2011 Teen Book Award Winners!!
John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature
Call Number
Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool
Honor Book:
One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia
Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults
Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Honor Books:
Stolen, by Lucy Christopher
Please Ignore Vera Dietz, by A.S. King
Revolver, by Marcus Sedgwick
Nothing, by Janne Teller
Y.A. FIC King, A
Y.A. FIC Teller, J
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing African American author of
outstanding books for children and young adults.
One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams- Garcia
Honor Books:
Lockdown, by Walter Dean Myers
Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, by G. Neri
Y.A. FIC Rhodes, J
Y.A. 305.896 NER
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award
Zora and Me, by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon
Y.A. FIC Bond, V
Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the
disability experience
After Ever After, by J Sonnenblick Age (11-13)
Five Flavors of Dumb, by Antony John Teens (13-18)
J Sonnenblick, J
Y.A. FIC John, A
Alex Awards for the 10 best adults books that appeal to teen audiences:
The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel, by Alden Bell
Y.A. FIC Bell, A
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, by Aimee Bender Y.A. FIC Bender, A
The House of Tomorrow, by Peter Bognanni
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, by Helen Grant
Y.A. FIC Grant, H
The Lock Artist, by Steve Hamilton
Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok
Y.A. FIC Kwok, J
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to
Harvard, by Liz Murray
Y.A 362.74 MUR
The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To, by DC Pierson
2011 Teen Book Award Winners!!
Mildred L. Batchelder Award for an outstanding translated children’s book
Call Number
A Time of Miracles, by Anne-Laure Bondoux, transl.Y. Maudet
Y.A. FIC Bondaux, A
Honor Books
Departure Time, by Truus Matti and translated by Nancy Forest-Flier
Nothing, by Janne Teller and translated by Martin Aitken
Y.A. FIC Teller, J
Pura Belpre (Author) Award honoring a Latino writer whose children’s books best
portray, affirm and celebrate the Latino cultural experience
The Dreamer, by Pam Munoz Ryan
Y.A. FIC Ryan, P
Honor Books
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba, written by Margarita Engle
90 Miles to Havana, written by Enrique Flores-Galbis
Y.A. FIC Flores-Galbis, E
Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award given annually to Englishlanguage young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the GLBTQ experience.
Almost Perfect, by Brian Katcher
Honor Books
‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’, by John Green and David Levithan Y.A. FIC Green, J
Love Drugged, by James Klise
Freaks and Revelations, by Davida Willis Hurwin
The Boy in the Dress, by David Williams
William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by an author writing for teens
The Freak Observer, by Blythe Woolston
Honor Books
Hush, by Eishes Chayil
Guardian of the Dead, by Karen Healey
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer, by Lish McBride
Crossing the Tracks, by Barbara Stuber
Y.A. FIC Woolston, B
Y.A. FIC Chayil, E
Y.A. FIC McBride, L
Y.A. FIC Stuber, B
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best
nonfiction book published for young adults
Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing, by Ann Angel
Y.A. B Joplin, J
Honor Books
They Called Themselves the K. K. K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group, by
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Y.A. 322.4 BAR
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil
Rights Movement, by Rick Bowers
Y.A. 323.119 BOW
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories, by Paul Janeczko
Y.A. 327.73 JAN
Every bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates, by Jill
Rubalcaba and Peter Robershaw