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I got myself up at 7:45 to watch the ALA Youth Media Awards webcast. (Why do they do this so early, again?) I lost video at the announcement of the Printz winner, but fortunately I could still hear all of it. Congratulations to the middle grade & YA winners! (Here’s the complete list.)

John Newbery Medal for children’s lit: When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead (eeee!!!)
Michael L. Printz Award for YA lit: Going Bovine, by Libba Bray

Schneider Family Book Award for a YA “artistic expression of the disability experience”: Marcelo in the Real World, by Francisco X. Stork (yay!!)
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award: The Rock and the River, by Kekla Magoon
Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement by an African-American author: Walter Dean Myers
Margaret A. Edwards Award for “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature”: Jim Murphy, a non-fiction writer with whom I am not familiar, but who will no doubt be less controversial than Orson Scott Card was last year
May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture: Lois Lowry
YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction: Charles and Emma: the Darwin’s Leap of Faith, by Deborah Heiligman
Pura Belpre Award for a YA novel by a Latino/a author: Return to Sender, by Julia Alvarez
William C. Morris Award for YA by a first-time author: Flash Burnout, by L. K. Madigan
Mildred L. Batchelder Award for children’s lit translated from another language: A Faraway Island, by Annika Thor (Sweden)

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