Other book awards announced this week are:
The Margaret A. Edwards Award is awarded to both an author and their body of works for lasting contribution to young adult literature. This year, the honored author is Laurie Halse Anderson, who was honored for her books Catalyst, Fever 1793, and Speak. Each of these books portrays a teen struggling to cope with overwhelming circumstances in their lives.
The William C. Morris YA Debut Award is given to a previously unpublished young adult author whose first book demonstrates excellence in literature. This is a new award given for the first time in 2009. The award this year goes to Elizabeth C. Bunce for A Curse Dark as Gold, a retelling of the fairy tale Rumpilstiltskin. During the Industrial Revolution, following her father's death, Charlotte struggles to keep her family's woolen mill in business, despite a large mortgage, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.
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