The Stonewall Book Awards — Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young
Adult Literature Award are selected by the American Library Association's (ALA) Stonewall Book Awards Committee of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT), the first professional GLBT organization of its kind in the United States, with support from the ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services.
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Adult Literature Award
The Stonewall Book Awards of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Round Table of ALA are given annually to English - language works of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience, and include the Stonewall Book Awards — Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's and Young
Adult Literature Award, the Stonewall Book Awards — Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the Stonewall Book Awards — Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award.
Stonewall Book Award — Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young
Adult Literature Award is given annually to English - language works of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.
Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young
Adult Literature Award given annually to English - language children's and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience:
FAW presents two annual awards:
an Adult Literature Award for literary fiction or nonfiction, and a Juvenile Literature Award for a children's / YA book.
For more information on the Morris Award or YALSA's other young
adult literature awards, please visit www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists.
Not exact matches
The five prizes are
awarded for their significant and lasting contribution to children's, young
adult and
adult science non-fiction
literature.
How I Live Now is an adaptation of the
award - winning novel from 2004 by Meg Rosoff, which took home the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (awarded from the British newspaper, «The Guardian») and the Michael L. Printz Award (from the American Library Association) for young - adult litera
award - winning novel from 2004 by Meg Rosoff, which took home the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (
awarded from the British newspaper, «The Guardian») and the Michael L. Printz
Award (from the American Library Association) for young - adult litera
Award (from the American Library Association) for young -
adult literature.
The Coretta Scott King Book
Awards honor African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young
adults that demonstrate sensitivity to the African American experience via
literature and illustration.
The Michael L. Printz
Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult litera
Award is an
award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult litera
award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young
adult literature.
The Wallace Foundation
awarded a competitive grant to UChicago CCSR in 2013 to undertake the project, which included a review of relevant
literature spanning decades as well as interviews with national experts in research, policy and practice, and young people and the
adults who work with them in schools, programs and agencies throughout Chicago.
The world's largest
award for children and young
adult literature to be announced on March 27 Welcome...
Meg Rosoff won the 2005 Michael L. Printz
Award for young
adult literature for her first novel, How I Live Now, the story of a 15 - year - old girl who goes to live with relatives in England, only to find herself caught up in the outbreak of the third world war.
Caves, Cannons and Crinolines by Beverly Stowe McClure is an
Award - Winning Finalist in the 2012 Eric Hoffer Book
Award in the category Young
Adult, an
Award - Winning Finalist in the Novella category of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book
Awards and also an
Award - Winning Finalist in the category of Teen
Literature Fiction in the 2011 Global eBook
Awards.
Together, Laura and her husband, Tom McNeal, are the authors of Crooked, winner of the California Book
Award for Juvenile
Literature and an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young
Adults; Zipped, winner of the PEN Center USA Literary
Award for Children's
Literature; Crushed (called «compelling» by Publishers Weekly); and The Decoding of Lana Morris, a Kirkus Reviews Best Young
Adult Book of the Year.
The Youth Media
Awards cover several areas and niches in children's and young
adult publishing, but the primary ones are the Michael C. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, The John Newbery Medal given to a distinguished work of American literature of children, and The Caldecott Medal given to a distinguished American picture book for chil
adult publishing, but the primary ones are the Michael C. Printz
Award for Excellence in Young
Adult Literature, The John Newbery Medal given to a distinguished work of American literature of children, and The Caldecott Medal given to a distinguished American picture book for chil
Adult Literature, The John Newbery Medal given to a distinguished work of American literature of children, and The Caldecott Medal given to a distinguished American picture book for
Literature, The John Newbery Medal given to a distinguished work of American
literature of children, and The Caldecott Medal given to a distinguished American picture book for
literature of children, and The Caldecott Medal given to a distinguished American picture book for children.
is a free app to help teens, parents, librarians, educators, and anyone who loves young
adult literature access to the past three years» of YALSA's
awards and lists on their smartphone.
Lisa Ko's The Leavers, was selected as the
Adult Fiction winner of the Asian / Pacific American
Award for
Literature for 2017 - 2018.
Since the first Michael L. Printz
Award, administered by YALSA and sponsored by Booklist, was
awarded in 2000, young
adult literature has continued to push beyond the boundaries of its genre and offer teen readers more sophisticated, rewarding, and original stories than ever before.
Mr. Patterson's
awards for
adult and children's
literature include the Edgar
Award, the International Thriller of the Year
Award, and the Children's Choice
Award for Author of the Year.
But putting all that aside, we love catching up with the winners of these
awards, so we spoke with Caldecott winner Dan Santat, Newbery winner Kwame Alexander and Printz winner Jandy Nelson about what it's like to be recognized as the best in children's and young
adult literature.
For more information on the Printz
Award, visit the Michael L. Printz
Award for Excellence in Young
Adult Literature Home Page.
On the other end of the scale, Blume won the Margaret A. Edwards
Award in 1996, an ALA lifetime achievement award recognizing an author and her body of work for «significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.&r
Award in 1996, an ALA lifetime achievement
award recognizing an author and her body of work for «significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.&r
award recognizing an author and her body of work for «significant and lasting contribution to young
adult literature.»
Throughout her career she has been especially interested in young
adult literature, chairing both the Best Books for Young
Adults Committee and the first Printz
Award Committee.
For those of us in the library and publishing worlds who work with
adult literature, an
award like the Carnegie Medal has been a long time coming.
Here's my pick for this year's Printz
Award — the highest award in young adult literature — plus a few of my other favorite YA books from
Award — the highest
award in young adult literature — plus a few of my other favorite YA books from
award in young
adult literature — plus a few of my other favorite YA books from 2015.
