You've no doubt heard by now that the American Library Association's annual Youth Media Award winners were announced yesterday. What you might not have noticed is that a number of our own Cybils finalists were honored during the awards:
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Dark Emperor by Joyce Sidman (Poetry): Newbery Honor
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We Are in a Book by Mo Willems (Easy Readers): Geisel Honor
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Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (Fantasy & Science Fiction): Michael L. Printz Award
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Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey (Fantasy & Science Fiction): William C. Morris Award finalist
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A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Fiction Picture Books) by Philip Christian Stead: Caldecott Medal
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Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein (Fiction Picture Books): Caldecott Honor
- Yummy by G. Neri, illus. by Randy DuBurke (Graphic Novels): G. Neri won a Coretta Scott King Honor for text
- Kakapo Rescue (Middle Grade/Young Adult Nonfiction) by Sy Montgomery: Robert F. Sibert Medal
- The Dark Game by Paul Janeczko (Middle Grade/Young Adult Nonfiction): finalist for YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
- Stolen by Lucy Christopher (YA Fiction): Printz Honor
Congratulations to all the accomplished and hardworking honorees!