Results! 2014 Youth Media Award Announcements!

As discussed in the post about the Mock-Printz, today is the day the Printz Award and many others are announced.  The announcements happen at the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting and Exhibition, which this year takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  I, unfortunately, am unable to attend the ALA Mid-winter Conference, but because the ALA is awesome, they are live-casting the announcements.  Less exciting for some is that the announcements are at 8 a.m. EST, which means 5 a.m. in Portland, Oregon.  But I get up at that time anyway and I don't have work today, so here I am, happy as a clam.

The computer on the right is the live-cast, the computer on the left is me putting things I haven't read on hold.

You can find a complete list of the results by clicking here.  You can watch the not-live-anymore webcast by clicking here.

Here are the Printz Award Results:

Honor books:

 “Eleanor & Park,” 

written by Rainbow Rowell and published by St. Martin’s Griffin (Macmillan) 

“Kingdom of Little Wounds,” 

written by Susann Cokal and published by Candlewick Press 

“Maggot Moon,” 

written by Sally Gardner, illustrated by Julian Crouch and published by Candlewick Press 

“Navigating Early,” 

written by Clare Vanderpool and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House LLC, Penguin Random House Company.

2014 Printz Award:

“Midwinterblood,” 

written by Marcus Sedgwick, and published by Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.

So, as usual, the results show what a crap shoot it is to choose the 10 books we read for the Mock Printz Workshop.  We had Eleanor & Park (yay!) at the top of our list, but none of the rest of them were on our reading list.  I did read Maggot Moon for the Librarian Book Group.