Literary Awards

2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

April 16, 2012

The 2012 Pulitzers were just announced. And this year’s winner for fiction is . . . NO AWARD! The committee did not award a prize for fiction this year. This has happened before, in 1917, 1920, 1941, 1946, 1954, 1957, 1964, 1971, 1974, and 1977. Usually, the reason for not giving an award is unclear. [...]

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A Wrinkle in Time; When You Reach Me; First Light

February 28, 2012

I recently was lucky enough to meet Rebecca Stead! I was so excited about this event that I engaged in extensive preparation beforehand. First, I read A Wrinkle in Time, as it’s mentioned throughout Stead’s Newbery-winning When You Reach Me. Then I reread When You Reach Me. And then I read Stead’s first book, First [...]

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One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

February 9, 2012

This highly honored book, including a Newbery Medal honor, by Rita Williams-Garcia kind of blew me away. Delphine, eleven, is and has almost always been in charge of looking after her two younger sisters, Vonetta, nine, and Fern, seven. While they live a nice life with Papa and Big Ma in Brooklyn, this summer they [...]

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2012 ALA Youth Media Award Winners

January 23, 2012

And the 2012 John Newbery Medal goes to: Dead End in Norvelt, by Jack Gantos And the 2012 Michael L. Printz Award goes to: Where Things Come Back, by John Corey Whaley (I’ve already updated the Printz Project with the winner and honor books. Head on over to check it out.) And the 2012 Caldecott [...]

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The Sunday Salon (7)

January 22, 2012

‘Tis Sunday again. Happy ALA Awards Eve. I have long awaited tomorrow. You probably know this already, but the 2012 ALA Youth Media Awards (including the Caldecott, Newbery, and Printz medals) will be announced tomorrow at 7:45 a.m. central time. That makes it 6:45 a.m. my time, yeesh. There will be a live webcast, with [...]

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2011 Pulitzer Winner for Fiction

April 18, 2011

The 2011 Pulitzers were just announced. And this year’s winner for fiction is . . . A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan I’m dying to read this one! But I’ve never heard of the two finalists: The Privileges, by Jonathan Dee and The Surrendered, by Chang Rae Lee Have you read any [...]

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Mockingbird, by Kathryn Erskine

February 17, 2011

Title: Mockingbird Author: Kathryn Erskine Pages: 224 Originally Published: 2010 Format I Read: Hardback Publisher: Penguin Rating: ____________________________ Mockingbird won the 2010 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. So, I snabbed it over the holidays and polished it off. Here’s the publisher’s synopsis: Caitlin has Asperger’s. The world according to her is black and [...]

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The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields

January 13, 2011

Title: The Stone Diaries Author: Carol Shields Pages: 361 Originally Published: 1993 Format I Read: Paperback Publisher: Penguin Rating: ____________________________ The Stone Diaries won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was also short-listed in the same year for the Booker Prize. I can’t think of another book that was recognized by both awards. (I’m [...]

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