The Youth Media Awards were announced this morning! The awards are presented by the American Library Association and they highlight all the best things that happened in 2015 in Children’s and Young Adult literature. Read below for the highlights of the Teen related awards!

Michael L. Printz Award, for excellence in literature written for young adults

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby, is the 2016 Printz Award winner.
Two Printz Honor Books were also named:


Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick
William C. Morris Award, for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli is the 2016 Morris Award winner.
Four other books were finalists for the award:




Because You’ll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas
Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly by Stephanie Oakes
The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin, is the 2016 Excellence winner.
Four other books were finalists for the award:




Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle
First Flight Around the World: The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race by Tim Grove
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson
This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon by Nancy Plain
Margaret A. Edwards Award, for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults






David Levithan is the 2016 Edwards Award winner. His books include: The Realm of Possibility; Boy Meets Boy; Love is the Higher Law; How They Met, and Other Stories; Wide Awake; and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Alex Awards, for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences










All Involved by Ryan Gattis
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
Girl at War by Sara Nović
Half the World by Joe Abercrombie
Humans of New York: Stories by Brandon Stanton
Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia
Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
The Unraveling of Mercy Louis by Keija Parssinen
Schneider Family Book Award, for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience

The teen (ages 13-18) award winner is The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award
Three King Author Honor Books were selected and all three were teen titles:



All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon
Pura Belpré (Author) Award

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle, is the Belpré Author Award winner
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, for most distinguished informational book for children
Two teen titles were named Sibert Honor Books:


Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans written and illustrated by Don Brown
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
Stonewall Book Award – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award given annually to English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience

A teen novel was selected as an honor book: Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak