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The John Newbery Medal - The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. | |
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Newbery Medal Moon Over Manifest written by Clare Vanderpool
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The Randolph Caldecott Medal - The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. | |
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Caldecott Medal A Sick Day for Amos McGee illustrated by Erin E. Stead and written by Philip C. Stead
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Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award - The Margaret A. Edwards Award, established in 1988, honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. The annual award is administered by YALSA and sponsored by School Library Journal magazine. It recognizes an author's work in helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships, society, and in the world. |
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Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award Sir Terry Pratchett Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2009 for services to literature, Pratchett published his first short story when he was thirteen. A resident of Somerset, England, Pratchett has one daughter, a wife, and many cats. He has published more than fifty books and his works have been translated into thirty-six languages. |
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Michael L. Printz Award - The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association. | |
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Printz Medal Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi Printz Honors Stolen by Lucy Christopher Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King Revolver written by Marcus Sedgwick Nothing written by Janne Teller |
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Coretta Scott King Award - The Coretta Scott King Book Awards honor African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults that demonstrate sensitivity to "the African American experience via literature and illustration." The books - fiction or nonfiction - must have been published in the year prior to the award. |
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Coretta Scott King Book Awards Author Award Winner One Crazy Summer written by Rita Williams-Garcia Author Honors Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri Illustrator Award Winner Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier and written by Laban Carrick Hill Illustrator Honors Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix illustrated by Javaka Steptoe and written by Gary Golio |
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John Steptoe New Talent Author - From the ALA Web site: "The award...honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children." |
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John Steptoe New Talent Author Kekla Magoon author of The Rock and the River |
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Batchelder Award - The Batchelder Award is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States. |
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Sibert Award - The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal is awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in English during the preceding year. The award is named in honor of Robert F. Sibert, the long-time President of Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. of Jacksonville, Illinois. ALSC administers the award. | |
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