Additional ALA Awards 2010

Alex | Arbuthnot | Carnegie | Edwards | Geisel | Hamilton |
Morris | Odyssey | Schneider | Steptoe | YALSA Nonfiction

Alex Awards
for the ten best adult books that appeal to a teen audience

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer (Morrow/HarperCollins)
• The Bride’s Farewell by Meg Rosoff (Viking/Penguin)
• Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr. (Viking/Penguin)
• The Good Soldiers by David Finkel (Crichton/FSG)
• The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch and Liz Welch with Amanda Welch and Dan Welch (Harmony/Crown)
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman (Viking/Penguin)
• My Abandonment by Peter Rock (Houghton)
• Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel by Gail Carriger (Orbit)
• Stitches: A Memoir by David Small (Norton)
• Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson (Harper Perennial)

May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award
recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of children's
literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site

Lois Lowry will deliver the 2011 lecture

Andrew Carnegie Medal
for excellence in children's video

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! produced by Paul R. Gagne and Mo Willems (Weston Woods/Scholastic)

Margaret A. Edwards Award
for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults

Jim Murphy for An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793(Clarion), Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America (Scholastic), The Great Fire (Scholastic), The Long Road to Gettysburg (Clarion), and A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy (Clarion)

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
for the outstanding book for beginning readers

Winner
Benny and Penny in the Big No-No! by Geoffrey Hayes (TOON BOOKS/RAW Junior)

Honor Books
• I Spy Fly Guy! by Tedd Arnold (Scholastic)
• Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith (TOON BOOKS/RAW Junior)
• Mouse and Mole: Fine Feathered Friends by Wong Herbert Yee (Houghton)
• Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day written by Kate McMullan, illustrated by R. W. Alley (Dial/Penguin)

Virginia Hamilton Award
given by the Coretta Scott King Task Force for lifetime achievement

Walter Dean Myers

William C. Morris Award
honors a book written by a first-time author for young adults

Flash Burnout written by L.K. Madigan (Houghton)

Odyssey Award
for excellence in audiobook production

Winner
Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken, written by Kate DiCamillo and narrated by Barbara Rosenblat (Live Oak Media)

Honor Books
• In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber, by L. A. Meyer, narrated by Katherine Kellgren (Listen & Live)
• Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson, narrated by Dion Graham (Brilliance Audio)
• We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, by Kadir Nelson, narrated by Dion Graham (Brilliance Audio)

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

Young Children, ages 0–10
Django written and illustrated by Bonnie Christensen (Porter/Roaring Brook)

Middle School, ages 11–13
Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin (Simon)

Teen, ages 13–18
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork (Levine/Scholastic)

John Steptoe New Talent Award
given annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force for new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration

kekla magoon author of The Rock and the River (Aladdin)

YALSA Nonfiction Award
for excellence in nonfiction for young adults

Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman (Holt)

2010 ALA awards