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=The award winners from YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) were announced on January 23, 2012. And the WINNERS are:=

Michael L. Printz Award:

 * //Where Things Come Back// by John Corey Whaley (2012 Winner)
 * //Why We Broke Up// by Daniel Handler (Honor Book)
 * //The Returning// by Christine Hinwood (Honor Book)
 * //Jasper Jones// by Craig Silvey (Honor Book)
 * //The Scorpio Races// by Maggie Stiefvater (Honor Book)

The William C. Morris YA Debut Award:

 * //Where Things Come Back// by John Corey Whaley (2012 Winner) - This must be a good one since it won this AND the Printz!
 * //The Girl of Fire and Thorns// by Rae Carson (Finalist)
 * //Paper Covers Rock// by Jenny Hubbard (Finalist)
 * //Under the Mesquite// by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Finalist)
 * //Between Shades of Gray// by Ruta Sepetys (Finalist)

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults:

 * //The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story// //of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery// by Steve Sheinkin (Winner)
 * //Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Freedom and Science// by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
 * //Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition// by Karen Blumenthal (Finalist)
 * //Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)// by Sue Macy (Finalist)
 * //Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein// by Susan Goldman Rubin (Finalist)

YALSA's Alex Awards (given to 10 books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults)

 * //Big Girl Small// by Rachel DeWoskin
 * //In Zanesville// by Jo Ann Beard
 * //The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens// by Brooke Hauser
 * //The Night Circus// by Erin Morgenstern
 * //Ready Player One// by Ernest Cline
 * //Robopocalypse: A Novel// by Daniel H. Wilson
 * //Salvage the Bones// by Jesmyn Ward
 * //The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures// by Caroline Preston
 * //The Talk-Funny Girl// by Roland Merullo

Margaret A. Edwards Award which honors an author and a specific body of work making significant and lasting contributions to young adult literature:
The 2012 winner is Susan Cooper who won for The Dark is Rising Sequence:
 * //Over Sea, Under Stone//
 * //The Dark is Rising//
 * //Greenwitch//
 * //The Grey King//
 * //Silver on the Tree//

Past winners of this award are: = = = = =Here are some summer reading ideas for everyone:=
 * 1988 - S. E. Hinton
 * 1990 - Richard Peck
 * 1991 - Robert Cormier
 * 1992 - Lois Duncan
 * 1993 - M. E. Kerr
 * 1994 - Walter Dean Myers
 * 1995 - Cynthia Voigt
 * 1996 - Judy Blume
 * 1997 - Gary Paulsen
 * 1998 - Madeleine L'Engle
 * 1999 - Anne McCaffrey
 * 2000 - Chris Crutcher
 * 2001 - Robert Lipsyte
 * 2002 - Paul Zindel
 * 2003 - Nancy Garden
 * 2004 - Ursual K. LeGuin
 * 2005 - Francesca Lia Block
 * 2006 - Jacqueline Woodson
 * 2007 - Lois Lowry
 * 2008 - Orson Scott Card
 * 2009 - Laurie Halse Anderson
 * 2010 - Jim Murphy
 * 2011 - Sir Terry Pratchett

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