Project 1.4Young Adult Book & Media Awards

LM512 - Young Adult & Children’s LiteratureDr. Betty J. Morris

Jacksonville State UniversityJune 19, 2014

Cari Golden, Rhonda Nolin, & Suzanne Sullins

Young Adult Book & Media Awards

• Printz Award

• Margaret A. Edwards Award

• William C. Morris Debut Award

• YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonficton

• National Book Award

• Scott O’Dell Award

• Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Novel

Printz Award

Purpose

Printz Award

The Printz Award is given annually to the best book written for teens. This award is solely based on its literary merit. The award is in honor of Michael L. Printz a Topeka, Kansas school librarian as well as a marketing consultant for Econo-Clad. He was also an active member of YALSA. Michael L. Printz had a passion for reading and for the authors who wrote literature for young adults. He demonstrated this passion by initiating an author-in-residency program in his high school.

Criteria for Selection

Printz Award

In order to qualify for the Michael L. Printz Award, a book must:•Be either fiction or non-fiction.•Must have been published between January 1 and December 31 of the year preceding announcement of the award.•A title must have been designated by its publisher as being either a young adult book or one published for the age range that YALSA defines as "young adult."•Works of joint authorship or editorship are eligible.•Books previously published in another country are eligible.•Does not require the presence of the winning author.•If no title is deemed sufficiently meritorious, no award will be given that year.

Date of Origin

Printz Award

The award was first given in 2000 to Walter Dean Myers for Monster.

Sponsor/Administrator

Printz Award

The Printz Committee names up to four honor books which represent the best writing in young adult literature. The Committee shall consist of a chair, eight members, a consultant from the staff of Booklist, and an administrative assistant if the Chair requests. This award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.

Prominent Recipients

Printz Award

2012 Winner: In Darkness by Nick Lake2007 Winner: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

2006 Winner: Looking for Alaska by John Green2004 Winner: The First Part Last by Angela Johnson

2002 Winner: Step From Heaven by An Na

2012 2007 2006 2004 2002

Margaret A. Edwards Award

Purpose

Margaret A. Edwards Award

The Margaret A. Edwards Award honors an author and his/her specific body of work for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. It recognizes an author’s work for helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in society, relationships, and in the world.

Margaret A. Edwards was an administrator of young adult programs for over thirty years at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. She spent her professional life bringing young adults and book together. She also pioneered outreach services for teenagers and established a training program for librarians beginning their work with adolescents.

Criteria for Selection

Margaret A. Edwards Award

•Author may be single or co-author.•The book(s) should help adolescents to become aware of themselves and to answer their quest ions about their role and importance in relationships, society and in the world.•The book(s) must be of acceptable literary quality.•The book(s) should be currently popular with a wide range of young adults around the country.

Date of OriginThe Margaret A. Edwards Award was established in 1988. The first award was given to S.E. Hinton for The Outsiders, That Was Then This Is Now, Rumble Fish, and Tex.

Margaret A. Edwards Award

Sponsor/Administrator

Margaret A. Edwards Award

This annual award is sponsored by School Library Journal and is given out by YALSA.

A five member committee chooses the recipient.

Prominent Recipients

Margaret A. Edwards Award

Judy Blume for Forever - 1996Lois Lowry for The Giver - 2007

Orson Scott Card for Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow - 2008Susan Cooper for The Dark Is Rising sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwich; The Grey King; Silver On The Tree - 2012

2007 20081996

2012

William C. Morris Debut Award

PurposeThe award is named after William C. Morris, an advocate for the marketing of children and young adult literature. The purpose of the Young Adult Library Services Association award is to celebrate the accomplishments of a first-time author’s debut book that has made a strong impact on young adult and teen readers.

William C. Morris Debut Award

Criteria for SelectionEligibility:1. The award and honor book winner(s) must be authors of original young adult works of

fiction in any genre, nonfiction, poetry, a short story collection, or graphic work.2. The award winner(s) must not have previously published a book for any audience. Books

previously published in another country, however, may be considered if an American edition has been published during the period of eligibility.

3. Works of joint authorship are eligible, but only if all contributors meet all other criteria. 4. Books must have been published between January 1 and December 31 of the year

preceding announcement of the award.5. Edited works and anthologies are not eligible.6. The short list may consist of up to five titles.7. The award may be given posthumously provided the other criteria are met.8. To be eligible, a title must have been designated by its publisher as being either a young

adult book or one published for the age range that YALSA defines as "young adult," i.e., 12 through 18. Books published for adults or for younger children are not eligible.

9. To be eligible, a title must be widely available in the US to libraries and teens.10. Titles that are self-published, published only in eBook format, and/or published from

a publisher outside of the US will not be considered eligible until the first year the book is available in print or distributed through a US publishing house. 

Criteria:1. This award recognizes excellence by a first time author writing for young adults.2. The winning title must exemplify the highest standards of young adult literature and must

be well written. The book’s components [story, voice, setting, accuracy, style, characters, design, format, theme, illustration, organization, etc.] should be of high merit.

