2018 Book Awards!

The American Library Association has announced this year’s Youth Media Award Winners and honor books. Included are:

Michael L. Printz Award (excellence in literature for Young Adults)

• Winner: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

• Honors:
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Review)
  • Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
  • Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
  • Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

Coretta Scott King Award (recognizing African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults)

• Winner: Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

• Honors:
  • Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes
  • Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Schneider Family Book Award (for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience)

• Winner (Teens): You’re Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner

Stonewall Book Award–Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award (for English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience)

• Winner: Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert & The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

• Honors:
  • As the Crow Flies by Melanie Gillman
  • The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (Review)

William C. Morris Award (for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens) – Check out all the finalists here!

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults – Check out all the finalists here!

• Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award (for most distinguished informational book for children)

• Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimner

Odyssey Award (for best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States)

• Winner: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, read by Bahni Turpin