2008 Best Books for Young Adults
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest-growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), today announced its 2008 list of Best Books for Young Adults.
Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in YA Literature 
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (HarperTempest, 2007, c2005)
Michael L. Printz Honors
Dreamquake: Book 2 of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007)
One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke (Front Street, 2007, c2006)
Repossessed by A. M. Jenkins (HarperTeen, 2007)
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)
For more information, visit the Michael L. Printz Book Award Page of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
Alex Awards: Adult Books that Appeal to Teens
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in New China by Matthew Polly (Gotham, 2007)
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff (Harper Collins, 2007)
Tales From the Farm by Jeff Lemire (Top Shelf, 2007)
Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden (Delacorte, 2007)
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle (Scribner, 2007)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007) 
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Dial, 2007, c2006)
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW Books, 2007)
The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman (Soho, 2007)
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
2008 Alex Awards of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
Margaret A. Edwards Award
Orson Scott Card is the recipient of the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring 
his outstanding lifetime contribution to writing for teens for his novels Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow.
Pura Belpre Award Winner for Narrative
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Sean Qualls (Henry Holt, 2006) 
Pura Belpre Honor for Narrative
Frida: ¡Viva la vida! Long Live Life! written and illustrated by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand (Marshall Cavendish, 2007)
More about the Pura Belpre Award
Coretta Scott King Award Winner
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic, 2007) 
Coretta Scott King Honor
November Blues by Sharon Draper (Atheneum, 2007)
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles Smith (Candlewick, 2007)
The Robert F. Sibert Award
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007)
For more news on all of the Youth Media Awards, visit YALSA’s Booklists & Book Awards or the ALSC site.