The young
adult novel, narrated by the character Death, has received tremendous acclaim, including a Printz Honor, the Book Sense Book of the Year
Award for Children's
Literature and the Sydney Taylor Book
Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries.
The Margaret A. Edwards
Award, established in 1988, honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young
adult literature.
For more information, visit the Michael L. Printz
Award for Excellence in Young
Adult Literature Home Page.
In fact, the number one title is the National Book
Award longlist title for Young People
Literature, The Hate U Give, which received nearly twice as many votes as the number two title, Celeste Ng's novel for
adults, Little Fires Everywhere.
Although Stephanie Kuehn is a masterful storyteller, I don't think Complicit has quite the same heart and poignancy of her debut novel, Charm & Strange; the winner of the William C. Morris
Award for debut young -
adult literature.
In odd years, the
award is presented to a practitioner for substantial contributions through active engagement with youth using
award - winning African American
literature for children and / or young
adults, via implementation of reading and reading related activities / programs.
Walter Dean Myers is a virtual icon in young
adult literature two - time winner of the Newbery
Award; four - time winner of the Coretta Scott King
Award; and author of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose.
She is the author of poetry collection Lessons on Expulsion and a young
adult novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, a 2017 finalist for the National Book
Award for Young People's
Literature.
After the event, Powell remarked on his incredible (though bittersweet) ALA weekend as March: Book Three is honored with a total of four
awards: the Coretta Scott King, the Michael L. Printz
Award for literary excellence in young
adult literature, the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal and the YALSA Nonfiction
Award.
This is an
award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young
adult literature.
(Jewish Publication Society) 2009 Sophie Brody Honor Book, an
award presented by the American Library Association «to the author of the most distinguished contribution to Jewish literature (fiction or non-fiction) for adults published in the United States in the preceding year» Finalist National Jewish Book Award USABookNews.com Award, award - winning finalist in the Popular Culture category of the National Best Book 2009 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News Booklist Editors» Choice: Books for Youth Winner for 2009 Chris Kalb (illustrator) TRAY GO
award presented by the American Library Association «to the author of the most distinguished contribution to Jewish
literature (fiction or non-fiction) for
adults published in the United States in the preceding year» Finalist National Jewish Book
Award USABookNews.com Award, award - winning finalist in the Popular Culture category of the National Best Book 2009 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News Booklist Editors» Choice: Books for Youth Winner for 2009 Chris Kalb (illustrator) TRAY GO
Award USABookNews.com
Award, award - winning finalist in the Popular Culture category of the National Best Book 2009 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News Booklist Editors» Choice: Books for Youth Winner for 2009 Chris Kalb (illustrator) TRAY GO
Award,
award - winning finalist in the Popular Culture category of the National Best Book 2009 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News Booklist Editors» Choice: Books for Youth Winner for 2009 Chris Kalb (illustrator) TRAY GO
award - winning finalist in the Popular Culture category of the National Best Book 2009
Awards, sponsored by USA Book News Booklist Editors» Choice: Books for Youth Winner for 2009 Chris Kalb (illustrator) TRAY GOURMET
(Michael L.) Printz
Award for Excellence in Young
Adult Literature — previous Printz winners.
The Asian Pacific American Librarians Association presents
awards to books that promote Asian / Pacific American culture and heritage in three categories:
Adult Non-Fiction, Illustration in Children's
Literature, and Young
Adult Literature.
The 19
awards — selected by committees from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table, and the Young
Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)-- highlight the very best in
literature and media for children and teens, including the honorees for the 2013 Caldecott and Newbery
awards, the Coretta Scott King
awards, the Stonewall
awards, and the Morris and Printz
awards, among others.
Since her first novel was published in 2000, Carol's fifteen epic fantasy novels have earned national and international acclaim, including the Geffen
Award, the Prism
Award, multiple Colorado Book
Awards, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy
Award for
Adult Literature.
Jacqueline is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards
Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young
adult literature, the winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book
Award, and was the 2013 United States nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen
Award.
Melina Marchetta is the acclaimed author of young
adult novels including Saving Francesca and Jellicoe Road, which won the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Litera
adult novels including Saving Francesca and Jellicoe Road, which won the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz
Award for Excellence in Young
Adult Litera
Adult Literature.
Woodson has also won a Margaret A. Edwards
Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young
adults, a St. Katharine Drexel
Award and an Anne V. Zarrow
Award for Young Readers»
Literature.
CHICAGO — The Young
Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) named Susan Bohn the winner of the 2010 MAE
Award for Best
Literature Program for Teens.
ATLANTA — «March: Book Three,» created by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell published by Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing, has won the 2017 Michael L. Printz
Award for Excellence in Young
Adult Literature.
CHICAGO — The Young
Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA),
awarded Lauri Vaughan, upper school campus librarian at The Harker School, Upper School Campus in San Jose, CA, the 2017 Margaret A. Edwards (MAE)
Award for Best
Literature Program for Teens.
In odd years, the
award is presented to a practitioner for substantial contributions through active engagement with youth using
award winning African American
literature for children and / or young
adults, via implementation of reading and reading related activities / programs.
She has won numerous
awards including a National Book
Award, Newbery Honor, Toronto Dominion Award, International White Raven, Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year, short - listed for Germany's most prestigious literature award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work, and many ot
Award, Newbery Honor, Toronto Dominion
Award, International White Raven, Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book of the Year, short - listed for Germany's most prestigious literature award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work, and many ot
Award, International White Raven, Canadian Library Association's Young
Adult Book of the Year, short - listed for Germany's most prestigious
literature award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work, and many ot
award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Writer's Trust Vicky Metcalfe
Award for her body of work, and many ot
Award for her body of work, and many others.