Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award
The Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award (also for short: Walden Award ) is a literary prize with which the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the American English teacher's association National Council of Teachers of English honors outstanding works of youth literature every year.
The prize has been awarded since 2009 and commemorates Amelia Elizabeth Walden (1909–2002), who emerged as a pioneer in the promotion of youth literature and as an author of youth books. In addition to American works , works that have previously been published abroad can also be awarded; However, an American edition must also be available.
In addition to the Michael L. Printz Award , the Walden Award is one of the most important youth literature awards in the United States.
Award winners
year | author | title | |
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2009 | Steve Kluger , USA | My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins & Fenway Park | Award winners |
2009 | Jacqueline Woodson | After Tupac and D Foster | Nominated |
2009 | Kristin Cashore , USA | Graceling | Nominated |
2009 | Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book | Nominated |
2009 | Jenny Valentine | Me, the Missing, and the Dead | Nominated |
2010 | Kristin Cashore , USA | Fire | Award winners |
2010 | Francisco X. Stork , USA | Marcelo in the Real World | Nominated |
2010 | Rick Yancey | The monstrumologist | Nominated |
2010 | Justina Chen Headley | North of Beautiful | Nominated |
2010 | Jill S. Alexander | The Sweetheart of Prosper County | Nominated |
2011 | Francisco X. Stork , USA | The Last Summer of the Death Warriors | Award winners |
2011 | Jordan Sonnenblick | After ever after | Nominated |
2011 | Matt de la Peña | I will save you | Nominated |
2011 | Matthew Quick | Sorta like a rock star | Nominated |
2011 | Kristen Chandler | Wolves, Boys, & Other Things That Might Kill Me | Nominated |
2012 | Lauren Myracle , USA | Shine | Award winners |
2012 | Robert Sharenow , USA | Berlin Boxing Club | Nominated |
2012 | Moira Young | Blood Red Road | Nominated |
2012 | Ruta Sepetys | Between Shades of Gray | Nominated |
2012 | Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Under the mesquite | Nominated |
2013 | John Green , USA | The Fault in Our Stars | Award winners |
2013 | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Nominated |
2013 | AS King , USA | Ask the passengers | Nominated |
2013 | Eliot Schrefer | Endangered | Nominated |
2014 | Rainbow Rowell , USA | Eleanor & Park | Award winners |
2014 | Patrick Flores-Scott | Jumped In | Nominated |
2014 | Sylvia Whitman | The Milk of Birds | Nominated |
2014 | Bill Konigsberg | Openly straight | Nominated |
2014 | Andrew A. Smith | Winger | Nominated |
2015 | AS King , USA | Glory O'Brien's History of the Future | Award winners |
2015 | Michael Williams | Diamond boy | Nominated |
2015 | Isabel Quintero | Gabi, A Girl in Pieces | Nominated |
2015 | Laurie Halse Anderson | The Impossible Knife of Memory | Nominated |
2015 | Deborah Wiles | Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy) | Nominated |
2016 | Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely , both USA | All American Boys | Award winners |
2016 | Jennifer Niven | All the bright places | Nominated |
2016 | Neal Shusterman | Challenger Deep | Nominated |
2016 | Ashley Hope Perez | Out of darkness | Nominated |
2016 | Ryan Graudin | Wolf by Wolf | Nominated |
2017 | Jeff Zentner , USA | The Serpent King | Award winners |
2017 | Kathleen Glasgow | Girl in Pieces | Nominated |
2017 | Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock | The Smell of Other People's Houses | Nominated |
2017 | Ruta Sepetys | Salt to the Sea | Nominated |
2017 | Nicola Yoon | The sun is also a star | Nominated |
2018 | Angie Thomas , USA | The Hate U Give | Award winners |
2018 | Nic Stone | Dear Martin | Nominated |
2018 | Jason Reynolds , USA | Long way down | Nominated |
2018 | Amy Reed | The Nowhere Girls | Nominated |
2018 | Melanie Crowder | An Uninterrupted View of the Sky | Nominated |
- Winner 2019: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Nominees 2019:
- The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
- Blood, Water, Paint by Joy McCullough
- The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan
Web links
- Walden Award Official Website