This Week in YA- January 31, 2009

Awards:

• Congrats to The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman for being the Newberry Medal winner and to all the Newberry Honor books!
• Congrats to Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta for winning the Michael L. Printz Award and to all the Printz Honor books.
• Congrats to all the rest of the award winners announced at the ALA Midwinter meeting as well!

Random:

• ARCs of Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson are being given out by Penguin. Here's the myspace with more details.
• You can win a The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks t-shirt, a signed book by E. Lockhart, and a Dramarama CD by making E laugh by Feb. 14. More details on her blog.
• The 2009 YALSA's Best Books for Young Adult List is up on their site.

Books that came out last week:

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

Books that come out this week:

• February 2: The Fetch by Laura Whitcomb
• February 3: Winnie's War by Jenny Moss
• February 3: Trials in Paradise by Neal R. Rice
• February 3: Evermore by Alyson Noel
• February 4: Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad by Jeffrey Fleishman
• February 4: Adventurers Wanted: Slathbog's Gold by M. L. Forman
• February 5: Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper
• February 5: Geek Charming by Robin Palmer

-The YAthenaeum Team

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