[LM_NET] YALSA names five finalists for 2010 William C. Morris Award

[Stephanie Kuenn <skuenn@ALA.ORG>]

Greetings!

 

YALSA today announced the five titles for the 2010 Morris Award
shortlist. YALSA will name the Morris Award winner at the Youth Media
Awards in Boston at ALA's Midwinter Meeting on Jan. 18. YALSA will also
honor the winning title, as well as Morris shortlist titles and YALSA
Nonfiction Award winners at a reception on Monday, Jan. 18 from 8-10
p.m. at Westin Copley Place Essex Center South. 

 

Congratulations to this year's finalists:  

 

*       "Ash" by Malinda Lo, by published by Little, Brown Books for
Young Readers
*       "Beautiful Creatures" by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl,
published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
*       "The Everafter" by Amy Huntley, published by Balzer + Bray, an
imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
*       "Flash Burnout" by L.K. Madigan, published by Houghton
Mifflin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
*       "hold still" by Nina LaCour, published by Dutton Children's
Books, a Division of Penguin Young Readers Group

 

The William C. Morris Award honors a book written for teens by a
previously unpublished author. More information on the finalists and the
award can be found at www.ala.org/morris.

 

Members of the 2010 William C. Morris Award are: Chair Judy Nelson,
Pierce County Library System, Tacoma, Wash.; Jeana Actkinson, Bridgeport
(Texas) High School; Dr. Joni Richards Bodart, School of Library and
Information Science-San Jose (Calif.) State University; Susan
Fichtelberg, Public Library of Woodbridge, N.J.; Angela Frederick,
Nashville (Tenn.) Public Library; Clio Hathaway, Martin Memorial
Library, York, Pa.; Melanie Koss, Northern Illinois University DeKalb,
Ill.; Anne Leon, Alvin Sherman Library-Nova Southeastern University,
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Gail Zachariah, Keene (N.H.) Public Library;
David Durante, administrative assistant, Pierce County Library System,
Graham, Wash.; and Booklist Consultant, Ilene Cooper, Chicago.

 

Stephanie (Stevie) Kuenn

Communications Specialist

Young Adult Library Services Association <http://www.ala.org/yalsa> 

skuenn@ala.org <mailto:skuenn@ala.org> 

v: 312.280.2128

f: 312.280-5276

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Check out YALSA's new book, Cool Teen Programs for under $100, edited by
Jenine Lillian

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2757

 


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