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2013 ALA Youth Media Awards

Yesterday the American Library Association (ALA) announced the winners of their big book awards of the year. Even though we at Kidsreads.com were in the office yesterday, instead of at the awards, we were cheering for our favorites! I'm SO HAPPY that THREE TIMES LUCKY by Sheila Turnage was honored as I had the pleasure of having lunch with her and interviewing her! Somehow when you "know" an author, an award like this is even more special. You'll have to look through the winners to see if any books you loved have been given an award or honored!

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2013 ALA Awards

As I'm sure many of you know, yesterday the American Library Association (ALA) announced their winners of some of the biggest book prizes of the year. We at Teenreads.com watched the awards on a live webcast at 11AM. I grabbed some headphones and morning coffee before they began!

You will recognize many of these titles if you are a regular reader of Teenreads.com. For us, it was exciting to see that we featured many of them during 2012.

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January 29, 2013

My Friend Dahmer Wins an Alex

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By John Hogan
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We're big fans of Derf Backderf's My Friend Dahmer here at GRN, so we were all thrilled to hear that Derf was one of the winners of this year's Alex Awards, which were given at the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference. Congratulations, Derf, and to all the other winners! See here for a full list.

January 29, 2013

The following are lists of books releasing the weeks of January 28th and February 4th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers.

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Son of a Gun
by Anne de Graaf - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult 11+

Laura Ingalls Wilder Award 2013

The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, established in 1954, honors an author or illustrator whose books are published in the U.S. and have, over a period of years, made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. The award is named in honor of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the popular Little House series of books, which later became the basis for a television series. Wilder's first book, LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS (1932), was published when she was 65, and she received the first award in 1954.

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The Woman Who Rides Like a Man: Song of the Lioness, Book Three
by Tamora Pierce - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult 12+
In the Hand of the Goddess: Song of the Lioness, Book Two
by Tamora Pierce - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult 12+
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
by Sonia Manzano - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult 12+

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books --- what other men do not say in whole books.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS