THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION young adult library library services services VOLUME 7 | NUMBER 3 SPRING 2009 ISSN 1541-4302 $12.50 INSIDE: 2009 AWARDS 40 YEARS OF CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARDS BBYA TEENS AND MUCH MORE! AWARDS ISSUE! The official journal of The Young adulT librarY ServiceS aSSociaTion young adult library services VOLUME 7 | NUMBER 3 SPRING 2009 ISSN 1541-4302 The View from ALA 32 2009 Fabulous Films for Young Adults 4 ALA Council Wants You! 34 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens By Sarah Flowers Literature Surveys and Research YALSA Perspectives 36 From Deleting Online Predators to 6 The Alex Awards Program, ALA Annual, Educating Internet Users July 2008 Congress and Internet Safety: By Angela Carstensen A Legislative Analysis 8 Coretta Scott King Awards Celebrate By Don Essex Forty Years Where the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Meet YALSA’s Best Books for Young Adults and the Michael L. Printz Award By Deborah Taylor Plus: 2 From the Editor Teen Perspectives RoseMary Honnold 13 Teen Voices Heard at ALA Midwinter 2009 3 From the President By RoseMary Honnold Sarah Cornish Debraski 31 Guidelines for Authors Hot Spot: 2009 Awards 31 Index to Advertisers 15 Jellicoe Road Wins Michael L. Printz Award 46 Professional Resources 16 Laurie Halse Anderson Wins 2009 48 The YALSA Update Margaret A. Edwards Award 17 A Curse Dark as Gold Wins Inaugural William C. Morris Award 18 Recorded Books Wins 2009 Odyssey About This Cover Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a The cover features the first William C. Part-Time Indian Morris Award: winner A Curse Dark as 20 2009 Alex Awards Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce, as well as the finalists: Graceling by Kristin Cashore, 21 2009 Best Books for Young Adults Madapple by Christina Meldrum, Absolute 24 2009 Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults Brightness by James Lecesne, and Me, The Missing, and the Dead by Jenny Valentine. 27 2009 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Seals for the Morris Award, and YALSA’s Readers other awards, are availabe for purchase in 30 2009 Amazing Audiobooks for Young the ALA Store, www.alastore.ala.org. Adults YALSA Editorial Advisory Committee (performing referee duties and providing advisory input for the journal) Sarah English, chair, Omaha, Neb.; Kimberly Bolan, Indianapolis, Ind.; Me- from the lissa Dease, Dallas, Tex.; Teri Lesesne, Huntsville, Tex.; Angela Leeper, Wake Forest, N.C.; Sarah Ludwig, New Haven, Conn. YALSA Publications Committee Heather Booth, chair, Westmont, Ill.; Jeremy Czerw, New York; Laura Editor Amos, Yorktown, Va.; Sasha Rae Matthews, Chesapeake, Va.; Jessica Moyer, Menomonie, Wis.; Elizabeth Shuping, Florence, S.C. Editor RoseMary Honnold RoseMary Honnold YALSA Executive Director Beth Yoke idwinter in Denver ...first the weather! After reports of seventy degrees the day before I arrived, I saw zero YALSA Division Coordinator degrees, thirty degrees, and everything in between. Yet, Stephanie Kuenn M while it was cold outside, there was a lot of energy and warm Circulation Young Adult Library Services (ISSN 1541-4302) is published four times a year feelings being generated inside the Convention Center among the by the American Library Association (ALA), 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL many enthusiastic librarians meeting there this past week. 60611. It is the official publication of the Young Adult Library Services Asso- ciation (YALSA), a division of ALA. Subscription price: members of YALSA, Between you and me, I think YALSA has to be the hardest $25 per year, included in membership dues; nonmembers, $50 per year in the working and most fun group in ALA. I experienced a wonderful U.S.; $60 in Canada, Mexico, and other countries. Back issues within one year of current issue, $15 each. Periodicals class postage paid at Chicago, Illinois balance of discussion and fellowship among young adult librarians and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to who all share the same mission: connecting young adults and Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Members: Address changes and inquiries should be sent to Membership Department, libraries. Committee and board meetings gave way to social events Changes to Young Adult Library Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL where many discussions continued into the night. Committee 60611. 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It will include articles of current interest to the profession, act as a showcase for best prac- successful in its mission. tices, provide news from related fields, publish recent research related to YA This year I attended a few sessions and witnessed the librarianship, and will spotlight significant events of the organization and offer in-depth reviews of professional literature. YALS will also serve as the dedication and commitment of the Best Books for Young Adults official record of the organization. (BBYA) Committee. You can read about the teen experience at Production BBYA in the Teen Perspective column of this issue. BBYA is but Cadmus Communications. one of the selection committees that spend countless hours during Advertising Midwinter and Annual to discuss and create the lists librarians find Bill Spilman, Innovative Media Solutions; 1-877-878-3260; fax (309) so helpful for building collections. The annual awards and lists are 483-2371; e-mail [email protected]. YALS accepts advertis- ing for goods or services of interest to the library profession and librarians in so interesting because they are as unique as the committees that service to youth in particular. It encourages advertising that informs readers select them. The combined experience, expertise, tastes, interests, and provides clear communication between vendor and buyer. YALS adheres to ethical and commonly accepted advertising practices and reserves the and personalities of the committee members work together to find right to reject any advertisement not suited to the above purposes or not what they consider to be the best media of the year for teens. The consistent with the aims and policies of ALA. Acceptance of advertising in YALS does not imply official endorsement by ALA of the products or services highlight of Midwinter Meeting is the Youth Media Awards on advertised. Monday morning, the culmination of all that hard work. Manuscripts All the YALSA book and media awards are documented here Manuscripts and letters pertaining to editorial content should be sent to YALSA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; e-mail: yalseditor@gmail. in this spring issue, as well as enlightening articles from Deborah com. Manuscripts will be sent out for review according to YALS’s established Taylor about the Coretta Scott King Award 40th anniversary, and referee procedures. Visit www.ala.org/yalsa for further information. Alex Award chair Angela Carstensen, highlighting winner Thomas Indexing, Abstracting, and Microlm Maltman’s speech from Annual 2008. Also in this issue is the Best Young Adult Library Services is indexed in Library Literature, Library & Information Science Abstracts, and Current Index to Journals in Education. Practices article by Jessica Snow and her work reaching the foster Microfilm copies of Journal of Youth Services in Libraries and its predecessor, teen audience and a very informative article by Don Essex on what Top of the News, are available from ProQuest/Bell & Howell, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. is happening to keep teens safe online. The conferences encapsulate what YALSA is all about: people, The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper books, teens, hard work and dedication, fellowship, and fun. Don’t for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. 1 miss out ...get active in YALSA today! YALS Ó2009 American Library Association All materials in this journal subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be photocopied for the noncommercial purpose of scien- tific or educational advancement granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976. For other photocopying, reprinting, or trans- lating, address requests to the ALA Office of Rights and Permissions. 2 YALS | Young Adult Library Services | Spring 2009 from the President Sarah Cornish Debraski n January the National Endowment for by a clear and undeniable problem, Morris award the Arts (NEA) reported that, after millions of parents, teachers, librarians, for a first- Idecades of decline, American adults and civic leaders took action.”1 time author were finally reading more. Since 1982 the was NEA has conducted the same