The Big Winners of 2013 - For Teens
The American Library Association announced the winners of the 2013 Youth Media Awards (William C. Morris Award, Michael L. Printz Award, Coretta Scott King Book Award, etc.) this morning.
Look below to see if your favorite book was recognized. Drop by your favorite Richland Library location to get your hands on these or other great books.
Leah B. Says: YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Amazon Says: In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery l...
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Leah B. Says: Finalist - YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Amazon Says: "Your time is limited. . . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."--Steve Jobs From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for ado...
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Leah B. Says: Finalist - YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Amazon Says: B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into...
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Leah B. Says: Finalist - YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Amazon Says: Critically acclaimed nonfiction author Deborah Hopkinson pieces together the story of the TITANIC and that fateful April night, drawing on the voices of survivors and archival...
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Leah B. Says: Finalist - YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Amazon Says: We ve Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alalama, between May...
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Leah B. Says: Michael L. Printz Winner
Amazon Says: Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award This is the story of "Shorty"-a 15-year-old boy trapped in a collapsed hospital during the earthquake in Haiti. Surrounded b...
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Leah B. Says: Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Stonewall Book Award, Pura Belpré (Author) Award
Amazon Says: A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz.Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-...
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Leah B. Says: Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Amazon Says: Oct. 11th, 1943A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost t...
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Leah B. Says: Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Amazon Says: Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Dodger, a Printz Honor Book, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy's rise in a fantasy-inf...
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Leah B. Says: Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Amazon Says: The White Bicycle is the third stand-alone title in the Wild Orchid series about a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome. This installment chronicles Taylor Jane's travels to t...
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Leah B. Says: William C. Morris Award
Amazon Says: In her New York Times bestselling and Morris Award-winning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternative-medieval world to fantasy and science-fictio...
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Leah B. Says: Finalist - William C. Morris Award
Amazon Says: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco’s Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps th...
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Leah B. Says: Finalist - William C. Morris Award
Amazon Says: Finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award "Smart, honest and full of achingly real characters. And it made me laugh. What else would you want in a book?" —Me...
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Leah B. Says: Finalist - William C. Morris Award
Amazon Says: The oceans stopped working before Willo was born, so the world of ice and snow is all he's ever known. He lives with his family deep in the wilderness, far from the government...
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Leah B. Says: Finalist - William C. Morris Award
Amazon Says: Set in rural Montana in the early 1990s, emily m. danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a powerful and widely acclaimed YA coming-of-age novel in the tradition of t...
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Leah B. Says: Stonewall Book Award Honor Book
Amazon Says: In the wake of the post-9/11 sniper shootings, fragile love finds a stronghold in this intense, romantic novel from the author of Break and Invincible Summer.It's a ye...
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Leah B. Says: Stonewall Book Award Honor Book
Amazon Says: WINNER OF A 2013 STONEWALL HONOR! A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard’s murder on the world. On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twen...
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Leah B. Says: Stonewall Book Award Honor Book
Amazon Says: Do you feel lost? Confused? Alone? (Circle one): Yes or No. The Church of Blue can help. We are not a cult. $5 for a holy quest is a good deal. Since sixth grade, Debbie Wo...
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Leah B. Says: Pura Belpré (Author) Honor Book
Amazon Says: One of America’s most influential Hispanics -- 'Maria' on Sesame Street -- presents a powerful novel set in New York's El Barrio in 1969 There are two secrets Evelyn Serra...
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Leah B. Says: Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Amazon Says: Winner of the Mildred L. Batchelder medal for most oustanding children's book in translation. Escaping Nazi Germany on the kindertransport changes one girl's li...
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Leah B. Says: Batchelder Honor Book
Amazon Says: When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beiru...
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Leah B. Says: Batchelder Honor Book
Amazon Says: I was crazy. Crazy mad. That's how I felt when I turned in my AK-47 rifle. The commanding officer's growl still haunts me: "This gun is your god. You listen to the voice of yo...
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Leah B. Says: Schneider Family Book Award for teens (ages 13-18)
Amazon Says: A soldier returns home from Iraq forever changed in this poignant and pivotal novel from award-winning authors–one a veteran.Ben lives a charmed life—effortlessly l...
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Leah B. Says: King (Author) Honor Book
Amazon Says: A documentary novel of the life and work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem bookseller 'You can't walk straight on a crooked line. You do you'll break your leg. How can you walk straig...
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- American Library Association Press Release
American Library Association Announces 2013 Youth Media Award Winners - January 28, 2013