Our club joined the NC State University graduate class in Young Adult Literature on February 23 to present the 2009 Melinda Awards for Young Adult Literature. The Melindas are named after the character of Melinda in Laurie Halse Anderson’s book Speak, and have been given out every year since 2006. They are sponsored by TeenReadNC. This year’s awards were streamed live through Second Life, but you can find links to the archived video from all of the Melindas 2006-2009 on our web page. 
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2009 Melinda Awards for Young Adult Literature
April 3, 2009And the Winner is …
January 18, 2009
This is our sparkling grape juice toast to the 2009 Eva Perry Library Mock Printz winner and honor books. There were several really great books this year, so our voting was very close. Our fearless leader, Valerie, will be at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver next week to hear the announcement of the official winner!
The 2009 Eva Perry Library Mock Printz Winner:
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2009 Eva Perry Library Mock Printz Honor Books:
- Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
- Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe
- Runemarks by Joanne Harris
Our 2009 Top 10 (in alpha order by title):
- The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
- Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Identical by Ellen Hopkins
- Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
- Paper Towns by John Green
- Runemarks by Joanne Harris
- Streams of Babel by Carol Plum-Ucci
- Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
January 18, 2009
“Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn’t know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends: her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. This is Alice’s story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget”–Book flap. 170 p., Simon Pulse.
Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe
November 20, 2008
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Kyle believes he does not deserve to live after accidentally shooting and killing his best friend. 376 p., Laura Geringer Books.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
July 20, 2008
Summary: In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place. 384 p., Scholastic Press.
Runemarks by Joanne Harris
April 25, 2008
Summary: Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world. 526 p., Alfred A. Knopf.
