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Check out these Award Winning Books:

	2009 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Winner: MORIBITO: GUARDIAN OF THE SPIRIT by Nahoko Uehashi The wandering warrior Balsa is hired to protect Prince Chagum from both a mysterious monster and the prince's father, the Mikado. Honor Book for Teens: TIGER MOON by Antonia Michaelis Sold to be the eighth wife of a rich and cruel merchant, Safia, also called Raka, tries to escape her fate by telling stories of Farhad the thief, his companion Nitish the white tiger, and their travels across India to retrieve a famous jewel that will save a kidnapped princess from becoming the bride of a demon king.

	2009 Pura Belpré Award Author Award Winner: THE SURRENDER TREE: POEMS OF CUBA'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM by Margarita Engle Engle’s hauntingly beautiful free verse prose breathes life into this finely crafted story that illuminates Cuba’s fight for independence from Spain in the 1800s. Told from the perspective of four distinct voices, Engle intricately weaves a harrowing, heart-wrenching story of enslavement, survival, determination and heroism. Author Honor Book for Teens: REACHING OUT by Francisco Jiménez During his college years, the very family solidarity that allowed Francisco to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family behind when he goes to Santa Clara University, but while Francisco is there, his father abandons the family and returns to Mexico. This is the story of how Francisco coped with poverty, with his guilt over leaving his family financially strapped, with his self-doubt about succeeding academically, and with separation.

	2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award Laurie Halse Anderson is the winner of the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award for: CATALYST Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death. FEVER 1793 In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. SPEAK A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.

	2009 Coretta Scott King Award Honor Books for Teens: KEEPING THE NIGHT WATCH by Hope Anita Smith A thirteen-year-old African American boy chronicles what happens to his family when his father, who temporarily left, returns home and they all must deal with their feelings of anger, hope, abandonment and fear. BECOMING BILLIE HOLIDAY by Carole Boston Weatherford Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday looks back on her early years in this fictional memoir written in verse.

	2009 Schneider Family Book Award Winner for Ages 11-13: WAITING FOR NORMAL by Leslie Connor Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York. Winner for Ages 13-18: JERK, CALIFORNIA by Jonathan Friesen Plagued by Tourette's syndrome and a stepfather who despises him, Sam meets an old man in his small Minnesota town who sends him on a road trip designed to help him discover the truth about his life.

More Award Winners:

	Alex Awards - Adult Books with Teen Appeal	Odyssey Award Winners
	Blue Spruce Award Winners	Michael L. Printz Award Winners
	William C. Morris Award Winners	Teens' Top 10
	National Book Award Winners	Top Ten Best Books
	Newbery Award Winners	The Cybils (The Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards)
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Alex Awards
Adult books with teen appeal.

Batchelder Award
Awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

Pura Belpré Award
presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Best Books for Young Adults
Selected yearly for high literary quality.

Books for the Teen Age (PDF)
New York Public Library’s annual list of the best new teen titles.

Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
Teens across Colorado nominate and vote for their favorite titles.

Coretta Scott King Book Award
Honor African-American authors and illustrators who create outstanding books for children and young adults.

Cybils
The children's and young adult bloggers' literary awards.

Margaret A. Edwards Award
Honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting.

Great Graphic Novels for Teens
Selected by the Young Adult Library Services Association

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Awarded yearly to the best of the bunch.

Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
Wide variety of themed lists. Books chosen strictly based on how popular they are with teens.

Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Yearly selection of the best fun, quick, easy reads.

Reading Rants
Out of the ordinary booklists for teens!

Schneider Family Book Award
Honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.

YALSA Awards
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), presents a variety of teen book awards each year.

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