This Week in YA- January 24, 2009

Awards:

• Congrats to Laurie Halse Anderson for winning the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Chains!
• The finalists for the Edgar Awards were announced and are up on their site.
• The 2008 Cuffies results were announced on Publisher Weekly's site.

Other:

• Penguin has a poem Laurie Halse Anderson wrote from reader responses to Speak up on their site.
• Libba Bray is having a contest to be characters in her short story. Details and more information on her blog.
• Ally Carter will be joined by Sarah Mlynowski to discuss her books in an online chat on February 15th at 5 est. More information on her blog.

Books that came out last week:

• Doom Lake Holiday by Tom Henighan
• Flygirl by Sherri L.Smith
• You Are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay
• Trippe Show Berrys in Love by Jody Gehrman

Books that come out this week:

• January 27- Bones of Faerie by Janni Lee Simner
  
• January 27- The Tir Nan Og Chronicles by K.E. Bruder
  
• January 27- Night Life by Nancy A. Collins

-The YAthenaeum Team