The Official YALSA Awards Guidebook (review)

This new volume offers one-stop shopping for an overview of the Alex, Printz, and Edwards awards. In addition to annotated bibliographies of winners and honor books, the title includes acceptance speeches for the Printz and Edwards awards and award overviews from YALSA stalwarts Mary Arnold, Michael Cart, and Betty Carter. An opening section advocates for the use of award books with teens and offers a complement of suggested activities, and the book closes with a series of reproducible lists of award winners, with nonfiction titles noted, for use in libraries. End matter includes an author/title and a subject index.