ALA Youth Media Awards Announced Today

The ALA Youth Media Awards were announced this morning and the winners are: 

(My list is selective. For the full list click here)

1. Michael L. Printz Award (Best YA literature of the year) 

• Award Winner: The Collectors: Stories, edited by A.S. King
• Honor books: Fire From the Sky by Moa Backe Astot
• The Girl I Am, I Was, and Will Never Be: a Speculatie Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney
• Salt the Water by Candice Iloh
• Gather by Kenneth Cadow

2. Schneider Family Book Award (Teen (14-18) living with a disability)

• Winner: Forever is Now by Mariama Lockington

3. Alex Awards - 10 Best adult books that appeal to teen audiences 

• “Bad Cree,” by Jessica Johns
• “Chain-Gang All-Stars,” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• “Chlorine,” by Jade Song, published by William Morrow
• “Fourth Wing,” by Rebecca Yarros
• “The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph,” by Oksana Masters
• “I Will Greet the Sun Again,” by Khashayar J. Khabushani
• “Maame,” by Jessica George 
• “Starter Villain,” by John Scalzi
• “The Talk,” by Darrin Bell
• “Whalefall,” by Daniel Kraus

4. Margaret A. Edwards Award (An author who has made a significant contribution to YA or Children's Lit)

• Name of winning author: Neal Shusterman

5. Stonewall Children's and Young Adult Literature (LGBTQ+) :

•    Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian

6. William C. Morris Award (First YA novel by author)

•  Award winner: Rez Ball by Byron Graves

7. YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults 

• Award winner: Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

8. Coretta Scott King Book Award (African American Author) 

• Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi

9. Coretta Scott King Author-Steptoe New Talent

•     There Goes the Neighborhood by Jade Adia

10. Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

•     An American Story by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Dare Coulter

11. Pura Belpre (Latinx Author)

•  Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín

12. Sibert Informational  Book Award (Distinguished Informational books) 

• The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day and illustrated by Brett Helquist

13. Mildred Batchelder Award (Translated into English)

•  Award Winner:  Houses with a Story:  A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore. Originally published in Japanese as “Houses with a Story,” by Seiji Yoshida, illustrated by Seiji Yoshida, translated by Jan Mitsuko Cash.

14. Children's Literature Legacy Award (An author or illustrator whose work has had a substantial and lasting effect on children's literature) 

• Winning author: Pam Munoz Ryan

15. Newbery Medal (Most outstanding contribution to children's literature)

•       Medal winner: The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

16. Caldecott Medal (Most outstanding illustrated children's book)

• Award Winner: Big by Vashti Harrison

17. The Sydney Taylor Award (Jewish experience)

• Award for Teen Book winner: The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold

18.  American Indian Youth Literature award

• Award Winner for YA book: Rez Ball by Byron Graves

19.  Asian/Pacific American Literature Award

• YA Award winner: I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom by Shannon C. F. Roger

Highlighted books are those I've read. Now that I'm retired as a teen librarian I confess I am reading less and less YA titles. But now that I am a grandmother I am reading many more children's books. As a Cybils Judge for Nonfiction several of the titles I have read this year, I've read in the role.

-Anne