In the spring issue of YALS, you’ll find an easy-to-reference listing of all the YALSA award winners and book and media lists announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Since ebooks are on the rise, I thought I’d take a look at which of the winners are currently available as ebooks and which are available for libraries on OverDrive.
Counting the winners and honors of the awards (except for Odyssey) and the top ten books on the Best Fiction, Quick Picks, and Popular Paperback lists, we end up with 50 unique titles. Of those, 37 are available as ebooks that can be purchased through the usual channels including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, and Google Books. The only titles that aren’t available electronically are non-fiction titles, graphic novels, and older fiction titles. Of the 37 ebooks, 20 are available for libraries to lend in OverDrive, according to their search engine.
As the ebook market continues to grow, I expect we will see more backlist titles become available, while full-color ereaders and tablet computers will allow graphic-intensive books to be offered electronically. Whether or not more ebooks will be available for library lending, however, remains to be seen. I hope that next year, more of the award-winning and noteworthy books honored by YALSA will be available to as many readers as possible in their desired reading format.
Alex Awards
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Available as an ebook | Available on OverDrive |
| Big Girl Small | Rachel DeWoskin | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2011 | x | |
| In Zanesville | Jo Ann Beard | Little, Brown & Company | 2011 | x | |
| The Lover’s Dictionary | David Levithan | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2011 | x | x |
| The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens | Brooke Hauser | Free Press | 2011 | x | |
| The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | Doubleday | 2011 | x | x |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Crown Publishers | 2011 | x | x |
| Robopocalypse: A Novel | Daniel H. Wilson | Doubleday | 2011 | x | x |
| Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward | Bloomsbury USA | 2011 | x | x |
| The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures | Caroline Preston | Ecco | 2011 | ||
| The Talk-Funny Girl | Roland Merullo | Crown Publishers | 2011 | x | x |
Edwards Award
| Title | Author | Publisher |
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By: Beth,
on 5/16/2012
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There’s a profusion of pollen and awards in the air. It must be springtime. ‘Tis the season that YALSA rolls out the award announcements for the Printz, the Morris, the Edwards, the Odyssey, and more; the Spring issue of YALS is devoted to awards, the winners, and the speeches. But even so, in the flurry of awards that get announced in the late winter and early spring, it can still be easy to overlook a few. But don’t forget Alex!
Each year, the Alex Awards committee chooses ten books written for adults that are judged to have particular appeal to young adults between the ages of 12 and 18. These books are fiction and non-fiction, well-known and not. They encompass pretty much every genre and also include literary fiction, and the tone can range from dark to side-clutchingly funny. The non-fiction titles have tended to skew towards adventure, history, and modern society. Some books may be familiar to you, such as this year’s winner The Night Circus, and some may not be, such as another 2012 winner, Salvage the Bones. Here’s a link to the complete list of this year’s Alex Awards. And while you’re there, take some time to go back through the older Alex lists. You’ll find a mixture of now-classic crossovers such as Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, Dianne Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale, and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. (A small piece of trivia: Neil Gaiman is the only author—-so far-—to make the list twice: in 2000 for Stardust and in 2006 for Anansi Boys.) So how can you use the Alex Awards? 1. For some of your more advanced, curious, or sophisticated teen readers, who may be more challenging to do readers’ advisory for, these awards are a boon. The Alex titles are a rich source of interesting and more complex reading material, which is also still emotionally appealing and accessible to teen readers. 2. Don’t forget to add them to your teen booklists (print or digital). I usually include a section of related or crossover adult titles at the end of my teen booklists and the Alex lists are an excellent place to start. 3. Familiarize yourself with them in the name of readers’ advisory and collection development. I always make a point of taking a look at all of the Alex Award winners and also checking to see if my system owns copies (and if so, how many). The winning writers may have other titles that would make good recommendations or read-alikes that would have teen appeal as well. Crossing teen and adult readers over into each other’s sections is always fun regardless of the direction. (And don’t forget that these still make excellent suggestions for adult readers, too.) 4. Add some more books to your own towering stack of books to be read. I try to read several of the Alex winners every year and have been introduced to titles and authors I might not have come across otherwise. And I’ve read many books that I’ve loved and still recommend to friends, family, and patrons whenever the opportunity presents itself. (Soulless, Persepolis, The Eyre Affair, Gil’s All-Fright Diner, The Spellman Files, and The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, to name a just a few.) Several of this year’s winners are on my personal summer reading list. So if you’re not sure where to begin in adult fiction these days or you’ve simply enjoyed as man Add a Comment
By: Bianca Schulze,
on 1/10/2011
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By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review As announced by the American Library Association (ALA), the Alex Awards represent the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences:
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By: Lizzy Burns,
on 1/20/2010
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Information from the ALA's Press Release for the Youth Media Awards. With, when applicable, my comments, including links to reviews or quotes. And I'm going to try to read all the books below I haven't read yet!
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By: Aline Pereira,
on 1/23/2009
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The American Library Association (ALA) will provide a free live Webcast of its national announcement of the top books and media for children and young adults on January 26 at 7:45 a.m. MT. You can also twitter the awards, and receive live updates on award winners as they are announced during the ceremony. In addition, the Youth Media Awards has a home on Facebook which features the RSS feed from the Youth Media Awards Twitter site as well as has videos, photos, and information about the awards. Awards announced on January 26, 2009 include:
The press release announcing all of the winners will be posted in the Youth Media Awards Press Kit prior to 10:30 a.m. MT. These award announcements are made as part of the ALA Midwinter Meeting, which brings together more than 10,000 librarians, publishers, authors and guests in Denver, Colorado from January 23 to 28.
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by Grace Lin. Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers.
by Rodman Philbrick. The Blue Sky Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc.
, illustrated and written by Jerry Pinkney. Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers.
, illustrated by Marla Frazee, written by Liz Garton Scanlon. Beach Lane Books.