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ALA youth media awards
27/1/14 11:45I didn't really read any middle-grade books or picture books this year, so there's a lot of stuff I'll be skipping over by necessity!
Two YA books got Coretta Scott King author honors, March: Book 1 by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, a graphic novel about John Lewis and the civil rights movement; and Darius and Twig by Walter Dean Myers. I wanted to get to both of them but didn't manage to. (I also didn't manage to get to the award winner, P.S. Be Eleven, the sequel to One Crazy Summer, which I loved.)
Rose Under Fire was selected as the best teen book for the Schneider Family Book Award for books about the experience of disability; on one hand it's a great book, and it's a great book in how it deals with trauma and recovery, and I'm happy that it was recognized for something this year, but it doesn't particularly center the experiences of disabled characters.
Handbook for Dragon Slayers won as the best middle-school book, and it sounds great.
The Pura Belpre author award went to Yacqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, which is a great book that touches on bullying and family relationships. The Lightning Dreamer got great buzz from a librarian colleague of mine, and it got an honor.
I read ZERO of the Stonewall winners and honor books this year, which makes me sad, but I'm really looking forward to reading Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, one of the two winners, about a trans boy who's a DJ at a community radio station. (Sad that If You Could Be Mine didn't get a nod, though!)
For the Printz award for best Young Adult book, Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick won. It's a really smart, thoughtful, beautifully written book about love and sacrifice being reincarnated or recapitulated across generations -- I'm not sure why I didn't get more behind it in my own Printz predictions; I think the big Printz bloggers were a bit dismissive of it and I went along with the crowd.
The honor books were Eleanor and Park (love!), The Kingdom of Little Wounds (which I skipped because it looked long, dense, and grim), Maggot Moon (which I just... didn't get?) and Navigating Early, which got a fair amount of Newbery buzz but I figured was too young for the Printz.
Interesting year!
Two YA books got Coretta Scott King author honors, March: Book 1 by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, a graphic novel about John Lewis and the civil rights movement; and Darius and Twig by Walter Dean Myers. I wanted to get to both of them but didn't manage to. (I also didn't manage to get to the award winner, P.S. Be Eleven, the sequel to One Crazy Summer, which I loved.)
Rose Under Fire was selected as the best teen book for the Schneider Family Book Award for books about the experience of disability; on one hand it's a great book, and it's a great book in how it deals with trauma and recovery, and I'm happy that it was recognized for something this year, but it doesn't particularly center the experiences of disabled characters.
Handbook for Dragon Slayers won as the best middle-school book, and it sounds great.
The Pura Belpre author award went to Yacqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, which is a great book that touches on bullying and family relationships. The Lightning Dreamer got great buzz from a librarian colleague of mine, and it got an honor.
I read ZERO of the Stonewall winners and honor books this year, which makes me sad, but I'm really looking forward to reading Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, one of the two winners, about a trans boy who's a DJ at a community radio station. (Sad that If You Could Be Mine didn't get a nod, though!)
For the Printz award for best Young Adult book, Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick won. It's a really smart, thoughtful, beautifully written book about love and sacrifice being reincarnated or recapitulated across generations -- I'm not sure why I didn't get more behind it in my own Printz predictions; I think the big Printz bloggers were a bit dismissive of it and I went along with the crowd.
The honor books were Eleanor and Park (love!), The Kingdom of Little Wounds (which I skipped because it looked long, dense, and grim), Maggot Moon (which I just... didn't get?) and Navigating Early, which got a fair amount of Newbery buzz but I figured was too young for the Printz.
Interesting year!