By: Robin Brande,
on 6/19/2010
THANK YOU, MICHIGAN LIBRARIANS!!! I just found out that FAT CAT was named one of the Honor Books for this year’s Michigan Library Association’s Thumbs Up Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. How thrilled am I?? I NEED BIGGER CAPS!!!!!!! Thank you, Thumbs Up Committee Members. I am so very honored!!! Technorati Tags: Fat Cat, Fiction Awards, [...]
By: Karen Strong,
on 12/16/2009
In the SLJ Teen newsletter, I found out that the The William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalists have been announced.
According the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) website:
“The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first awarded in 2009, honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.”
Ash by Malinda Lo, published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
The Everafter by Amy Huntley, published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan, published by Houghton Mifflin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Hold Still by Nina LaCour, published by Dutton Children’s Books, a Division of Penguin Young Readers Group
You can check out more about the award and the finalists on the YALSA website.
AWESOME!
I’m not surprised: this means that Michigan librarians have good taste. Congratulations!!
Thanks a lot, Patrick and Steph Su! You’re so nice!