National Youth Book Awards Announced today

Post date: Jan 28, 2013 3:53:27 PM

Book awards, such as the Printz, Alex, Odyssey, Newbery awards are announced at the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference in Seattle this morning, 10am Central time. I will keep you posted about the winners.

Stonewall Book Award Winner and Pura Belpre Winner: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Saenz; Coretta Scott King Award Winner: Hand in Hand, by Andrea Davis Pinkney; Margaret A Edwards Award Winner: Tamora Pierce; William C. Morris Debut Award: Serafina, by Rachel Hartman; YALSA Nonfiction Winner and Robert F. Sibert Medal Winner: Bomb!: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, by Steve Sheinkin; Caldecott Medal Winner: This is Not My Hat, by Jon Klassen; John Newbery Medal Winner: The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate; Mildred Bacheldor Award Winner: My Family for the War, by Anne C. Voorhoeve; Odyssey: The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green; Michael Printz Winner: In Darkness, by Nick Lake; Andrew Carnegie Award for Notable Children's Videos: Anna, Emma, and the Condors and the Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award Winner: Andrea Davis Pinkney.