2012 ALA Youth Media Award Winners

On January 23, 2012, the American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards recognized the top books, videos, and audiobooks for children and young adults published in 2011.

Read about what each ALA Youth Media Award recognizes.

Following are the 2012 award winners and honor books:

2012 John Newbery Medal winner
Dead End in Norvelt, written by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux)

Newbery Honor Books
Inside Out & Back Again, written by Thanhha Lai (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Breaking Stalin’s Nose, written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin (Henry Holt)

2012 Michael L. Printz Award winner
Where Things Come Back, written by John Corey Whaley (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

2012 Printz Honor Books:
Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman (Little, Brown /Hachette Book Group)
The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood (Dial Books/Penguin Group Young Readers)
Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children’s Books)
The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic Press)

2012 Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award winner
Kadir Nelson, author and illustrator of Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins)

2012 King Author Honor Book recipients:
Eloise Greenfield, author of The Great Migration: Journey to the North, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist (Amistad/HarperCollins)
Patricia C. McKissack, author of Never Forgotten, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House Children’s Books)

2012 Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award winner
Shane W. Evans, illustrator and author of Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom, (A Neal Porter Book from Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck)

2012 King Illustrator Honor Book recipient:
Kadir Nelson, illustrator and author of Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, (Balzar + Bray/HarperCollins)

2012 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement winner
Ashley Bryan, the first African American to both write and illustrate a children’s book, for his significant and lasting literary contribution of poetry, spirituals and story.

Schneider Family Book Award winners
Children (ages 0 – 8) Award winner:
Note: The 2012 Jury chose not to award a book in the category for because no submissions were deemed worthy of the award.

Middle School Award (ages 9 – 13) winners:
Close to Famous, written by Joan Bauer (Viking/Penguin Young Readers) Wonderstruck: A Novel in Words and Pictures, written by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)

Teen (ages 14-18) Award winner:
The Running Dream, written by Wendelin Van Draanen (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children’s Books)

Alex Award winners
Big Girl Small, by Rachel DeWoskin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
In Zanesville, by Jo Ann Beard (Little, Brown & Company/Hachette)
The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, by Brooke Hauser (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday/Random House)
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline (Crown/Random House)
Robopocalypse: A Novel, by Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday/Random House)
Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury USA)
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures, by Caroline Preston (Ecco/HarperCollins)
The Talk-Funny Girl, by Roland Merullo (Crown Publishers/Random House)

2012 Margaret A. Edwards Award winner
Susan Cooper, author of The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; and Silver on the Tree.

2012 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award winner
Michael Morpurgo, author of the novel War Horse, (the basis for the popular play and film), and Britain’s third Children’s Laureate.

The list of 2012 ALA Youth Media Awards is continued here; page 2 includes the Caldecott Medal winner and Caldecott Honor Books.

Read more about the American Library Association (ALA) and about the ALA Youth Media Awards.