My first foray into national book committees was the 2016 Morris Award, which honors a book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.
It is a little different from many awards because a slate of five finalists is published in December and the winner announce at the Youth Media Awards in January.
The 2020 Morris Award finalists have just been announced. They are:
- “The Candle and the Flame” written by Nafiza Azad, published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic;
- “The Field Guide to the North American Teenager” written by Ben Philippe, published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers;
- “Frankly in Love” written by David Yoon, published by P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, a division of Penguin Random House;
- “Genesis Begins Again” written by Alicia D. Williams, published by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing;
- “There Will Come a Darkness” written by Katy Rose Pool, published by Henry Holt, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing
I’ve already read 3 of the 5. I just put the other two on hold at the library.
Congratulations to the finalists and to the committee who have chosen an excellent list.
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