3. Popularity is not the criterion for this award, nor is the award based on the message or content of the book.

4. The book must have teen appeal or have the potential to appeal to teen readers.

William C. Morris Debut Award

Date of OriginThe award was first awarded in 2009 to

Elizabeth C. Bunce for A Curse Dark as Gold

William C. Morris Debut Award

Sponsor/Administrator

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) administers the award. It is administered by a committee of nine YALSA members including the chair, plus an administrative assistant if requested by the chair. The Vice President/President Elect will appoint the chair and eight members of the committee. The committee members that attend the Midwinter committee meetings will be eligible to vote. Committee members must read a large variety of the books eligible for nomination. Members must attend all meetings and participate in discussions via a closed electronic discussion list.

William C. Morris Debut Award

Prominent Recipients2014 Winner: Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn2 0 13 W i n n e r : Se raph i na b y R a c h e l H a r t m a n 2012 Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley 2011 Winner: The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston2 010 W i n n e r : F lash Burnou t b y L . K . M a d i g a n

2009 Winner: A Curse Dark As Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce

200920102011201220132014

William C. Morris Debut Award

YALSA Award forExcellence in Nonfiction

Purpose

The purpose of the award is to honor the best nonfiction book for young adult readers published during a November 1 - October 31 publishing year; to promote the number of nonfiction books published for and read by young adults. YALSA hopes to inspire a wider readership in the nonfiction genre and to become an authority in the field.

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

Criteria for Selection

The works considered for the award must be nonfiction written for a young adult (ages 12-18) audience of readers. The title must have been published during the preceding November 1 though October 31 year. All nonfiction print-forms are eligible for consideration, including graphic novels.

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

Date of Origin

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

The YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction was first given in 2010 to Deborah Heiligman for

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

Sponsor/Administrator

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) will administer the award by a committee of eight members, a chair, and a Booklist consultant. Four of the committee members will be selected by the membership of YALSA. The remaining four members and the Chair will be appointed by the President-Elect of YALSA.

Prominent Recipients

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction

2014 Winner: The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorius Nazi by Neal Bascomb 2013 Winner: Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin2012 Winner: The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin2011 Winner: Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing by Ann Angel2010 Winner: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman.

20102011201220132014

National Book Award

Purpose

National Book Award

The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America.

Criteria for Selection

National Book Award

All books must be published by U.S. publishers located in the United States between December 1st and November 30th. All authors must be U.S. citizens.

The following are eligible:• Full-length books of fiction and nonfiction.• Collections of short stories and collections of essays by one author.• Collected and selected poems by one author.• Books by authors who are living at the commencement of the eligibility year.

(December 1st)• Self-published books, provided that the author/publisher also publishes titles by

other authors.The following are NOT eligible:• English translations of books originally written in other languages.• Anthologies containing work written by multiple authors.• Reprints of books published in previous Award years. Exceptions may be made

for otherwise eligible books published outside the United States in the previous Award year, at the National Book Awards’ discretion.

• Books published through self-publishing services.

Date of Origin

National Book Award

Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. Over the years the National Book Award expanded, changed it’s name to The American Book Awards (TABA) and at one time gave a total of 28 prizes in 16 different categories. Operating as TABA, Finalists were chosen by a panel of publishers, booksellers, distributors, librarians, authors, and critics. It was soon decided that with so many awards, the impact of the award was greatly diminished. In 1987, the Board reestablished the National Book Award with an emphasis that the Awards were given to writers by writers. From 1996 until 2012, independent panels of five writers chose the National Book Award winners in four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. As of 2013, judging panels are no longer limited to writers, and now may include other experts in the field such as literary critics, librarians, and booksellers. One of the five Judges on each panel is selected as the panel chair.

Sponsor/Administrator

National Book Award

The National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization.

Prominent Recipients

National Book Award

Over a half-century since its inception, the National Book Awards continues to recognize the best of American literature, raising the cultural appreciation of great writing in the country while advancing the careers of both established and emerging authors who have helped shape the foundation of American literature.

• John Cheever (Fiction) • The Wapshot Chronicle, 1958• Ralph Ellison (Fiction) • Invisible Man, 1953• William Faulkner (Fiction)• A Fable, 1955• Charles Frazier (Fiction)• Cold Mountain, 1997• Lillian Hellman (NonFiction)• An Unfinished Woman, 1969• Charles Johnson (Fiction)• Middle Passage, 1990• Robert Lowell (Poetry) • Life Studies, 1960• Bernard Malamud (Fiction) • The Magic Barrel, 1959; The Fixer, 1967• Marianne Moore (Poetry) • Collected Poems, 1952• Flannery O’Connor (Fiction)• The Complete Stories, 1972• Walker Percy (Fiction) • The Moviegoer, 1962• Katherine Anne Porter (Fiction)• The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, 1966

Richard Powers (Fiction) The Echo Maker, 2006

E. Annie Proulx (Fiction) The Shipping News, 1993

Adrienne Rich (Poetry) Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1973;

An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1991; Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems, 2011

Philip Roth (Fiction) Goodbye Columbus, 1960;

Sabbath’s Theater, 1995Isaac Bashevis Singer (Children’s Literature)

A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw, 1970

Wallace Stegner (Fiction) The Spectator Bird, 1977

Lily Tuck (Fiction) The News from Paraguay, 2004

John Updike (Fiction) The Centaur, 1964; Rabbit is Rich, 1982

Alice Walker (Fiction) The Color Purple, 1983

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Scott O’Dell Award

Purpose

Scott O’Dell Award

The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a exemplary book published in the previous year for children or young adults.  Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers, particularly new authors, to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.

