Margaret Edwards Award facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Margaret A. Edwards Award |
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| Presented by | Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association |
| Country | United States |
| First awarded | 1988 |
The Margaret A. Edwards Award is an American Library Association (ALA) literary award that annually recognizes an author and "a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature". It is named for Margaret A. Edwards (1902–1988), the pioneer, longtime director of young adult services at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.
The award was inaugurated in 1988 as the biennial "School Library Journal Young Adult Author Award/Selected and Administered by the American Library Association's Young Adult Services Division". After 1990 it was renamed and made annual. It continues to be sponsored by School Library Journal and administered by the Young Adult Library Services Association, descendant of YASD. The winner is announced during the ALA midwinter meeting and the citation and $2000 cash prize are presented at a luncheon during the ALA annual conference (June 27–July 2 in 2013).
Angela Johnson is the 29th Edwards Award winner, announced February 12, 2018.
Winners
The award has been conferred 25 times in the 26 years through 2013. The honored writers have been natives and lifelong residents of the United States except Anne McCaffrey, Terry Pratchett, Susan Cooper, and Markus Zusak.
| Year | Author | Cited works |
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| 2021 | Kekla Magoon | X: A Novel (2015) How It Went Down (2014) The Rock and the River • The Rock and the River (2009) • Fire in the Streets (2012) |
| 2020 | Steve Sheinkin | Bomb: The Race to Build - and Steal- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (2012) The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (2014) The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery (2013) |
| 2019 | M.T. Anderson | Feed (2002) The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party (2006) The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2: The Kingdom of Waves (2008) |
| 2018 | Angela Johnson | Toning the Sweep (1993) Heaven (1998) Looking for Red (2002) The First Part Last (2003) Bird (2004) Sweet, Hereafter (2010) |
| 2017 | Sarah Dessen | Keeping the Moon (1999) Dreamland (2000) This Lullaby (2002) The Truth About Forever (2004) Just Listen (2006) Along for the Ride (2009) What Happened to Goodbye (2011) |
| 2016 | David Levithan | Boy Meets Boy (2003) The Realm of Possibility (2004) Wide Awake (2006) Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2006) How They Met, and Other Stories (2008) Love is the Higher Law (2009) |
| 2015 | Sharon M. Draper | Tears of a Tiger (1994) Forged by Fire (1997) Darkness Before Dawn (2001) Battle of Jericho (2004) Copper Sun (2006) November Blues (2007) |
| 2014 | Markus Zusak | The Book Thief (2006) Fighting Ruben Wolfe (2001) Getting the Girl (2001) I Am the Messenger (2002) |
| 2013 | Tamora Pierce | The Song of the Lioness • Alanna: The First Adventure (1983) • In the Hand of the Goddess (1984) • The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (1986) • Lioness Rampant (1988) Protector of the Small • First Test (1999) • Page (2000) • Squire (2001) • Lady Knight (2002) |
| 2012 | Susan Cooper | The Dark Is Rising Sequence (first omnibus edition, 1984) • Over Sea, Under Stone (1965) • The Dark Is Rising (1968) • Greenwitch (1974) • The Grey King (1975) • Silver on the Tree (1977) |
| 2011 | Terry Pratchett | The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001) The Wee Free Men (2003) A Hat Full of Sky (2004) Going Postal (2004) The Colour of Magic (1983) Guards! Guards! (1989) Equal Rites (1987) Mort (1987) Small Gods (1992) |
| 2010 | Jim Murphy | The Great Fire (1995) A YOUNG PATRIOT: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy (1996) The Long Road to GETTYSBURG (1992) BLIZZARD! The Storm That Changed America (2000) An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (2003) |
| 2009 | Laurie Halse Anderson | Speak (1999) Fever, 1793 (2002) Catalyst (2003) |
| 2008 | Orson Scott Card | Ender's Game (1985) Ender's Shadow (1999) |
| 2007 | Lois Lowry | The Giver (1993) |
| 2006 | Jacqueline Woodson | I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This (1994) From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (1997) If You Come Softly (1998) Lena (1999) Miracle's Boys (2000) |
| 2005 | Francesca Lia Block | Weetzie Bat (1989) Witch Baby (1991) Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (1992) Missing Angel Juan (1993) Baby Be-Bop (1995) |
| 2004 | Ursula K. Le Guin | A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) The Tombs of Atuan (1971) The Farthest Shore (1972) The Beginning Place (1980) Tehanu (1990) |
| 2003 | Nancy Garden | Annie on My Mind (1982) |
| 2002 | Paul Zindel | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds: A Drama in Two Acts (1965) The Pigman (1968) My Darling, My Hamburger (1969) The Pigman's Legacy (1980) The Pigman & Me (1992) |
| 2001 | Robert Lipsyte | The Contender (1967) The Brave (1991) The Chief (1993) One Fat Summer (1977) |
| 2000 | Chris Crutcher | Running Loose (1983) Stotan! (1986) The Crazy Horse Electric Game (1987) Chinese Handcuffs (1989) Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories (1991) Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (1993) |
| 1999 | Anne McCaffrey | Dragonflight (1968) The Ship Who Sang (1969) Dragonquest (1970) Dragonsong (1976) Dragonsinger (1977) The White Dragon (1978) Dragondrums (1979) |
| 1998 | Madeleine L'Engle | Meet the Austins (1960) A Wrinkle In Time (1962) A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) A Ring of Endless Light (1980) |
| 1997 | Gary Paulsen | Dancing Carl (1983) Hatchet (1987) The Crossing (1987) The Winter Room (1989) Canyons (1990) Woodsong (1990) |
| 1996 | Judy Blume | Forever (1975) |
| 1995 | Cynthia Voigt | Homecoming (1981) Dicey's Song (1982) A Solitary Blue (1983) Building Blocks (1984) The Runner (1985) Jackaroo (1985) Izzy, Willy-Nilly (1986) |
| 1994 | Walter Dean Myers | Hoops (1983) Motown and Didi (1985) Fallen Angels (1988) Scorpions (1988) |
| 1993 | M.E. Kerr | Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! (1972) Gentlehands (1978) Me Me Me Me Me: Not a Novel (1983) Night Kites (1986) |
| 1992 | Lois Duncan |
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| 1991 | Robert Cormier | The Chocolate War (1974) I Am the Cheese (1977) After the First Death (1979) |
| 1990 | Richard Peck | Are You in the House Alone? (1976) The Ghost Belonged to Me (1976) Ghosts I Have Been (1977) Father Figure (1978) Secrets of the Shopping Mall (1979) Remembering the Good Times (1985) |
| 1989 | (no award) | |
| 1988 | S.E. Hinton | The Outsiders (1967) That Was Then This Is Now (1973) Tex (1982) Rumble Fish (1983) |
Multiple awards
No one has won both the Edwards Award and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, which the ALA children's division (ALSC) awards for "substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature" (from 1954, now biennial).
Four Edwards winners have been selected by ALSC to deliver its annual May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture: Susan Cooper in 2001, Ursula K. Le Guin in 2004, Walter Dean Myers in 2009, and Lois Lowry in 2011. ALSC considers the Arbuthnot selection, inaugurated in 1970, another career award for contribution to children's literature. The lecturer prepares and delivers —currently about 16 months after selection— "a paper considered to be a significant contribution to the field of children's literature", which is also published in the ALSC journal.
See also
In Spanish: Premio Margaret Edwards para niños
