Today is the big day for the American Library Association to announce its yearly awards. You all know about the Newbery, the Caldecott, and the Coretta Scott King Awards, but, as teens, you all should know about the Printz too! The Michael L. Printz Award is given for excellence in young adult literature. For 2006, the awards went to:
WINNER:
Looking for Alaska by John Green
HONOR BOOKS:
Black Juice by Margo Lanagan
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson
John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth by E. Partridge
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
The Newbery Award and Coretta Scott King Award also sometimes honor books of interest to teens or books that were published as YA. This year a YA book, Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins, won the Newbery Medal. Also, Princess Academy by Shannon Hale and Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti won Newbery Honors. Julius Lester won the Coretta Scott King Author Award for his YA book Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue. Author Honors went to A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson, Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes, and Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden. The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award went to the YA book Jimi & Me by Jamie Adoff.
The award books this year are a great mix of fiction, nonfiction, novels in verse, poetry, and short stories. There is something for everyone. Start reading!!
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