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Last week, Libba Bray was awarded the Michael L. Printz award for outstanding novel, Going Bovine.

The Michael. L Printz award is an annual award that exemplifies excellence in Young Adult Literature. The national award is sponsored by Booklist and administered by YALSA.

Congratulations Libba!

Here they are:

• It’s Complicated: The American Teenager – Robin Bowman
• Waiting for Normal – Leslie Connor
• Mexican Whiteboy – Matt de la Penna
• Boy Child – Siobhan Dowd
• The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
• Ten Cents a Dance – Christine Fletcher
• Baby – Joseph Monninger
• Nation – Terry Pratchett
• Skim – Jillian Tamaki & Mariko Tamaki
• The Brothers Torres – Coert Vorrhees

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YALSA has released their 2008 list of the top ten young adult reads. The winners are:

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie

2. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier – Ishamael Beah

3. Before I Die – Jenny Downham

4. Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath – Stephanie Hemphill

5. Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones

6. Skulduggery Pleasant – Derek Landy

7. Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion and Betrayal – Mal Peet

8. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks and the Legend of the Iron Crotch: An Oddessey in New China – Matthew Polly

9. The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel – Brian Selznick

10. The Arrival – Shaun Tan