is….   MT Anderson, author of books like Feed, Thirsty, and Burger Wuss has won the National Book Award (a big deal for literary types) for his book The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. I

You can get this book from the High School Collection at the Park Ridge Public Library… just ask at the Reader Services or YA Loft desk.

National Book Award

National Book Award Finalists for YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE (which pretty much means teens) have been announced:

M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party (Candlewick Press) Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death (Front Street Books/Boyds Mills Press) Patricia McCormick, Sold (Hyperion Books for Children) Nancy Werlin, The Rules of Survival (Dial/Penguin) Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (First Second/Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck)  These are supposed to be the best books of this year.  But here’s your chance to talk back.  Have you read any of them?  Are they good?  Bad?  Overrated?  Talk back here under comments: