More Award Winners

Two great teen book awards were announced today...the Printz Award for outstanding YA fiction and the Morris Award for best new YA author.

The Printz Award winner is Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta.
The Printz Honor books are:
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume II, The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson

The Morris Award winner is A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce. The Morris shortlist books are:
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne
Madapple by Christina Meldrum
Me, the Missing, and the Dead by Jenny Valentine

In other award news The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman won the Newbery Medal.

Happy Reading!