Award Winners

2007

Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award**

Westerfield, Scott, The Uglies

Alex Awards
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to teens.

Connolly, John. The Book of Lost Things.

Doig, Ivan. The Whistling Season.

D'Orso, Michael. Eagle Blue: A Team, A Tribe, and A High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska.

Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants.

Joern, Pamela Carter. Floor of the Sky.

Hamamura, John. Color of the Sea.

Lewis, Michael. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game.

Mitchell, David. Black Swan Green.

Rash, Ron. The World Made Straight.

Setterfield, Diane. The Thirteenth Tale.

Edgar Allan Poe Award for Mystery

Goodwin, Jason. The Janissary Tree. (Best Novel)

MacCready, Robin Merrow. Buried. (Best Young Adult Novel)

Wagner, E.J. The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases (Best Critical/Biographical)

Hugo Award for Science Fiction (2006)

Wilson, Robert Charles. Spin. (Best Novel)

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Bondoux, Anne-Laure. The Killer’s Tears, translated from the French by Y. Maudet. (Honor)

National Book Award

Powers, Richard. The Echo Maker. (Fiction)

Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. (Non-fiction)

Nebula Award for Science Fiction (Science Fiction Writers of America)
McDevitt, Jack. Seeker.

Michael L. Printz Award for Young Adult Literature

Yang, Gene. American Born Chinese. (Winner)

Anderson, M.T. Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing.

Green, John. An Abundance of Katharines.

Hartnett, Sonya. Surrender.

Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief.

Pulitzer Prize
FICTION: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

DRAMA: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

HISTORY: The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff

BIOGRAPHY: The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate

POETRY: Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey

GENERAL NONFICTION: The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright

MUSIC: Sound Grammar by Ornette Coleman

2006

Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award**

Picoult, Jodi. My Sister’s Keeper

Alex Awards

The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to teens.

Bates, Judy Fong. Midnight at the Dragon Café

Buckhanon, Kalisha. Upstate

Gaiman, Neil. Anansi Boys

Gallaway, Gregory. As Simple As Snow

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go

Martinez, A. Lee. Gil's All Fright Diner

Palwick, Susan. The Necessary Beggar

Rawles, Nancy. My Jim

Scheeres, Julia. Jesus Land: A Memoir

Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Edgar Allan Poe Award for Mystery

Walter, Jess. Citizen Vince

Hugo Award for Science Fiction (2005)

Clarke, Susanna. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

Hofmann, Michael. An Innocent Soldier, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. (Winner)

Zenatti, Valerie. When I Was a Soldier, translated from the French by Adriana Hunter. (Honor)

National Book Award

Vollman, William T. Europe Central (Fiction)

Didion, Joan. Year of Magical Thinking (Memoir)

Nebula Award for Science Fiction (Science Fiction Writers of America)

Haldeman, Joe. Camouflage

Michael L. Printz Award for Young Adult Literature

Green, John. Looking for Alaska (Winner)

Nelson, Marilyn. A Wreath for Emmett Till (Honor)

Lanagan, Margo. Black Juice (Honor)

Zusak, Markus. I am the Messenger (Honor)

Partridge, Elizabeth.  John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography(Honor)

Pulitzer Prize

Brooks, Geraldine. March (Historical Fiction)

**Also check out the 2008 Abraham Lincoln High School Book Award Nominees at http://www.islma.org/lincoln.htm