ALA Awards 2010

Brilliance Audio Congratulates the 2010 ALA Award Winners!

Odyssey Honor Audiobooks:

The Odyssey Award is an annual award given to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States. This year, Brilliance Audio has two out of three Odyssey Honor Audiobooks:

	PEACE, LOCOMOTION written by Jacqueline Woodson and narrated by Dion Graham Available on CD and MP3-CD RETAILERS Click Here LIBRARIES Click Here Also available in download and Playaway.
	WE ARE THE SHIP: The Story of Negro League Baseball written by Kadir Nelson and narrated by Dion Graham Available on CD and MP3-CD RETAILERS Click Here LIBRARIES Click Here Also available in download and Playaway.

Newbery Honor Awards:

The John Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Brilliance Audio is excited to announce two of the four Newbery Medal Honor Awards:

	CLAUDETTE COLVIN: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose Available on CD and MP3-CD RETAILERS Click Here LIBRARIES Click Here Also available in download and Playaway.
	THE EVOLUTION OF CALPURNIA TATE by Jacqueline Kelly Available on CD and MP3-CD RETAILERS Click Here LIBRARIES Click Here Also available in download and Playaway.

Sibert Award:

The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal honors the most distinguished informational book published in English in the preceding year for its significant contribution to children’s literature. This year, the Sibert Award goes to:

	ALMOST ASTRONAUTS: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone Available on CD and MP3-CD RETAILERS Click Here LIBRARIES Click Here Also available in download and Playaway.
	CLAUDETTE COLVIN: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose Also named as a 2010 Sibert Medal Honor Available on CD and MP3-CD RETAILERS Click Here LIBRARIES Click Here Also available in download and Playaway.

Alex Awards:

The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.

THE GOOD SOLDIERS
by David Finkel
was selected as a 2010 Alex Award winner

Available on CD and MP3-CD - March 2010
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The Coretta Scott King—John Steptoe and Schneider Awards:

The Coretta Scott King—John Steptoe Award for New Talent was established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a given year within the structure of the two awards given annually by the Coretta Scott King Task Force. Congratulations goes to The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon.

THE ROCK AND THE RIVER
by Kekla Magoon

Available on CD and MP3-CD - MAY 2010
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The Schneider Family Book Awards honor an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences. Congratulations to the 2010 Middle School Award Winner, Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin.

ANYTHING BUT TYPICAL
by Nora Raleigh Baskin

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The Coretta Scott King—Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement:

Brilliance Audio congratulates Walter Dean Myers, who is the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King—Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Coretta Scott King—Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement recognizes an African American author, illustrator, or author/illustrator for a body of his or her published books for children and/or young adults who has made a significant and lasting literary contribution. We are proud to introduce Walter Dean Myers as a Brilliance Audio author with the first book in his new middle-grade series The Cruisers, releasing simultaneously with the print book this Fall.

Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Awards:

Congratulations to our 2010 Finalists for the Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award:

	ALMOST ASTRONAUTS: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone Available on CD and MP3-CD RETAILERS Click Here LIBRARIES Click Here Also available in download and Playaway.
	CLAUDETTE COLVIN: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose Also this year’s National Book Award winner for Young People’s Literature Available on CD and MP3-CD RETAILERS Click Here LIBRARIES Click Here Also available in download and Playaway.

William C. Morris Debut Young Adult Award:

The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first awarded in 2009, honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. Congratulations to our 2010 Finalist:

EVERAFTER
by Amy Huntley

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2011 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture:

Lois Lowry, two-time winner of the Newbery Medal, will deliver the 2011 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Brilliance Audio is excited to be publishing all four of Lois Lowry’s Sam Krupnik books on audio this coming May.

THE SAM KRUPNIK SERIES: All About Sam; Attaboy, Sam!; See You Around, Sam!; Zooman Sam
by Lois Lowry

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As of press time today a number of additional ALA Awards including
the ALA NOTABLE RECORDINGS and AMAZING AUDIOBOOKS lists
have not yet been posted.
Stay tuned for additional good news!