Award-Winning Books for Teens

On Monday, January 23 the American Library Association (ALA) announced the 2012 Alex Awards. The Alex Awards “are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.” The ten winning books are:

           

• Big Girl Small, by Rachel DeWoskin

• In Zanesville, by Jo Ann Beard

• The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan

• The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, by Brooke Hauser

• The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern

• Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

• Robopocalypse: A Novel, by Daniel H. Wilson

• Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward

• The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures, by Caroline Preston

• The Talk-Funny Girl, by Roland Merullo

“The 2012 Alex Awards will take readers from rural New Hampshire to the robot apocalypse to Katrina-ravaged Mississippi to a magical circus. The Alex Award winners are as diverse and eclectic as the teens who will read them,” said Karen Keys, chair of the 2012 Alex Awards Committee.”