2012 ALA Teen Book Award Winners

Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults:

Award Winner: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Honor Book:  Why we broke up by Daniel Handler

Honor Book:  The Returning by Christine Hinwood

Honor Book:  Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Honor Book:  The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

YALSA Award for excellence in non-fiction for young adults:

Award Winner:  The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin

Award Finalist:  Sugar Changed the World: A True Story of Magic, spice, Slavery, Freedom & Science by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos
Award Finalist: Bootleg, Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition  by Karen Blumenthal
Award Finalist:  Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom by Sue Macy
Award Finalist:  Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan goldman Rubin

Morris Award for a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens:

Award Winner:  Where Things Come Back  by John Corey Whaley

Coretta Scott King Award for an African American author of outstanding books for children and young adults:
Winner: Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
Honor Book:  Hurricane Dancers: The First Carribean Pirate Shipwreck by Mararita Engle

Stonewall Award for English-language children's and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered experience:
Winner:  Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy by Bil Wright
Honor Book:  a + e 4ever by Llike Merey
Honor Book:  Money Boy by Paul Yee
Honor Book:  Pink by Lili Wilkinson
Honor Book:  with or withou you by Brian Farrey

Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience:
Winner (ages 9-13): close to famous by Joan Bauer
Winner (ages 14-18):  The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences:
Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin
In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brive Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens by Brooke Hauser
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Ready Palyer One by Ernest Cline
Robopocalypse: a Novel by Daniel H. Wilson
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures by Caroline Preston
The Talk-Funny Girl by Roland Merullo