THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION A DIVISON OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION young adult librarylibrary servicesservices VOLUME 10 | NUMBER 3 SPRING 2012 ISSN 1541-4302 $17.50 INSIDE: Belpre Awards Great Graphic Novels Listening for the Best and much more! AwardsIssue The official journal of The Young adulT librarY ServiceS aSSociaTion young adult library services VOLUME 10 | NUMBER 3 SPRING 2012 ISSN 1541-4302 The View from ALA Plus: 4 All About Amelia 2 From the Editor The Amelia Bloomer Project Megan Honig By Jennie. S. Law, Maureen McCoy, Beth Olshewsky, and Angela Semifero 3 From the President Sarah Flowers YALSA Perspectives 45 Guidelines for Authors 7 Save the Date for November’s Young 45 Index to Advertisers Adult Literature Symposium! 46 The YALSA Update By Patty Carleton 9 From Best Books to Best Fiction Embracing Change in YALSA’s Selection Lists By Terri Snethen Hot Spot: Awards 12 YALSA Announces 2012 Award Winners and Book and Media Lists 30 Listening for the Best Amazing Audiobooks for Teens By Jeri W. Cohen and Cathy Andronik 32 Cultivating Latino Cultural Literacy Pura Belpre Award-Winning Books in Library Programming for Teens and Tweens By Jamie Campbell Naidoo About This Cover 37 Evildoings, Deadly Exes, and Rock and Roll! Find the best books and media for young adults Read- and Listen-Alikes Supporting the each year with YALSA’s Best of the Best! At Fabulous Films for Young Adults 2012 List www.ala.org/yalsa/best, you’ll find downloadable By the 2012 Fabulous Films for Young Adults Committee tools to promote these titles in your library. Materials were created through funding from the 39 Discovering Greatness: YALSA’s Great Friends of YALSA, www.ala.org/givetoyalsa. Graphic Novels for Teens List You can also join the Best of the Best Reading By Joy Kim and Rachael Myers Challenge at The Hub, http://yalsa.ala.org/thehub, 42 The Cybils: Book Awards from the through July 1. Blogosphere By Jackie Parker 2011–2012 YALSA Editorial Advisory Committee (providing advisory input for the journal) Kimberly Bolan Cullin, chair, Indianapolis, Ind.; Jennifer Brannen, Durham, N.C.; from the Katherine Covintree, Providence, R.I.; Laura Pearle, Carmel, N.Y.; Cindy Welch, Knoxville, Tenn.; and Whitney Winn, Golita, Calif. 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For other photocopying, reprinting, or trans- lating, address requests to the ALA Office of Rights and Permissions. 2 YALS | Young Adult Library Services | Spring 2012 from the President Sarah Flowers find that I have been thinking quite a all of these at www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists.) bit about YALSA’s awards and selected All of these lists give us plenty to read and I lists recently. talk about, and offer us guidance in For one thing, I am back from Dallas, selecting materials for our libraries. and ALA’s Midwinter Meeting, where I had Immediately after Midwinter, the privilege of emceeing this year’s Youth YALSA previewed its new free iPhone Media Awards program and announcing all app, Teen Book Finder, at the of YALSA’s winners: Printz, Morris, Congressional Internet Caucus’s Tech committee members and YALSA members Nonfiction, Edwards, and Alex (it was Expo. By the time you read this, the app at large were satisfied with the lists, with no ALSC’s turn to announce Odyssey). One of should be available on the App Store (and major changes recommended. One concrete the great pleasures of that event is watching will be coming soon to Android, as well). It result that came from the task force’s work the committee members as their awards are will help teens, librarians, teachers, and is that there will be a new task force to announced and seeing their joy as the rest of parents search (by author, title, genre, and create a manual for the Excellence in the audience acknowledges their choices. It is award/list) the past several years’ worth of Nonfiction Award Committee. The board also fun to spend the rest of the day running books from YALSA’s awards and selected also discussed the feasibility of piloting one into friends and colleagues and asking, “Have lists, and link immediately to the nearest of our awards or lists as an all-virtual you read . ?” “What did you think library where users can find the books. It committee; an ad hoc committee of the about...?”“Canyoubelieve...?” will be a great opportunity to get the word board will continue to explore that option.