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Monday, January 18, 2010

YALSA announces 2010 Alex Awards

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, has selected 10 adult books with special appeal to teen readers to receive the 2010 Alex Awards. The awards, sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust, were announced at the 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, January 15-19, and will appear with full annotations in the March 1 issue of Booklist magazine. The 2010 Alex Award winners are:

* The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, published by William Morrow

* The Bride’s Farewell by Meg Rosoff, published by Viking Penguin

* Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr., published by Viking Penguin

* The Good Soldiers by David Finkel, published by Sarah Crichton Books

* The Kids Are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch and Liz Welch with Amanda Welch and Dan Welch, published by Harmony Books

* The Magicians, by Lev Grossman, published by Viking Penguin

* My Abandonment by Peter Rock, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

* Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel, by Gail Carriger, published by Orbit

* Stitches: A Memoir by David Small, published by W.W. Norton & Company

* Tunneling to the Center of the Earth by Kevin Wilson

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