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Sterling School Media Center

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Welcome to the Sterling Media Center Wiki!     

On this site you will find multiple tools and resources to help you find what you need in print and online resources.

Sterling Media Center Hours 7:45-3:15 Monday through Friday        Back to Media Center Web Page

Contact Us:

Stephanie Nichols -  Media Specialist

Maxi Farnsworth - Clerk

Phone 355-4593  Fax 355-9392

 

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The ALSC media awards below are announced every January at a Monday morning press conference that takes place during the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. Use the left-hand navigation for more detailed information regarding ALSC's book and media awards.

 

(John) Newbery Medal - The Newbery Medal honors the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

WinnerMoon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

Honor Books: Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm, Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus, Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

 

(Randolph) Caldecott Medal - The Caldecott Medal honors the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

WinnerA Sick Day for Amos McGee, illustrated by Erin E. Stead, written by Philip C. Stead

Honor Books: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave, illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill, Interrupting Chicken, written and illustrated by David Ezra Stein.

 

Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults

Winner: "Ship Breaker"  by Paolo Bacigalupi

Honor Books: Stolen by Lucy Christopher

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick

Nothing by Janne Teller 

 

Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences

The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel by Alden Bell

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel by Aimee Bender

The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni

Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue

The Vanishing of Katharina Linden: A Novel by Helen Grant

The Radleys by Matt Haig,

The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray

The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson

 

(Mildred L.) Batchelder Award - The Batchelder Award is given to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

Winner:  A Time of Miracles, written by Anne-Bondoux, translated by Y. Maudet.

Originally published in French in 2009 as “Le Temps des Miracles,” the book was written by Anne-Laure Bondoux and translated by Y. Maudet. This sweeping novel tells about a young refugee as he searches for identity, safe haven and truth, from the war-torn Caucasus to the freedom of France, over five arduous years. Both people and places are rendered fully with telling detail. Love and hope run deep through this layered examination of the human spirit.

Honor Books:  Departure Time, written by Truus Matti, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier.  Originally published in Dutch in 2009 as “Vertrektijd,” “Departure Time” was written by Truus Matti and translated by Nancy Forest-Flier. An eleven-year-old mourns the death of her father in chapters set alternately in the real world and a dreamlike hotel staffed by odd creatures.  She struggles to escape the snares of grief and regret, growing toward wholeness and acceptance.

Nothing, written by Janne Teller, translated by Martin Aitken. 

Originally published in Danish in 2000 as “Intet,” “Nothing,” was written by Janne Teller and translated by Martin Aitken.  Fourteen-year-old Pierre Anthon declares that “Nothing matters….so nothing’s worth doing.” He thereby incites an intense philosophical struggle among his classmates that moves from innocent to insidious. As they force each other to prove and provide meaning, the consequences are deep, dark and disastrous.  

 

(Pura) Belpré Medal - The Belpré Medal honors a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose works best portray, affirm, and celebrate the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Author Award Winner: The Dreamer, written by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Illustrator Award Winner: Grandma's Gift, illustrated and written by Eric Velasquez

Author Honor Books: ¡Ole! Flamenco, written by George Ancona, illustrated by George Ancona, The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba, written by Margarita Engle, 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis

 

(Theodor Seuss) Geisel Medal 
The Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal honors the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished contribution to the body of American children’s literature known as beginning reader books published in the United States during the preceding year.

Winner:  Bink and Gollie, written by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGee, illustrated by Tony Fucile

Honor BooksLing & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!, written and illustrated by Grace Lin

We Are in a Book!, written and illustrated by Mo Willems

 

(Robert F.) Sibert Informational Book Medal 
The Sibert Medal honors the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published during the preceding year.

Winner: Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Bird, written by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Nic Bishop

Honor Books: Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Springwritten by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illustrated by Brian Floca, Lafayette and the American Revolution, written by Russell Freedman

 

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author of outstanding books for children and young adults

Winner: One Crazy Summer  by Rita Williams-Garcia

Author Honor Books: Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers

Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty written by G. Neri

 

Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award recognizing an African American illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults

Winner: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave illustrated by Bryan Collier, written by Laban Carrick Hill

Illustrator Honor Book: Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix illustrated by Javaka Steptoe, written by Gary Golio 

 

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Author) Award

Zora and Me written by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon

Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent (Illustrator) Award

Seeds of Change illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler, written by Jen Cullerton Johnson

 

William C. Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens

Winner: The Freak Observer written by Blythe Woolston

Other finalists for the award: Hush by Eishes Chayil

Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey 

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride

Crossing the Tracks byBarbara Stuber 

 

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults during a November 1 – October 31 publishing year.

Winner: Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing written by Ann Angel

Other finalists: They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Spies of Mississippi:  The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement by Rick Bowers

The Dark Game: True Spy Stories by Paul Janeczko 

Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates by Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw

 
        

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