Criteria for Selection

Scott O’Dell Award

To be eligible for the award, a book must have been published as a book intended for children or young people, it must be set in the New World (Canada, Central or South America, or the United States), it must be published by a publisher in the United States, and it must be written in English by a citizen of the United States. Books published during each calendar year are eligible for the following year’s award.

Date of Origin

Scott O’Dell Award

In 1982, Scott O'Dell established The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. The first recipient was Elizabeth George in1984 for The Sign of the Beaver.  

Sponsor/Administrator

Scott O’Dell Award

Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers, particularly new authors, to focus on historical fiction. Each year the selection is made by the O'Dell Award Committee, which was headed from its inception in 1982 until her death in 2002 by Zena Sutherland, Professor Emeritus of Children's Literature at the University of Chicago. Currently, the Chair of the Scott O'Dell Awards Committee is Roger Sutton, Editor-in-Chief, The Horn Book.  He is assisted by Ann Carlson, Librarian, Oak Park and River Forest High School, and  Deborah Stevenson, Editor of The Bulletin and Director of the Center for Children's Books.

Prominent Recipients

Scott O’Dell Award

2014 - Kirkpatrick Hill for Bo at Ballard Creek2013 - Louise Erdrich for Chickadee 2012 - Jack Gantos for Dead End in Norvelt 2011 - Rita Williams Garcia for One Crazy Summer 2010 - Matt Phelan for The Storm in the Barn 2009 - Laurie Halse Anderson for Chains 2008 - Christopher Paul Curtis for Elijah of Buxton 2007 - Ellen Klages for The Green Glass Sea 2006 - Louise Erdrich for The Game of Silence 2005 - A LaFaye for Worth 2004 - Richard Peck for The River Between Us 2003 - Shelley Pearsall for Trouble Don't Last 2002 - Mildred D. Taylore for The Land 2001 - Janet Taylor for The Art of Keeping Cool 2000 - Miriam Bat-Ami for Two Suns in the Sky 1999 - Harriette Robinette for Forty Acres & Maybe a Mule

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1998 - Karen Hesse for Out of the Dust 1997 - Katherine Patterson for Jip, His Story 1996 - Theodore Taylor for The Bomb1995 - Graham Salisbury for Under the Blood Red Sun 1994 - Paul Fleischmann for Bull Run1993 - Michael Dorris for Morning Girl 1992 - Mary Downing Hahn for Stepping on Cracks 1991 - Pieter Van Raven for A Time of Troubles 1990 - Carolyn Reeder for Shades of Gray 1989 - Lyll Becca de Jenkins for The Honorable Prison 1988 - Patricia Beatty Charley Skedaddle 1987 - Scott O'Del for Streams to the River, River to the Sea 1986 - Patricia Maclachlan for Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985 - Avi for The Fighting Ground 1984 - Elizabeth George for The Sign of the Beaver

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Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Novel

Purpose

Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Novel

The Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Novel Award (also called the Edgar’s Award) is presented annually by Mystery Writers of America. This award recognizes works of mystery written for ages twelve to eighteen, and grades eight through twelve.Edgar Allen Poe was one of the earliest practitioners of the short story. He is best known for his tales of mystery and is credited with contributing to the genre of science fiction. His works influenced literature in the United States and around the world.

Criteria for Selection

Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Novel

•The work must be published for the first time in the United States in the current year. Previously self-published works are ineligible, even if later (edited and) re-published by an approved publisher.•Foreign books may have an earlier copyright but the year of consideration must be the year of its first publication in the United States. •Television episodes must have been shown for the first time in the United States in the current year.•A work may be submitted to only one committee except in the case of the Robert L. Fish Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award.

Date of Origin

Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Novel

This award was established in 1989 and it remains the most prestigious award in the entire mystery genre. Prior to this award, the Mystery Writers of America presented a special Edgar to Katherine Paterson for the Master Puppeteer in 1977.

Sponsor/Administrator

Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Novel

A committee chosen by Mystery Writers of America reads books and watches films in 13 different categories and gives a single award in each category.

Prominent Recipients

Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Novel

Vivian Vande Velde for Never Trust a Dead ManAlane Ferguson for Show Me The Evidence

John Green for Paper TownsElizabeth Wein for Code Name Verity

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National Book Foundation. (2007). National Book Awards. Retrieved from http:// www.nationalbook.org/

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