Category Archives: Awards
Time to vote for NPR’s Best-Ever Teen Novels
You remember last month when you had the agonizing task of nominating your top five young adult novels of all time? Well, the nominations have been tabulated and the NPR … Continue reading
What are the best young adult novels?
NPR wants your help in creating a list of the 100 best YA novels of all time. I’m not going to lie, this was tough. My first entry was as … Continue reading
ALA releases its Best Fiction for Young Adults list . . .
. . . and just like that, my TBR pile has exploded. If you don’t hear from me for a while, it’s probably only that the pile has collapsed on … Continue reading
Thoughts on the ALA Youth Media Awards
So, today was the day the American Library Association announced their youth media awards winners and honor recipients, which is kind of A Big Deal in the library and literary … Continue reading
Printz Award Speculation
School Library Journal’s Jonathan Hunt offers some of his picks for potential Printz award winners. I’ve only read one of the books he’s listed — Franny Billingsley’s Chime ( and … Continue reading
