PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate
Release
Canadian Library
Association Announces 2010 Young Adult Book Award
Shortlist
(Ottawa,
March 2, 2010) The Canadian Library Association / Association canadienne des
bibliothèques is pleased to announce the shortlist for the
2010 Young Adult Book Award.
This award recognizes an author
of an outstanding English-language Canadian work of fiction (novel,
collection of short stories or graphic novel), published in 2009, that
appeals to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18.
The winner of the award,
and the Honour Books, will be announced prior to the Canadian Library
Association National Conference and Trade Show. The award will be presented at the conference in Edmonton,
Alberta on June 3,
2010.
The finalists for the 2010 CLA
Young Adult Book Award, in alphabetical order by author, are:
- Poster Boy by Dede Crane
(Groundwood)
- Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica
Grant (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Not Suitable for Family
Viewing by Vicki Grant (HarperCollins)
- Haunted by Barbara
Haworth-Attard (HarperCollins)
- Girl on the Other Side by
Deborah Kerbel (Dundurn)
- Wondrous Strange by Lesley
Livingston (HarperCollins)
- The Gryphon Project by Carrie
Mac (Puffin)
- Dragon Seer by Janet
McNaughton (HarperCollins)
- Vanishing Girl by Shane
Peacock (Tundra)
- The Hunchback Assignments by
Arthur Slade (HarperCollins)
Respectfully submitted on
behalf of the 2009-2010 CLA Young Adult Book Award Committee:
Elsa Ngan, Toronto Public
Library, Chair
Lisa Doucet, Woozles Children’s Book Store, Halifax
Carol Rigby, Contract Cataloguer, Iqaluit, Nunavut
Barb Janicek, Cambridge Libraries
Kim Hebig, Wheatland Regional Library
The Canadian Library Association/Association canadienne des
bibliothèques is Canada’s largest national and broad-based library association,
representing the interests of public, academic, school and special
libraries, professional librarians and library workers, and all those
concerned about enhancing the quality of life of Canadians through
information and literacy.
– 30
–
For more
information contact: Elsa Ngan,
416-395-5784
