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Alex Awards
American young adult book award
Summary
American young adult book award
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Alex Award |
| awarded_for | Adults books with "special appeal" for adolescents |
| presenter | Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association |
| country | United States |
| year | 1998 |
| website |
The Alex Awards annually recognize "ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults ages 12 through 18". Since 2002, the Alex Awards have been administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association.
The awards, initially bestowed in 1998, were named after Baltimore librarian Margaret Alexander Edwards, who was known as "Alex". They are sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist magazine. Books published during the previous year are eligible for the awards.
Alex recipients
|- | 2018 | |
| Year | Author | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | |||
| ''All Over but the Shoutin''' | |||
| Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America | |||
| What Girls Learn | |||
| Snow in August | |||
| Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster | |||
| Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation | |||
| Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven | |||
| To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last | |||
| 1999 | |||
| Getting In | |||
| Needles | |||
| At All Costs | |||
| Space | |||
| Last Days of Summer | |||
| Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy | |||
| Antarctica | |||
| Almost a Woman | |||
| Caucasia | |||
| 2000 | High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places | ||
| Ender's Shadow | |||
| River, Cross My Heart | |||
| Stardust | |||
| Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child | |||
| Plainsong | |||
| Imani All Mine | |||
| 2001 | Chang & Eng | ||
| Counting Coup | |||
| Daughter of the Forest | |||
| Diamond Dogs | |||
| Flags of Our Fathers | |||
| Girl with a Pearl Earring | |||
| In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | |||
| Soldier: A Poet's Childhood | |||
| 2002 | Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague | ||
| Gabriel's Story | |||
| Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America | |||
| Peace Like a River | |||
| Kit's Law | |||
| Motherland | |||
| Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self | |||
| 2003 | One! Hundred! Demons! | ||
| My Losing Season | |||
| Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril | |||
| Crow Lake | |||
| When the Emperor Was Divine | |||
| 10th Grade | |||
| 2004 | Wonder When You'll Miss Me | ||
| Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | |||
| Stiff | |||
| True Notebooks | |||
| Persepolis | |||
| Maisie Dobbs | |||
| Leave Myself Behind | |||
| 2005 | Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America | ||
| Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer | |||
| Donorboy | |||
| Shadow Divers | |||
| Work of Wolves | |||
| My Sister's Keeper | |||
| Thinner Than Thou | |||
| Project X | |||
| Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants | |||
| 2006 | Midnight at the Dragon Café | ||
| Upstate | |||
| Anansi Boys | |||
| As Simple as Snow | |||
| Never Let Me Go | |||
| Gil's All Fright Diner | |||
| My Jim | |||
| Jesus Land: A Memoir | |||
| 2007 | |||
| Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska | |||
| Water for Elephants | |||
| Floor of the Sky | |||
| Color of the Sea | |||
| Black Swan Green | |||
| 2008 | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China | ||
| Bad Monkeys | |||
| Essex County Volume 1: Tales from the Farm | |||
| Genghis: Birth of an Empire | |||
| Mister Pip | |||
| 2009 | |||
| Finding Nouf | |||
| Just After Sunset: Stories | |||
| Mudbound | |||
| Over and Under | |||
| Sharp Teeth | |||
| Three Girls and Their Brother | |||
| 2010 | |||
| 2011 | |||
| 2012 | |||
| 2013 | |||
| My Friend Dahmer | |||
| Pure | |||
| Tell the Wolves I'm Home | |||
| Where'd You Go, Bernadette? | |||
| 2014 | |||
| 2015 | |||
| 2016 | All Involved | ||
| Between the World and Me | |||
| Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits | |||
| Girl at War | |||
| Half the World | |||
| Humans of New York: Stories | |||
| Sacred Heart | |||
| Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League | |||
| 2017 | |||
| with Michelle Burford | In the Country We Love: My Family Divided | ||
| Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded | |||
| Holly Jennings | Arena | ||
| Every Heart a Doorway | |||
| Romeo and/or Juliet: A Choosable-Path Adventure | |||
| Die Young with Me: A Memoir | |||
| 2018 | All Systems Red | ||
| Down Among the Sticks and Bones | |||
| Eve Ewing | Electric Arches | ||
| Malagash | |||
| Roughneck | |||
| She Rides Shotgun | |||
| Things We Have in Common | |||
| 2019 | |||
| Circe | |||
| Educated: A Memoir | |||
| Green | |||
| Home After Dark | |||
| How Long 'til Black Future Month? | |||
| Lawn Boy | |||
| Spinning Silver | |||
| 2020 | |||
| Do You Dream of Terra-Two? | |||
| Dominicana | |||
| Gender Queer: A Memoir | |||
| Tegan and Sara | High School | ||
| In Waves | |||
| Middlegame | |||
| Red, White & Royal Blue | |||
| The Swallows | |||
| 2021 | Black Sun | ||
| Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio | |||
| Plain Bad Heroines | |||
| Riot Baby | |||
| Solutions and Other Problems | |||
| We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel | |||
| 2022 | Light from Uncommon Stars | ||
| ** | |||
| ** | |||
| The Library of the Dead | |||
| How Lucky | |||
| Winter's Orbit | |||
| ** | |||
| Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever | |||
| Lore Olympus, Vol. 1 | |||
| Malice | |||
| 2023 | ** | ||
| Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution | |||
| I'm Glad My Mom Died | |||
| , illus. by | Chef's Kiss | ||
| True Biz | |||
| , illus. by | Wash Day Diaries | ||
| The Kaiju Preservation Society | |||
| ** | |||
| Daughter of the Moon Goddess | |||
| Solito: A Memoir | |||
| 2024 | Chain-Gang All-Stars | ||
| The Talk | |||
| Maame | |||
| Bad Cree | |||
| I Will Greet the Sun Again | |||
| Whalefall | |||
| The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph | |||
| Starter Villain | |||
| Chlorine | |||
| Fourth Wing | |||
| 2025 | Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability | ||
| , illus. by Marcus Kwame Anderson | Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined | ||
| Daughters of Shandong | |||
| How to Solve Your Own Murder | |||
| I Feel Awful, Thanks | |||
| I Was a Teenage Slasher | |||
| , trans. by Una Dimitrijević | Woman, Life, Freedom | ||
| 2026 | The Favorites | ||
| The Girls Who Grew Big | |||
| Bob the Drag Queen | Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert | ||
| Hole in the Sky | |||
| Insectopolis: A Natural History | |||
| Plum | |||
| Sonita: My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom | |||
| These Heathens | |||
| What Kind of Paradise | |||
| The Whyte Python World Tour |
References
References
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