Award Winners

William C. Morris This award honors a book written for young adults by a first-time, previously unpublished author.
A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce (2009)

Michael L. Printz Award This award honors excellence in literature written for young adults.
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (2009)
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (2008)
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (2007)
Looking for Alaska by John Green (2006)

South Dakota’s YARP Award South Dakota teens voted for their favorite books on the Young Adult Reading Program list of
Middle School
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Paterson (2008)
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (2007)
High School
Runner by Carl Deuker (2008)
Fake ID by Walter Sorrells (2007)

Schneider Family Book Award This award honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
Middle School
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor (2009)
Rules by Cynthia Lord (2007)
Tending to Grace by Kimberly Newton Fusco (2006)
High School
Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen (2009)
Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby (2008)
Small Steps by Louis Sachar (2007)
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog by Adam Rapp (2006)

Margaret A. Edwards This award honors an author and a specific work for lifetime contribution in writing books of enduring popularity with teenagers.
Laurie Halse Anderson (2009)
Catalyst
Fever 1793
Speak
Orson Scott Card (2008)
Ender’s Game
Ender’s Shadow
Lois Lowry (2007)
The Giver
Jacqueline Woodson (2006)
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You
Lena

Newbery Award This award is awarded annually by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimen (2009)
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (2006)
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (2003)
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (2002)
Holes by Louis Sachar (1999)