Well today was awards day at ALAMW12 in Dallas, TX.
The big award, The Michael L. Printz award went to:
By John Corey Whaley
Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Fellow Honors:
Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman and published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood and published by Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group Young Readers Group USA.
Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey and published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc.
Where Things Come Back
By John Corey Whaley
Also won the William C. Morris award for best debut.
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I'm actually surprised Blood Red Road wasn't nominated and Scorpio Races was. While I love Maggie's books, I didn't really see the literary weight of the book compared to the others. No surprise though that once again, genre fiction was pretty much shut out. :(
Smiles!
Lori