ALA Alex Award List

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The Alex Awards were first given annually beginning in 1998, and became an official ALA award in 2002. The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year’s publishing. The award is sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist. Edwards was a young adult specialist for many years at the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore. Her work is described in her book Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts, and over the years she has served as an inspiration to librarians who serve young adults. The Alex Awards are named after Edwards, who was called “Alex” by her friends.

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  1. 1998
    All Over but the Shoutin'
    by Rick Bragg

  2. 1998
    Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls
    by Rebecca Carroll

  3. 1998
    What Girls Learn: A Novel
    by Karin Cook

  4. 1998
    Snow in August
    by Pete Hamill

  5. 1998
    The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
    by Sebastian Junger

  6. 1998

  7. 1998
    Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven
    by Dawn Turner Trice

  8. 1998
    To Say Nothing of the Dog
    by Connie Willis

  9. 1999
    The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
    by Caroline Alexander

  10. 1999
    Getting In
    by James Finney Boylan

  11. 1999
    Needles: A Memoir Of Growing Up With Diabetes
    by Andie Dominick

  12. 1999
    At All Costs
    by John Gilstrap

  13. 1999
    Space: A Memoir
    by Jesse Lee Kercheval

  14. 1999
    Last Days of Summer
    by Steve Kluger

  15. 1999
    Antarctica
    by Kim Robinson

  16. 1999
    Almost a Woman
    by Esmeralda Santiago

  17. 1999
    Caucasia: A Novel
    by Danzy Senna

  18. 2000

  19. 2000
    Ender's Shadow (Ender, Book 5)
    by Orson Scott Card

  20. 2000
    River, Cross My Heart : A Novel
    by Breena Clarke

  21. 2000
    Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
    by Esmé Raji Codell

  22. 2000
    The Reappearance of Sam Webber
    by Jonathon Scott Fuqua

  23. 2000
    Stardust
    by Neil Gaiman

  24. 2000
    The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
    by Linda Greenlaw

  25. 2000
    Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
    by Elva Trevino Hart

  26. 2000
    Plainsong
    by Kent Haruf

  27. 2000
    Imani All Mine
    by Connie Rose Porter

  28. 2001
    Flags of Our Fathers
    by James Bradley

  29. 2001
    The Sand-Reckoner (Tom Doherty Associates Books)
    by Gillian Bradshaw

  30. 2001
    Girl with a Pearl Earring, Deluxe Edition
    by Tracy Chevalier

  31. 2001
    Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
    by June Jordan

  32. 2001
    Daughter of the Forest (The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Juliet Marillier

  33. 2001
    In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
    by Nathaniel Philbrick

  34. 2001
    The Man Who Ate the 747
    by Ben Sherwood

  35. 2001
    Chang and Eng
    by Darin Strauss

  36. 2001
    Diamond Dogs
    by Alan Watt

  37. 2002
    Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
    by Geraldine Brooks

  38. 2002

  39. 2002
    Gabriel's Story: A Novel
    by David Anthony Durham

  40. 2002
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
    by Barbara Ehrenreich

  41. 2002
    Peace Like a River
    by Leif Enger

  42. 2002
    The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
    by Kobie Kruger

  43. 2002
    Kit's Law: A Novel
    by Donna Morrissey

  44. 2002
    The Rover
    by Mel Odom

  45. 2002
    Motherland
    by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan

  46. 2002
    Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
    by Rebecca Walker

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