Hello, folks, and welcome to another year of the Haunted Bookshop keeping you up to date on the newest news in the world of book awards, as well as our individual blog posts to keep you informed of shop news, cat news, and Iowa City, the World's Third UNESCO City of Literature.
This time around, we're giving you the heads up on the ten books chosen for the Alex Awards for 2011, chosen by the American Library Association as the best books for young adults. Without further ado, here we go.
* The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson
* Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray
* Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
* The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
* The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
* The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel by Aimee Bender
* The Radleys by Matt Haig
* The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel by Alden Bell
* Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
* The Vanishing of Katharina Linden: A Novel by Helen Grant
Keep an eye out for these books to come in the shop. In the meantime, we've just gotten a whole bunch of young adult fiction, everything from classic Lois Lowry to some more contemporary fantasy, like Stuart Hill (the Icemark series is really quite good, with a fantastic female lead in the first novel). So if you're gearing up for some new things to read before spring semester classes start up, come stop by the Haunted Bookshop and see what we've got in stock.
Happy reading and congratulations to the winners of this year's Alex Awards!
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Thank you for the congrats, and for highlighting the Alex Awards! What would we do without wonderful bookshops like yours?
ReplyDeleteBest,
Jean Kwok
Author of GIRL IN TRANSLATION
What would we do without writers like you? Thanks!
ReplyDelete...A P.S. from Nialle, who just finished reading another of the books on this list: So far, Girl In Translation and House of Tomorrow are my favorites. House of Tomorrow also happens to have been written by a person with whom I played as a kid, so here's a special personal congratulations from Bionic Baby to Peter Who Had Awesome Action Figures.