The 2012 ALA Youth Media Award Winners have been announced at the ALA Midwinter meeting in Dallas. The full list of award winners has been released by ALA and information about the awards can be found on the ALA website. You can even watch the recording of the announcements! Here’s some of the award winners, with links to them in the NExpress collection (if available). Feel free to use and adapt this post for your library website!
Newberry Award
- Medal: Dead End in Norvelt (Jack Gantos)
- Honor: Inside Out & Back Again (Thanhha Lai)
- Honor: Breaking Stalin’s Nose (Eugene Yelchin)
Caldecott Award
- Medal: A Ball for Daisy (Chris Raschka)
- Honor: Blackout (John Rocco)
- Honor: Grandpa Green (Lane Smith)
- Honor: Me . . . Jane (Patrick McDonnell)
Printz Award
- Winner: Where Things Come Back (John Corey Whaley)
- Honor: Why We Broke Up (Daniel Handler)
- Honor: The Returning (Christine Hinwood)
- Honor: Jasper Jones (Craig Silvey)
- Honor: The Scorpio Races (Maggie Stiefvater)
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award
- Winner: Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
- Honor: Eloise Greenfield, The Great Migration: Journey to the North
- Honor: Patricia C. McKissack, Never Forgotten
Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award
- Winner: Shane W. Evans, Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
- Honor: Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Schneider Family Book Awards
- Middle School Award (9-13): close to famous (Joan Bauer)
- Middle School Award (9-13): Wonderstruck: A Novel in Words and Pictures (Brian Selznick)
- Teen Award (14-18): The Running Dream (Wendelin Van Draanen)
Alex Awards (10 best adult books that appeal to teens)
- Big Girl Small (Rachel DeWoskin)
- In Zanesville (Jo Ann Beard)
- The Lover’s Dictionary (David Levithan)
- The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens (Brooke Hauser)
- The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
- Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
- Robopocalypse: A Novel (Daniel H. Wilson)
- Salvage the Bones (Jesmyn Ward)
- The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures (Caroline Preston)
- The Talk-Funny Girl (Roland Merullo)
William C. Morris Award (debut book by first-time author writing for teens)
- Winner: Where Things Come Back (John Corey Whaley)
- Finalist: Girl of Fire and Thorns (Rae Carson)
- Finalist: Paper Covers Rock (Jenny Hubbard)
- Finalist: Under the Mesquite (Guadalupe Garcia McCall)
- Finalist: Between Shades of Gray (Ruta Sepetys)
The full list of award winners has been released by ALA and information about the awards can be found on the ALA website. You can even watch the recording of the announcements!