Congratulations to all or our award-winning titles, including our 2008 IRA/CBC Young Adults’ Choices: 15 Minutes by Steve Young, Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard, and You, Maybe by Rachel Vail, as well as our 2008 YALSA Teens’ Top Ten Nominees: Jinx by Meg Cabot, The Luxe by Anna Godbersen, and Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. Other recent award winners include:
• Angus and Sadie by Cynthia Voigt, Oklahoma's 2008 Children’s Sequoyah Book Award
• Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe, Utah's 2008 Beehive Book Award (Young Adult)
• Dex: The Heart of a Hero by Caralyn and Mark Buehner, 2007–2008 Georgia Picture Storybook Award
• The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney, 2008 Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Grades 4–6)
• Not a Box by Antoinette Portis, 2008 Donna Norvell Oklahoma Book Award
• On Meadowview Street by Henry Cole, 2008 Green Earth Book Award Honor
• Once I Ate a Pie by Patricia MacLachlan, Utah's 2008 Beehive Book Award (Poetry)
• Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson, 2008 Pacific Northwest Library Association’s Young Reader’s Choice Award (Senior Division)
• Septimus Heap, Book One: Magyk by Angie Sage, 2008 Nevada Young Readers’ Award (Intermediate Category)